Ditto. That would be weird for a grown man to see it without kids to take. I do like Will Ferrell's character in it though. I'll watch it when it comes to streaming (for free).
Free is the keyword here, and no doubt my granddaughter will have it eventually on her continual watch list.

The Los Angeles-based Screen Actors Guild has officially gone on strike, marking the start of the largest shutdown Hollywood has seen 40 years.

Stars Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt left the Oppenheimer premiere as the strike began, according to director Christopher Nolan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66196357

Hugh Grant has been pictured for the first time as an Oompa Loompa in the first official trailer for "Wonka".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66172861

I think I prefer the original version better.

I think I prefer the original version better.
I prefer the original original!

I prefer the original original!


There's honestly something to be said for the Johnny Depp version as well. I didn't think I would like it, but I have seen it several times now. Pay special attention to the music. Each song has a very specific genre. Techno, 1960s Byrds-inspired, etc. Much better than that silly "oompa loompa dilly dally day" song that is repeated over and over in the original.

The Los Angeles-based Screen Actors Guild has officially gone on strike, marking the start of the largest shutdown Hollywood has seen 40 years.

Stars Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt left the Oppenheimer premiere as the strike began, according to director Christopher Nolan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66196357



To be honest, I don't have a lot of sympathy for these people, the poor dears.

I prefer the original original!

From The 1970s?

There's honestly something to be said for the Johnny Depp version as well. I didn't think I would like it, but I have seen it several times now. Pay special attention to the music. Each song has a very specific genre. Techno, 1960s Byrds-inspired, etc. Much better than that silly "oompa loompa dilly dally day" song that is repeated over and over in the original.


So why did the name change to Charlie And The Chocolate Factory? Did Willie have a brother we don't know about? ???

There's honestly something to be said for the Johnny Depp version as well. I didn't think I would like it, but I have seen it several times now. Pay special attention to the music. Each song has a very specific genre. Techno, 1960s Byrds-inspired, etc. Much better than that silly "oompa loompa dilly dally day" song that is repeated over and over in the original.


I enjoyed that version, maybe even more than the original. I especially liked the score for Veruca Salt. I'm guessing that's the 60's Byrds-inspired one you mentioned?


So why did the name change to Charlie And The Chocolate Factory? Did Willie have a brother we don't know about? ???


Charlie Bucket was the name of the main kid. It was also the title of the original novel.

I enjoyed that version, maybe even more than the original. I especially liked the score for Veruca Salt. I'm guessing that's the 60's Byrds-inspired one you mentioned?


Yes, that's the one. Pretty psych-o-delic.  :D



Charlie Bucket was the name of the main kid. It was also the title of the original novel.


Correct. Written by famed author Roald Dahl. Speaking of whom...the woke police, this time in the guise of publishers Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Random House, ever on the lookout for new and better things to be offended by, have censored his books. "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" is among the casualties:

Roald Dahl rewrites: edited language in books criticised as ‘absurd censorship’

www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/roald-dahl-books-rewrites-criticism-language-altered

Excerpts:

Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colourful language from works such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda to make them more acceptable to modern readers.

A review of new editions of Dahl’s books now available in bookstores shows that some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered. The changes made by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Random House, first were reported by Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Augustus Gloop, Charlie’s gluttonous antagonist in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which originally was published in 1964, is no longer “enormously fat,” just “enormous”. In the new edition of Witches, a supernatural female posing as an ordinary woman may be working as a “top scientist or running a business” instead of as a “cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman”.

The word “black” was removed from the description of the terrible tractors in 1970s The Fabulous Mr Fox. The machines are now simply “murderous, brutal-looking monsters”.

Booker prize-winning author Salman Rushdie was among those who reacted angrily to the rewriting of Dahl’s words. Rushdie lived in hiding for years after Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for his death because of the alleged blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses. He was attacked and seriously injured last year at an event in New York state.

“Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship,’’ Rushdie wrote on Twitter. “Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.’’

The changes to Dahl’s books mark the latest skirmish in a debate over cultural sensitivity as campaigners seek to protect young people from cultural, ethnic and gender stereotypes in literature and other media. Critics complain revisions to suit 21st century sensibilities risk undermining the genius of great artists and preventing readers from confronting the world as it is.

Veruca Salt Song
from "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtf9nmtTC7Q

I went and saw Oppenheimer today. The theater was packed with many people wearing pink to see the Barbie movie.

I went and saw Oppenheimer today. The theater was packed with many people wearing pink to see the Barbie movie.

Did you happen to see Barbie? ???

I went and saw Oppenheimer today. The theater was packed with many people wearing pink to see the Barbie movie.
"Oppenheimer" is on my must see list, Oscar potentials?

"Oppenheimer" is on my must see list, Oscar potentials?


I imagine it has an awesome explosion scene. Oscars like explosions.

Did you happen to see Barbie? ???


Nope. I'll wait until it becomes available for streaming.

Nope. I'll wait until it becomes available for streaming.


Same here.

Critics have admitted their surprise at the high quality of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.

Nope. I'll wait until it becomes available for streaming.
I am still not rushing to see it.

Critics have admitted their surprise at the high quality of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.


I actually want to see it since I've been a TMNT fan since childhood. I can wait until streaming though. Seth Rogan is one of the producers and voice actors (as Bebop) in this one.

Warner Bros has delayed the planned November release of its big-budget Dune sequel until March 2024.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66615759

Warner Bros has delayed the planned November release of its big-budget Dune sequel until March 2024.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66615759


Then that will be in the 2024: The year in film thread.

Then that will be in the 2024: The year in film thread.
Any Oscars for that film will have to wait a year?

Any Oscars for that film will have to wait a year?


If it gets nominated. The release date will be too close to the Oscar's so it would be in the 2025 one.

Nope. I'll wait until it ("Barbie") becomes available for streaming.
We saw "Barbie" last Saturday, for it was National Cinema Day, and all tickets in all cinemas was £3, and it was a family viewing. We all enjoyed it, and like the other film references contain within it.

Barbie has officially become the year's biggest box office hit, after the doll's big-screen earnings overtook the Super Mario Bros Movie's total. The Barbie movie, which sees Margot Robbie's titular toy swap her pink fantasy home for the real world, has now made $1.38bn (£1.1bn) globally. That has taken it past the $1.36bn taken by the Super Mario Bros Movie. Barbie has also helped the US summer box office reach the $4bn (£3.2bn) mark for the first time since the pandemic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66705597

"Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?"

The sequel will be available for streaming on Paramount+ on November 22.

Just watched Fast X yesterday. I actually enjoyed that one, much better than the other recent ones and best one since 7. Although I liked the Hobbs & Shaw spinoff movie as well.

I watched The Creator last night. That's a good one, especially if you like the sci-fi genre.

...or television

Princess Diana's relationship with Dodi Fayed is one of the storylines Netflix has teased in a series of images ahead of the show's sixth season. The forthcoming series will dramatise the events of the late 1990s including the last days of Princess Diana's life.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is the big movie event right now. It's like having her concert on the big screen at your local cinema, and from different times from her country songs of the 2000's to her recent Midnights album, and everything between.

Just watched "No Hard Feelings" with Jennifer Lawrence. It was actually the best comedy I've seen in awhile. It was more than just a raunchy comedy, it actually had a nice story with character development.

Critics have admitted their surprise at the high quality of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.


I finally watched it yesterday. It was pretty good overall. It had a good voice cast and a lot of pop-culture references.

I also watched Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse recently. That one was ok. I just thought some of the scenes were long and drawn out.

US actors are expected to resume work after their union agreed a tentative deal with Hollywood studios to end a four-month strike.

Arby's becomes the home of the Good Burger, as a promotion for the upcoming sequel. The meal includes the Deluxe Wagyu Beef Burger, fries, and a strawberry shake.

Arby's becomes the home of the Good Burger, as a promotion for the upcoming sequel. The meal includes the Deluxe Wagyu Beef Burger, fries, and a strawberry shake.


Are we getting Ed's Sauce?

Arby's becomes the home of the Good Burger, as a promotion for the upcoming sequel. The meal includes the Deluxe Wagyu Beef Burger, fries, and a strawberry shake.

Have you had one yet? ???

Have you had one yet? ???


Not yet but the Wagyu Beef Burger sounds good. I'll probably order it with their curly fries though.

Not yet but the Wagyu Beef Burger sounds good. I'll probably order it with their curly fries though.


And I bet it's expensive just like their other meals.  ::)

Just watched the new Hunger Games yesterday. It was pretty good overall and I read the book over the summer.

I am hearing mixed reviews for the latest Ridley Scott film "Napoleon", it has 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it is spectacular to watch, but acting and accuracy come into question. 

I am hearing mixed reviews for the latest Ridley Scott film "Napoleon", it has 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it is spectacular to watch, but acting and accuracy come into question.


My wife wants to see it next. She's always loved history movies. She also jokes with me that this one's last name is not Dynamite, lol.

Disney's latest princess film "Wish" seems to have missed the mark with critics - falling somewhere between honouring the past nostalgia of classic fairy-tale stories and launching itself into a new era of modern movie making.

Wonka has tickled the taste buds of critics with several glowing reviews, but some noted the character lacks the darker elements of previous versions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67622987

Barbie and Oppenheimer lead the nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, with nine and eight nominations respectively.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67646600

Barbie and Oppenheimer lead the nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, with nine and eight nominations respectively.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67646600


Barbenheimer, Avatar, Wednesday, The Last of Us and Star Trek are all major contenders at the Saturn Awards. Other nominees include A24's Pearl and Talk to Me, Rob Zombie's Munsters, Chucky and Mario.