Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[painted wolf]

I have to say I much prefered the ommpa-loompas this time around... no more stupid orange and green.... and dumbed down songs...I always hated that about the origional.
The only thing I liked about the origional was Gene Wilder.

wa:do

[johnnys4life]

Veruca Salt was my name on another site. I LOVE the original. Gene Wilder was magic. But Johnny Depp REALLY disappoints me.

I can already hear the audiences around the world groaning in unison. This isn't funny. It isn't clever. It isn't scary. And it certainly isn't magic.

[Original Freak]

Originally Posted by EnhancedSpirit

I was a bit disappointed. I was under the impression that Johnny Depp was playing a grown up Charlie. And this was the next generation to go through the Chocolate Factory. That would have made the differences tolerable for me. I did not like one guy being all the oompa loopas, and I did not like the new oompa loompa songs. I think Depp did a good job with the character, if he had been a grown up Charlie. But no one can be Willie, not after Gene Wilder.

So you're disappointed because you were wrong about the movie? As far as the oompa loompa's that the was it was in the original book. The songs are, apparantly, almost word for word from the book.

[Melody]

We just saw the movie this afternoon and it was a 3 snoozer. That means I fell asleep to the point of snoring (or so my son says) three times. Johnny Depp's "Willy Wonka" was a more sympathetic character than I thought he'd be based on the previews and some of the expressions on his face when he looked at the misbehaving children were just perfect. Almost calculating, I thought. I did like the oompa loompa's in this version better too.

However, while this version was truer to the book, I much preferred the Gene Wilder version. This one was a bit too freaky for me. I probably won't ever watch this one again, but we own the one with Gene Wilder.

[EnhancedSpirit]

Originally Posted by Original Freak

So you're disappointed because you were wrong about the movie? As far as the oompa loompa's that the was it was in the original book. The songs are, apparantly, almost word for word from the book.

No, I'm not disappointed for being wrong. I am disappointed because I feel like one of my childhood experiences has been altered, unneccessarily. I do not understand why all these movies keep being remade. Have they run out of ideas in Hollywood?

And the oompa loompa lyrics were fine, the words they said were pretty much the same as the original, I just don't understand where the oompa loompas would have learned to put on little mini Vegas shows. I thought the music and presentation of the words was STUPID, and I liked the orange oompa loompas. I often use it do describe something. Like, my daughter, after she eats a big bowl of spaghetti, she looks like an oompa loompa, or a bad self- tanning will leave one looking like an oompa loompa. Well, with the new movie, that analagy no longer works.

And what happened to the everlasting gobstoper? And the lickable wallpaper- with snozberries, and the "hsawaknow" (wonkawash spelled backwords).