David Stevens

Whatever people didn't like about this movie is beyond me. A fun watch. Too much bodily excrement and fluids, cringe, but this was nauseating, creepy and an outright hoot. It's a movie you wanna tell people to watch. If you have MAX do not pass this up.

I read ALL the novels. Too gritty in parts for a family musical, but here's hoping there's an outright version to the novels. That being said, I wasn't sold on Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, but Ariana Grande as G(a)linda was a no brainer. She needs to bring ALL that energy to Broadway. At least in a limited run. Cynthia Erivo. She nailed it. From a history standpoint on OZ, you always saw the Wicked Witch of the West as just naturally wicked. Because there was no other version. Gregory Maguire's novels give that other version. Wicked, on stage and now film give that other version. Most importantly in the dance sequence, that showed the effects of bullying on a good person, and that even though there was some redemption for the bulliers, the bullied have long lasting consequences no matter how much they want to forgive and forget. Cynthia's portrayal of years of abuse in a few tears was heartbreaking fiction (and unfortunately reality) at it's best. Already purchased the film. Already ready for November 2025 'Wicked: For Good". In the words of G(a)Linda "I couldn't be happier". With the year 2025 is poised to be, this will be a welcome early holiday gift and a much needed exhale. And who didn't rewind, at least twice, Kristin Chenowith and Idina Menzel, the superstars of the "Wiz-O-Mania Super Stars"- that hand on the mouth before the high note ("NOPE")... classic.

Tyler Perry is BLACK right? Netflix paid for this and more of his nonsense. He writes like it's on stage. He writes to his own voice. He knows nothing about characters or how to develop them. I'm not sure what Netflix was thinking. The swearing is OTT. The storyline is non existent. Absolutely awful.

Oh my days. Stephen King novel to movies work best when you stick closely to the original source material. This gave me memories of coming from school to watch Dark Shadows (Alfre Woodard was giving serious Dr. Julia Hoffman vibes); of reading the novel as a 13 year old kid the year it came out. My sister-in-law warned me not read it alone and especially at night(PFFT) one of the scariest novels I've ever read, alone and at night. It brought back a sense of TV nostalgia for me from the 70's. Those weird creepy Movies Of The Week(mostly on ABC) you couldn't wait to watch like 'Crowhaven Farm' with Hope Lange, or 'When Michael Calls' ("Help me Auntie my Helen"). Because if you're in your 60's, nowadays all you get is SFS (Streaming Fatigue Syndrome)...yes, it's a thing and it's real. This is TV done well from a superior existing source material. I really do wish this could have been a limited series to nail down characters and certain aspects of the novel, but maybe it's better like this and not like the mess CBS made of 'Under The Dome' (pathetic). Watch this. Or miss out. Well worth the watch.

Uhhhh. I watched it. It will hold your attention but you're always waiting for something the film missed all the way to the credits. It seems incomplete. It didn't work for me. I don't know if it was stuck on one look Dakota Fanning or the whole movie overall. It was both. Something was woefully lost in translation.

Who cares about Godzilla? I cared more about the characters and their story. Godzilla was there. Godzilla wreaked his usual havoc. But it was all the main characters and their stories that made this movie an instant classic. I cried at the end. At the end of a Godzilla movie it was tear inducing. The best.

So disappointing. I watched 3 Body on Prime full 30 episodes. It ignored the beginning of the novels because China didn't want to be painted by it's horrible history. Otherwise it remained true to its source material. But this iteration on Netflix with Brad Pitt as an exec is mostly divorced from it's source material. A brilliant and compelling trio of novels owes much to its characters above the premise of an alien species. TheTrisolarans. This not only changes the species name but most of the novels characters are tossed for completely new characters that make absolutely no sense. The wisecracking hilarious police captain is now an absolute expressionless bore. Leave it to Hollywood to completely americanize something that absolutely should not be. Who are these people? Why don't I care about them? Who thought this was the way to go? If this drives some viewers to pick up the novel's they'll be stupefied and angry. WHO ARE THESE CHARACTERS? WHAT'RE YOU DOING IN MY TV???

All the while I watched this movie it kept occurring to me..."This should've been a series...on SYFY" It was like binge watching a series in a movie. And it took away whatever good should've been. And nearly midway it turned unexpectedly into "The Power Rangers'. And it looked more expensive cheap and silly then I realized. Definitely kid and family oriented. Like watching a Disney show on Netflix. No 👎.

Horrendous. There's one main character who's whispered lines are whispered for no reason. The story is all over the place. Sarah Michelle Gellar spends her time shaking hands with kids and phoning it in. I don't know who this show is for but it's definitely NOT for me. It's a huge bore when it shouldn't be.

The ending was outright hilarious if you did as the movie suggested and "left the world behind" to view it. The Hollywood A- List actors as their characters propel you through this film more than the actual story. The story? Well. It's chillingly closer to actual events than its fictitious musings. It makes you seriously think and then ignore your thoughts just to watch the characters interact. That's it's strength 100 percent. And it works. But. It's interesting for the end stage for one country's strength and its civilians while the rest of Earth looks on. It's deservedly scary after you view it and think on it.