Having read Wicked and its sequels... yeah. Might as well go ahead and throw the R-rating on there now while there's still time.

/Dunno if the musical is anything like the books

Kiillll ...

Only in the USA can we turn political satire in to a beloved children's tale.
Looking forward to seeing the new film. Certain it's going to bomb

Walt Disney Presents ...

Snow White: the story of a woman who lives with seven men and finally finds love with a "prince" who is into necrophilia.

Fell In Love With a Chair: Having read Wicked and its sequels... yeah. Might as well go ahead and throw the R-rating on there now while there's still time.

/Dunno if the musical is anything like the books

No nothing at all. The musical is closer to MGM's Oz than it is to the novel. The book was just dreary, no fun at all. The musical I thought was much better.

/read the book before I saw the musical...

It's two hours of women fighting over shoes.

Richard_The_Clown: Fell In Love With a Chair: Having read Wicked and its sequels... yeah. Might as well go ahead and throw the R-rating on there now while there's still time.

/Dunno if the musical is anything like the books

No nothing at all. The musical is closer to MGM's Oz than it is to the novel. The book was just dreary, no fun at all. The musical I thought was much better.

/read the book before I saw the musical...

The book (Wicked), was horrible. It was painful to read, unnecessarily vulgar and cruel. The musical took the concept of the book, and turned it into something pretty interesting and enjoyable.

I think the second one should have been R-Rated because this movie eats the souls of the young.

The wizard of oz-
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets. She then teams up with 3 strangers to kill again.

i recently had this comment sent to me on FaceBook: It's the ultimate Chick Flick, two women are willing to kill each other over a pair of shoes.

More people need to read the actual series. It's way more trippier than what the current Pop Culture at large believes it to be.

I did read "Wicked" because a relative recommended it, I liked it okay, but felt the book was lacking something, and seemed like it was more for working out the author's hang-ups. This is coming from someone who enjoyed the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

Sybarite: Wait until they find out about the crazed candy factory owner who enslaves as entire race, forces them to work in self-evidently unsafe conditions, then systematically tortures children he considers "bad" in front of their parents.

Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory:  Five children enter, one child leaves.

Optimal_Illusion: i recently had this comment sent to me on FaceBook: It's the ultimate Chick Flick, two women are willing to kill each other over a pair of shoes.

More people need to read the actual series. It's way more trippier than what the current Pop Culture at large believes it to be.

I did read "Wicked" because a relative recommended it, I liked it okay, but felt the book was lacking something, and seemed like it was more for working out the author's hang-ups. This is coming from someone who enjoyed the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

So much this. The very creatively titled Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is still a favourite of mine. The whole invisible bears thing may be some of the greatest nightmare fuel in a children's book that I have ever read.

something something flying monkeys

Optimal_Illusion: More people need to read the actual series. It's way more trippier than what the current Pop Culture at large believes it to be.

heck, more people need to watch Return to Oz. faithful to the book and super trippy

GlobalStrategic MapleSyrup Reserve: The whole invisible bears thing may be some of the greatest nightmare fuel in a children's book that I have ever read.

I'm personally fond of the Tin Woodman finding out that his various former parts have been combined with other body parts laying around to form an ornery flesh golem.

bass555: something something flying monkeys

Understands that reference

In the R version do we get to see Dorothy's nut brown hare?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2WFVpSeIfA

The Wizard of Oz (1925) Silent

Starring Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy
Larry Semon as the Scarecrow
Oliver Hardy as the Woodsman
and "G. Howe Black" as Snowball/The Cowardly Lion

Odd Dorothy looks a lot like Lita...
Now that was wrestling!

...

So when can I just get "Wicked" as a movie and be done with this trend?

A naval officer from Austria deflowers a nun while turning down a solid job offer from Hitler.

/Sound of Music

Good Behavior Day: A naval officer from Austria deflowers a nun while turning down a solid job offer from Hitler.

/Sound of Music

SOB should have been tried for cowardice and shot.

First of all, this description has been floating around for decades.

Secondly, everyone should read the books. My favorite was the one where the heroes found an entire civilization made out of living sentient wood - wooden creatures, landscapes, buildings - all alive and talking. The wooden people objected to the party traveling through their land, so how do our heroes respond? They burn the whole farking civilization to the ground and go merrily on their way. Dorothy (or one of the other little girls that feature in the series - I forget) commits genocide to remove a minor obstacle from her path.

The yellow brick road was caused by her incontinence.

Zap_Rowsdower: First of all, this description has been floating around for decades.

Secondly, everyone should read the books. My favorite was the one where the heroes found an entire civilization made out of living sentient wood - wooden creatures, landscapes, buildings - all alive and talking. The wooden people objected to the party traveling through their land, so how do our heroes respond? They burn the whole farking civilization to the ground and go merrily on their way. Dorothy (or one of the other little girls that feature in the series - I forget) commits genocide to remove a minor obstacle from her path.

Pretty sure that was from "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz", same one with the invisible bears referenced up thread. I am making my way through these, picked them up after the wifey started reading them and was saying how good they are. Definitely think they should be a must read, lots of fun and great imagination.

Cagey B: GlobalStrategic MapleSyrup Reserve: The whole invisible bears thing may be some of the greatest nightmare fuel in a children's book that I have ever read.

I'm personally fond of the Tin Woodman finding out that his various former parts have been combined with other body parts laying around to form an ornery flesh golem.

Good one. I still find it interesting how his personality more or less resides in his tin body rather than his head or the other spare parts in Chopfyt. Consequently Nimmie Amee has a twisted "best of both worlds" fantasy in my opinion.

Somacandra: steampunk jazzman

Now, that is a good name for a band. The debut album can be named "Scarecrow Pedophile."

They left out the part where she stole the shoes. makes it much more fun when you look at it as a mugging and a home invasion.

kim jong-un: The book (Wicked), was horrible. It was painful to read, unnecessarily vulgar and cruel. The musical took the concept of the book, and turned it into something pretty interesting and enjoyable.

Although I had problems with bits and pieces of the book I liked it overall. Then I went to go see Wicked the musical. Now, I would rate the songs an 8, the art direction a 10 and the book... a 3. God I hated that story and the dialogue was so insipid. I honest to god cringed throughout.

Fell In Love With a Chair: Having read Wicked and its sequels... yeah. Might as well go ahead and throw the R-rating on there now while there's still time.

/Dunno if the musical is anything like the books

It's not.

Optimal_Illusion: i recently had this comment sent to me on FaceBook: It's the ultimate Chick Flick, two women are willing to kill each other over a pair of shoes.

More people need to read the actual series. It's way more trippier than what the current Pop Culture at large believes it to be.

I did read "Wicked" because a relative recommended it, I liked it okay, but felt the book was lacking something, and seemed like it was more for working out the author's hang-ups. This is coming from someone who enjoyed the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

You did not, nobody enjoys the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Anybody that claims to is just delusional that is like saying you finished Atlas Shrugged.

FirstNationalBastard: vernonFL: Dorothy killed 2 people and used heroin in the original movie.

Let's not forget how she blew all the Munchkins after they had all pulled an anal train on her.

NSFW

Read the original stories. Oz was NOT a happy fun-time joy-joy place. Cowardly Lion wasn't all that cowardly when the wild beasts of Oz attacked, and Tin Woodsman used that ax of his a lot. And that's not getting into Ozma, the Nome King, and other nightmare fuel.

what about the gang-rape of Dorothy and Toto?

His mother shot, his home burned to the ground, he eventually defies all odds to become king. -bambi

Somewhat relevant

Sounds like a perfect Chloë Moretz vehicle.