MetaChat - Violet, you're turning violet!

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15 July 2005

Violet, you're turning violet! So I just came back from seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and... wow. Put this movie on your list of things to see this weekend. →[More:] I was more a fan of the book than I was of the Gene Wilder movie (which always aggravated me because it wasn't very true-to-form), but even if you were the other way around (or even *gasp!* never read the book), I think you'd really enjoy it.

post by: hopeless romantique at: 05:45 | 9 comments

thank you for the lack of spoiler
i hope to have something to say after the fact
*clever squirrel sorting nuts*

posted by ethylene 15 July | 06:22

Gene Wilder was great in On Golden Pond.

posted by Hugh Janus 15 July | 09:15

i love gene
he's almost danny kaye
and makes the little prince worth it even if you don't love the rest of it

posted by ethylene 15 July | 09:30

Gene Wilder is a god among men : >

Depp looks too much like Michael Jackson in the ads, and i'm skeeved.

posted by amberglow 15 July | 13:15

Heh. Gene Wilder was the only thing that made the original tolerable, and only barely.

The original movie is so terrible and so sweet I got diabetes from it. Oh, and it sucks. A f'ing *MUSICAL*? With terrible, cloying music? And a complete disregard for the creepiness and darkness that the book was drenched in? Dahl must have blown a headgasket.

posted by loquacious 15 July | 14:09

it was wonderful,and hysterical, and still mean and odd. : P

(maybe you had to have seen it when it was new?)

posted by amberglow 15 July | 14:12

Love the original movie. Sweet? Maybe a bit; creepy definitely. Never read the book (please, don't hurt me!). Looking forward to Charlie.

posted by deborah 15 July | 14:54

Willy Wonka (along with the Wizard of Oz) scared the shit out of me as a kid. I mean, come on, the Oompa Loompas were just damned creepy. Watched them both every year, though.

posted by mudpuppie 15 July | 16:13

I loved the Wilder film but I'm looking forward to seeing a version more faithful to the book. Thanks for the positive heads up!

posted by LeeJay 15 July | 17:54

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