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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a horror movie for kids.

I don't remember details of Willy Wonka - just didn't care for the movie. But I did a report once on Mary Poppins not being a good influence on kids. I didn't like Alice in Wonderland either.
 
I've never seen either of the movies, but I have read the book, which I really enjoyed. It doesn't mention any of those stereotypes that are in the original movie. I don't plan to watch either of the movies anytime soon, especially the remake.

I heard that some people who watched the remake, which looks awful, complained because they let the kids all survive. But in the book that's really what happened. The kids are all severely punished for their greedy and impulsive behavior, but they all live and it drives me crazy that people don't know this because they never read the actual book. SAD.:(

I heard that autistic people aren't supposed to like fictional books but I must be the exception.
 
I think I missed out most of the things you are talking about...did I lose something important?
I remember I watched and liked Hitchcock (did I write it correctly?)
Or am I way out of the topic?
 
Noelle said:
Why not make one of the American parents responsible for counterfeiting the golden ticket, instead of the guy from Paraguay??
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Perhaps because "the guy from Paraguay" was actually a photograph of a youthful Martin Bormann. One of the most powerful persons in Adolf Hitler's inner circle who was tried in absentia and sentenced to death, who allegedly died in Paraguay. An easy target to vilify for everything from the Holocaust to stealing a kid's lunch money.

I never considered the film particularly "scary" at all. Though you raise a valid point in questioning just how much of this parody amounts to one intended for a very young audience. Equally would I have taken a child to see Gene Wilder in "The Producers" ? Probably not. :eek:

Though it does make you wonder perhaps why Gene was cast as Willy Wonka when one thinks of this production as an adult parody similar to "The Producers" rather than as a classic children's film. :cool:


Frankly I think innocence itself was parodied in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". But for whatever reason the public didn't see it that way. But hey, this is Hollywood, where it took a Cairn Terrier to expose the Wizard of Oz. Go figure. :p
 
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Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.

Years ago, everyone raved about Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, I thought all 3 movies were an overrated pile of tosh, and then a few years later I thought all 5 Hobbit movies also sucked.
 
Mr Allen said:
Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.

Years ago, everyone raved about Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, I thought all 3 movies were an overrated pile of tosh, and then a few years later I thought all 5 Hobbit movies also sucked.
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Uh...that's a phrase used to preface criticizing the opinions of others.

Not intended to promote your own opinions in the same context.
 
I guess it could theoretically be used to justify yourself having an opinion. No problem 'cause everyone has one! Here ya go! ;)

And I think the 3 LOTR movies were perfect! I wonder if anyone who loved the books didn't love the movies. I can see why someone who didn't read or didn't like the books wouldn't like the movies, but I don't think the movies could have been done better so liking the books would likely translate to liking the movies.

That felt overly wordy...

The Hobbit movies, though... It wasn't his fault, he didn't have nearly as much time to make them. And I haven't looked into whose idea it was to stretch one mile of story into a hundred, but it couldn't be interesting with lengths so disproportionate to the books.

Wow, just a few minutes ago I found the long opinion on Star Wars unrelateable and now I'm ranting about this! I got shown!
 
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