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Tim Burton..Johnny Depp...Danny Elfman. The trailer is out now at

http://chocolatefactorymovie.warnerbros.com/

It looks like the Oompas may be a Sixties psychedelic Austin Powers band..???

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I like Depp's creepy forced smile, but I'm not sure about the rest of it.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

He almost looks like Marc Bolan in the poster! Most of the friends I've shown it to thought it looked too weird. I say bring it on. I'm hoping it has wall-to-wall insane sound effects and people making noises with their mouths.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

ugh! tried to watch the trailer but i've got no sound on my crappy computer all of the sudden. anyway, it appears interesting from what i saw.(literally)

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm not encouraged that the adaptation is by the same writer who did the lifeless mess "Big Fish."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm just glad that the lead singer of Swing Out Sister is getting work.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Break Out II - Electric Boogaloo

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

The last time Burton remade an old film it was "Planet Of The Apes", so I might give this one a miss.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Time Burton hasnt made a good movie in 15 years.

― chaki in charge (chaki), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

make that 11. Ed Wood was good.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Ed Wood was the best film of the nineties from where I sit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Sleepy Hollow is great if you ignore the dialogue.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Sleepy Hollow would have been better if it had had more beheadings.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

(As it stands, Johnny Depp as a Doctor Who substitute + CHOP TO YA NECK = fun!)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Big Fish was a good movie!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

yah tim burton is now only good at making movies that are good on mute. ed wood is OKAY but it moves fucking slow and its no BEETLE FUCKING JUICE which it looks like is the only GREAT tim burton film with PEEWEE a really close second.

― chaki in charge (chaki), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

This I don't agree with!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

"Big Fish" makes "Life Aquatic" look like a Bressonian work of minimalist rigor. And it's dreck.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I like the clip in the trailer where someone smashes something on the ground. I have no idea what it is but all I can think of is Mick Ronson destroying a guitar at a Ziggy Stardust concert on Phobos.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is still his best movie, though Ed Wood is a very close second.

I have no idea whether this will turn out to be any good, but I'll probably end up seeing it anyway.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Big Fish were crap. I am going to see this anyway because I am a lifelong optimist and also it looks like they got the chocolate river right in this one, in the first one it just looked like brown water, very distressing.
I wonder if they are going to take their cues more from the novel or the first movie?

― Nellie (nellskies), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, this doesn't look too promising. I thought Burton would stray further away from the original but it looks more like a simple Disney-fied updating.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 3 January 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Too much toof.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

I love Depp, but he looks odd in this. Not what I imagine Wonka to be like at all - Wonka should be older and weirder. Depp just looks like a woman in drag and that forced odd smile he does with the nodding head looks strange. I'd had high hopes for this but now, I'm not so sure.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

ugh, Big Fish was horrid.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

I thought Mars Attacks! was funny.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

If you are the big fish, I am the small hatch.

I better go to sleep.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

I have heard, though I don't remember where, that they were going to incorporate the second book into this movie too?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

i would be the PERFECT willy wonka ... if only i were a famous actor, alas!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Depp as a Doctor Who substitute

Eh??

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

Adam's Dr-sense is tingling.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

yah tim burton is now only good at making movies that are good on mute.

He's said he doesn't care much for dialogue, himself.

― craggy jones, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Depp's portrayal in Sleepy Hollow read to me like he'd watched the McGann movie along with the Mary Tamm/Lalla Ward seasons of Tom Baker's Tenure.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Ever since hearing Stephin Merritt sing "Pure Imagination" live, I'm convinced he'd be a great Wonka. (Isn't WW 3 feet tall in the book?)

btw, Merritt was once asked to name a favorite film and responded "Nightmare Before Christmas with the sound off."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Whatever happened to the Who reviews?

x-post

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

j.d. is creepy and hott and chocolatey! much more anticipated remake than drew barrymore as barbarella i'd say.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

a review of sorts on FT now

have people talked about this film elsewhere on ILE???

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think there was a thread. I enjoyed the film.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this was fantastic.

cathy and I saw it at the imax, yesterday.

enjoyed the wonka flashbacks (asked about whether he remembered his childhood, "oh, boy, do I ... ... ... do I?" and "I WAS HAVING A FLASHBACK") and the songs and the oompa loompas (they were like the main character, almost, I felt) and it had some v. v. funny good jokes. the kids were mostly great, esp. augustus gloop. I was scared that depp looked to be going through the motions and annoying, from clips, but he was v. excellent, at times, and, mostly, really good.

when christopher lee appeared, I thought "God, I hate him in all these movies" because I had told ally that I really hated him, the other day, but, now, I have read his IMDB biography and he's OK and 83!!

glad that it wasn't too pandery or flattened kids/family movie and seemed quite burtony (I haven't seen his last few, though have heard they were a bit shit).

nice inventions, in the story, for the movie, too, I think. I can't remember the book or the first movie one but I don't recall if there was much about wonka's background/family.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 August 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

j.d. is creepy and hott and chocolatey!

!!!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh like you pretend otherwise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

fuck, did nobody else think the augustus gloop kid was all 3d-generated?

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

I finally saw this the other day. It was good and enjoyable in places, but never really took off... I preferred it to Willy Wonka though.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

some of the close-ups, of facesm looked totally painted, especially A. gloop

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

m is next to ,

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, they all had that lumo hi-lighting but he looked especially fake, in that particularly smooth edged cgi way. his hair also looked, err.. programmed. i really wanna know if someone else was as completely convinced as i was.

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this thread was about cocaine diarrhea.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/85162/perrybible.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Saw this for the first time yesterday, and thought it was very good. Better than the previous film version, even if I missed the token nature of Gene Wilder's "attempts" to stop the children coming to grief.

I liked the Mark Heap / Kevin Eldon scene.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 30 December 2005 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

Saw it on the train last week and it was way better than I expected, really nasty fun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 30 December 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Come anticipate...the Sam Mendes musical.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/sam-mendes-sweet-on-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-and-focus-feature-on-chesil-beach-with-carey-mulligan/

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2010 03:13 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

^now due in a year, in London.

http://broadwayworld.com/article/CHARLIE-AND-THE-CHOCOLATE-FACTORY-THE-MUSICAL-Set-for-London-Palladium-June-2013-20120618

I have to think anyone 40+ (and many younger) won't be able to deal with a new musical, missing Newley-Bricusse.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/theater/chocolate-aplenty-but-nary-a-wonka-bar-to-be-found.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-5&action=click&contentCollection=Arts®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article&_r=0

― maura, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:51 (seven years ago)

that is totally bogus and sucks

some of the candies are still around, they just aren't wonka-branded - gobstoppers and nerds cannot go away, that shit is not allowed

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 19:03 (seven years ago)

“It’s a real tragedy,” said Jason Liebig, who collects candy memorabilia and calls himself a confectionary historian. “I want Willy Wonka-branded candy — it’s such a fun fount of material to draw from, and certainly it’s ingrained in our popular culture. How many candy brands get to be built on such a rich world?”

this guy needs a trip to the factory

― difficult listening hour, Friday, 7 July 2017 11:09 (seven years ago)

confectionary history was not an elective at my Division I state university

― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 July 2017 16:02 (seven years ago)

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