StraightioLab Movie Club: The Wizard of Oz
Added 2024-12-10 16:08:48 +0000 UTCToto, I have a feeling we're not debating New York vs. LA anymore... today we finally cash in on Wicked Fever by going back to where it all began. Topics include: The three types of gay guys, Liza Minnelli on Arrested Development, on-set injustices, and the magic of a relaxing spa day at Emerald City! See you at new student orientation at Shiz University!
(NOTE: WE ARE SORRY THIS EPISODE IS LATE! THERE WILL BE 3 EPS TOTAL IN DECEMBER! LOVE YA!)
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So true that straight men are obsessed with breaking bones, orthopedic surgery is the #1 bro speciality by far
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2024-12-25 06:50:34 +0000 UTCOk so I'm seeing wicked on Monday and just watched wizard of Oz a few days ago so I'm gagging at this episode -- I've never seen wicked but I read the synopses of part 1 and 2 and these hot takes are precisely my thoughts!! And the pleasantville reference??!! Was this episode recorded in my brain this week? I grew up on wizard of Oz so revisiting it this past week and preparing to see wicked this week.....no notes. 👏👏👏 Oh also this is my first patreon ep, couldn't ask for a better introduction.
Lauren Caruso
2024-12-22 02:37:27 +0000 UTCmy edible kicked in about 2/3 of the way through and by the time you got to “there’s no place like home and home can be anything” and the relative lengths of the cultural histories of greece and america and the history of gayness as a concept i was like damn there IS no place like home
Isa Burke
2024-12-21 23:42:56 +0000 UTCWho up playin with they form
Josh Millhouse
2024-12-19 18:36:48 +0000 UTCMovie Club suggestion: Pablo Larrain’s tortured women trilogy
Alexandra Ashall
2024-12-17 20:07:48 +0000 UTCCan you do movie club for the 50s version of a star is born and compare the performances of garland and Gaga
sarah
2024-12-17 14:16:32 +0000 UTCHighly recommend watching The Wiz now that you've done these forays into Oz. The screenplay was written by Joel Schumacher so it has a super gay sensibility. The cast is stacked. Diana Ross and Michael Jackson are incredible. Richard Pryor plays the wizard. Quincy Jones did the music and Luther Vandross wrote one of the big songs. There's a scary scene that was filmed in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, which I always think of whenever I'm there (incidentally also the site of Michael Jackson's "Bad" video). It's even more over-the-top than either the Wizard of Oz or Wicked and it fully leans into the absurdity. It was a total critical flop but it's truly one of my all-time favorite films--and soundtracks--and I think it should be more of a cult classic!
Chris Robinson
2024-12-16 15:22:20 +0000 UTC"Home can be a Zoom with your friend from the other coast."
mx alix
2024-12-15 22:25:08 +0000 UTCOk this is not fake news you can change your Patreon icon to “ruby” and the P on the app icon will look like those knockoff ruby slippers just fyi….
Sam Steinfeld
2024-12-13 06:33:17 +0000 UTCI unfortunately immediately texted the group chat about the ferragamo ruby slippers and then didn’t finish the ep til the next day…….my credibility found dead….
Sam Steinfeld
2024-12-13 06:30:23 +0000 UTCNothing makes me happier than seeing Straightio Lab Patreon upload.
A. Stanley Moreau
2024-12-12 19:01:30 +0000 UTCtop tier movie club ep!!
Ryan K
2024-12-12 15:22:50 +0000 UTCthe wizard of oz books are a siiiickkkk metaphor for populism it explains a lot of the vague oz structure
Zofia Juranty
2024-12-11 19:05:46 +0000 UTC“The three gay guys” never stopped being funny to me
Heather PW
2024-12-11 17:51:29 +0000 UTCI need to go back and check out the busted monkeys
Lukewarm2Go
2024-12-11 16:52:32 +0000 UTCYas
Ray
2024-12-11 04:53:54 +0000 UTCLoved this ep!!!
Henry
2024-12-11 01:22:21 +0000 UTCWicked is based on the timeline of the book bc in the book Oz is a real magical place not a figment of Dorothy’s imagination. The dream ending in the movie was a suggestion from one of the many screenwriters lmao to make it more realistic to audiences bc they were worried that people would find it too ridiculous if Oz was a real place. It’s an interesting change bc I think it makes the message of movie more conservative. The book also has the messaging of no place like home, but ultimately Dorothy returns to Oz many times in the series, whereas in the movie she can never return to this idyllic place bc it’s not a real place it’s just in her mind. But that’s Hollywood for you!
Dorothy Bogen
2024-12-11 00:57:56 +0000 UTCPlease do Pleasantville movie club
Mahaley Huddleston
2024-12-11 00:54:56 +0000 UTCThose rainbow Ferragamo shoes 🤩
Mahaley Huddleston
2024-12-11 00:52:00 +0000 UTCRuby…uh..slippers?
XxxDancerInTheDarkxxX
2024-12-10 19:01:40 +0000 UTCI don't know if yall will read this but I think you'd bothlike the Wicked books! Much darker, much more context and plot.
Sam Bone
2024-12-10 17:05:06 +0000 UTC
