The Wizard of Oz...

Racist piece of shit film. It suppresses minorities by offering no representation of anything other than whites, witches, and people descended from straw or tin, THEN makes cartoons of both animals and those who are vertically challenged. Burn it! It's unacceptable to show it today!!!!

R1? Begone, before somebody drops a house on you, too!

This movie is just as old as Joe Biden is.

Its older

R3, it’s three years older.

A brief synopsis: Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.

My favorite movie as a child. I collected memorabilia, but nothing of any real value.. I stopped sometime in middle school. Now, I'd put some nice Oz prints or autographs on the wall, and collect books related to the subject, but can't stand dust collectors. So that's as far as it would go these days.

I have never seen Wizard of Oz.

A local theater showed it several years ago. It was fabulous on a big screen.

Amazing that it was all filmed on big soundstages, with the clever use of matte painting backdrops. Movie magic.

From the first notes of the orchestra over the titles to the final moments, "The Wizard of Oz" remains an evocative, incredibly imaginative and compelling film.

1939 was Hollywood’s pinnacle. Not that everything before or after was garbage, but ‘39 remains the high water mark for widespread cinematic excellence.

Is everyone here a friend of Dorothy?

I'm glad it was done back then. If it was done now they would totally fuck it up with CGI and special effects. It's perfect as it is.

Lest you forget, that poor girl was starved, fed amphetamines like candy and then when she was too strung out to sleep barbiturated into a coma until she had to get up and do it all over the next day for 12 to 15 hours, six days a week.

Everyone on this thread certainly is, r13.

I just watched it again with my two teenaged kids on Nov. 7, the day they finally called the election for Biden. "Ding Dong, the witch is dead" was just the perfect soundtrack for that event. It really is a perfect movie.

Whenever I feel sad, I think of Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion. "What makes de muskrat gaaaad his musk? Courage!" among other classic lines.

Who put the "ape" in "apricot"?

R11 My eyes watered when I heard the opening notes of the overture.

Oh, I’m not kidding anybody. I wept like a big, ole girl.

What makes the dawn come up like thunder?

My 7 year old niece loves it. Its the only film that old that still capticates young audiences.

Charles Schulz's strip was groundbreaking until it become over-commercialized in the 60s, starting with the Happiness is a Warm Puppy book.

All the TV shows and movies that followed were crap.

I liked the stage musical, however.

It's a sweet movie, I've seen it maybe ten times.

But OP has seen it a hundred times, OP time to move on. Find a hobby or a job or friends.

I feel sorry for 16's kids, she even turns The Wizard of Oz into a political statement. R1 and R16 will soon have it canceled.

[quote] My favorite movie as a child. I collected memorabilia, but nothing of any real value.. I stopped sometime in middle school.

And your parents had the nerve to be surprised when you came out?!

In the olden days it was only on TV once a year. When I was 7 or 8 I missed it and I still recall the disappointment and waiting a whole year to see it again.

Synopsis: Drug addicted, animal abusing, teenage fugitive from flyover imagines she forms militia to overthrow beloved leader during her detox from opium.

[quote] In the olden days it was only on TV once a year

It was always a big deal when it was shown on TV back in the 1960s. We didn't have a color TV (like Judy Gold's mother, my mother was convinced they gave off 'radiation' and my father went along only because he was too cheap to spend the money) so we were invited over to another family's house to watch.

At first I didn't understand what was going on, it was in black and white, just like it was at our house, but when Dorothy opened the door and everything was in color, my little 7 year-old head exploded.

Back when we still went to theaters, if THE WIZARD OF OZ was being shown as part of a retrospective or festival, I'd make a point of seeing it on the big screen. Like R9 said, it's fabulous seen that way.

R26 You forgot to work in the angle where she has three best friends, but in the cuntiest of moves at the last minute and in front of a crowd of thousands picks one who she likes the best of all! Sheesh, Dorothy, read the room, or grand town square, you bitch!

"Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" is a venerable soundtrack of the overthrow of right-wing one-term presidents. It was the headline of all the gay papers (and apparently even at Harvard) when Bush Sr. lost in 1992.

R24...What are you 12 ? Im 58...between my childhood, my kids childhood, nieces and nephews and the grandkids, Ive probably seen it more than 100 times...and I relish each and every viewing. So fuck off.

^^^^sorry, meant r23, not r24^^^^