Friday, 3 January 2025

We Went To The Pictures

 Not sure if anyone still calls it 'The Pictures' these days, but anyway, we went to the cinema. After Christmas but before New Year.

The film we went to see was Wicked. No-one more surprised than us, really, but we knew someone who had been to see it four times and loved it - obviously. So we thought we would give it a go.  

We did not love it. We will not be going to see it again nor will  we  be going to see Part 2. I was amazed that the film itself only covered Act 1 of the stage show, but I suppose if Peter Jackson can make 3, 3hour films of The Hobbit which is a single, and quite short!, book, then someone can make a two film version of a two act stage show. It's all about the money. 

I have never read any of the Oz books, although I have sat through the film version of the first one. This was a little help to me  in understanding what was going on in Wicked, although the talking animal storyline lost me.

Anyway, chalked up to experience, and undeterred we are back off to the cinema again tomorrow. I suspect it will be another film we regret spending money on, but we'll see. 

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  1. As a family, we have a Wizard of Oz obsession, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it - but I haven't been able to see the stage show, so it might turn out that I hate it 😉😉😉

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    1. I hope you really enjoy it: if you're rwally into the world of Oz you probably will. There's a sing along version which surprised us as the songs aren't really belters.

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