Marty's Movie Reviews #4,906

[loosechanj]

Fantastic Four: Ioan Gruffid makes a tolerable, if far too young, Reed Richards. Which is good, because he made an absolutely atrocious Horatio Hornblower. Jessica Alba shouldn't have been let within 20 miles of the script. Isn't Sue Storm supposed to be a blond, blue eyed, Hitler youth type? Eh, I'll live. They're definately making better comic book movies now than when I was a kid. The ending, oh puke.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Not bad, but it makes me want to re-watch the original. Haha, I never knew veruca was a kind of wart you got on your foot.

Labyrinth: Whoa, Jennifer Connelly is in this? Allright! *schwing* David Bowie as "goblin king"? Uh, no thanks.

Comments

[seahorsemystic.livejournal.com]

I have not seen Fan 4 yet, but I did see Charlie and Choco Fact. I loved it. But, I am a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp fan. And I read the original book, not the remake based on Gene Wilder's character. It is supposed to be about Willy, who does NOT like kids at all. And I thought that came through in Burton's version well. And Labyrinth was amazing to me. I enjoyed the creatures; I enjoyed the concept, and I enjoyed David Bowie. He was hot and scary at the same time. Jennifer Connely was super cute in it, and I do think it was her first movie.

[wistfuljen.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed David Bowie. He was hot and scary at the same time.

EXACTLY. I fucking love David Bowie in that movie.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I dunno, he just comes across as sooooooo 80's to me. It definately would have been better if he hadn't sung.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Nope, see above post. :-D

[seahorsemystic.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't realize she was in that movie! I saw that a few weeks back on late night tv. I stand corrected on my thinking it was her first movie, since it appears she was in a few before Labyrinth.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

What's really cool is that she's only 14 months younger than I am, so I can legally lust after her even in movies where she's jailbait. :-D I'm such a perv.

[seahorsemystic.livejournal.com]

I'm a perv too. ;)

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Who0t!!!

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

It is supposed to be about Willy, who does NOT like kids at all. And I thought that came through in Burton's version well.

I thought what Willie really hated was the idea of family, not specifically kids.

[seahorsemystic.livejournal.com]

Well in the book, he didn't like children as much as he didn't like family. He just couldn't relate to them. See, he never really grew up into an adult, so kids kind of freaked him out. With the Ompahs, he was able to open with them because they were little adults--and yet still childlike. They were his best friends.