Hmm. I can very much see your point that Wonka works best as 'Huh?'. However, I really liked the backstory in that film. It seemed to make sense, while being a bit silly, while leaving enough unexplained that it was still mysterious.
Exactly.
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Hmm. I can very much see your point that Wonka works best as 'Huh?'. However, I really liked the backstory in that film. It seemed to make sense, while being a bit silly, while leaving enough unexplained that it was still mysterious.
Exactly.
Actually I found elements of the old one far more creepy. Nonchalantly singing as something ominious happens to a child in a brightly colored and friendly atmosphere while everyone else just looks at you like you deserve it. Its like reading the monkie's paw all over again
Perhaps, but the deliberately surreal environments and decorations there were a big part of pushing the old movie over the top from 'creepy and ominous' to 'bad drug trip'; past a certain point, it was too bizarre to take seriously anymore. In the remake, large portions of the factory had a sort of cold sterility to them, like a research lab - against that bleakness, Wonka's insanity is more easily apparent and more disturbing.
I shudder to think what Gene Wilder would have been capable of in Depp's place with the modern art direction, visuals, and special effects.
By the way, the link is already given, but let me update the big list.
- Harry Potter (50)
- The Sound of Music (100)
- X-Men (150)
- Aliens (200)
- The Wizard of Oz (250)
- 300 (300 -- how appropriate)
- Avatar (300)
- Terminator (350)
- Jaws (400)
- Casablanca (450)
- The Muppets (500)
- Inception (550)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (600)
- Back to the Future (650)
- Futurama (700)
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (750)
What's next? A zombie classic? A documentary on crab fishing?
I'm going with zombies, myself, or at least something in the horror/slasher genre.
Something don't add up here.Quote:
In the real world of the Hypnotoads & Hyperchickens universe, of course, Futurama doesn't exist. That's the premise of this entire comic, after all. But most of the other things we know and love (such as suicide booths) do, albeit modified by the lack of Futurama:
Billy West is known (barely) for doing voiceovers for poorly selling computer games, but gains widespread fame after his appearance in the first Futurama movie.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reads exactly like a Roald Dahl work and even has touches that he often included in his work like the recipe for fudge at the end of the book. While it is a children's book, there's really nothing at all of Ian Fleming in it from what I see. If anything, it seems like that Dahl either took a major role in editing it or just wrote the entire book for Fleming in the first place.
Far as You Only Live Twice goes, the film basically used the name of the book, a few characters, and some locations, but everything else was Roald Dahl.
I like the comparsion of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory to the Tomb of Horrors. :smallbiggrin:
Maybe the next one will be something very different. Like, say, Marmaduke. But not the movie. The comic strip.
Oh my god. The horror they have wrought can never be undone. :smalleek:
The 'remuneration' is a 1UP anda thena Greedo savesa the princessa. Si?
I'd make a Mario and/or Godfather joke but... no. Okay, how long are they going to drag that joke out? Or will they honestly stick with it?
Why.
I seriously hope they change this soon, I don't think I can deal with 3 entire movies worth of this character.
Hehe. I like Mario Greedo/Han Solo. :smallbiggrin:
Man, I had to reread the first Han panel three times to fully grasp what was happening. I think they're gonna keep it. Which will be AWESOME, especially of they spam the comic with Solo Smiles
...I...I did not see this coming. Not only did the strip itself make me laugh, but the entry beneath the strip about characters from Sicily made me laugh (I'm 1/4th Italian, and my Italian ancestors lived in Sicily)
Don't you know? You should never trust a Sicilian when Peace(moon) is on the line!
I liked this comic better when it was about star wars.
So...the opening crawl of the first comic, then.:smallbiggrin:
I like the look on Leia's face - you can't tell whether she's resigned or being deadpan sarcastic.
Jim can finally join the Mafia.