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

[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.