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[green_queen]

I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tonight.

I know it's good. Visually it's stunning, the performances are good, and a lot of the lines had me just cracking up. But something in me stopped me from really getting invested in it - probably the fact that I just love the old film so damned much.

I was particularly put out when the kids all came out of the factory at the end. I always loved the uncertainty of their fates, so to see what happened to them kind of ruined things for me, as did the entire ending. I was feeling very WTF? towards the end there.

Saw it with Kathy, melissajane14, sherrif_topato and tuatha_de and then went to T&N's afterwards.

I've been a bit oversensitive lately, it's not good, I think it's to do with this uni stress thing. I'm easily upset and my emotions are all over the place. I don't see it getting better too quickly.

More about my day: Woke up with a KILLER HEADACHE FROM HELL this morning. Like, rolled out of bed and a wave of nausea hit. I had to go out and grab some Panadeine and then laid around in bed in pain for a while. Not so much fun.

Frances Bean Cobain.

ETA: Dom Paris Hyatt shoot in hi-res
Fan review of Brokeback Mountain


thanks lilithlotr!

Green Queen

Comments

[missmomoko.livejournal.com]

Oh thanks for posting that brokeback mountain review. I'm going to die now!

[nentari.livejournal.com]

I understand your feelings regarding Charlie, as I've discovered the story for the first time through the old movie, and only later managed to read the book. However, since the kids leaving the factory is shown in the book, I liked the fact that Tim Burton put it in the movie (the same goes for the squirrels, though I absolutely love the geese and Veruca singing I Want it Now in the first version).
The ending, as well as the whole storyline about Wonka's father, didn't work for me, either. I have always loved the thought that Wonka could be somewhat related to Dumbledore (his lovechild, perhaps) and while I get that feeling while reading the book (and I definitely get it with Gene Wilder's Wonka) in this movie I just didn't get it.

[frozenwithin.livejournal.com]

Who is that kissing?

I loved CATCF so very much, I saw the original AFTER I saw the new version, and I was dissapointed in it.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr. in Venice. They were promoting their new movie "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."

Yeah, I'm such a fan of the old one that the new one disappointed me. I think we have very different taste in movies, though, on the whole.

[dom-jillo.livejournal.com]

Hey,
I'm going to see Charlie & The Chocolate factory tomorrow and I can't wait!

Love

~*Jillo*~