Supposedly, “white” headlights on cars give you a better view of the road. It lights up the street more. It puts out enough light so that you can see that deer a full four seconds before you hit it instead of the usual two. This all comes from the mass of As Seen on TV items that polluted our department stores - owned, operated and manufactured right out the Philippines - a few years ago. But whenever I see a car on the highway with the unnatural glow of white lights, I can’t help but think of some rich 45 year old male sitting in his Mercedes that he bought with the money he got from the stock market “tips” his friend Jerry Smith from that online chat room gave him, just as long as he gave Jerry, say, 10% of his profits.

Some movies only get better with the remake. Take “Oceans Eleven”, or “The Italian Job”, to name a few. But, while the originals were good, they weren’t timeless classics, so you didn’t get mobs of angry film geeks charging at the doors of Miramax. Other movies should never, and I repeat, over my dead body, be remade. Movies like “The Wizard of Oz”, “Gone With the Wind”, or “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Are you listening, Warner Bros.!? Don’t remake movies that shouldn’t be remade, geez.

I’m really not sure what decade this is from, but I’m glad I didn’t grow up in it. 

This, is Willy Wonka, played “ever so groovilly” by Johnny Depp annd his banndd of chocolatte obssessed childrenn. Another thing - if the new movie wasn’t based off the old one, is the music even going to be similar? You can see the trailer here. It’s not like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was the best movie I had ever seen, and could watch it on continuous loop, but it’s sacred landmark movie territory. You can’t take that movie and turn it into a psychedelic light wall at a nightclub in France.

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That’s horrible! Even from the trailer you can tell that is not the same as the book. The other Charlie and Chocolate Factory movie may not have been great but at least it was sort of close to the book.

The remake of the Wizard of Oz came from the other books that L. Frank Balm wrote. There were like forty of them and they were all really bad. At one point Toto gets replaced with a chicken.

Did you go to a night club in France?

THE HORROR!

oh my god, johnny depp looks like a crazy woman. hes not the lovable gene wilder that we all know and love (or should love, based on blazing saddles alone)! of course, this movie will not ruin his carreer, NO! he’ll get off scot-free.

it looks like one of those nightmares that you get after being in a big toystore for too long and then going and eating and excessive amount of sugar. even then… oh god its so awful i cant even BEGIN… god

We didn’t go to a night club in France, but the apartment we rented was next door to one, so we had loud music from about six to eleven one night (they only had one preformance while we were there though, so I consider myself lucky). I don’t know if I can bring myself to see that movie, or A Series of Unfortunate Events. I KNOW they’ve messed up Charlie, and I’m as sure as I can be that they’ve messed up Lemony Snicket.

all of these movies that are coming out are just confirming the sequel/remake frame of mind that everyone gets into (for a good reason, mind you). it makes me terribly sad, because lemony snicket was so good, and gene wilder is one of my favorite actors (charlie and the chocolate factory)… so so sad.

Jude Law (despite being overexposed) is quite good as Lemony Snicket… it’s Jim Carrey you should look out for. Blasphemy! Blasphemy!

But I don’t care because La Streep saved the movie.