Went an saw "Charlie and the Choclate Factory" tonight...missed the first ten or twenty minutes though because the doucheturd ticket taker said "First door" instead of "First door on the left" so my sister and I watched the, literally, thirty minutes of preview before "Duke of Hazzard" good previews, although I should have realized when they played a preview for "The Forty Year old Virgin" that we were in the wrong theater...
As for "Chocolate Factory", I think they should reverse the titles...The original film was called "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" this one is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" but it's more about Wonka. I'm pretty ticked off that Tim Burton Ditched the original, and more apt and universally applicable theme, of "Nobody is Perfect, but good people have it where it counts" to the specific and overdone theme of "My family is the bestest in the whole wide world, tehe" because let's face it, the former theme still applys to family, non? I was entertained, it was fun and and cute and well done, but I really didn't like the new theme...Christopher Lee would have been the perfect slugworth (whom was apparently in the movie...must have been in the first twenty minutes that I missed)
In the "Dukes" theater there was a guy who apparently though it was appropriate to bring his seven to nine year old kids to a movie with a main focus on Jessica Simpson's Ass...real family values material, let me tell ya!
Oh, I forgot, We saw a preview for "Chicken Little" and my sister said Chicken Little Reminded her of Napoleon dynamite (even before he started dancing, actually
) then this preview for some flop Reese Witherspoon Chick flick came on...it's got John Heder in it! Of course, I started ruminating on the fact that when people know their movie is shit they always seem inclined to find the latest and greatest to prop the movie up in order to give them better returns, and ruin their career as well, just to keep them humble, ya know? that's what you get for making a succesful indie film <Whack!> Stay Down, bitch!
As for "Chocolate Factory", I think they should reverse the titles...The original film was called "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" this one is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" but it's more about Wonka. I'm pretty ticked off that Tim Burton Ditched the original, and more apt and universally applicable theme, of "Nobody is Perfect, but good people have it where it counts" to the specific and overdone theme of "My family is the bestest in the whole wide world, tehe" because let's face it, the former theme still applys to family, non? I was entertained, it was fun and and cute and well done, but I really didn't like the new theme...Christopher Lee would have been the perfect slugworth (whom was apparently in the movie...must have been in the first twenty minutes that I missed)
In the "Dukes" theater there was a guy who apparently though it was appropriate to bring his seven to nine year old kids to a movie with a main focus on Jessica Simpson's Ass...real family values material, let me tell ya!
Oh, I forgot, We saw a preview for "Chicken Little" and my sister said Chicken Little Reminded her of Napoleon dynamite (even before he started dancing, actually
) then this preview for some flop Reese Witherspoon Chick flick came on...it's got John Heder in it! Of course, I started ruminating on the fact that when people know their movie is shit they always seem inclined to find the latest and greatest to prop the movie up in order to give them better returns, and ruin their career as well, just to keep them humble, ya know? that's what you get for making a succesful indie film <Whack!> Stay Down, bitch!
As with your concern of the title change in Chocolate Factory, they went back to the original title of the book. Same with the squirrels instead of geese, Tim decided he'd go back to the original instead of make a movie off a movie off a book. I didn't like that Charlie didn't have any flaw's either but I think the theme was more, family is a good thing to have no matter what it is (Wonka's dad wasnt the best but after they "made up" everything was good again.) This movie went back to the book with more humor and less creepiness than the first movie. I liked parts of both better than the other. Personally I thought it was a good modern interpretation of the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.