This could be great. I expect to see some great CGI characters instead of men dressed in silly outfits

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So it's going to be 'The Wiz 2.0' then (and little else?)

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With trans and gays too. You're discriminating by not including them in your comment. Bigot.

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The Wiz was just not that good. In fact it was bad . I remember as a kid really looking forward to it but then being completely let down - it fell so flat for me

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I hope it's better than "The Great and Powerful Oz"!

That sucked.

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The critics mostly agree with you, but I actually didn't mind that one. I found it entertaining at least.

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I found "Oz" very disappointing, because it actually could have been good with a few changes - like a different Oz. I find movies that could have been good deeply frustrating, they actually annoy me more than boring ones!

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I get it. Oz was the first time I ever saw James Franco, but I learned after it was released that an awful lot of people can't stand him. Because I had never seen him in anything, I didn't have a problem with him in this.

I mean, I can't stand Will Farrell. Everything he was in was ruined for me, so if he was scheduled to be in a movie I wanted to see, I simply wouldn't see it.

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Franco really was bad in the role. I mean he's capable of good acting, or used to be but in this movie he was just smug and irritating - even Will Farrell might have been better! I mean they really should have made the movie 20 years ago, when Johnny Depp was still on form, a young and acute Depp would have made the most of the role and carried the film over its weaknesses.

But oh well, the movie's been made with my douchebag homeboy Franco, and Depp hasn't give that kind of performance in decades.

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One more classic that doesn't need to be remade. Whatever they come up with will be yesterday's news soon enough, while the original will continue to be a timeless classic.

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There will be a flash of hype and excitement, brought about mainly because of the inevitable woke re-tuning, then it will go into the dumpster of forgotten remakes along with other junk like Spielberg's "West Side Story", and the original will still be remembered as the go-to version.

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Just so you know. If no remakes were made, the 1939 version would not exist. It was the third filmed version.

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So in the woke world the Wicked Witch will be the Misunderstood Alchemist.

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I thought witches were now known as "Practitioners of Paranormal Phenomena".

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Witches are actually known today as "beneficiaries of constitutionally guaranteed Religious Freedom".

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It will be very very awful. WB will be foolish to sink a lot of money into this. I predict too much CGI, race/gender swapping with the characters, and random action sequences. Just watch the original 1939 version. Or Return to Oz for a well-made film true to the source.

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My dad who died recently loved The Wizard of Oz. So you're saying it's no biggie that he won't get to see this?

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You need to post this article on "The Wiz" board, not here. https://moviechat.org/tt0078504/The-Wiz

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*uses a weary, slightly annoyed voice* Another one?

God, they've done really shitty remakes and "sequels" and even a "prequel" to this movie, and the truth is, they're never gonna recapture the awesomeness of the original. Sorry. And since this is the woke era, it's probably gonna be a shitty version that bombs at the box office and is forgotten within 6 months of release.

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*replies in an amused-at-how-stupid-you-are-tone* Another one???

ANOTHER dummy who doesn't realize that the version they're talking about is NOT THE ORIGINAL?

LOL. . .you muppets are hilarious. "Why do another remake???" "Hollywood is creatively bankrupt!" "Woke woke woke!"

You're a fool. The movie you're thinking of IS A REMAKE. "Hollywood" has been doing remakes SINCE THE 30s.

Idiot.

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So says the ugly-looking bot muppet who doesn't realize he's got both a Democrap's dirty hand and a dirty, yellow Chinese hand up his ass and pulling the strings on his non-existent brain.

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So says the person who hit you with facts, causing you to flail in impotent rage. No response to the truth bomb? LMAOOOOOO. . .you're a clown. Go sit down somewhere.

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Agree. I would never dare attempt at making a sequel to this movie in 2023

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