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The Micro Machines guy is John Moschitta, Jr, and he is alive and well.

Malcolm McDowell has definitely found a second life on cable TV.

I love St Clair to a ridiculous degree, so I had to do it. Here's a template

After the horrors he's unleashed on the movie-watching public, I don't feel he deserves to have his name pronounced correctly.

This is a fair point.

Uwe Boll Month sounds absolutely terrifying. I believe one Uwe Boll movie per year is more than enough.

Steve, I don't think we're going to get anywhere with this, so I think I'll just leave it at agree to disagree.

Woah woah woah, Jason is genuinely smiling in the group photo.

We've kind of gone off on a side tangent here, but my original complaint was that they took a series that had very feminist/female-positive elements with traditionally female protagonists and turned it into a story about a dude that makes his way through life swindling ladies and breaking their hearts, and he doesn't even appear to really learn or grow as a result of his adventures. Adding to that, they make a man the solution to all of the witches problems, despite the fact that they are all more powerful than him. It just struck me as kind of an unfortunate decision.

It is notoriously awful, but it's basically just a porn (hell, it was made by Penthouse). It is worth pondering how they got people like Peter O'Toole, Gore Vidal and Sergei Prokofiev involved. I think everyone involved pretty much disowned it.

But that wasn't true at the time. He had literally just met Glinda, and was there to KILL her at the urging of the Wicked Witch of the East. She deliberately misleads Mila by implying he is there to romance Glinda which was factually untrue. And she conjures a music box to fool her into thinking he had also romanced her. At that point, he had only done that with Mila's witch. So yes, he's involved, and he's a jerk, but the Wicked Witch of the East manipulates her sister because she wants to rule. She is the one that is directly responsible for what happens, because she twists the situation to her advantage. At the point that Mila turns evil, Oscar hasn't actually done anything. The Good Witch of the North initially assumes Dorothy is a witch because she falls out of the sky and kills The Wicked Witch of the East, which was something she had not been able to do (being less powerful than Glinda). It's actually a pretty reasonable assumption under the circumstances, and certainly does not portray her as gullible or stupid. It's also implied in the books that Glinda cannot or will not kill, and that part of the reason she was holding off doing anything about the other witches was because she was trying to locate Ozma. She also did drive out the Wicked Witch of the South from Quadling Country, and she did that before the Wizard even arrived. Sorry, but the witches in the books are absolutely not the Golly-Gee Dumb Dumbs portrayed in this movie.

To be fair, I guess he's padding it out with stuff from The Silmarillion, but honestly I think 2 movies would have done it just fine.

Uwe Boll movies are tough. Have you ever seen Blubberella? It is a difficult watch.

i'm not sure there's any part of Bruce's body we don't see in this movie. The bottom of his feet, maybe?

Stilstaw had already pointed this out in his post, so I figured the pic was fair game. Honestly, I don't think the HDTGM forums are considered a spoiler-free zone, as we are expected to explain why a particular film deserves to be discussed. Kinda hard to do that without spoiling the plot. Plus, the film is nearly 20 years old and widely reviled.

Remember that it was her sister who lied to her, saying Oz gave her a music box and asked her to dance, not to mention she shows Oz meeting Glinda and deliberately misrepresents it as a romantic encounter when she had actually sent him there to kill her. Ultimately, it's her sister who both scars her and causes her heart to turn cold. Oz is a cad, no doubt, but he doesn't actually betray her or directly cause what happens. I'm going to have to take exception to that. The Wicked Witch of the West is shown to be superstitious in the books, but neither Glinda nor the Good Witch of the North are shown to be so. Glinda is well aware of the fact that the Wizard is a fraud, it's the people of the Emerald City that believe he's a Wizard. And in the books she is unquestionably more powerful than any of the other witches, so she doesn't need the Wizard for anything (including a boyfriend). Baum's books had a very strong feminist slant, featuring strong female protagonists in almost every instance.

I just think the culture-at-large can only support that stuff for so long before people say, 'Oh god, another superhero movie?'. I mean, I already hear people saying that now. It all moves in cycles. It's the same thing with vampires. I thought X3 was pretty awful. So many plot/script issues. And bad characterization. Prof X is suddenly a douche, Cyclops gets killed off screen, Juggernaut is just a series of one-liners. I really hated it.