New Charlie & the Chocolate Factory on RTE now

amdublin

"Eyes on the prize, Violet, eyes on the prize"

I'd be hard pushed to choose betweeen the old and the new film. I love them both tbh.

MagicMarker

Meh to both.

star-pants

Love the old, hate the new.
Muppets Take Manhatten ftw

binga

i like both but you can't beat the original. elf on after this. where were all these films yesterday?!

amdublin

MagicMarker wrote: »

Meh to both.

:eek:

Christmas isn't Christmas without Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.

alwaysadub

Am watching the new one but i've seen it before and its not a patch on the original.

amdublin

binga wrote: »

elf on after this. where were all these films yesterday?!

Tell me about it!

Very bad selection of films imo.

MagicMarker

binga wrote: »

i like both but you can't beat the original. elf on after this. where were all these films yesterday?!

Elf was on last night.

binga

MagicMarker wrote: »

Elf was on last night.

what station?

Pretty_Pistol

It's nothing on the good old one.

binga wrote: »

where were all these films yesterday?!

I thought there was a poor selection of films yesterday. Oh well...

Graceland

Loved the original Charlie film. Hated the new one. Didn't compare in any way to the original. Johnny Depps character was freaky.

Huggles

I have to say that I was so apprehensive about watching this version as like a lot of other people I adore old one. However, new one is fantastic if you view it as a different film entirely. I am really enjoying it.

Gene Wilder is the better Willy though. (That is a sentence I never thought I'd say)

I love both, think the Gene Wilder version would be my favourite purely because it's from my childhood!

The new one is closer to the book though, Roald Dahl's version was darker than the original film.

krudler

Graceland wrote: »

Loved the original Charlie film. Hated the new one. Didn't compare in any way to the original. Johnny Depps character was freaky.

He's meant to be, its much closer to the book than the old version

IronMan

The new version is a bloody abomination. And I'm a fan of Tim Burton. I really hope to hell they don't decide to remake the Goonies.

Max Headroom

Old one for me....new one is good in a different sort of way..dont like the UmpaLumpas singing though...

Larianne

amdublin wrote: »

:eek:

Christmas isn't Christmas without Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.

You mean Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory.

mike rolite

You know the way that Johnny Depp was supposed to have based his Pirates of the Carribean character on Keith Richards, well does anyone else think that his Willy Wonka might have been based on Michael Jackson? Weirdly artificial looking and with the same light voice... Thought it was as good as the original myself and you gotta love David Kelly as Grandpa Joe (otherwise known as the 'Orelly man' in this house).:)

dambarude

mike rolite wrote: »

You know the way that Johnny Depp was supposed to have based his Pirates of the Carribean character on Keith Richards, well does anyone else think that his Willy Wonka might have been based on Michael Jackson? Weirdly artificial looking and with the same light voice... Thought it was as good as the original myself and you gotta love David Kelly as Grandpa Joe (otherwise known as the 'Orelly man' in this house).:)

I was thinking exactly the same thing:D. It seemed pretty blatant to me!

I never saw the original film so I cannot comment on how it compares, but I thought that the one on today was very good in its own right. It was very strange though!

The remake while entertaining is one of those films you watch once and never again. The whole Burton/Depp stick was old even back then and by serving up more of the same it sank the film. I would have loved to see someone like David Lynch try his hand as a Dahl tale.

lostexpectation

terrible

dambarude

dambarude wrote: »

I never saw the original film

:eek:

dambarude

Deleted User wrote: »

:eek:

I had a deprived childhood:(
There's loadsa films like that I never saw... ET and the likes.:pac:

dambarude

dambarude wrote: »

I had a deprived childhood:(
There's loadsa films like that I never saw... ET and the likes.:pac:

You, my dear, need to catch up on some of your childhood.

Pick a day, get in loads of popcorn, maltesers and dvd's and sit in watching all of the films you should have seen years ago!

amovingstatue

Willy wonka forever, Burton film will be forgotton.

K-9

amovingstatue wrote: »

Willy wonka forever, Burton film will be forgotton.

The old one beats it hands down.

My young lad watched it after seeing the new one. The look on his face near the end was priceless!

amovingstatue

K-9 wrote: »

The old one beats it hands down.

My young lad watched it after seeing the new one. The look on his face near the end was priceless!

yeah, with the new film i don't know, it might be all the scenes filmed on virtual sets where the actors can't fully get into it. Or there's so much work put into the effects and such, that the basics get looked over.

And of course there's Gene Wilder. The way he attempts to get the wayward kids under control saying "Stop, wait, don't" but you can hear in his tone that he knows it's pointless. And enthusiastically exclaiming "Wrong" when one of the kids answers a question incorrectly... And so on... must watch it again now think it's on New Year's Day on UTV.....

K-9

amovingstatue wrote: »

yeah, with the new film i don't know, it might be all the scenes filmed on virtual sets where the actors can't fully get into it. Or there's so much work put into the effects and such, that the basics get looked over.

And of course there's Gene Wilder. The way he attempts to get the wayward kids under control saying "Stop, wait, don't" but you can hear in his tone that he knows it's pointless. And enthusiastically exclaiming "Wrong" when one of the kids answers a question incorrectly... And so on... must watch it again now think it's on New Year's Day on UTV.....

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it. TG4 showed it the last couple of years.

True what you say, that's what is so endearing about the wee boy that wins, he isn't selfish and still the prize is lost.

Ah, some great TV here on New Years Day!

6.40 BBC1!