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Posted by free2002 on 10/14/05 12:54
ok i admit i have not read the book, i still think Burtons originality has
run dry, why do a remake at all
"Derek Janssen" <djanss@nospam.charter.net> wrote in message
news:IiC2f.6486$Zf.4350@fe05.lga...
> Fuzzy Wuzzy wrote:
>
>>>it would have been far more original for Burton to do a movie of the book
>>>sequel 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator' but i bet the reason he
>>>didn't do that is because he thought he could make more money doing
>>>another remake of an already near perfect movie
>>
>> If you honestly think that, then you haven't read the book. If you
>> have read the book, then you are insane.
>
> Glad somebody said it:
>
> "Wow, wouldn't it be NEAT if Tim did both books?"...Well, as a matter of
> fact, no it wouldn't: The second book's an unholy mess.
> (Funny, yes, but still a mess. :) )
>
> I'm sure *Tim* would be happy indulging himself with amorphous space
> leeches and low-rent road-company-Strangelove "The American president
> likes to drop bombs!", but the rest of us will recognize that the second
> book has all the cinematic filmability of Captain Underpants, and will
> leave fourth-grade children's literature to its own idiosyncratically
> appreciated element unless it turns up in more universal form.
>
> Derek Janssen (and that's coming from the EXPERT, folks--I know whereof I
> speak)
> djanss@charter.net
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