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Do you think that "The Wisard of Oz"?

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Is it nice, too childish or boring??

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  1. It is one of mine and my children's favorite movies. We watch it together all the time.


  2. Probably the greatest fantasy film of all time.  A true classic in every way.

  3. One critical writer thinks it is quite a well-written social commentary on the state of America, at the turn of the 20th century:

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    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is one of America's favorite pieces of juvenile literature. Children like it because it is a good story, full of fun characters and exciting adventures. Adults--especially those of us in history and related fields--like it because we can read between L. Frank Baum's lines and see various images of the United States at the turn of the century. That has been true since 1964, when American Quarterly published Henry M. Littlefield's "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism." Littlefield described all sorts of hidden meanings and allusions to Gilded Age society in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: the wicked Witch of the East represented eastern industrialists and bankers who controlled the people (the Munchkins); the Scarecrow was the wise but naive western farmer; the Tin Woodman stood for the dehumanized industrial worker; the Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Bryan, Populist presidential candidate in 1896; the Yellow Brick Road, with all its dangers, was the gold standard; Dorothy's silver slippers (Judy Garland's were ruby red, but Baum originally made them silver) represented the Populists' solution to the nation's economic woes ("the free and unlimited coinage of silver"); Emerald City was Washington, D.C.; the Wizard, "a little bumbling old man, hiding behind a facade of paper mache and noise, . . . able to be everything to everybody," was any of the Gilded Age presidents

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  4. so old fashioned

  5. Love it!! And the Pink Floyd thing is fun to do as well

  6. the most effed up movie ever

  7. one of the best old movies! one of the first done in color! love it!

  8. its a bad *** movie with pink floyd playing!!!!

  9. My Dad once said that the reason Americans love The Wizard of Oz so much is because it's basically one of the only original American fairy tales.  I'm not sure if I agree...but I do know this...it's too long and boring!! And creepy! Creepiest lion in history, tin man, scarecrow all look like pedophiles!

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