Anytime I hear anything about this movie I remember the hissy fit the lead actress made over the fan edit of the poster. “How dare they erase my face! Racism!”
Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office
Submitted 4 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to movies@lemm.ee
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brutallyhonestcritic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As others have mentioned, this movie looked like dogshit.
This is what happens when you give an inexperienced, low-budget DoP a 100 million project because of little more than gender.
Listen to her squirm: youtu.be/ZRL8NSOgOj8
demesisx@infosec.pub 4 months ago
triptrapper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We have TONS of examples of “inexperienced, low-budget” male DPs shooting blockbusters. Sometimes they look great, sometimes they look terrible. Women deserve those opportunities too. That’s how they become experienced.
brutallyhonestcritic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
99% of the time, they work their way up. There are hundreds of better female DoP’s out there.
Also, most DoP’s don’t usually go from $10 million to 150 million pictures in the space of one project unless there’s some massive nepotism afoot. She already is in the ASC. Do you know how hard it is to get into the ASC?
spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
interesting case you stumbled upon here 😭 they disappear from comments for ten months then return to exclusively trash on Alice Brooks, stating without evidence that she is a meritless recipient of DEI benefit. all their recent comments (that don’t get banned straight away) have no less than 8 immediate upvotes with their interlocutors often getting mirror downvote treatment—which just screams vote abuse to me*. very unique character here.
*this is speculation and i could be wrong
reddig33@lemmy.world 4 months ago
More than “Grease”?
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Grease (1978): $328 million
Wicked (2024): $634.3 million
Unadjusted for inflation, of course.
reddig33@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Adjusting for inflation shows this Wicked claim to be marketing bullshit.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I enjoyed the movie overall, but casting Jeff Goldblum as the wizard was not a good choice.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
The amount of marketing for this movie makes me not want to watch it. Tbh I was never going to watch it in a theatre anyway. Would you guys recommend it to a non Disney fan? I’ve been watching all major 2024 releases digitally, so I was wondering.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It was fine but not exceptional in my opinion.
demesisx@infosec.pub 4 months ago
And looks objectively terrible compared to basically ANY major motion picture released this year (perhaps just short of the great film but terribly-lit “Rob Peace”).
I was flabbergasted that such horrifically flat lighting and incredibly uninspired camera work didn’t trigger any reshoots (particularly with the $150 million budget they had and, as a consequence, the equipment they had at their disposal.)
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 months ago
people didnt seem to mind
demesisx@infosec.pub 4 months ago
They could have shot it on a potato and no one would have noticed.
USSMojave@startrek.website 4 months ago
Maybe your theater didn’t illuminate it correctly? I saw it twice, both IMAX and non-IMAX and it looked incredible both times
demesisx@infosec.pub 4 months ago
I used to be a projectionist.
The projector was fine.
koberulz@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
There are articles with the cinematographer about how they deliberately made everything grey.