its 5 o'clock in the morning...or maybe it's six

i hate urban living....cause i cant scream as loud as i can at 7am.
i hate rural living......cause i cant find anything to scream about at 7am.

meh...fuck it.

Charlie and the Chocolate factory....very good in a entirely new way different from the original...very edward scissor hands Burton here i think. Johnny Depp as per usual explores completely the character and kept me smiling the entire film. This film, ironicly enough, is more about Willy Wonka than the original (despite its name change). You miss the fizzy lifting drinks scene not just because fizzy lifting drinks are a great idea, but because it allows you to catch up with the "main" character who just disappears in the 2nd act. The visuals are stunning. Lots more quirky humor and visual jokes. A little less heart than I had hoped, but Its there and I hate to say something like this....but it feels more real in a way, in the end. What I am speaking about specifically is Wonka's arc taking a couple of more scenes than you would think it would....i kinda liked that.....more true to the human condition would be more appropriate perhaps than "real". The oompa loompas are given a lot more background and i thought they were hilarious, as opposed to just oddity-eye-candy........although i did miss the songs....the new songs were pretty fucking cool/ out of this world. The scale is so grand, and sitting in the front again left me in an amazed overload. Crazy set design like ive never seen before....even though a lot is CG, it fits right in.
I love Wonka's world in this one...its not as thin....there are so many more layers to it and him. Like his prediliction for 50s/60s pop culture, vengeance for his enemies, lack of any ability to act with the adults (or anyone really) socially (so much so that he often has index card notes), vanity, etc.....

I need to see it again, to really get a grasp on everything...but i was really blown away nonetheless....
although i do miss the one-line-life-summations heard from gene wilder.....but here i get all this cooky dialect from depp, which may not be as fulfilling on an emtional level....it feels good still.....and i still got to feel like a child.

All the demises from the other children are much more terrifying due to some dramatic editing/directing......and, in the end, we get to see the aftermath of each.........i always liked the original cause you never knew if the kids might have actually died....but we dont get that mystery here....instead we get these devious looks from Wonka during and right after each kid finds there way out of the plot.

seriously....the smile didn't leave my face until the last 3 or 4 scenes...and still returned before the end.


and now im awake past sunrise....i need to watch the sequel to Before Sunrise still....i need to know how that relationship ends up...or begins again.....

"i need a vacation" - arnold