Comments | film_stills: Return to Oz (Walter Murch, 1985)

jbacardi in film_stills

Return to Oz (Walter Murch, 1985)

Jan 27, 2008 19:57

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selsin January 28 2008, 02:03:53 UTC

holy shit. i was like three years old and obsessed with this movie. i named my doll after her chicken. it's such an eerie movie. the wheelers were fucked up! the lady with no head and the long hall of heads in the cases. ughh man i need to own this again!

jbacardi January 28 2008, 02:07:42 UTC

I was 25 when I first saw this, and that scene in which Dorothy steals the powder of life and Mombi wakes up headless and screaming creeped me out even still!

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jbacardi January 28 2008, 02:15:36 UTC

Yep, that's the one!

malkhos January 28 2008, 02:05:11 UTC

A magnificent film, as much as it was unappreciated by the general public; too bad not to see Ozma, though.

jbacardi January 28 2008, 02:09:34 UTC

I had a cap of Ozma coming through the mirror at the end, but if I had posted every cap I did it would have been 50 long!

I can see why it wasn't successful, people being people (especially in the 80's)...it's a shame, though.

apparatuses January 28 2008, 02:09:31 UTC

no wheelers?! this move really stuck with me...I need to watch it again the flying moose contraption is the coolest thing ever

jbacardi January 28 2008, 02:10:37 UTC

#9 has a Wheeler- I had a few others with them but again, I had a ton of caps to sort through...

meltdownclown January 28 2008, 04:04:34 UTC

I know what you mean--I try to keep it at thirty caps, and even that can be a nightmare, trimming down from as many as seventy...

An astounding movie; the Gnome King still has the power to creep me the **** out. So does Fairuza Balk, but only insomuch as she (like Sarah Polley of The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, Drew Barrymore of E.T. and Alyssa Milano of Commando) has grown from a charming little tot into a four-alarm smokin' hottie, which makes me feel dirty and so old I fart dust and insect husks (sigh).

What the hell IS it with studios? They must've realized this would slam directly into the public's memories of the Judy Garland movie--yet they marketed it without any consideration of that; in fact, they pushed it as if it was going to be LIKE that one. I see that all the time, even today. Then the studios wonder aloud why their movie bombed so badly at the box in spite of the rave reviews. If it's going to be different, sell it as different.

Good job! Thanks!

apparatuses January 28 2008, 05:24:05 UTC

ha somehow I missed it

dealatedwren January 28 2008, 02:11:56 UTC

This was my very favorite when I was small

grammaire January 28 2008, 02:18:58 UTC

it's Sapphire from "Almost Famous"! This is a solid movie, though. i should see it again sometime, as I haven't seen it in like 12 years.