DRAWMA KINGG Movie Reviews

Overly dramatic reviews of both new AND classic movies

  • THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939 Movie Review – Ending Explained

    I want to start out talkin’ ‘bout Professor Marvel. The only stuff that happens before that is like – she is girl, she has dog, Kansas. You know, important exposition. Professor Marvel is noteworthy because he is the first Marvel superhero – even before Green Lantern! He has a defining outfit and accessories. He has fortune-telling superpowers. Is there anything he himself can NOT do? Unlikely.

    On to Oz. Dorothy arrives in Oz from a rather expected method of housenado. I assume it was the shark’s day off and a house was the most logical pilot next in line. Once we enter the magic world, it quickly becomes one of the simultaneously best and worst films I’ve ever sat through. The colors, the production, the sets, the choreography, all brilliantly executed and not just by 1939 standards. It still holds up as outstanding! Now, on the other hand, the plot/story/dialogue are all so bad that I was in a state of constant cringe. I’m aware this was meant for kids, but even taking that into account, it’s still really bad. I would say the target market is 3 to 6 years old. As soon as you turn 7 your brain says “What the fluff is this baby stuff? I’m more mature than this! I’m turning this off and going outside to kick a ball like a sophisticated gentleman!”

    For a movie where even a seven-year-old has to turn his brain off to enjoy, there is a few sneaky philosophical moments of brain usage. For instance: when the group asks to see the wizard, the Door Guard states “Nobody’s ever seen the great OZ. Even I’ve never seen him.” To which Dorothy responds: “Well, then how do you know there is one?” Some rather subversive god commentary for those days wouldn’t you say? Additionally, when they meet their god, Ozzy Ozbourne, he turns out to have no powers and just pretends to have powers by using man-made machines. I think the moral of the story is accidentally: There is always a scientific explanation behind superstitious beliefs. 

    Ending Explained: Dorothy wakes up from her dream. Nothing actually happened. Everyone’s time was wasted.

    Ending Analysis: the Wizard of Oz is like the ultimate dream sequence movie in a bad way. Rather than “oh look that scene was just a dream” it’s “oh look the entire chain of events happens to just be a dream.” Now most movies that end this way are ambiguous as to whether it was really a dream or maybe not a dream. I don’t think there is ambiguity here though. Her friends and family in Kansas appear to be the same actors as the people she met in Oz implying it really came from her subconscious. Plus her house seems to be intact without signs of piloting a tornado.

    Final Thoughts: Is this film a work of anti-superstition or pro superstition? Even I, a Drawma Kingg who happens to be dramatic, have no words to answer that question for you. 

  • SINNERS 2025 Movie Review – Drop that 1/8th fraction of a guitar!

    Hey, what have you got there? A small piece of wood? I’mma call that a guitar. Now drop it before I get really mad! You wouldn’t like me if I get beyond my tolerance of daily annoying human behaviors. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, come back later and reread this first part.

    Sinners is much too excellent of a film for my blog of intentionally stupid sentences written by a man with arguably the lowest IQ in bipedal human history. There wasn’t much to complain about or cheesy things to riff on in the movie. My debut movie review was supposed to be Fast n da Furious 47, but Vihn Deezel keeps lying to me about the release date! First he said “never”, then he said, “never say never” (which was the most insightful grouping of words I ever heard), then he said “OK” because the movie studio offered him the number he was secretly waiting for.

    Back to vampire guitar stuff. Vampires take quite a long time to show up in the story and when they arrive, I don’t want ‘em anymore! The first half of the movie is all about music, people, prejudice, crime, and family. It has you locked in with great acting of characters with interesting lives and motivations. Not like your neighbors Ralph and Karen whose hobbies include scrolling, cheese, and discouraging their kids from reading boocs (or however, you speil it). Anyway, the exceptional characterization made me less and less concerned about the vampires being any part of the action whatsoever. Joking aside, I would’ve liked the movie even better sans vamps. Something tells me that would’ve been much harder to sell tickets to though.

    Note: I’m pretty sure the two leading characters were the same two actors from David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. I’ll make sure to double check that fact after I have submitted this review.

    Spoiler paragraph: The most thrilling part of sinners (for me at least) was when they are playing music at the Juke Joint Jezebel. I’m talking that hard industrial Mortal Kombat stuff! That was almost not a joke lol! Spirits of musicians from past present and future start joining the performance. What results is probably one of the coolest scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie, and I’ve seen Kangaroo Jack.

    In conclusion: I would rate Sinners somewhere in the vicinity of 9/10. I only decided not to scrap writing this review as a challenge to myself. How can you write a dramatic over the top article about a rare type of movie that has too few details to criticize. I guess the way to do it is to just keep bringing up Kangaroo Jack for no good reason. Nailed it!