By
James
Hirsen
In
the making of the new movie “Oz the Great and Powerful,” director Sam Raimi has
kept with the current filmmaking trend and succumbed to the temptation of
sacrificing fundamentals only to rely on eye-popping computer generated
effects. The movie suffers considerably as a result of its weakness of
dialogue, uneven story pacing, indelicate editing, and general miscasting of
actors.
Notwithstanding
some of its flaws, though, the film did succeed in securing one of the biggest
March debuts ever, taking in about $80 million in North America and $70 million
abroad. Still, it is likely that the executives at Disney are going to be
feeling jittery in the next few weeks, since film production and the cost of
marketing ratcheted up the tally to roughly $325 million. [more...]
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