Random post I never really have cared for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Am I in the minority?

[Anonymous]

it's a weird movie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did almost every elementary school back in the day consider this movie as mandatory viewing for kids?

Because the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was required reading. I always wondered about the combo of this book and "Harriet the Spy" in terms of highlighting odd characters. I appreciated both of them but wonder if this is still permitted for some of today's snowflakes (I refer to the parents, not the kids).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Never really cared for' is a huge understatement for me. I agree with op, skeeved me out.

You can throw in rocky horror too. Those songs make my skin crawl.

I bet $1,000 you've never slept in the nude.

Pay up. You're wrong

[Anonymous]

It never holds my attention.

[Anonymous]

I LOVE this movie. I also LOVE Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I can't watch them enough. I pull out my phone and play Veruca Salt - "I want it now!" video every time my son is an asshole in the store. It drives him crazy!

[Anonymous]

I was always really disturbed by the blueberry girl, both as a kid and an adult.

[Anonymous]

I deeply dislike it. Actually dislike almost everything Dahl wrote (Witches is the exception) and the movie adaptations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE this movie. I also LOVE Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I can't watch them enough. I pull out my phone and play Veruca Salt - "I want it now!" video every time my son is an asshole in the store. It drives him crazy!

Both of those movies (Willy Wonka and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) give me the creeps; I cannot stand either of them. I also don't like the Wizard of Oz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was always really disturbed by the blueberry girl, both as a kid and an adult.

+1

[Anonymous]

Yes, PP, I also don't like the Wizard of Oz. I feel like in some of my circles there is some cachet attached to liking weird uncomfortable books that are osten6for children - but sometimes a book's not good, it's just weird and dark.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE this movie. I also LOVE Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I can't watch them enough. I pull out my phone and play Veruca Salt - "I want it now!" video every time my son is an asshole in the store. It drives him crazy!

Both of those movies (Willy Wonka and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) give me the creeps; I cannot stand either of them. I also don't like the Wizard of Oz.

I agree--WW and WoO are very odd. I never liked either.

[Anonymous]

The old people scissoring each other in bed was too gross a visual in the new one. I saw clips of the old one and knew I could never handle it. Agree that grandpa joe was a user.

Not sure anyone saw the old British movie "the water babies" from back in the day but that one also terrorized me.


Also, in more recent times, that damn Disney matchstick girl short… So effing depressing. My children turned around and looked at me and I nodded sadly and said yes she died. They just stared at me like WTF Walt Disney?

[Anonymous]

EXCUSE ME.

This is a book you're talking about. A wonderfully imaginative and appealing book.

Please specify that you want to talk about a movie. None of them have ever captured the essence of any of Roald Dahl's works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
EXCUSE ME.

This is a book you're talking about. A wonderfully imaginative and appealing book.

Please specify that you want to talk about a movie. None of them have ever captured the essence of any of Roald Dahl's works.

Whatever u say, Roald Dahl jr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It always skeeved me out. I think it's creepy and I have always actively disliked it.

Same here.