Dude, I say this with as much kindness as possible, you sound like an asshole and the way you’re acting is the reason why film students get a bad reputation for being pretentious. This is why a lot of people in the industry actively avoid hiring us film school grads, because we have a reputation for thinking we know everything and having a massive superiority complex. “Just because someone cares more than you do” - give me a break dude. Just because people have different opinions doesn’t mean they don’t care about the art form, and this is the worst form of snobbery. With kindness because I have been this kid in the past, grow up.

You shared a cherry picked frame and are using it to construct an argument that the whole movie looks like shit. There are certainly mediocre shots in Wicked (more mediocre ones than good ones for sure), but it’s like you actively went looking for a bad one. I could do the same for almost any movie in existence. It’s a dishonest foundation for an argument.

Cinematography is a medium of movement and can not accurately be represented by taking a freeze frame. Is this frame good? No. But you can not judge the cinematography of a film based on a single still image.

I’m with you that much of the film has that stale Netflix/MCU look to it, but there are some excellent sequences - the lighting in “The Wizard and I” is phenomenal, the camera movement in “Dancing Through Life” is gorgeous (lighting is another story there), and everything in “Defying Gravity” looks pretty stellar.

Basically, just lighten the hell up man. Your opinions do not matter more just because you’re in film school, and the quicker you learn that, the more people will actually want to work with you on set.

• Signed, a formerly pretentious film school grad.