#Cynthia Erivos voice is so gorgeous but like idk if its just overuse of pitch altering or combining too many takes or WHAT

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I went into Wicked (2024) with high expectations but also very little knowledge of the original musical and I thought that was the ideal state to go into it for peak enjoyment and least disappointment but idk it just didn’t do much for me and I can’t put my finger on why. Besides knowing that the colour grading for half the movie was pissing me off. The songs and performances were really good and enjoyable overall. Loved some of the shots in defying gravity like the wide shot of her in the huge cloak against the sky looking down at everyone in the tower? Yes. maybe it was the questionable pacing that got me or maybe my attention span is actually just truly fried. Or maybe it was the improv quips count. Or the fact that they marketing it as “almost no cgi!” And then I had to look at all those damn cgi animals. Not that I’d want real animals but like. Why market it as low cgi. I know they meant for the sets mostly I guess but the lighting and colouring made all the sets look cgi anyway. Or Maybe I just needed to have a pre existing affinity for the story after all. But at least it got me to finally listen through the original Broadway recording afterwards. Also unrelated but during the last third of the movie some random nine year old started doing cartwheels in front of the movie screen