{"id":39,"date":"2005-09-16T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:29:47","slug":"willy-wonka-the-chocolate-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/willy-wonka-the-chocolate-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ever know you’ve seen a movie, but can’t really remember it? So after seeing the Tim Burton<\/a> remake, I decided to put the original Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory<\/em> on my Netflix queue because I just couldn’t spark the brain cells that contained my recollections of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first of two posts that are bound to upset friends… this one will surely hurt the feelings of H the Mean Teacher. First I come down hard on Nirvana<\/a>, and now I am ambivalent about one of her favorite movies! For that I’m sorry, but I think I can mitigate the damage by briefly explaining my rating system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a word, it’s subjective. I’m not trying to be a film critic (or rather, what a film critic ought<\/em> to be, in a perfect world), whose job it is to evaluate a film’s quality and achievement in light of a deep knowledge of world cinema and then<\/em> leaven it with a personal perspective. Rather, my ratings are the inverse: the personal response first, and then a consideration of the movie’s history and general critical consensus. I wouldn’t necessarily give an acknowledged classic a high rating if I personally didn’t care for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I gave this one 3 stars even though it enjoys a cult following that will no doubt gang up on me on the street and pelt me with Everlasting Gobstoppers while chanting the “Oompa Loompa” theme tune. I did like the bit where Wonka spookily intones “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” I could swear<\/em> that has been sampled in some electronica track, although can’t for the life of me remember which. Sounds like something The Orb would seize on, but I’m not sure. Anyone? (an aside: The Future Sound of London sampled the movie dialogue “Everybody on line… Lookin’ good,” and for some reason I always mentally associated it with Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest<\/em>. Until one day, I’m watching Aliens<\/em>… and there it is, out of the mouth of a colonial marine.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry to add insult to injury, Mean Teacher, but I also must say here that I unexpectedly loved<\/em> the Tim Burton remake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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