Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
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poliphiloTim Burton "dark"? "Playful" would be nearer the mark. Hitchcock is dark, Aldritch is dark; almost any director you care to name is darker than Burton.
I admire Ed Wood. I love the silliness of Mars Attacks. Otherwise I've been disappointed.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is dreadful.
It travesties Dahl. Dahl is never sentimental. You want dark? Dahl is dark. Burton can't handle him.
Bleeagh- the gloopiness of that ending. One hug from Daddy and everything is fine again.
Every other Hollywood movie these days seems to be about little lost boys and their daddies.
I have a word for you- a bright shiny new word; I just coined it:
Daddyporn.
Whatever happened to Mommy, by the way?
But enough of that. Johnny Depp is a pretty good actor. He's too good for most of the dreck he appears in. Here he impersonates Michael Jackson. Which raises "dark" issues that Burton sweeps under the carpet.
And all that great White Hunter stuff with the Oompah-loompahs- racist or what?
And there's too much CGI. Everything looks beautiful, but there's no energy. The more I see of CGI the more I hate it. The airbrushed sheen of it. Unreal. Fakey. It's killing the movies.
This is supposed to be a kids' film, so why isn't it more fun?
The Gene Wilder version was gaudy and vulgar but it was tons of fun. The songs were better too.
To recapitulate: Sentimental, evasive, racist, fucked-up, dull. Let's add misogynist. Mrs Burton (Helena B-C) makes a token appearance stirring the cabbage soup, but otherwise it's nothing but boys in clover.
Ooh, daddy; no-one can love me the way you do!
I admire Ed Wood. I love the silliness of Mars Attacks. Otherwise I've been disappointed.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is dreadful.
It travesties Dahl. Dahl is never sentimental. You want dark? Dahl is dark. Burton can't handle him.
Bleeagh- the gloopiness of that ending. One hug from Daddy and everything is fine again.
Every other Hollywood movie these days seems to be about little lost boys and their daddies.
I have a word for you- a bright shiny new word; I just coined it:
Daddyporn.
Whatever happened to Mommy, by the way?
But enough of that. Johnny Depp is a pretty good actor. He's too good for most of the dreck he appears in. Here he impersonates Michael Jackson. Which raises "dark" issues that Burton sweeps under the carpet.
And all that great White Hunter stuff with the Oompah-loompahs- racist or what?
And there's too much CGI. Everything looks beautiful, but there's no energy. The more I see of CGI the more I hate it. The airbrushed sheen of it. Unreal. Fakey. It's killing the movies.
This is supposed to be a kids' film, so why isn't it more fun?
The Gene Wilder version was gaudy and vulgar but it was tons of fun. The songs were better too.
To recapitulate: Sentimental, evasive, racist, fucked-up, dull. Let's add misogynist. Mrs Burton (Helena B-C) makes a token appearance stirring the cabbage soup, but otherwise it's nothing but boys in clover.
Ooh, daddy; no-one can love me the way you do!
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Date: 2006-05-09 01:22 pm (UTC)I'm sure there will be other films that use CGI creatively. At the moment, though, it's a relatively new toy and it's being used promiscuously and thoughtlessly.
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Date: 2006-05-10 01:05 am (UTC)