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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Just watched Labrynth

Madagascar

Now I remember at least one of the ones I forgot...

Double Double Toil and Trouble for Halloween. It's filled with a lot of the flaws you'd expect from a TV movie, but it's something I've always enjoyed watching when the season comes 'round. Magic, family destinies, witches, mirrors, Olsen twins. All that good stuff. Glad to have it on DVD now.

-Aaron

I watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory again
I also watched
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. I want to watch all 3 movies before I see Goblet of Fire next week
and I can't leave out Christmas with the Cranks

We watched the first three episodes of "Five Mile Creek" (I know it is Disney) and then we watched "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". This movie just gets better every time I watch it. Johnny Depp is magical and the whole movie just comes alive when he is on the screen.

Those of you who haven't seen this movie are really missing something. Don't even try to compare it to the first movie with Gene Wilder. This is a Tim Buron movie and it stands alone as a masterpiece!!

memnv wrote: Christmas with the Cranks

Just a small nit pick 'Cranks' is spelt with a 'K'.

This weekend saw a marathon that included (in some order):

Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th Part 3
Sexy Beast
Friday the 13th Part IV - The Final Friday
Friday the 13th Part V - A New Beginning
Flash Gordon
Friday the 13th Part VI - Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII - New Blood

We also managed to squeeze in The Office - Series 1 (not as bad as I thought it would be), and will probably watch Jason Goes to Hell tonight (we did Part VIII last weekend, just to confuse things).

dvdjunkie wrote:and then we watched "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". This movie just gets better every time I watch it. Johnny Depp is magical and the whole movie just comes alive when he is on the screen.

Those of you who haven't seen this movie are really missing something. Don't even try to compare it to the first movie with Gene Wilder. This is a Tim Buron movie and it stands alone as a masterpiece!!

I just watched it for a third time. People misunderstand that this movie is more for the readers.

Christmas with the Kranks - It was enjoyable but it'll never make my list of Christmas classics that I watch every year. (Yes even Ernest could do that but not the Kranks!) Tim Allen was the best in this movie.
There was one thing that I was dreading that happens in Christmas specials and movies and I thought we were going to get away without that and well it happened. (Won't say what so I don't spoil)

Charlie and the Chcocolate Factory - It's a Tim Burton film from a book I really enjoy and has one of my favourite actors, Johnny Depp but my excitement in seeing this was only teetering on yay and not YAY since I really enjoy the original but this adaptation was excellent and I really like both versions. Each one has their charms and there are things in each version I like a little more than the other. Veruca Salt in the original was great and the new one was just as great. I need to get them both on DVD.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - I watched this one right after on DVD from my sister. Great as always. I like the new adaptation and I'm sure it'll get more and more popular but I hope this one doesn't get forgotten or seen as archiac to some kids.

I finished the Masterpiece Hitchcock and moved to other directors:

1) Frenzy (5) - Even though this usually considered the best of his late career, the movie did not grab me at all. As always there are effective scenes, I just did not identify with any of the characters, especially the lead one. (Not a good thing for a Hitchcock.)

2) The Trouble With Harry (eight) - A nice little movie about what to do with a dead body in which all the characters blame themselves in one way or another. Very much British humor, dry and black, but has whimsical romance as well. Surprisingly good even for such a “small” film.

3) Spellbound (6) - A bunch psychoanalysis babble covering up a simple murder mystery. Lots of talent, Hitchcock, David Selznick, Ben Hecht, Gregory Peck, and Ingird Bergmann, comes up with a movie with less effective than the sum of its parts.

4) Vertigo (10) - Hitchcock's masterpiece of obsession and the selfish nature of love. The most personal of all Hitch’s movies as Stewart becomes obessessed and remakes with Kim Novak. (Much like Hitchcock tried to make Vera Miles and Tippi Heardon into another Grace Kelly.) Not the best introduction of the master’s films, SPOILER as the story uses a red herring of a murder mystery to send the viewer into a whirlpool of obsessive love.

5) Hard Day’s Night (10) – One of the most enjoyable movies ever made. Sure, we knew the Beatlemania music would be awesome, but who knew the lads could pull off the Marxist humor so well. So in honor of the junkie winning dinner with Sir Paul, “Turn Left On Greenland” and watch this movie. (It is $12 on Amazon right now.)

6) The Last Waltz (7) – A concert film of the last performance of the great “The Band”, a rock & roll roots group. Marty does a good job directing the concert even though he tends to focus too much attention on Robbie’s self-importance yapping. So use the chapter skip button for some interviews and watch one of Muddy Waters last great performances and The Band/Staple Singers just torch The Weight.

7) New York, New York (6) – One of three problematic movies made by Marty, that his fans will have disagreements about its importance in his career. Flying high from three successes & the amount of drugs he was taking, IMO Marty let this production run wild and the movie loses focus. He wanted to mix the big Hollywood musical with noir realities, but I can’t over the fact that I could not identify with what a jerk Jack Doyle was.

Boxcar Bertha (6) – Marty seems oddly proud to be part of this cheapie Corman exploitation flick with lots of guns and sex. Marty does a good job with the limited time and budget he had as Corman must have been amused by Scoresce storyboarding the film. Fun to watch but not historically important.

War of the Worlds (1953) - Interesting seeing the differences between old and new. I still way prefer the new one.
Kicking and Screaming

Black Robe
Last Of The Mohicans

Both I had to watch and write a repsonse paper on for my history class.

Wedding Date

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Not actually the final Friday film, but it was pretty bad. I know people enjoy the clever references that were slipped into the film, but it is so unlike the other films in the franchise that it almost shames the previous entries (which is a task!)

Christmas with the Kranks - Good movie, could have been funnier.

Watched
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
and
Demolition Man
Now I am ready for HArry Potter ad the Goblet of Fire

Last week they showed Moulin Rouge on Vh1. I decided to watched it because I used love MR but haven't seen it since I was eleven. I loved it altough some parts were more intresting than others. Another thing I liked about the flim was that the colors were so vibrate. And who knew Nicole Kidman could sing! I give MR a 9 out of 10.