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rathershady and his roommate Natalie to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this evening.
...Tim Burton, you are dead to me.*
Pros:
- Some nice visual imagery.
- A very good cast of actors, adult and child...they did the best with what they had.
Cons:
- Most of the actors (I'm looking at you, Johnny Depp) had nothing to work with, not to mention bad directing.
- It was neither darker nor truer to the book than the Gene Wilder version.
- The Christopher-Lee-as-evil-dentist-father subplot was maudlin and blech.
- Subtlety seemed to go out the window, which oddly enough made things murkier and less understandable.
- Bad songs. (I think Danny Elfman was kidnapped and replaced with the people responsible for composing American Idol singles.)
- Too many homages and in-jokes. The 2001 one was especially egregious.
Personally, if you haven't seen it I'd wait till it comes out on DVD.
* Unless Corpse Bride turns out as good as The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which case I will consider you resuscitated not unlike the title character.
In other news, cornholing and syphilis are always funny. (Props toeikitty and jokersama respectively.)
rathershady and his roommate Natalie to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this evening....Tim Burton, you are dead to me.*
Pros:
- Some nice visual imagery.
- A very good cast of actors, adult and child...they did the best with what they had.
Cons:
- Most of the actors (I'm looking at you, Johnny Depp) had nothing to work with, not to mention bad directing.
- It was neither darker nor truer to the book than the Gene Wilder version.
- The Christopher-Lee-as-evil-dentist-father subplot was maudlin and blech.
- Subtlety seemed to go out the window, which oddly enough made things murkier and less understandable.
- Bad songs. (I think Danny Elfman was kidnapped and replaced with the people responsible for composing American Idol singles.)
- Too many homages and in-jokes. The 2001 one was especially egregious.
Personally, if you haven't seen it I'd wait till it comes out on DVD.
* Unless Corpse Bride turns out as good as The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which case I will consider you resuscitated not unlike the title character.
In other news, cornholing and syphilis are always funny. (Props to
eikitty and jokersama respectively.)
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