books? what are books?
so here's the premise, really: five kids get golden tickets by eating chocolate bars, and eventually, someone ends up owning the chocolate factory at the end of it all. sounds kind of silly, i know, but i'm sure you remember the old-school 1970s version of this movie. (did you also know that it was supposed to be a merchandise tie-in and that's why they renamed the old version willy wonka and the chocolate factory instead of its original title, charlie and the chocolate factory? general mills was marketing wonka bars, but something was wrong with the chocolate formula -- it melted in room temperature. so they ended up pulling the bars from production, but the movie ended up lasting longer than the chocolate.)they said tim burton reworked the ending so that, you know, it's better. and it's not some silly thing where gene wilder somewhat creeps you out when you're a kid; they full-out have johnny depp scaring the bejeezus out of some kids. i myself have watched the previews quite a number of times. thank god they found a girl who could play violet beauregarde not so, well, stupid. and that kid who plays charlie who was in finding neverland? somewhere out there, someone's going to cry.
i'm excited to see it, frankly, because of the oompa loompas.
but this is also why we forget that this was a book in the first place. it was a good book, and like many of roald dahl's awesome books, they make good movies. remember james and the giant peach? how about matilda? those were seriously kick-ass kid's movies, and th books were even better.
speaking of books, there's another one coming out tomorrow that i'm sure you guys have heard the buzz about.
it's that book series with the kid who looks like will rohrer (when will wears his glasses and gets a lightning scar on his forehead). book six, to be precise.so anyone re-read the first five? i find that this happens a lot with sequential serial releases like this. you have to review you materials. i mean, there was star wars (and who didn't do the whole episode i-vi bit?). to me, there's alias: i always have to watch the dvds in order whenever a new season comes out on dvd. which really means that for a week i'll get hoome from work or school and just watch tv the whole day.
but back to harry potter. i can imagine this one another ridiculously large book that people will be carrying all over the place. (remember when goblet of fire came out and everyone was freaking out about how big the book was, and then they all bought order of the phoenix because it was heavier? yeesh. this one might be the size of a small car.)
after this one, there's only one more book left for the series. unless of course jk rowling decides to leave one of those open-ended closers and leaves the door open to third-party writers to come up with the next harry potter movie.
have a good weekend, y'all.
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