Unlike Bill here, I chose to wear a plain old gray hoodie and tan long pants khakis (yes dear hearts, it be winter now) to my showing of Wicked.
Bill, by the way, is oblivious to my existence. Like Leander from a couple posts ago, he's yet another person that I just follow, er, stalk on the internet merely because I have no real friends and I like to pretend that if I did have friends, people like Bill would be one of them. I introduced you to him back in this post. But enough about that, let's talk about Wicked.
So right off the bat as the credits pop up on the screen I immediately see that even though this is a two hour and forty minute movie, it’s only part one. Yep. Only the first half of the musical. But I got to say I didn't feel like it was stuffed with a lot of bloat. For instance, not once did I feel the urge to nod off. Of course that could be because it's been a couple weeks now that I've been off the Gabby so I'm not nodding off nearly as much as I used to but I'm still not cured of all the other things that cause me to be nicknamed Sleepy Mike. Well no one calls me Sleepy Mike. No one calls me anything. Here I go rambling again.
Oh and another thing I noticed not long after we got into the meat and potatoes of the movie, even though, as noted in this post, I most certainly saw this musical, I most certainly did not remember its plot. Yeah the old Shameless syndrome strikes again.
So how did I like it? Awesome! Well worth the matinee and senior discount pricing of the regular digital projection. Non 3D, non IMAX. And that pretty much sums it up. That is, I probably wouldn't pay the extra to pay full adult evening rate with the special 3D or IMAX projections since I'm sure it would be even more glorious but the movie was glorious enough it would have been a little bit overkill and as far as the price part of it it was ten bucks as it was and with the cost of things that's high enough thank you very much. No popcorn, no soda, that would have jacked it up another ten bucks at least.
Although, almost priceless, was the wicked sensation, pardon the pun, of my tush being oh so deliciously warmed by the heated reclining seats as my ears and heart swooned to the soaring sounds of Defying Gravity. Now how much would you pay? And would that have been better in Dolby Super Duper Sensurround Max 3000? Well maybe I'll find out if I decide to shell out what no doubt will by then be the $30 price for an average movie ticket even with the senior discount in November of next year when part two comes out.
I only hope that ol' Bill and his technicolor outfit can make it that long. Hold on fake buddy, hold on!