I swear, you dudes can write about sports, celebrity, feminism and its basically good shit, 10/10, I love it.

Citation needed.

No, no.

“Critics are usually white people with degrees that are privileged enough to tell people what they think about movies.”

“No, you measure if people really enjoy it by asking them and seeing where it sits.”

Ha you are all over the place, but for the record financial earnings is basically how we are able to measure if “people” really enjoyed it.

I guess weird is the wrong word to use. Unnecessary, does that make more sense? Like, with the original Wiz film, they changed all sorts of things about the story, the characters, just to make it fit. But it doesn’t fit, and it doesn’t work. And the reason it doesn’t work isn’t that everyone doesn’t have great…

I actually agree with you on the grounds that it does celebrate black culture of the 70’s, I just think the original film is shitty, and I’m not alone on that.

For the record, you said you went to film school, I didn’t. I studied film, but was in Communications. Regardless, the Wiz film was a piece of trash, and cherry picking reviews that say otherwise is disingenuous. As for its popularity, it still wasn’t a critical or financial success, so that’s history. And lots of…

It made me feel weird because this is a story from a white author, set in a very white fantasy world. Surely there are worthwhile stories to tell (ones that haven’t been rehashed and rethought a thousand times) that are more representative of the black experience? I don’t know, I think that could be explored anyways.

30% from critics, 65% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. I like Ebert, but he liked a lot of schlock, too. I’m glad you like it, I also studied film and I think we’ll have to disagree. And by “we,” I mean you and 40 years of audiences and critics, which regard this film as one of the most notorious bombs of all time.

I think that’s being very generous to an infamously poor film. The stage musical was supposedly more satisfying, but the film is a disaster on the scale of the BeeGee’s Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band. In fact, this is the only time I’ve ever seen The Wiz mentioned without an acknowledgment of what a mess the film…

Its true The Wiz had big names back in the day, but they didn’t bring it. It was an abombination.

I thought about changing my son’s name to help him out, but he really looks like a Cliff Huxtable.

Perhaps the only time ever that the words “Trump” and “race” will appear in the same sentence and not spark outrage.

While certainly many well-known Republicans are noted assholes, it unfortunately doesn’t necessarily mean that all assholes are in fact Republicans.

Often its a frequent Stern Show caller named Joey Boots. That’s not him this time, but whenever you see a “booey bomb” or “Howard Stern’s penis” shout out from Times Square there is a good chance its Joey Boots.