re: Oz the Great and Powerful (possible spoiler)

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No, it wasn't. This was much more believable, and that's saying something.

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I don't know. I bought that the guy liked blue cat vagina and flying velociraptors. It just felt like everything on here was in extreme flashfoward mode to where nothing really made sense.

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When you watched the Wizard of Oz for the the first time, did you really worry about plotholes like the Wicked Witch of the West not offing the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion while they were walking? No, because it's a kid's movie for the most part.

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To be honest, all the Wicked Witch really wanted was those ruby slippers back, which were rightfully hers. I'm not sure if she was particularly interested in offing them, just making that more of a last resort. The only time she directly tries to murder them is once they come to the castle to murder her, which I think its perfectly understandable. Plus she at least kept tabs on them well.

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This one is, too. The only difference is that we all have the original ingrained in our brains and approach movies with logic. Can't really have too much logic weighing you down when China people are alive and talking, flying monkeys wear bellhop uniforms, and a broken heart makes you turn into a acid-tear crying chick.

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It has to work within the context of its own universe though, which it doesn't. This is like this year's Alice in Wonderland, in that it completely misses the point of what the universe is about. The film looked like Oz, but it didn't feel like Oz.

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The movie was good for what it was. It wasn't Toy Story, but it certainly wasn't the Phantom Menace.

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I'd say it was worse than TPM, but not quite as bad as AotC.