I went to see "The Wizard"!

I finally got a chance to see my favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz on the big screen! If you've never seen it on the big screen, you've still got time!

The movie celebrated its 75th anniversary last year and was shown in IMAX theaters to celebrate. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend and was extremely sad about it, but as you can see, the sadness is over! I should also add that this was also a birthday gift to me (my big sis paid and watched it with me).

 

From Wikipedia

I'm a great lover of film--classic film in particular, as you can probably tell by this blog. I minored in Film/Video Studies in college, so not only is The Wizard of Oz "just" a favorite movie of mine, but it's sort of a "dream film" for me, as well. Whether I'm watching it on a big screen or a TV screen, it's an event, period. Whenever I sit down to watch it, I'm not sitting down to "watch a movie", I'm sitting down to experience something--to be taken away. I'm also scanning the screen for things I didn't see in the last viewing--opening my ears for sounds I never noticed before. I'm always in awe when I finish watching this 1939 movie--and creating at least one film with as big an impact as The Wizard of Oz is a huge dream of mine (why I call it a "dream film"). 

 

From Wikipedia

I'm so, so happy I got to see this movie in the theater. I couldn't contain myself. Even as I write this, I can't contain myself. While watching the movie, I had to keep crossing my arms and legs to hide my excitement during the epic tornado scene. I even had to stop myself from leaning over to my sister to whisper fun facts and trivia to her (I only stopped because she claims that I can't whisper). Man, I'm such a geek about this movie that even the intro and outro music (*doom--DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUMMMM (roar! roar! roar!) DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUMMMM*) sends me into fit of muffled giggles of excitement.

*sigh*

I'm getting *this* close to popping in the DVD right now (at 11PM EST), so...it's about that time for me to wrap this up. I hope this post didn't make me seem too nerdy--or pretentious, either!

Either way, thank you for taking the time to read my gushing--and I hope you go see The Wizard of Oz on the big screen on January 14th or on any other date in the future!

  

Mr. Sali's Reviews (#69)

Wherever I Look 

A blog of recaps and media reviews.

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From Wikipedia

The day after Christmas, Amari recapped and reviewed Downton Abbey's Christmas special. Click here to read his comments on the episode. 

Collected Quotes

"Collected Quotes" is a segment on Wherever I Look in which Amari "collects" significant and moving quotes from books, movies, and television shows. Read the quotes he took away from Toni Morrison's Sula and Alice Walker's The Color Purple.

From Amazon

Amari also reviewed Wendy Williams' first book, 2003's Wendy's Got the Heat. Click here to read his review.

From Wikipedia

Click here to read Amari's review of the hit movie, Gone Girl starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

I watched "Come Back, Little Sheba"...

(Written on July 25, 2014)

For years, I never thought to look up the summary for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 movie). For years I assumed it was a movie about some lost kid's dog. Sometimes, I confused it with Shane ("Come back, Shane!"). Basically, I was not interested in this movie. Then, this week, I checked the current assignments for an online class I'm enrolled in, and guess what one of the assignments were? "View Come Back, Little Sheba."

This was me:

But of course, I didn't want to fail this class, so I watched the movie. 

The movie was excellent.

From Wikipedia

I love a good "angst" story (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? being among my favorites). As always, whenever I watch a good classic film, I'm always inspired to write, so once I get a few household things done, I will be hopping back on this script I've been working on for months. I've also added this movie to my "Must Have DVDs for a DVD Collection to rival all DVD Collections" list.

Have you ever avoided a movie only to be pleasantly surprised by how good it was?

Mr. Sali's Reviews (#63)

"Get up-uh, get on up!"

From Wikipedia

This week (very early this morning, actually), Amari reviewed the highly anticipated James Brown biopic, Get On Up, starring Chadwick Boseman.

Click here

to read his review.

(Contains spoilers)

Review of 1933's "Baby Face" (Pre-Released Version)

Here's a movie that I've actually wanted to watch for a LONG time: 1933's Baby Face starring the clearly-from-Brooklyn film legend, Barbara Stanwyck. 

SUMMARY

A young woman (Lily Powers--played by Stanwyck) uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness. [IMDb]

Waterloo Bridge (1931) Review

Welp. I just got through watching Waterloo Bridge. Interesting movie. 

I can be quite a rambler when it comes to speaking and writing and I sometimes have a hard time organizing my thoughts--so with that said, I have to thank the administrator of Masters Film Review for his page on "Criteria for Film Reviews". I will be using the majority of his criteria from here on out to guide me through reviews! 

Okay, now let's begin...

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Waterloo Bridge (1931) was adapted from the stageplay written by Robert E. Sherwood. After watching the film, I realize that I should read the play at some point in order to have a better understanding of the movie. 

SUMMARY

In World War I London, Myra (played by Mae Clarke) is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy (played by Douglass Montgomery, then known as Kent Douglass), a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. They fall for each other, and he tricks Myra into visiting his family who live in a country estate outside London, where his step-father is a retired British Major. However Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, because she has not told him about her past. [IMDb]