NEWS: Wonka Trailer

I think I was the first one to fire up gmail and direct Gawker to the trailer for this movie because SERIOUSLY. WTF?



Nightmares, you guys. Nightmares.

[Edited on Dec 12, 2004 by anonymouse]

hahaa IT LOOKS LIKE PUFF N STUFFF! DEPP DOES NOT LOOK SCARY HE LOOKS LIKE A FRUIT.

oh boy does this movie look like a piece of shit...i can't stop laughing. I guess burton is over the hill. This movie should have been similar in mood to edward sissor hands, but it looks a stupid jim carey movie or something. And johnny depp looks like a flamer. wtf were they thinking. oh my god wtf

Even if it means living up the expectation of a decent story rather than a bundle of cliches wrapped up in "movie magic?" Can a movie not have both style and tell well-written story?

I suppose I cannot really comment on his degree of involvement in any of his movies, but I can say that what people think of his films is often, as you said, beyond what is on the screen. Beyond the fact that his films are saturated with design and slim on story, what is there to see? Much is made of his film's supposed creepiness, but there's little to show of that when you look for it. Magazines will label him as this macabre master of the dark when his darkest output is possibly... I'm actually drawing a blank here. The two Batman movies?
Has anyone seen Frankenweenie? Burton made this 30 minute Frankenstein-as-a-dog film for Disney way back when. It's really cute, just as his other films are in their own way.
Looking back, the only movie of his that was both well-designed and well-written was Ed Wood.

But... Why did they have to make him look like Anna Wintour? That isn't cool.

eeeee i wish i could go see this movie now !!

holy shit, what a striking resemblance! heeh.

not only that, but the lighting. filtering and colour pallet were all wrong for the mood, IMO. anyway, i'll still go see it, but i don't have high hopes.

I dont know, its seeming a little "Dr. Seuss-ish"

My only expectation is that a movie not be boring and pointless. What you are saying here is self-contradictory. You are saying that you need to look beneath the surface of the movies, so that you can see that it's all about style and atmosphere (i.e., superficiality). I gave a brief account of how looking behind the surface of the wacky fantasy sequences in Big Fish reveals a movie that is basically a poorly conceived, slapped-together excuse to show a bunch of fantasy sequences. Ooooh, that's deep.

Mars Attacks is a good example of a horrendously put together movie that I found unwatchable - one of a handful of movies I've ever walked out on. The aliens, humor and concept were very promising, but right when it started to build some humor and fun momentum it would grind back to a halt with another star-cameo backstory scene. Most comm arts undergrads could probably make a better movie out of the raw footage.

I still don't get what kind of "beyond" you are talking about. Or what you mean by 'catalyst for the imagination" - it sounds like the kind of stuff I am always hearing people say about Disney movies, toys and parks, which to me are the very antithesis. In general, I don't see a fully realized and polished big-budget movie as a catalyst for imagination. It's already been imagined, executed, packaged and delivered. I'd more likely use that phrase to describe a giant box of crayons and a pile of blank paper.

That description is perfect.

OMGWTF!!?! ROFLMAO!!!!!1111111111111

KTHXBYE

They do the boat scene

looks gay not even a bit scary and that stupid fire marshal bill wonka has

I really really really don't like Willy Wonka.
I really really really like Johnny Depp.
I really really really don't want to see this film.
I really really really do want to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

this is going to be good....i can't wait!!!!!

As if he wasn't sexy enough!!!! I am going to China Town getting a bootleg and licking the screen ASAP!!!!