#wicked 2025

[nobodysdaydreams]

I don’t know to what extent the “they added stuff to Wicked Part 2” is true, but if they did add stuff, I’m gonna need the Wizard to face the music a little bit more because his story ends with him believing he murdered his own child for the stupidest of reasons and that needs more attention.

Not only is he a deadbeat and a powerless con man, but he puts a hit out on his own long-lost daughter (the witch) who once looked up to him as a hero. He even sends a lost little girl (Dorothy) to do the job, since he’s too much of coward to face the witch himself.

Does he do this because Elphaba is trying to kill him?

No, he does it because she’s calling out his animal abuse and won’t use her own super powerful magic to help her old man trick people into thinking he’s cool.

Do they at least have an “I am your father moment” like in Star Wars?

No, in the musical, she never finds out (though that might be for the best), but when the Wizard does, he had the audacity to act shocked and sad even though he was getting with random women in his youth and giving them all mysterious green beverages so really this shouldn’t be surprising, statistically he likely had a kid out there somewhere and if he “always wanted to be a dad” or cared as much as he claimed, he really should have been on that. But he was only concerned with dodging the child support payments, and now he thinks his only child is dead because of him.

So does he at the very least clear her name, accept whatever punishment the people see fit for his crimes, hold a funeral for Elphaba, or perhaps try to finish what she started by beginning to make right or undo the horrible crimes that he committed?

Nah. He’s just like “welp. The jig is up, time to skedaddle” and sadly gets in his hot air balloon and regretfully lets the breeze blow him away.

Like, no. He should not get away that easy. I want his stupid balloon to crash in the middle of a field where Elphaba and Fiyero find him crying over her green bottle and are like:

“Let me get this straight. You’re swept away to a magic land. Your first move is getting with random women and giving them mysterious magic green liquids before you con your way into taking over the land and silencing all the animals by making them literal scapegoats. Then, you’re looking for someone to help you keep up your charade, and a person whose age + 9 months is equal to the amount of time that’s passed since you got with those random women and gave them green elixirs shows up, a green person, the only green person in this entire realm, who is insanely powerful in a way no one can explain, and it never, never, occurs to you to check whether or not this is your child!???”

The Wizard (through pathetic tears as he lovingly strokes the green bottle): “I said I was a sentimental man. Never said I was a smart one. Someone green’s age + 9 months = time since I last saw a pretty woman and gave her a mysterious green beverage is very, very hard math.”

Fiyero: “Are you sure you’re not the one without a brain?”

[sal-ki]

Ballerina (2025)

[alexturner]

KEANU REEVES as JOHN WICK Ballerina (2025) (Official Trailer)

[angelwings-crossbowstrings]

Ballerina Trailer (2025)

[asianrabbit]

Ballerina (2025) Ana de Armas / Rooney

[terakabil]

"ANA DE ARMAS " as EVE MACARRO

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025), dir. Len Wiseman.

[doccywhomst]

it’s a good time to make more friends where you live. engage in the same common thing with other people by going to museums, thrift shops, aquariums, gyms, board game nights, botanical gardens, library programs, sports games, etc. and see if you have a community center that hosts interesting events. this will likely involve having prolonged, challenging conversations with people you have nothing else in common with, but for every few acquaintances you make, you’ll usually meet one solid friend. try not to let anything keep you down. just be present

[annabelle--cane]

sobbing and wailing how on earth have they stretched the first act to be longer than the entire run time of the stage show. what did they put in this movie.

[wikitpowers]

if we don’t get new kitty art on valentine’s day again i will actually riot (it needs to become a tradition atp)

[kavalyera]

….guys.

[ghariban]

— john wick was the son of insufferable men, but you, EVE MACARRO, shall be mine [an insufferable woman]...

[r1-jw-lover]

I am interested in seeing where the new John Wick Ballerina movie is going to take their protagonist's journey because for me I can't help thinking about all the great parallels between Eve Macarro and Akira Shimazu as potential successors of John Wick.

They both seek revenge for the death of their father, with John Wick being a side character on their journey, but the only difference between them was that they met John Wick under very different circumstances which caused them to have completely different reactions that will impact their path of vengeance in opposite ways.

Eve/Rooney was already midway through her journey when she met him but Akira's only started because John Wick entered her life in the worst imaginable way possible.

Eve seemed to idolise John Wick so much, maybe was even inspired by him from the start to seek her own revenge, that she asked him for advice while Akira absolutely hated John Wick for bringing doom to the Osaka Continental.

Eve would become the next Baba Yaga out of admiration while Akira become the next John Wick out of pure rage and spite.

(Every day I'm still praying long and hard for an Akira spinoff. Rina Sawayama, please come back!!! Even Donnie Yen/Caine is getting his own spinoff soon.)

[angelwings-crossbowstrings]

Norman Reedus from Ballerina (2025)

[fairytaleslive]

Do you think there's any chance that the filmmakers will rediscover what the real forests look like any time soon?

I get that fairytale forests can look like *whatever*, but these look so cgi and fake, it actually ruins the atmosphere for me. I don't know how to express it better....I don't trust them, they look like something from a hallucination. Like nothing real and genuine could live in them. And it's not like we couldn't come up with plenty of examples of fantasy forests that look more real and immersive than these (LotR, Narnia, Alice in Wonderland 1999, The 10th Kingdom, OUaT......).

[pedroam-bang]

Ballerina (2025)

[tobytheeggo]

furry assign eve macarro an animal NOW

Okay at first glance she immediately gives me fennec fox vibes

Perceived as tiny and cute but are truly killers and hunters at best; very swift and alert, and also very simple in style but still beautiful

But if this goes how we all think it does; she’s gonna end up a border collie just like Johnny