This movie is simultaneously a triumph and also a huge waste.
The movie looks amazing. I love the world building, special effects and visual style . I’m shocked what they pulled off with a budget of $80 million. Genuinely looks like a movie triple that.
The writing is atrocious. It’s incredibly dumb, hamfisted, contrived, derivative…
There are no actual characters beyond Denzel Washington’s mediocre son. The other ‘characters’ like Colonel Menopause, Closeted Guy from Ozark, Ken Watanabe’s face, Hot asian plank of wood, are one dimensional.
The best performance in the movie is from a child.
If they had a solid script this would’ve been amazing.
Wonka
Really enjoyable. I like musicals when the singing pieces are succinct with the storyline. Especially Scrub Scrub!!
There are background parts to Wonka untold, but you don’t need to compare this prequel.
Sit back, enjoy the movie with some chocolate.
8.5
Well, l worked once with a guy who called an erect ■■■■■ a Ballarat, rhyming slang for “Fat”, and he called “half a fat”, a Bacchus as it was halfway to Ballarat.
He was a very strange bloke who played footy for Brunswick in the VFA.
I’m more of the opinion that so many movies are made by talentless hacks and are talked up by other talentless hacks who are scared to admit that they were bored shitless and didn’t have the first idea what that tripe was all about.
Yoko Ono is the president of that society and all I can think is that she must have been able to suck an orange through 30 feet of garden hose.
