First Wicked commercial that actually shows them singing

OP, self-appointed and wholly unqualified film marketing expert!

Did my eyes deceive me or did I see my boyfriend Jonathan Bailey in that trailer?

Flop.

R2, yes he was rehearsing his part in Wicked while filming Fellow Travellers.

This thing is shaping up to be a huge hit it seems like.

Based on what, r5?

Fiyero is so faggy, I love it!

r5 I got hit vibes from the first trailer already. Hopefully that ends up being the case because we badly need some colour and joy in our fucking lives. Especially should the worst come to pass on election day.

Squeeeee!

I hope it flops as much as Joker did.

I remember what a shitty actress Ariana was on her various sitcoms. Did anyone check to make sure she can act?

I’m sick of this film and it hasn’t even come out yet

r5=Lynn Stairmaster

Musicals are the wave of the future!

Is the plan still to release the movie in two parts?

I’m usually never wrong. Between my premonitions and presence on social media this film will be a huge success.

Why do gay men pray for gay oriented stuff like this to fail. I don’t plan to see this in theater but what gives. I certainly don’t want it to fail.

2 hour 40 minute movie of only one act!

It's gonna be socko at the BO.

R16. I just want you to fail.

People fighting over Wicked merch at Target.

[quote] Is the plan still to release the movie in two parts?

Yes, and it’s directed by a failed director. This is going to be a disaster when all is said and done. It may have a good opening but it’s not going to have legs. They spent way too much on a shitty musical that only appeals to a small amount of the public, and Americans hate musicals. They’re banking on it being a family film. Making it two parts is insane.

[quote] Why do gay men pray for gay oriented stuff like this to fail. I don’t plan to see this in theater but what gives. I certainly don’t want it to fail.—Blackmussy

Why, Teacake? Are you now claiming to be green?

I haven’t see Wicked. What makes it “gay-oriented?”

Or is the idea that any musical is gay?

I can get behind that.

Wicked will save Hollywood. Again.

[quote]I haven’t see Wicked. What makes it “gay-oriented?”

It's a musical based on characters from "The Wizard of Oz," whose 1939 movie adaptation made a star of Judy Garland and introduced her signature song, "Over the Rainbow."

The two leads are extremely lacking in attractiveness and charisma. Jonathan Bailey, as Fiyero, is too good-looking for either of them.

Erivo has a face not even a mother could love.

The sets and costumes look beautiful.

I'd want to see it more if 99.3% wasn't greenscreened.

The fact that the gays like the Wizard of Oz doesn’t make Wicked “gay-oriented.” At least not to the extent that we should feel some obligation to support the film.

You must not be a fan of Death Becomes her, r29.

R31. Nah. Way before my time.

[quote]The fact that the gays like the Wizard of Oz doesn’t make Wicked “gay-oriented.” At least not to the extent that we should feel some obligation to support the film.

Well, smell you.

What does that even mean, r32? You're the type of dumbshit who won't watch a movie if it was made three years before you were born? Your loss, I guess.

You've never seen a movie "way before your time", r32?

[quote]Yes, and it’s directed by a failed director. This is going to be a disaster when all is said and done. It may have a good opening but it’s not going to have legs. They spent way too much on a shitty musical that only appeals to a small amount of the public, and Americans hate musicals. They’re banking on it being a family film. Making it two parts is insane.

"Crazy Rich Asians" was a hit and how the fuck do you get 'appeals to a small amount of the public" when the show has been playing Broadway for 21 years and over 8000 performances, and has toured all over the country and world. Mental case.

R36, you could say the same thing about Phantom of the Opera, which ran for 35 years and toured all over the country and was a flop domestically.

This is going to be a big fat smash.

**F*O*L*L*I*E*S**

Yuck. Today’s musicals are just expensively shot, extended-length music videos with bad sound and lousy singing resembling high school seniors’ glee club warblings.

[quote] The fact that the gays like the Wizard of Oz doesn’t make Wicked “gay-oriented.”

It was written by a gay man and has homosexual subtext.

R36, he directed the following flops:

Jem and Holograms (one of the biggest disasters in film history)

In the Heights

Two Justin Bieber films

His CV is incredibly short. The film looks like crap. Too much CGI and anyone who casts Bowen Yang is a moron.

They spent over $300 million on these films. Heads are gonna roll.

If the first half is a flop, will the studio wait another year to release Flop, part two?

R25- None of that is gay-oriented.

R44- part 2 is already scheduled for a year from now

I know a flop when I don’t star in them…..this piece of shit will make a Madonna movie look like Citizen Kane.

I’m surprised Lin Manuel Miranda isn’t in this.

[quote]R25- None of that is gay-oriented.

Being an ignorant contrarian is fun!!

R42, Jem and the Holograms was indeed a terrible movie, but calling it one of the biggest disasters in film history is a lot just to try to prove your point.

Kids love the show. Gen X and older gays largely don't, and y'all are going to bitch the whole way because you can't help but dwell. It's going to be delicious to watch.

r29 It isn't greenscreened though. Whatever other criticisms it deserves, they went all-in on physical sets

[quote] Being an ignorant contrarian is fun!!

So explain it. The argument that gay men like the Wizard of Oz so a film of a musical based on Oz is “gay oriented” is weak. If there is a “gay subtext” what is it for those of us unfamiliar with the story.

The days when gay people had to search for hidden subtexts in fiction are over. We aren’t invisible any more.

It IS possible that a gay message board is not best placed to make an accurate prediction about the fate of a movie whose key demographic is tween and teen girls.

I think the "gay subtext" person might mean that Elphaba's outsider status=how gay people felt before equal marriage rights came in, which is rather an outdated argument. But if you fixate on Elphaba instead of the relationship BETWEEN Elphaba and Glinda, you miss what is attracting the show's audience. Same as in Frozen if you fixate on Elsa's alienating powers: both shows are really about the redeeming power of sisterly love. Which, we have to admit, is not DL's area of expertise. Not enough pointless bitchery.

If the Elphaba/Glinda balance is off, or gets lost in the busyness of a big production, that's when the film might not succeed. Cutting the story in two is risky, but because so many people have seen the show worldwide right now it probably won't be fatal, and in the future people will just stream both halves.