Monday, February 4, 2008

Tim Burton's Next Big Hit?

Saw Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd" last week finally, at our neighborhood speakeasy. Gosh, what a lot of blood-spewing cut throats. (As opposed to Pirates of the Caribbean 3's lot of one-liner-spewing cutthroats...)

Anyway, then we watched the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the other night [note: is it a "remake" if it has a different name? The old one was called "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". I guess he'd call it a "re-imagining" like he did with the craptastic Planet of the Apes remake. Ugh. Give me Charlton Heston any day. Oh God, did I just say that? I think what I meant was, "Give me Charlton Heston any day in which dystopian future Earths are ruled by apes. Any other day, keep his paws off me (you damned dirty apes)."

Right. So I saw those two movies in close temporal proximity (look at me with the big words today!) and came up with the following: