I have been forced to speak up. Society needs to act to rein in ridiculous movie runtimes | Rebecca Shaw
They are trying to slowly and sneakily acclimatise us, like we are frogs boiling in water. But this frog won’t be boiledUnless you’ve been living under a rock (or perhaps even something heavier than a rock, like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson), you would know by now that the movie musical Wicked is in theatres. As someone who wastes a lot of useful time being useless on the internet, I have been absorbing the strange press tour and countless memes along with everyone else, and I’ve been on the fence about actually going.I haven’t seen the stage version of Wicked, but I know some references and enjoy musicals generally. I love some movie musicals (hello Hairspray), but a lot of them are not great – and if they are bad, they are punishing. If I’m going to take out a second mortgage on my avocado toast in order to pay for a movie on the big screen, I need to be sure I’m making the right choice. Continue reading...
They are trying to slowly and sneakily acclimatise us, like we are frogs boiling in water. But this frog won’t be boiled
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or perhaps even something heavier than a rock, like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson), you would know by now that the movie musical Wicked is in theatres. As someone who wastes a lot of useful time being useless on the internet, I have been absorbing the strange press tour and countless memes along with everyone else, and I’ve been on the fence about actually going.
I haven’t seen the stage version of Wicked, but I know some references and enjoy musicals generally. I love some movie musicals (hello Hairspray), but a lot of them are not great – and if they are bad, they are punishing. If I’m going to take out a second mortgage on my avocado toast in order to pay for a movie on the big screen, I need to be sure I’m making the right choice.
