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Post #368080

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DarkFather
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Worst Films and Sequels in the eighties.
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Date created
1-Jul-2009, 2:54 PM
FanFiltration said:

Krull

 

Weird, weird movie.

Sky: Return to Oz was also an insult to the series of books. Now, I grew up reading that series, so once in a blue moon I'll go take part in an Oz forum. It's silly how some posters on Oz forums claim RTO was "more dark, like the books."

Well, I don't know what those people are snorting, but the books were never dark. At all. Even the more "darker" aspects were played in a light-hearted, humorous way.

RTO was an outright crappy horror flick. Dorothy in a mental institution about to get shock therapy? WTF? Not to mention the inconsistencies with the books. That's another thing. Some fans want to claim it was more "faithful" than the classic Oz movie. No, it wasn't. The Emerald City was miles and miles away from where Dorothy's house landed. In the film, it's half a stone throw away. That's just one example of many.

I think what it is, is that some readers become more mature and want the series they love so much to mature along with them. So they dellude themselves into believing said source material was "dark."