August 5th, 2005 -- Posted in >:O |
Wong Kar Wai has a new film out called 2046. NYTimes has a review here.
For those of you who don’t know Wong Kar Wai, he’s a director out of Hong Kong. I’ve seen a couple of his other movies like ChungKing Express, In the Mood For Love, and Days of Being Wild. His movies have been very popular at Cannes. Like his other movies, 2046 seems to be a love story. The difference is that this movie takes place in the future and it seems like this movie may have more effects in it than Wong typically uses.
It comes out today. Unfortunately it’s only in LA and NY. Boo!! I can’t wait until it comes here.
August 4th, 2005 -- Posted in >8] |
Yesterday Em and I got a chance to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Pixar (which often has movies). I thought it was pretty good and it was interesting to compare it to the original with Gene Wilder.
Like the original, this one had musical elements. That’s to be expected, I guess, given that the book is written that way. The interesting difference is that the songs have been modernized to today’s music (with, I’m guessing, some of the original lyrics from the text).
Recognizing Tim Burton’s affinity for casting Johnny Depp in his movies, I was curious to see how he would live up to the role of Willy Wonka. I had to admit that my image of Willy Wonka was that of Gene Wilder in the previous version. I’d say that Johnny Depp did a pretty good job. I’m not sure I was totally convinced, but he certainly had a creepiness to him. Em and Mahyar mentioned that he reminded them of Michael Jackson in the way he portrayed Willy Wonka.
I thought the Oompa Loompas were very amusing. I think the one thing that weirded me out was that racially he looked like he belonged in Silicon Valley not in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.