Monday, May 30, 2005

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Say it isn't so Charlie Bucket, say it isn't so. Why are the movies taking a Puff Daddy-esque turn? Is everyone just flat out of ideas, or is Notorious B.I.G. still alive and secretly the man behind the scenes running the movie industry along with his bad boy cronies Puff Daddy, Mase and 112. The Longest Yard as well as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, two movies who stand in the pantheon of great films have been remade, but why?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it is a pretty good motto when it comes to most things, even if something is old like the two movies in question are, don't mess with a good thing, and Gene Wilder was a great thing for the character of Willy Wonka, I don't see Johnny Depp coming close to his performance. At the end of last season the Red Sox chose not to resign Orlando Cabrera, opting to go for the pricier option and take Edgar Renteria. Cabrera made people forget about Nomah, he came up with huge hits in the playoffs, and even bigger plays in the field, the only possible reason the Sox had for letting him go was they thought they could do better and Renteria is making them look mighty dumb, leading American league shortstops in errors as well as times booed. So basically what I am getting at with this whole rant, besides the fact that I want Cabrera back at short, is do the producers of the new movies really think Johnny Depp is a better Wonka than Gene Wilder? Wilder was the perfect fit, he gave Wonka the odd dark side that made the movie. I just don't think there is any way to recreate his character without him doing so, the same way few others could duplicate Cabrera hitting .379 against Anaheim in the playoffs last year. And on top of this they will never find another Slugworth worthy of being Slugworth, the guy who plays Slugworth (Günter Meisner) actually played Hitler in 3 different movies, look it up he really did, now can you find anyone better to play the a guy trying to trick and mislead children? This new movie can't happen, if not for the sole reason it will save a child from possibly having his life turned into a circus that will most likely include 3 rehab stints and a Michael Jackson incident, what are you going to do about Charlie Buckett, the original somehow defied the odds and ended up normal http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/nov00/s110100g.asp. Movies like this and the Longest Yard will probably do great, for some reason I don't know, but I just really hope that Bad Boy will finally stop.

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