LOOK WHAT THOSE FUCKERS DID TO THE OOMPA LOOMPAS!

[name not needed]

[bridgit]

1. omg, it's all like: pimp my oompa loompa...

:shrug:

[cleofus1]

2. looks fine to me...

you know you don't have to look silly to be an oompa loompa....
you really don't

[name not needed]

6. Doesn't have to look like a Bond villain either.

[cleofus1]

10. just because an oompa loompa shows some style...

and everyone starts calling names...hey oompa loompas need to have a healthy self image too...that doesn't make the "bond villains"...

[democracyindanger]

11. maybe it's just for the scene with the

television-transporter thing. didn't the oompa loompas in the original wear all white and sunglasses in the clean room then, too?

[Ekirh]

3. If that's an OOMPA LOOMPA

Then I'm a Vermicious Knids.....


Actually, I don't think it's really that terrible. Just as long as their voices aren't the same voices that sing in the trailer.... ugh.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Kinda looks like Joe Pesci...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[BlackVelvetElvis]

9. Joe Pesci in a late 60's film. nt

[babylonsister]

13. My FIRST thought, too! nt

[TheProphetess]

5. I want an Oompa Loompa - I want it now!

:D

[zbdent]

27. Go stand on the scales, dearie

That's a nice Veruka . . .

[TheProphetess]

29. LOL

"I want today, I want tomorrow, I want to wear braids in my hair and I don't want to share 'em. Give it me now."
:rofl:

[DS1]

7. You're just an anti-loompa bigot! THEY NOW HAVE POWER!

Stop being threatened by the little white man! Fucker! :D

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. what's up with that chair?

It looks um...very...strange

[Neoma]

12. The new ones aren't that bad..

Just look at the old ones ^

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. I have a pair of shoes just like that.

I wear them when i mow the lawn.

Don't ask me why.

[Neoma]

17. How you get a pair of shoes like that?

*gasp* you didn't steal them from a oompa loompa did you?

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. They are made by a group of highly trained, Oompa Loompa

Loom oompers. These Loom oompers can oomp a loom like nobodys business. The shoes loomed by oompa loompa loom oompers are like loafers, and cost lots of moolah. The moolah received by the oompa loompa loom oompers is used to lovingly look oompa loompaward.


Now....say that 5 times fast.

[Placebo]

15. I really can't wait to see this movie...

it's going to be so sweet.

[Left Is Write]

19. I can't wait either. I've been looking forward to it for months.

[Placebo]

21. Johnny Depp...

looks oh so nice as goth Willy Wonka...



:D

[Left Is Write]

24. He does.

I think he'll bring some much-needed darkness to the character.

[Mrs_Beastman]

16. It's nice to see George Hamilton working again

[HeeBGBz]

18. Ahh, much better than the orange ones

Those things were freaky to my sense of visual imagery.

I think I'm gonna like this Wonka.

Looks like an acid trip flick.

[JVS]

20. They've become total Eurotrash!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

23. Can't have a Tim Burton movie w/o black & white stripes

Just can't.

Trailer:

http://chocolatefactorymovie.warnerbros.com/#

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

25. Nice sox.

:evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

26. Personally, I hated the Gene Wilder version

they strayed so far from the book to make it too kid friendly. Charlie and the Chocolate factory is a dark tale which is a perfect tome for someone like Tim Burton

[DS1]

28. Wow, that's one disproportionate cock right there!

:crazy:

[flvegan]

39. Heh...my first thought too.

[Deja Q]

30. Oh gawd. Another remake. Another ripoff of the Hamburglar...

:eyes:

[JVS]

33. Roble roble

[RPM]

61. two b's in robble

puh-lease!!!!

:D

[Jara sang]

31. That has got to be from the Mike T.V. segment

Don't ya think?

[crispini]

32. Calm down, ya'll, it's GOT to be for the scene with Mike Teevee.

They did all white spacey science techno for that one in the original movie and in the book as well. The scene where the kid gets digitized through the television.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Yes, it's from the Teevee segment

[Shell Beau]

34. Awww, it looks like they changed the orange look for a more

sun-kissed look! Maybe they quit using tan in a bottle. :shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. It's much more accurate to the depictions in the first edition

of the book.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

37. I noticed that too.

I'm very, very pleased with Burton's treatment of one of my favorite books when I was younger (I should find that book and read it again.)
While I don't want to disparage Gene Wilder's movie, I had read the book first and I found the movie to be less than what I expected.
The only thing missing is the goatee. Didn't Willy Wonka have a goatee?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

56. Which was very racist, by the way.

They were an African tribe, which WW brought in toto to America to work on his factory. They were described as little more than scavenging animals when in their original home.

Of course, the book was written in a time when that was acceptable.

[progressoid]

38. Cool!

An oompa loompa in a big butt chair.

[redqueen]

40. I like!

:D

[Debbi801]

41. LOL. I know, and I CAN'T wait!!!!!

[Phentex]

42. I hate the W's on the front.

[jackelope72]

43. Thank God. The orange and green ones gave me the creeps.

I am SO going to see this movie on opening weekend!

[Zuni]

44. Is that Joe Pesci?

[TyeDye75]

45. Is that how they all dress

in the original the oompas in the Mike TV scene where wearing white jump suits, maybe the oompas in the rest of the movie are dressed differently.

[Chicago Democrat]

46. YAY!

I CAN HARDLY WAIT!


Its gonna be a good summer...

[MadHound]

47. Ack! I doubt that I go see this movie,

And I might not even bother with the DVD. From the trailers I've seen, they're messing with one of my sacred childhood films. Gene Wilder was da bomb in the original, and somehow I don't think that Depp will do as well.

[4_Legs_Good]

48. They think they ahve a good union, but they don't...

They're practically slaves.

david

[The Animator]

49. I still think they should sneak...

the skate boarding Oompa Loompa from Jackass in there somewhere.

[BattyDem]

50. LOL! I just posted a thread about Depp as Wonka ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3274522

I didn't know this thread existed. I'm glad someone else is pissed off about them screwing with Wonka, too. :-)

[noonwitch]

52. They're not screwing with Roald Dahl's Wonka

The Gene Wilder movie is not totally true to the book. This movie intends to be. I love the old movie, and will also probably love this one, too.

The ad I saw looked good. They use squirrels in the Veruca Salt scenes, instead of geese, like in the book.

Johnny Depp looks great in costume.

[BattyDem]

54. I KNOW it's not a remake ... I said that in the thread I started ...

but I read the book once and I saw Wilder's movie about a thousand times ... so obviously it's his Wonka (not the book's Wonka) that's close to my heart. :-)

As I said in a post in the other thread:

It's really funny because there are literally two completely different groups of people: the book lovers and the movie lovers. I have NEVER met anyone who loves both.

It's weird ... I know plenty of people who love certain books and may not like the movie versions as much, but they don't hate them. There are also people who love certain movies and dislike the original books, but again - they don't hate the book, they just prefer the movie.

But with this book/film, there are two extreme camps: movie lovers and book lovers .. and there's no middle ground, LOL! I wonder why that is? :shrug:

[Susang]

55. Well, you have now

:P

I love the Dahl book, love the Wilder movie. I'll probably love this movie too. There's room in my heart for many different versions of Wonka. No need to close it off at only two.

[BattyDem]

57. LOL!

Well, that's two people - someone in the other thread posted that they love both as well.

Leave it to DU to have "unique" individuals among its members. ;-)


Seriously ... up until now, I never met anyone who liked both - it was one or the other and there was no room for compromise, LOL!

[youthere]

59. Ditto

I welcome Wonka's of all interpretations.

[sakabatou]

51. No green hair? No orange skin? WTH?!

[skypilot]

53. We...are...Devo...

...D-E-V-O.

[Shakespeare]

58. Wow. It's like a gang of Karl Lagerfeld mini-me's. n/t.

[NYYFan]

60. I must admit, I'm afraid of this movie

Once I heard Tim Burton was behind it, I knew it was going to be weird.