We went to see Charlie & The Chocolate Factory last night. I liked it much, much better than the original one. Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Danny Elfman are the perfect trifecta for this movie, and I’d recommend it to anyone.
One of the things I really enjoyed was the synchronicity and perfection throughout the whole movie. It’s hard to explain out of context, but see the movie and you’ll understand. Touches like that are what make it work so well. The music was impressive as well, so much so that I bought the CD today. I was a little worried about the resurfacing of the Oompa Loompa song, but fortunately it’s been massaged into something much more impressive and humorous. In short, the movie is stylish, funny, and summed up in one word, great.
On the other side of the spectrum, we have The Human Stain, which we made the mistake of renting Friday night. The problem, really, was not with the movie itself. It was with the buildup the movie was given by the description on the back of the box, using terms like “terrible secret”, “shatter his life”, and “devastating consequences”. Basically, the movie was none of that. It’s kind of like when Lost in Translation tried to pass itself off in previews as a side-splitting comedy when it wasn’t. That just makes for disappointment.
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