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(41,694 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)is the meaning of the post whizzing over your head.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)There was nothing at all Dorothy could have done to prevent that.
Secondly, the second witch was killed inadvertently when she was doused with water, so obviously it was not an intentional act of murder. The members of Dorothy's group did not seek to kill anyone-- they only wanted their own special wishes granted by a wizard.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I think she may be most sincerely dead.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)that freaked me out so much as it was the way they curled up afterward. And the flying monkeys freaked me out, too. I was probably 5 or 6 at the time.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)That creeped me out to no end. I was about 5 at the time as well and I kept as far from my mother's broom as I could for some time afterward.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)the end of the film.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)To be fair though she didn't actually meet the first person she killed.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)I loved the film but it was all I could do to sit through that part.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That fucking Zuni Fetish Doll outdid all my previous nightmares by several orders of magnitude.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Along with the movie titled "Them"
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Jgarrick
(521 posts)Just watched it on youtube.
Now that I've seen it again, you can just rock me to sleep tonight, thank you very much!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)That brings back some really unpleasant memories, LOL.
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)And what about the tornado? When you stop to think about it, the special effects were incredible for that time. To this day I credit seeing the tornado on the WOO when I was a child to my lifetime fascination with weather.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)I am under the impression that the question you meant to ask was, "Would you let your kid watch this movie based on this description?"
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)way too seriously acting like a DU OP monitor.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Ptah
(33,024 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)while he's still alive and screaming?
Parents need to be warned about graphic stuff like that so they can protect their children!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)has a tinny ring to it
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)It appears some fur will be flying here, soon. I'm probably going to hit the hay, though.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)What did he ever do to you?
At least I'm neither brainless or heartless, okay?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Scarecrow, in an interesting twist, was a super villain in DC comics that caused tortured nightmares to invade the psyches of his victims and corrupt or coerce them. It is interesting that it aligns with the "hit the hay" idiom, no?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)It's soil out there for all to seed.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)for a while before I reap the wisdom of it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Can you ?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)But somebody's gotta do it. "There's no place like hoe, there's no place like hoe..."
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Look at the cumulose of postings and judge it from there. Many loam for the days when it was mulch easier
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)You realize, of course, that many here wonder if we're playing with a full deck.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)otherwise, it's just 52 pickup and getting clubbed by the real Aces
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It is trey delish, if you'll pardon my French.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)He's in that phrase where he goes punning for victims.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Oz course it is not your problem.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I'm just going to slipper away quietly now.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I'm going to be up all night munchkin cheetos in frustration.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I'm eating nachos right now
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)You are too much fun, SW
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I haven't tried doing this in YEARS! Thanks for the workout - you're too much fun yourself, Aerows!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)You should do this more often. I may send you a PM alert the next time we have a pun thread.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I am not worthy.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I'm not even that great a fisherman, but some think I'm some kind of expert with bait. I don't get it, but that's what they say.
When it comes to pun threads, the more the merrier. More takes to play off of, more DUzys from first-timers. It's a teamwork sport, and there is no one master.
At least that's my take, Grasshopper.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Nah, I'm not getting it...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...at one point he asked, "Do you play an instrument, pinboy?"
Knowing a good setup when I saw one, I gave it a couple of beats and replied...
"Only the one."
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Were you holding it up to the phone?
A soloist then.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)That's a recurring joke from Ryan Stiles on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'
But felt bad for my poor Aussie buddy in that phone call, having to pay international rates for five minutes of nothing but us laughing hysterically.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Nip nip here, AND nip nip there.
Otherwise you'll just pun the day away in the merry old land of Oz.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Or have some bud. You should know that by now.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Oh My!
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)Jack for Sanders
(46 posts)eom
mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)that is the best way to watch it.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I should have watched that this evening instead of the jarring, soundtrack-doesn't-match-the-story new GATSBY. So many good production values, good script, good cast...but it just didn't work. The soundtrack and post-production work ruined it for me.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)The new supergroup.
By the time they got past the spectacle and let the actors act, I was numb.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I like Beyonce a lot, too--she's very talented, and a superb and savvy businesswoman to boot....I just found the juxtaposition of modern music with that story unsettling to the point where it sucked the vibe of the era out of the story. It turned the story from something that was (somewhat) believable into a cartoonish fantasy. I also found the colors too bright, and the CGI overdone.
The scriptwriters did a great job (how could they fuck up, really--they lifted the script from the book, pretty much). The editing was not bad, either. The actors did what they needed to do...but that CGI overlay, the garish colors, and the soundtrack most notably served to flatten, rather than enhance the experience....I thought it was a lot of money spent for a less than stellar result.
Then again, maybe I'm just an old fart and the target audience wasn't looking for a faithful setting for the novel!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The Gatsby book, on the other hand, left me flat. The character and his lifestyle were so foreign to me that I never could get into it.
With the new movie running on cable I'll probably catch it at some point, just out of curiosity. But now I'm wondering if maybe I should just mute it and go with captioning.
MADem
(135,425 posts)If I could just strip out the soundtrack, and mute some of the cartoon/crayon colors, it would be the best Cliff Notes a kid could want!
I have no objection to the artists in general who did the music on the soundtrack, but frankly they should have had some musical genius-authority, on the level of someone like Winton Marsalis, dig deep and find some gems from the age--not have rap blaring discordantly in an era where it Does Not Belong.
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)from the commercials back in the day
steve2470
(37,457 posts)oldhippie
(3,249 posts)... that has never seen the movie or read the book? I'm 65 years old, and have absorbed over the years from various sources that there is a Dorothy, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, but I have never seen or read the plot of the story. I just never had any interest in it. The same with Alice in Wonderland, I've heard of Alice and a rabbit and a queen of some color, but never knew the story. I guess I was never big on this stuff.
Am I weird, or what?
Number23
(24,544 posts)called "Wicked" which was based on the book by the same name which is an entirely new take on the story. This time we learn about how the Wicked Witch of the West came to be. It's pretty damn cool.
There was also an extremely horrible movie that came out last year called "Oz the Great and Powerful" which tried to tackle the story from another view too. It was from the vantage point of the Wizard. Had much potential but just sucked when it all came together.
So if you haven't seen the original you probably wouldn't get the variations.
Hekate
(90,643 posts)I kid, I kid. You just missed out on some cultural touchstones, that's all. While it's never too late to have a happy childhood, it's not a requirement.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)She was never acquainted with the first person she killed.
She's also a shoe thief
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)btw, I saw those ruby slippers from the movie when they were displayed in the Smithsonian. They looked better in Technicolor.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)You saw them worn!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Imagine the horrors of that
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Who want wearing any tags if memory serves.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)JVS
(61,935 posts)Dorothy does rob the corpse though.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Bad earworm but nowhere near as bad as "It's a small world after all..."
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Well done!!!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023921229
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Yeah... I've seen him here... at DU.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Hekate
(90,643 posts)... is just one. Run, Toto, run!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)and then I drank maxwell coffee. (cause I had to)
I saw the commercial before I saw this:
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Shame on Dorothy! You can't just go any way the wind blows you!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And to think they criticized me for naming my kids Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Straw Man!
Guess who's laughing now, after all the royalties?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)First, the witch threatened Dorothy even after she apologized about the house falling on her sister. Then on her way the witch had trees attack them, threw fire balls at them, got her high with the poppies, locked her up in a dungeon with seconds of her life left, had her kidnapped held hostage, threatened her again by using the sky writing method. Oh well.