@CrazyMusicLover I was always very particular about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. My mother established a rule that if there was a movie I wanted to see, and that movie was based on a book, I must finish the book before I was permitted to see the movie. And let me tell you, Willy Wonka didn't exactly follow the book.
It was fun, and Gene Wilder was delightfully unhinged, but it deviated from the book.
I'm one of the few people who were excited when the Tim Burton version came out, because they actually sang the original songs from the book.
(Don't get me started on Tim adding the character of Willy Wonka's father and making him an evil dentist. I don't see any reason for that.)
@LordShadowfire I've never read a book and when I watched Tim Burton's version for the first time, I was surprised to learn that it was based on Roald Dahl's story because I only knew him as an author of creepy/adult short stories (Tales of the Unexpected) which I really liked as a kid. Then I suddenly learned he wrote a couple of very popular stories for children and it felt...weird. 😆 Especially after reading The Pig or Uncle Oswald's story. 😅
Later I read Matilda and watched a movie shortly after but it's just...not the same.
@SleepingWithGhosts Which back then, before the sequels... Before the prequels... Before even the sequel trilogy, was just simply called Star Wars.
No episode number, no subtitle, just a pure, simple, unembellished, crystal-clear, plain-as-day, frank-as-Frankenstein, blunt-as-an-atomic bomb two-word title: STAR WARS!
The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) Taxi Driver (1976) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Apocalypse Now (1979) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Chinatown (1974) Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope (1977) Jaws (1975) Rocky (1976) The Exorcist (1973) Annie Hall (1977) The French Connection (1971) Network (1976) The Deer Hunter (1978) Alien (1979) The Last Picture Show (1971) Barry Lyndon (1975) The Conversation (1974) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Paper Moon (1973) The Wicker Man (1973) Carrie (1976) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Mean Streets (1973) Convoy (1978) Deliverance (1972) The Sting (1973) The Omen (1976) Patton (1970) Serpico (1973) The Last Detail (1973) Nashville (1975) The Long Goodbye (1973) The Warriors (1979) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Amarcord (1973) The Sugarland Express (1974) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) The Brood (1979) The Last Wave (1977) The Tenant (1976) Don't Look Now (1973) Suspiria (1977) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Last Tango in Paris (1972) Solaris (1972) Cries and Whispers (1972) A Woman Under the Influence (1974) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Eraserhead (1977) The Getaway (1972) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) The Great Gatsby (1974) Rollerball (1975) A Touch of Class (1973) Scarecrow (1973) The Goodbye Girl (1977) Slap Shot (1977) Silver Streak (1976) Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) Klute (1971) Sleuth (1972) The Hospital (1971) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) The Missouri Breaks (1976) The Candidate (1972) The Longest Yard (1974) The Black Stallion (1979) The Amityville Horror (1979) The Onion Field (1979) Wise Blood (1979) The Black Hole (1979) Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) The Towering Inferno (1974) The Rescuers (1977) Smokey and the Bandit (1977) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Days of Heaven (1978) The Deep (1977) The Driver (1978) Interiors (1978) Manhattan (1979) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Benji (1974) The Groove Tube (1974) Dynamite Chicken (1972) Blazing Saddles (1974) Superman (1978) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) The Last House on the Left (1972) The Beguiled (1971) The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Night Moves (1975) Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) The Hindenburg (1975) The Duellists (1977) The Hills Have Eyes (1977) The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (1979) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) The In-Laws (1979) The Fifth Seal (1976) The Boy Friend (1971) The Great White Hope (1970) The Greek Tycoon (1978) Vanishing Point (1971) Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) Every Which Way But Loose (1978) Westworld (1973) B.J. and the Bear (1979) Hooper (1978) Breaker! Breaker! (1977) Movin' On (1974) White Line Fever (1975) Faces of Death (1978) The Duke (1977) The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) Grease (1978) The Moonshiners (1975) The Rockford Files: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1978) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) Jeremiah Johnson (1972) The Last Hard Men (1976) Chisum (1970) Monte Walsh (1970) The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) Breakheart Pass (1975) The Master Gunfighter (1975) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Young Frankenstein (1974) The Whorehouse in Texas (1978) The Gambler (1974) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) The Honeymoon Killers (1970) Love and Death (1975) The Turning Point (1977) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976) The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Herbie Rides Again (1974) Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Mad Max (1979) Wake in Fright (1971) The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) Sunday Too Far Away (1975) My Brilliant Career (1979) Newsfront (1978) Stork (1971) Alvin Purple (1973) The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) The Devil’s Playground (1976) Stone (1974) The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) Brewster McCloud (1970) Play It Again, Sam (1972) Pocket Money (1972) The Last Tycoon (1976) The Hot Rock (1972) Theatre of Blood (1973) The Ruling Class (1972) The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) Shampoo (1975) The Great Santini (1979) The Passenger (1975) Duel (1971) Greased Lightning (1977) Blue Collar (1978) The Wiz (1978) Lassie (1974) Grizzly Adams (1972) The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974) The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1976) Freaky Friday (1976) Turnabout (1979) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) The Groove Tube (1974) The Heartbreak Kid (1972) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) The Opposite Sex (1971) The Time Machine (1978) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1970) The Guardians (1971)
@rinkydinkydoink I think I've tracked it down to a different movie, The Man Who Wasn't There, which is weird because I never actually watched that one.
