Would you let your kid watch this movie?

[Are_grits_groceries]

@MeredithFrost

Ha!

[hobbit709]

1. Why not, we did.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. That sound you hear

is the meaning of the post whizzing over your head.

[Art_from_Ark]

44. Well, first of all, Dorothy's *house* killed the first witch

There was nothing at all Dorothy could have done to prevent that.

Secondly, the second witch was killed inadvertently when she was doused with water, so obviously it was not an intentional act of murder. The members of Dorothy's group did not seek to kill anyone-- they only wanted their own special wishes granted by a wizard.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Should also have another warning: Contains disturbing images

I think she may be most sincerely dead.

[Art_from_Ark]

56. When I was a little kid, it wasn't the feet under the house

that freaked me out so much as it was the way they curled up afterward. And the flying monkeys freaked me out, too. I was probably 5 or 6 at the time.

[Skidmore]

62. Me too. Flying monkeys and the Wicked Witch melting into a pile of goo.

That creeped me out to no end. I was about 5 at the time as well and I kept as far from my mother's broom as I could for some time afterward.

[Zorra]

4. The young girl even renders an old woman into a steaming puddle of grease near

the end of the film.

[Egnever]

5. Those monkeys scared the hell out of me as a kid.

To be fair though she didn't actually meet the first person she killed.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Didn't meet her? Hell, she had her under her roof!

[Egnever]

8. Well played!

[Are_grits_groceries]

9. I hated those monkeys.

I loved the film but it was all I could do to sit through that part.

[Egnever]

11. The apple trees were no picnic either

[Warren DeMontague]

48. Sure, until I saw Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black.

That fucking Zuni Fetish Doll outdid all my previous nightmares by several orders of magnitude.

[notadmblnd]

49. Lost in Space scared the hell out of me.

Along with the movie titled "Them"

[Warren DeMontague]

50. You Bumbling Ninny!

[Jgarrick]

52. I hadn't thought about that film in almost 40 years.

Just watched it on youtube.

Now that I've seen it again, you can just rock me to sleep tonight, thank you very much!

[Warren DeMontague]

53. Sorry.

[missingthebigdog]

118. Wow! Trilogy of Terror

That brings back some really unpleasant memories, LOL.

[Laffy Kat]

54. Those monkeys STILL scare the hell out of me!

And what about the tornado? When you stop to think about it, the special effects were incredible for that time. To this day I credit seeing the tornado on the WOO when I was a child to my lifetime fascination with weather.

[ManiacJoe]

7. Sounds like you misphrased the question.

I am under the impression that the question you meant to ask was, "Would you let your kid watch this movie based on this description?"

[Are_grits_groceries]

10. I am under the impression that you take yourself

way too seriously acting like a DU OP monitor.

[ManiacJoe]

13. Your post #2 suggests otherwise.

[Ptah]

12. You mean in the imaginary world where children listen?

[scarletwoman]

14. Not a word about how one of the main characters gets disemboweled and his limbs torn off

while he's still alive and screaming?

They tore my legs off and they threw them over there. Then they took my chest out and they threw it over there...

Parents need to be warned about graphic stuff like that so they can protect their children!

[pinboy3niner]

15. Your strawman tactic couldn't be more obvious

[scarletwoman]

16. Oh, stuff it!

[Aerows]

17. Your argument

has a tinny ring to it

[scarletwoman]

18. Oil get you for that!!!!

[pinboy3niner]

19. We let you get away with fibbing, but now you're just flat out lion

[Aerows]

20. I have the courage to speak up!

It appears some fur will be flying here, soon. I'm probably going to hit the hay, though.

[pinboy3niner]

21. Oh, no! Not Strawman!

What did he ever do to you?

[Aerows]

22. Hey

At least I'm neither brainless or heartless, okay?

[Aerows]

23. (aside from the puns)

Scarecrow, in an interesting twist, was a super villain in DC comics that caused tortured nightmares to invade the psyches of his victims and corrupt or coerce them. It is interesting that it aligns with the "hit the hay" idiom, no?

[pinboy3niner]

24. I guess a strawman as a cereal killer has a certain logic

[Aerows]

25. Wheatened you just know it?

It's soil out there for all to seed.

[pinboy3niner]

61. To each his awn. nt

[Aerows]

63. I'll need to let that germinate

for a while before I reap the wisdom of it.

[pinboy3niner]

65. Just take it as my poor attempt at rye humor. :)

[Aerows]

66. You just can't resist being a rake

Can you ?

[pinboy3niner]

70. It's a tough yellow brick row to hoe

But somebody's gotta do it. "There's no place like hoe, there's no place like hoe..."

[Aerows]

71. Gotta call a spade a spade, I guess

Look at the cumulose of postings and judge it from there. Many loam for the days when it was mulch easier

[pinboy3niner]

73. You're a real card

You realize, of course, that many here wonder if we're playing with a full deck.

[Aerows]

75. You have to recognize the Jokers when you see them

otherwise, it's just 52 pickup and getting clubbed by the real Aces

[pinboy3niner]

77. Well you're the queen here. At least, as far as I can dedeuce.

It is trey delish, if you'll pardon my French.

[SummerSnow]

111. I think they're cousins

[scarletwoman]

26. I'm tailing you, lay off!

[Aerows]

28. He has his claws in you

He's in that phrase where he goes punning for victims.

[scarletwoman]

29. He re-gales me, witch is okay by me.

[Aerows]

30. Water you going to do about it?

[scarletwoman]

31. Don't axe.

[Aerows]

32. Bucket I can't ask, how will I know? n/t

[scarletwoman]

33. Hay, not my problem. This is it, in toto.

[Aerows]

34. Curtainly, I do understand where you are coming from.

Oz course it is not your problem.

[scarletwoman]

36. Well, I hope this doesn't brick your spirit.

I'm just going to slipper away quietly now.

[Aerows]

37. Yellow all feel better in the morning :D.

[scarletwoman]

39. House that supposed to happen?

I'm going to be up all night munchkin cheetos in frustration.

[Aerows]

40. It's nacho problem

I'm eating nachos right now

[scarletwoman]

41. Nachos? I'm auntie 'em.

[Aerows]

42. LMAO

You are too much fun, SW

[scarletwoman]

43. Wheew!

I haven't tried doing this in YEARS! Thanks for the workout - you're too much fun yourself, Aerows!

[pinboy3niner]

79. You two are a real hoot, lol

You should do this more often. I may send you a PM alert the next time we have a pun thread.

[scarletwoman]

80. Ah! The master speaks!

I am not worthy.

[pinboy3niner]

83. I'm no master, except when it come to fishing--or so they tell me

I'm not even that great a fisherman, but some think I'm some kind of expert with bait. I don't get it, but that's what they say.

When it comes to pun threads, the more the merrier. More takes to play off of, more DUzys from first-timers. It's a teamwork sport, and there is no one master.

At least that's my take, Grasshopper.

[scarletwoman]

84. So, wait a minute... Fishing? Bait?

Nah, I'm not getting it...

[pinboy3niner]

89. When a friend called from Australia and we were talking about music...

...at one point he asked, "Do you play an instrument, pinboy?"

Knowing a good setup when I saw one, I gave it a couple of beats and replied...

"Only the one."

[scarletwoman]

90. ...

[scarletwoman]

92. You know, a couple other responses came to mind:

I gave it a couple of beats...

Were you holding it up to the phone?

"Only the one."

A soloist then.

[pinboy3niner]

93. Not holding it up to the phone, just thrown over my shoulder as usual...

That's a recurring joke from Ryan Stiles on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'

But felt bad for my poor Aussie buddy in that phone call, having to pay international rates for five minutes of nothing but us laughing hysterically.

[NuclearDem]

35. Someone should've nip nip nipped this subthread in the bud.

Nip nip here, AND nip nip there.

Otherwise you'll just pun the day away in the merry old land of Oz.

[pinboy3niner]

107. In GD the rule is: TAKE a nip before posting

Or have some bud. You should know that by now.

[eridani]

46. OK, give the thread a DUzy n/t

[Politicalboi]

27. What about the Deleted Scenes

Oh My!

[Broken_Hero]

38. Yep, sure would nt

[Jack for Sanders]

45. Only with a little Pink Floyd in the background.

eom

[mercuryblues]

67. yup

that is the best way to watch it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. and has to fight to save dog from being put to death, hangs out with older stanger camping out

[MADem]

51. That is WONDERFUL!!!!

I should have watched that this evening instead of the jarring, soundtrack-doesn't-match-the-story new GATSBY. So many good production values, good script, good cast...but it just didn't work. The soundtrack and post-production work ruined it for me.

[dogknob]

58. Kanye, Jay-Z, Beyonce, and Gatsby

The new supergroup.

By the time they got past the spectacle and let the actors act, I was numb.

[MADem]

59. I didn't care for the soundtrack at all.

I like Beyonce a lot, too--she's very talented, and a superb and savvy businesswoman to boot....I just found the juxtaposition of modern music with that story unsettling to the point where it sucked the vibe of the era out of the story. It turned the story from something that was (somewhat) believable into a cartoonish fantasy. I also found the colors too bright, and the CGI overdone.

The scriptwriters did a great job (how could they fuck up, really--they lifted the script from the book, pretty much). The editing was not bad, either. The actors did what they needed to do...but that CGI overlay, the garish colors, and the soundtrack most notably served to flatten, rather than enhance the experience....I thought it was a lot of money spent for a less than stellar result.

Then again, maybe I'm just an old fart and the target audience wasn't looking for a faithful setting for the novel!

[pinboy3niner]

60. With an Emerald City and Ruby Slippers, you could say the movie was a real gem

The Gatsby book, on the other hand, left me flat. The character and his lifestyle were so foreign to me that I never could get into it.

With the new movie running on cable I'll probably catch it at some point, just out of curiosity. But now I'm wondering if maybe I should just mute it and go with captioning.

[MADem]

119. Go With Captions!

If I could just strip out the soundtrack, and mute some of the cartoon/crayon colors, it would be the best Cliff Notes a kid could want!

I have no objection to the artists in general who did the music on the soundtrack, but frankly they should have had some musical genius-authority, on the level of someone like Winton Marsalis, dig deep and find some gems from the age--not have rap blaring discordantly in an era where it Does Not Belong.

[Democracyinkind]

55. Yes. Economic education is very important, even if cryptic. nt

[steve2470]

57. "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"

[SummerSnow]

112. This actress also played the Maxwell House coffee lady

from the commercials back in the day

[steve2470]

113. haha wow ! amazing info that is :) nt

[oldhippie]

64. I wonder if I am the only one here ....

... that has never seen the movie or read the book? I'm 65 years old, and have absorbed over the years from various sources that there is a Dorothy, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, but I have never seen or read the plot of the story. I just never had any interest in it. The same with Alice in Wonderland, I've heard of Alice and a rabbit and a queen of some color, but never knew the story. I guess I was never big on this stuff.

Am I weird, or what?

[Number23]

68. And they're doing all kinds of hip things with the WoO story line. There's a Broadway play

called "Wicked" which was based on the book by the same name which is an entirely new take on the story. This time we learn about how the Wicked Witch of the West came to be. It's pretty damn cool.

There was also an extremely horrible movie that came out last year called "Oz the Great and Powerful" which tried to tackle the story from another view too. It was from the vantage point of the Wizard. Had much potential but just sucked when it all came together.

So if you haven't seen the original you probably wouldn't get the variations.

[Hekate]

95. You are the only one, and you are weird

I kid, I kid. You just missed out on some cultural touchstones, that's all. While it's never too late to have a happy childhood, it's not a requirement.

[Boom Sound 416]

69. Technically

She was never acquainted with the first person she killed.

She's also a shoe thief

[pinboy3niner]

72. Thechnicolorly, the shoe thing was just a missdemeanor

btw, I saw those ruby slippers from the movie when they were displayed in the Smithsonian. They looked better in Technicolor.

[Boom Sound 416]

74. Of course they were

You saw them worn!

[pinboy3niner]

78. I expected to be awed. They should have worned me. nt

[SummerSnow]

114. If she took of those shoes, she would be at the mercy of the witch.

Imagine the horrors of that

[Boom Sound 416]

115. And her little dog

Who want wearing any tags if memory serves.

[steve2470]

76. Here come the flying monkeys !

[JVS]

81. Having your house fall on someone during a tornado is not manslaughter or murder.

Dorothy does rob the corpse though.

[steve2470]

82. ......

[pinboy3niner]

85. You always were a SUCKER for musical numbers, cutoffs and striped stockings

[steve2470]

86. yep did they sing the Lollypop Land or something ? lol nt

[pinboy3niner]

88. "We represent the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild..."

Bad earworm but nowhere near as bad as "It's a small world after all..."

[SummerSnow]

116. The one in the blue looks like Newt Gingrich or James Carville

[steve2470]

117. ha ! nt

[WillyT]

87. Punniest OP Ever !!! - K & R !!!

Well done!!!

[pinboy3niner]

91. I take it you've never met Senhor Testiculo...

Meet Mr. Balls, Brazil’s Disturbing New Testicular Cancer Mascot
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023921229

[WillyT]

96. LOL !!!

Yeah... I've seen him here... at DU.

[pinboy3niner]

97. Just what we'd exect a sackpuppet to say

[steve2470]

98. that was an epic thread !

[WillyT]

99. Yes It Was... And Sorely Needed !!!

[pinboy3niner]

101. It certainly bears more scrotiny

[steve2470]

102. takes balls to post that :) nt

[pinboy3niner]

103. If nothing else, I'm known for my choots-pa...

[steve2470]

104. she's such a sack of.....oh never mind :p nt

[Hekate]

94. Many life-lessons in Oz: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"...

... is just one. Run, Toto, run!

[steve2470]

100. Oh we owe oh whoaaaaaaaa

[pinboy3niner]

105. Is it great or terrible? I can't tell witch. nt

[Raine1967]

106. What a world, What a world.

and then I drank maxwell coffee. (cause I had to)

I saw the commercial before I saw this:

[pinboy3niner]

108. Not to mention the ménOz à quatre

Shame on Dorothy! You can't just go any way the wind blows you!

[pinboy3niner]

109. Watch it? Hell, they're IN it.

And to think they criticized me for naming my kids Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Straw Man!

Guess who's laughing now, after all the royalties?

[SummerSnow]

110. The witch was terrible .Dorotthy had to handle her business..

First, the witch threatened Dorothy even after she apologized about the house falling on her sister. Then on her way the witch had trees attack them, threw fire balls at them, got her high with the poppies, locked her up in a dungeon with seconds of her life left, had her kidnapped held hostage, threatened her again by using the sky writing method. Oh well.