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Charlie and Chocolate Factory
| Tue, 08-02-2005 - 7:43am |
Has anyone else gone to see the new movie with Johnny Depp? Don't get me wrong I like Johnny Depp.. I really do. What I don't like is when Hollywood feels the need to deviate from the story. I think the book is a stand alone all it's own and makes for a wonderful movie... so why mess with it? IT was definitely a darker version of the Gene Wilder movie but the special effects were really great- when Violet turns well violet it is great!
Has anyone else seen it and have an oppinion?


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Hi Maggie! I saw it last week with the kids. I'm still not sure what I thought of it. Johnny Depp's character was just so weird. I didn't understand his portrayal of Willie Wonka at all. He was so creepy. I did however love all the kids. I agree the special effects were very good. I just loved Gene Wilder in the last movie and I'm Depp didn't want to play Wonka just like Wilder did, but I wish he had been a little different.
My kids really liked it.
Scrappy
Mich
The way he looks in the previews scare the hell out of me. I don't think I could sit thru 2 hrs of him.
I haven't seen it, but I read a review in which the reviewer said that they thought that Depp modeled Wonka after Michael Jackson. After that review, I'm not sure I want to see it. Michael Jackson is just WAY too scary for me!
Sarenna
I read an interview with Johnny himself, and HE said he modeled his Willy Wonka after a game show host/car salesman type of guy.
Mich
Honestly, I think it was probably in reference to the voice he used in the movie and the make up he wore (I haven't seen the movie, so I couldn't actually tell you why the comparison was made).
I really wasn't trying to offend, sorry if you took it that way.
Sarenna
without having read any reviews on the movie until after I'd seen it, that was who I thought Depp was trying to base his portrayel on. The kids asked me what I thought as we were walking out, and I told them I wasn't sure if I liked it and couldn't figure out why Wonka was so much like Michael Jackson. As I said, there were a lot of things about the movie that were great, just not Depp (and I like him in everything else!)
scrappy
I also heard a movie reviewer say Depp's Willy Wonka reminded him of a cross between Michael Jackson and Marilyn Manson ~yikes~!
The heat is keeping me inside my house, but I *will* get out this week and see it on the large screen!
Mich
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