Yes? A dark prequel would work well I think. This seems to be anything but.
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I love Andy and the banter with him. Iāll dial up episodes that donāt otherwise interest me just to listen to that part.
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That makes sense.
Oddly Iām in the opposite position with The Filmcast. I love hearing those guys shoot the shit, but their movie reviews are not doing much for me any more.
Right anything but a tired retread of the same jokes. My heart sank watching the trailer as soon as Wonka says āno wait, strike that, reverse itā without any apparent subversion.
What if this had instead been like Big Fish? Charlie Bucket looking back years and years later at Wonkaās funeral and everyone tells the stories of how they met Wonka.
The āpresentā scenes would be bonkers gritty like Saving Private Ryan. Most people are no longer even sure how much of what happened with Wonka was real or illusions worthy of the Wizard of Oz.
Maybe the factory is about to be shut down so thereās actually a real reason for everyone to come together and try to figure out some mystery around Wonka by digging through everything everyone DOESNāT know about him, as well as finding new secrets in what we thought we knew.
And then at the end Wonka could reveal heās still alive and he did this for the same reason he tricked everyone in the first movie: to find out who really loves him.
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The obvious way to do it is make a movie about Charlie as an old man who himself has become an eccentric chocolate factory misanthrope that scolds a new generation of horrible children. He hates the children because they remind him of what he used to be.
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I hope it turns out that the chocolate factory was designed by the same German engineer from Better Call Saul.
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Watching Pretty Woman. I gotta say Iām not really buying Julia Roberts and Laura San Giacomo as street-walking hookers.
$100 for Julia Roberts. But apparently that could be negotiated down.
Lol $300 for the entire night.
Iām pretty sure toothless crack whores got $300 for the entire night in 1990. Not that Iāve done any actual research on that subject.
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$100 then would be $233 today so yeah still pretty low.
To be fair she wasnāt āJulia Robertsā yet.
A girl who looks like Julia Roberts would be working for Heidi Fleiss.
She does everything except kiss on the mouth. So puke play is still on the table.
How was she hiding all that hair under her wig? I guess she was though because itās real. Impressive.
In the real world anyone acting weird like Richard Gere probably kills the hooker.
Big Gulps were in a LOT of movies in the 90s.
Is there a more fun character in movies than the gruff but bemused hotel manager with a heart of gold?
After disparaging Pluto recently, I watched Back to the Future on Amazon Freevee last night, and it should be said that, beyond the inclusion of commercials, Freevee displayed none of the other buggy drawbacks I described in Pluto. Pluto can go straight into the trash pile, but Iāll continue to consider Freevee an option if I care enough to watch something. Havenāt watched anything on Tubi yet.
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Suzzer is overpaying and MI: Dead Reckoning was great. Not as good as Fallout because of no Cavill.
I learned to appreciate opera while in a K-hole. Not sure if it became part of my soul though.
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You mean
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I mean, itās a way I could live forever.
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