Gene Wilder hit all the right notes as Wonka so it’s kinda hopeless to try to replicate, but at least Johnny Depp has a sort of personal weirdo charm factor that helped him bring some cool aspects to the role. Chalamet has none of that IMO.
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Den of Thieves was straight cash
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LOLed at the part in the Wonka trailer where it bragged about being from the director of Paddington. Ya that movie is in trouble.
Gene Wilder especially brings something indelible to the movie.
I think it’s more than that too, especially regarding Johnny Depp, whose performances have sometimes been a home run in certain movies, but he doesn’t appeal to me as an actor (and def no appeal for an abusive man like him outside his movies).
But the original Wonka movie is Wilder and more. There are a few hilarious missteps, like Cheer Up Charlie, but the rest of the movie is already a compelling experience a long time before Gene Wilder adds his presence.
The new Wonka movie feels like the last Alice in Wonderland sequel that bombed. Fascinating idea I guess, but who was the movie for? What was the movie offering besides extremely weird CGI offerings of a beloved franchise?
There’s even a cool but wasted moment in the Wonka trailer that shows it could have been a wtf exploration of madness and delirium. Wonka keeps slipping into a Waking Life kind of situation where he lives in “our” world but keeps shifting into an imaginary world of extra stuff on top like he puts on a CR headset or is doing a guest spot on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.
Instead, most of the movie already looks like a bad Tim Burton movie.
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When i heard they were making this i assumed it would be primarily about rescuing the Oompa Loompas and Wonka’s descent into pseudo-madness as a recluse but this appears to have none of that.
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That would have been amazing!!!
Yeah the Hugh Grant clip has left me with zero hope for this movie ugh
“The Flash” will become the biggest flop in the 100 year history of Warner Bros. The studio will lose $200 million on it.
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I feel like ultimately I discovered I’m more a fan of Tom Cavanaugh than the show lol every time he showed up as Reverse Flash I didn’t care how bad the show was 
Without fail, the first thirty seconds of this trailer inevitably sends me to just watch the whole movie again
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So this is a prequel to Dufresne snapping and killing his wife?
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The notion that Andy Dufresne could break the will of a legislator into providing way more books for prisons through a relentless individual letter-writing campaign was certainly something.
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LOL maybe so
The soundtrack is awesome.
It’s a movie that shows the huge disparity between audiences and critics.
Rotten Tomatoes: 31%
CinemaScore: A-
Their heists aren’t anywhere near as elaborate as Heat or anything, but it’s a fun movie!
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I don’t think I have seen that since I saw it in the theater.
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Its not my thing but Paddington was widely praised especially the sequel, 7.8 imdb crushes 99% of movies.
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Yeah, they are actually both very solid family movies.
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Remember that time a critic destroyed the one source of hope we’d all gathered around
The negative review described Paddington as “a sinister, malevolent imposter who should be shot into space”
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LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL when it cuts to him crying 
“Paddington 2 is incredible.”
“I ***ing told you.”
My buddy Michael got to interview Nicolas Cage and a bunch of people Nic has worked with over the decades.
This is the part where Cage talked to Michael about making The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
“By far the greatest challenge in doing this for 45 years was trying to play some version of a character that had my actual name in Massive Talent ,” Cage tells EW. “That one was like a high-wire act that could very well have led to a massive fall and creative death if it didn’t work.” In Massive Talent , Cage’s career is on the downslope as he nears 60. He’s no longer the wavy-haired rebel in a snakeskin jacket from Wild at Heart . A younger, CGI de-aged Nicky Cage reminds him of this — that he’s “Nick f—ing Cage,” a star who needs another great role to show the world he hasn’t gone anywhere. He owes the Sunset Tower $600,000, his relationship with daughter Addy (Lily Mo Sheen) and ex-wife Olivia (Sharon Horgan) is on the rocks, and he fails to land a role in David Gordon Green’s new movie. Strapped for money, he takes a $1 million offer to attend a birthday party hosted by billionaire and die-hard fan Javi (Pedro Pascal) in Majorca.
“We were shooting the movie in the midst of the pandemic, pre-vaccines, and effective treatments, in two countries,” Massive Talent executive producer Samson Mucke ( Happy Death Day 2U , Miss Bala , Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones ) says. “All Nic required was workout equipment, a fridge full of Red Bulls and one roast chicken a day to keep him going.” The action launches into a storyline straight out of National Treasure involving two CIA agents, Vivian (Tiffany Haddish) and Martin (Ike Barinholtz), and a kidnapping gone awry. Throwbacks streak by like the '67 Ford Mustang from Gone in 60 Seconds , racing through references of everything from Leaving Las Vegas and Moonstruck to Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Vampire’s Kiss as Cage channels his trademark roles to save the day, leaving no stone unturned in his colossal filmography. Super-fandom peaks with Javi’s shrine of prop memorabilia encased in glass — the stuffed bunny from Con Air, a chainsaw seen in Mandy , green pearls of poisonous gas from The Rock , and a Castor Troy wax dummy aiming two gold-plated pistols. “There is only one Nicolas Cage, and he’s really one of the only actors whose body of work would be able to lend itself to a film and story like this,” Massive Talent producer Kristin Burr ( Cruella , Dora and the Lost City of Gold ) proclaims. “Not a lot of actors would agree to do an extremely heightened, tabloid version of their life. He completely embraced it and totally went for it.”
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