Just got back from seeing "Oz the Great and Powerful...

Just got back from seeing "Oz the Great and Powerful." As an Oz fan, I was disappointed. As a moviegoer, I was vexed and annoyed. Annoyed by the way the director kept shoving "This is a 3-D movie!" shots up the viewer's nose - I'm sure there are ways to set up those deep-field shots without REALLY clumsy on-screen composition, but the director (or is it the cinematographer?) didn't use them. I avoid 3-D films because I'm easily prone to motion sickness, and the "throw-things-at-the-screen" approach makes for some truly awkward shots. (And I feel that the art director was WAY too impressed with the art direction, lingering for AGES on the over-saturated colorful scenery - a plus, I suppose, if one has only twenty minutes or so of story to tell).

Vexed (other than the young lady next to me who texted through the entire film) by the fact that of the six trailers, three were of "All humankind has been wiped off the Earth except for the hero who's come back to do whatever." I alternated between thinking "Didn't we just see this trailer?" and "Wasn't that the plot of a Dr. Who episode?"

I did, however, have a lovely afternoon having lunch with my friend. And if I hadn't seen Oz, I'd still be wanting to see it.

Exams to grade tonight.