How many times have you faced
someone whose mouth is agape before the words “You don’t like…?” are shot from
their mouth, roaring towards your opinions like a bullet to the side of a large
barn door. You attempt to justify your opinion but you get a shake of the head
in return. After a while you begin to make concessions. You stutter that “It’s
not as bad as…” or “I didn’t hate
it.” But it’s no good. That person now looks at you like you are something brown
and stinky on the bottom of their shoe. I get this look often and not just
because of my personality. Just as there are films which you may be embarrassed
to like, there are others which you are embarrassed that you don’t like. While
I don’t dislike any of the films below, I don’t like them as much as ‘society’
tells me I should. I expect ‘society’ will now also hate me for the opinions
I’m about to express below, but anyway here are Six of the Best Films I Should
Like More But Don’t.
Showing posts with label The Wizard of Oz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Wizard of Oz. Show all posts
Sunday 19 May 2013
Sunday 6 January 2013
The Wizard of Oz
Now. I’m not going to sit here and say that The Wizard of Oz isn’t a good film
because it is. It was ahead of it’s time technically and the Technicolor still
looks magnificent after seventy years but The
Wizard of Oz isn’t a great film. The story is so weak it is almost
homeopathic and it also ranks as amongst the most annoying films I’ve ever
seen. I seem to have a habit of slating films which other people love (see The Lion King, North by Northwest, BladeRunner) but I’m not doing it to be contentious. I personally think The Wizard of Oz is overrated and when
you really watch it rather than just look at it, you start to notice all sorts
of problems and plot holes.
Everyone knows the story. It is ingrained in our psyches and
phrases such as “We’re not in Kansas
anymore”, “Ding dong, the witch is dead” and “Fly my pretties” are sentences
which are quoted in every day language. Similarly the characters are so well
known that even if I described them as the green one, the hay bail, the robot or
the furry thirties gangster, you’d know instantly who I was talking about. The Wizard of Oz is just something that
we know inside out whether we’ve never seen it or have seen it a hundred times.
But just because something is well known, it doesn’t mean it is good. After
all, we all know who Hitler was and he wasn’t very nice at all.
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