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Post by christya on Sept 5, 2024 16:13:03 GMT
The trailer looks beautiful, but those vocals sounded so, so autotuned. Synthetic to the point of reminding me of Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast - and come on, I'm no fan of Cynthia but by god the woman can sing, no need for autotune. They also made her voice sound a bit - maybe 'slight' is the word? - in places, which is weird.
It is very pretty though, and it sounds as though they might have fixed the riff. If the one they use part way through is actually lifted from the end of Defying Gravity, that is.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 5, 2024 16:46:51 GMT
I don’t think we’ll hear the actual end of DG until the film is released. They know how iconic that is, there’s absolutely no reason to spoil it in advance.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Sept 5, 2024 17:29:34 GMT
I really like the look of it. The choices of some of those notes, not so much. I'm not saying it should be sung as if she has a metronome and it's a sight-singing exercise, but there are too many improvisations there for me.
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Post by blamerobots on Sept 5, 2024 18:39:39 GMT
The pitch correction isn't that bad. Universal are quite good at making calls on that, having a record subsidiary and all. Won't hold my breath though until the film comes out. Pitch correction is made to enhance performances, not replace the need for a good performance outright. You still need to sing and act
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Post by marob on Sept 5, 2024 22:40:00 GMT
I quite like the little bit of the witch’s theme from that other Oz movie at the end. I take it that’s not in the actual show?
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Post by Matt on Sept 6, 2024 12:11:21 GMT
Apparently some more recent test screenings haven’t gone well at all. Too long, too many dance breaks in every song.
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Post by talkingheads on Sept 6, 2024 15:16:26 GMT
Apparently some more recent test screenings haven’t gone well at all. Too long, too many dance breaks in every song. So an adaptation of a musical contains too much of the musical and too much Broadway musical stuff like dancing? I thought the point of it being two parts was precisely because they wanted to accurately capture all elements of the musical on film? So by the sounds of it they've done that and now people are complaining?
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Post by jrj624 on Sept 6, 2024 15:27:38 GMT
Too long?? Has a final running time been announced yet?
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Post by stuartmcd on Sept 6, 2024 16:18:22 GMT
Too long?? Has a final running time been announced yet? There has been something floating around today about the film being 2 hours and 22 minutes. This has seemingly come from the Australian movie classification board but I can’t find it myself on the website so can’t confirm how true it is.
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Post by talkingheads on Sept 6, 2024 16:47:43 GMT
Too long?? Has a final running time been announced yet? There has been something floating around today about the film being 2 hours and 22 minutes. This has seemingly come from the Australian movie classification board but I can’t find it myself on the website so can’t confirm how true it is. I saw it on a Reddit post with a screenshot. 142 minutes, or two hours twenty two minutes: https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked/comments/1fa7nv4/wicked_is_2_hours_and_22_minutes_source/
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Post by blamerobots on Sept 6, 2024 21:02:42 GMT
The length is very concerning for sure. Can you stretch one act of material (which I already think is overly long) to a show's length? Oh well, if they did it with Joseph... oh that's getting a film too! I forgot about that
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Post by Matt on Sept 7, 2024 12:55:39 GMT
Apparently some more recent test screenings haven’t gone well at all. Too long, too many dance breaks in every song. So an adaptation of a musical contains too much of the musical and too much Broadway musical stuff like dancing? I thought the point of it being two parts was precisely because they wanted to accurately capture all elements of the musical on film? So by the sounds of it they've done that and now people are complaining? No; the feedback was that EVERY song has an extra dance sequence which seems unnecessary and just pads it out to be a longer film.
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Post by stuartmcd on Sept 7, 2024 15:31:40 GMT
So an adaptation of a musical contains too much of the musical and too much Broadway musical stuff like dancing? I thought the point of it being two parts was precisely because they wanted to accurately capture all elements of the musical on film? So by the sounds of it they've done that and now people are complaining? No; the feedback was that EVERY song has an extra dance sequence which seems unnecessary and just pads it out to be a longer film. Can’t wait for the Doctor Dillamond dance break in Something Bad
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 7, 2024 15:33:27 GMT
No Good Deed should be interesting too!
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Post by anthony40 on Sept 7, 2024 18:26:08 GMT
The London Premiere will be on November 18th.
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Post by anthony40 on Sept 7, 2024 18:29:24 GMT
There has been something floating around today about the film being 2 hours and 22 minutes. This has seemingly come from the Australian movie classification board but I can’t find it myself on the website so can’t confirm how true it is. I saw it on a Reddit post with a screenshot. 142 minutes, or two hours twenty two minutes: https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked/comments/1fa7nv4/wicked_is_2_hours_and_22_minutes_source/ x.com/wickednewshub/status/1832162543177224512
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Post by stuartmcd on Sept 12, 2024 15:51:06 GMT
So they’ve announced that the second movie will simply be called Wicked Part Two releasing 21st November 2025
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