Movies That Are Going to Rock!

Delcat wrote:

Miss Prince wrote:

I thought Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was pretty great, personally. A lot closer to the Roald Dahl book than the Gene Wilder version.

Funny, I don't remember Wonka being an obnoxious, questionably homicidal manchild in the book. Or the unwieldy dentist backstory. Or Grandpa Joe having no personality and a handful of lines. Or the syrupy ending. Or the shitty CGI that suggested someone went, "Hey, the first blueberry scene was Fetish Fuel to enough people, let's play very deliberately on that to the point of making seasoned GAFFers uncomfortable!" Or...look, it hurt me inside, okay? Frankly, I think Burton has been basking in his own image for too long, and his work has suffered for it. I miss the Beetlejuice days.

I agree. I watched this movie and just tried to wipe it from my mind. Ugh. I liked Coraline, though, so at least that shows that Tim Burton is still capable of making a good flick.

Also, I'm shocked to find that Where the Wild Things Are actually looks kind of good. I instantly assumed that any adaptation of it would be complete crap, but it looks more like they abandoned the original storyline (which, admittedly, would certainly not have stretched out to fill a movie) and went their own way. It could be awesome or it could be terrible.

I'm kind of looking forward to the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Sure, it appears to have abandoned every single description of Holmes and his personality in canon and, sure, it looks like a bad crack fic or something, but God damn it the movie looks like fun. I mean, it certainly won't be anything like the Grenada series (or anywhere near as good), but it looks like a good time... though the poster makes Holmes look disturbingly vampiric. I forget who called it "Bram Stoker's Sherlock Holmes", but they were right.

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Dr. Professor Science wrote:

I liked Coraline, though, so at least that shows that Tim Burton is still capable of making a good flick.

Mafiosa and I covered this politely on the last page, so I now feel the right to capslock.

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

YOU ARE MAKING HENRY SELICK AND NEIL GAIMAN VERY ANGRY

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

TIM BURTON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CORALINE

Thank you.

Okay, admittedly this looks like a blend of Aliens, The Descent, Event Horizon, and 28 Weeks Later, but it has Ben Foster, Andre Hennicke, and is directed by Christian Alvart, so I'm gonna give it a shot.