Update

Happy One Week Birthday, Movie Smoothie! It’s hard to believe that I’ve been posting to this blog for a week. I can’t say faithfully posting every day has been easy. In fact – it’s been really hard, but well worth all of the effort.

For those of you who have been following from the beginning, here’s my list of the top movies that I’ve watched so far. The order isn’t based on anything other than my pure enjoyment of the films. I’m not judging based on actors, film techniques, or any other critique system professional critics use. Just my old-fashioned “that was a great movie” opinion.

1.     The Matrix

2.     V for Vendetta

3.     Wizard of Oz

4.     Titanic

5.     Star Wars

  

I feel almost guilty putting Star Wars last considering how great everyone claims it is, but it just couldn’t beat the Titanic. 

In other news, check out some other movie-related blogs. They’re manned by people more film-literate than I am, I promise. The links are below:

Horror Movie Marathon

Stanton's Horror TV Shows

The Trailer Park

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted, all pictures are my own screenshots from the movies – you can use them however the hell you want. All gifs are from Tumblr, but I can give you the URL to any of them if you can’t find it yourself or are too lazy to look. 

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Wizard of Oz

Synopsis: After a tornado sweeps farm girl – Dorothy, to a mysterious land, she must find her way back home.

Unsurprisingly, Hollywood is planning to remake The Wizard of Oz in 3D this year. Also unsurprising – I haven’t seen the original. Let’s fix that, shall we?

For those who are curious (or just want a refresher on what this movie is about), here’s the new trailer for the 3D version:

Now there’s a shocker. The new trailer looks exactly like the old one.

The Wizard of Oz was a strange movie for me to grasp. Part movie, part musical. For me, it seemed as if the characters couldn’t make up their minds whether to sing the plotline to tell it through dialogue. Many of the songs were useless, only to showcase information that the audience already knew. Take for example the “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” song. Extremely repetitive, or is it just me?

My favorite line of the whole movie goes to Glinda, the Good Witch. When Dorothy lands in Oz, she encounters this “bubbly” character. Bad joke, I know. But Glinda asks Dorothy if she’s “a good witch or a bad witch” and then follows Dorothy’s reply with “only bad witches are ugly.” I’m surprised Dorothy didn’t bitch slap the witch right there; Glinda basically implied that she can’t tell if Dorothy is good looking or not. Ouch. Check out the clip of the scene below:

By the middle of the movie, I was in love with the Wicked Witch. Her character created so much unnecessary chaos, which kept me interested in the movie. Showing up randomly to throw a fireball at the movie’s heroes? Golden. She could’ve easily took the slippers from Dorothy before she reached the Emerald City, but decided not to in the name of evil. Ladies and gents, that’s true dedication to one’s craft.

Overall, The Wizard of Oz was a great classic. I enjoyed the pointless song and dance numbers as well as what critics today would call “cheesy acting.”  

But I want to know what you think. How would you react to Glinda’s “bad witch” question?