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Willie Wonka


Erika and I went and saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last nite at the AMC 30 in Sterling Heights which now has an IMAX theatre. The screen is not a dome just a large screen but it was still worth the extra couple bucks that they tack on to see a movie in there. I am not saying every movie should be viewed on the IMAX screen but this was one that was made for it. Tim Burton is the only director that could have pulled this off, he did a great job at telling the story and separating it from the original movie. For starters, Willie Wonka was more excentric and the storyline dove into Willie's childhood. The Umpa Loompas were not as clownlike, they were more just little people that sang songs and danced around. The only problem with the movie was the close resemblence to Michael Jackson with Willie and the pale face. Some of the dialog screamed Jackson but I think its because we just spent the last year with him on trial. We went to the 9:45pm movie and there were parents who brought kids, I was a bit suprised seeing that we didn't get home til midnight. If you havn't seen it, go, Johnny Depp is great in it, you barely recognize that it is him.

Posted by mardenhill 7/25/2005 11:05:00 AM  

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