Being familiar with the cast recording (which I purchased about a decade ago), I think "No Good Deed," "As Long as You're Mine," and "For Good" are all in the top five songs. I personally never loved Popular. Like, it's fine, but I always prefer more dramatic songs to comedic ones. For that reason, Master of the House is one of my least favorite songs from Les Miserables, even though it's quite funny and a crowdpleaser.
Some even think a $200M+ 5-day opening weekend might happen if reception is just strong enough to make it happen: https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/s/14Ye1b6ySn
I’ll be watching it in 35 minutes when it’s on ABC for The Wonderful World of Disney and it has special sneak peeks of Moana 2 during the movie.
Possible, but I think that might be a little ambitious.
Hey, Mario had arguably mediocre reception and it still was able to open to $200M in its 5-day debut.
Different film, different time of the year, different box office landscape.
Other than hope that turns into disappointment when it doesn't happen. Best to set realistic expectations and be happy/surprised if it surpasses it.
Eh a year ago is not that different of a landscape when COVID was already behind us.
Wasn't talking about that, 2023 was a weird box office overall especially for Disney. So as much as I'd like Moana 2 to sail to a huge opening like Mario, I'm not holding my breath. I'm just going with the more conservative traditional predictions rather than what some Reddit poster thinks.
He’s really more a box office sales analyst/observer than a Reddit poster, but fair enough.
I enjoy most Broadway productions I see and really like musicals (movie and stage) but, for whatever reason, Wicked just felt flat to me.
It was great! I saw the musical many years ago and had forgotten many of the details, so the story was very fresh for me. Wonderful acting, fantastic singing—an all-round winner! Can’t wait for Part 2.
Maybe the emotions of the story might land more in the movie, as it gives things more time to breathe. But it's hard for me to say without having seen the Broadway show.
What didn't you like about it?
As I said, this is purely personal taste, but I've never been a HUGE fan of the Oz mythos and I have a certain distaste for "revisionist" media that tries to reframe villains as heroes (I've always wanted a satire of the genre with someone like Hook trying to rewrite his history to make himself the hero and just comically revealing himself to be an even bigger jerk then we thought). I also don't particularly like the music. Nothing profound, it's just a collection of elements that aren't to my liking. I'm certainly not going to make any judgements on the film's quality without seeing it or hold up my taste in musicals as particularly refined (I went to see Cats several times in my younger days). It's just a personal bummer that we FINALLY get a musical megahit and it's... this one.
I initially mistook your post (which was perfectly clear) to be referring to the film adaptation rather than to the musical itself. I know what it's like not to "get" something that the rest of the world seems to love. For me, it's The Bear (very different genre, I know!).
