posted
I don't like that trailer. Don't get me wrong, the movie looks... very interesting.... hmm... but the trailer is just not cut together very well. It's like they said "This movie is pretty imaginative and interesting, but that's not what we want to show. See if you can make it wacky!"
Posts: 894 | Registered: Apr 2000
| IP: Logged |
I love Johnny Depp, but he is NOT sexy in this. He looks like Adrian from Moulin Rouge - fabulous and Wonkian, but not sexy.
Posts: 26077 | Registered: Mar 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
Actually it seemed pretty obvious to me. He's channeling Tom Petty from the "Don't Come Around Here No More" video...
Posts: 7790 | Registered: Aug 2000
| IP: Logged |
quote:He's channeling Tom Petty from the "Don't Come Around Here No More" video...
*jaw drops
From my mind to your lips, Chris Bridges.
quote:I thought Gene Wilder was too--I don't know. There was something very innocent about Willy Wonka in the book, and Gene Wilder was way too knowing and creepy. I thought.
Me too, Fyfe. Exactly.
Posts: 2919 | Registered: Aug 2004
| IP: Logged |
quote: I love Johnny Depp, but he is NOT sexy in this. He looks like Adrian from Moulin Rouge - fabulous and Wonkian, but not sexy.
Which one's Adrian, again? You don't mean Ewan, do you (he's Christian, right?), because Ewan is most definitely sexy in that film and all his others as well!
Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
This is completely off topic, but does anyone else remember the bit in the book where Charlie walks past the factory everyday and smells the chocolate in the air?
I always wanted to live near a chocolate factory so that I could breath chocolate everyday like that. Now, through a weird and completely accidental coincidence I actually do live just down the road from one, and it's totally not true. Most of the time the air smells of damp burnt toast.
Strange but true.
On topic - I love Johnny Depp so much, but I agree that he is looking rather disturbing in this. You gotta admit, the guy’s not afraid to look weird.
Posts: 1528 | Registered: Nov 2004
| IP: Logged |
posted
I loved the first movie. I'll keep an open mind about the new one, since I like Johnny Depp... but I'm not much of a Tim Burton fan, his attempts to meld weird creative stuff with commercial movies just never seem to work for me.
Posts: 2911 | Registered: Aug 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
Well, I grew up watching the movie, long before ever reading the books. Frankly, I was terrified of the Oompa Loompas and all the creepy children but basically the rest of it I enjoyed. Because I saw the movie so many times first, the book never made a huge impression on me. I don't remember much of anything from it, to tell the truth. The second one though...I was afraid of that one too; it disturbed me.
When I saw the poster in a theater over Thanksgiving, I immediately had worries, and now, having seen the trailer, I am seriously considering not seeing it until someone tells me that it's okay and the Oompa Loompas aren't too scary.
Posts: 119 | Registered: Oct 2004
| IP: Logged |
posted
What's interesting is this preview is clearly intentionally made to look very weird. If you took out the audio and rearranged the same clips to Harry Potter music, you'd probably have a fairly conventional looking fantasy-movie trailor. (That's what Lemony Snicket does!) I'm wondering why they've chosen to market it as such a weird movie, because usually hollywood execs don't want to do that - it potentially decreases the audience size.
As for the similarity to Michael Jackson, that doesn't surprise me. Burton LOVES to focus on misunderstood outcasts from society. Willy Wonka is just the type - a disillusioned innocent celebrity who has locked himself away in a fantasy world of his creation, only to open the doors and let in a group of children. Who does that sound like to you?
I think it will work... the only problem is that it will have expectations it probably can't fill. It's always a dangerous proposition to remake a movie that was already made brilliantly and still works today. That very rarely works.
Posts: 2432 | Registered: Feb 2001
| IP: Logged |
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[ROFL]](graemlins/rofl.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
![[Grumble]](graemlins/grumble.gif)
