wizzardly: (Mr. Suspicious)
Rincewind ([personal profile] wizzardly) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2016-08-03 10:14 pm

video; open to action for Hotel Castile residents

This - !

[is an angry wizard, actually, in a lovely little hotel room. A wizard who is only on his second glass of wine. But he seems to be referencing the movie he's waving angrily at his communicator.

It's "The Wizard of Oz".
]

- This is terrible! An absolute mockery, is what it is! I've had so many people bringing this up, and I think to watch it for myself, and I find - I find - right, so, the wizard is a fake. Let's address that first of all, shall we? They all go on this big quest to get to the wizard, and he's fake, but how did the people not realize that in the first place, that's what I want to know.

He doesn't even have a pointy hat.

[Rincewind waves a hand.]

It's all a bad message, is what it is! Making wizards look bad! And look, the whole thing about witches being green - I mean honestly, witches are scary enough on their own without all that. That's obviously added. And the flying monkeys -

[he shudders. Never mind, not addressing those. Those were terrifying.]

But I've certainly never heard anything about them melting with a bit of water. Even trained hydrophobes don't do that. Bloody ridiculous.

The whole thing is ridiculous, is what I'm really getting at. We're supposed to believe a scarecrow which can talk and walk about is brainless? Or what about it trying to get everyone to buy that the strange man with ribbons in his hair is "a lion"? And ignoring that whole bit about how this Dorothy person could have just clicked her heels the whole time, enchanted shoes aren't what they're cracked up to be in the first place, the University can tell you. Half of her would have probably been teleported back to Kansas faster than the other half, and that would have certainly been a bloody mess. Very gruesome.

Anyway, it was hideous and I don't understand why so many of you reference it in the first place.

[two thumbs down, says newly self-appointed movie critic Rincewind; only one and a half poorly-sequined stars.]
hooffaceturn: (who needs this much whipped cream.)

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[personal profile] hooffaceturn 2016-08-05 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you can usually check online for reviews and trailers to see if it's something you would enjoy but yeah, a lot of the time it's by chance and your own personal opinion. For example [she gestures to the screen of her camera as though gesturing to...the movie he watched.] the movie you saw is apparently a classic, so a lot of people love it.

[TBH SHE CAN'T.....exactly.....argue against that 'maniac' statement. because well, Pinkie Pie. but still, she's a good friend so she frowns a little, defensively.]

She can be a bit much, sure, but she's just...well, Pinkie knows how to have a good time no matter what we're doing.
hooffaceturn: (let me sit down in my thinking chair.)

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[personal profile] hooffaceturn 2016-08-05 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[she rolls her eyes a little, but not in a mean way just...in one of those ways that suggest she's used to people pointing out how 'weird' her and her friends' names are at this point.]

Yeah, what people here would consider odd names are...normal where I'm from. "Pinkie's" short for "Pinkie Pie."

My name is Sunset Shimmer, by the way.

[tbh "Rincewind" would sound like a "normal" name for her. so it's not like she'd say it sounds weird.]

I mean, I'm not too big into movies like some of the other kids in my school are but I usually like the action and adventure ones. Like "Daring Do and the Kingdom of the Crystal Empire" but...the book is better.