Digitally restored version, with behind-the-scenes footage and clips of the now grown-up kids.
Saturday on the Fox Family Channel, 8/7 PM Central (check your listings).
I know!
We have it marked to record. 
Schnozzberries? Who ever heard of a schnozzberry?
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men
I sure could use some nonsense right now!
My favorite movie ever, and exactly the thing everyone needs right now. For some reason, every “grown-up” I know professes to hate it. WHY??? My fondest dream is of the chocolate room.
But I don’t have cable… will the new version be available on video so I can buy it for my son to see when he gets older? I bought the special 25th anniversary edition, but I wore it out and the tape broke.
They’ve just released (a couple weeks ago) the anniversary edition on DVD. I was all set to buy it, until I found out it was pan-and-scan, with no widescreen option available. WTF? I heard they’re releasing the widescreen version in November - don’t know why they would go through the trouble of restoring the print and adding special features and then make it a crappy P&S version. I guess I’ll be waiting another month or so to purchase it.
Anyway, I’ve never met an adult who hasn’t loved it. Who you been hanging around with, Margarita, a bunch of CPAs?
FTR, it’s not pan and scan. It’s open matte. It’s not the director’s original artistic vision, and all that, but there’s nothing that’s in the widescreen version that isn’t in this version. This just has some extra stuff that shouldn’t be there.
The show is also on at **September 21: 8:00PM **on the Family channel.
Open Matte? Wassat?
Fenris, who bought a copy without realizing it wasn’t wide-screen and is pretty damned disappointed.
Oh, thank goodness I can have my Oompah-Loompah nightmares again.
But I’ll watch it anyway.
and my costume choice for OhDope is finalized. An Oompah-Loompah it is!
In pan & scan, they cut from the theatrical aspect ratio to fit to the television’s by slicing chunks off the sides.
In open matte, the film was shot in 1.33:1 ratio, and then was made to fit the widescreen ratio the director wanted by slicing chunks off the top and bottom–in a lot of cases, there’ll be boom mikes and lighting and feet swaying back and forth from the hung gaffers, that kind of thing in that area, since the director’s intending it to not appear when shown. In other words, you could have the widescreen edition by careful application of electrical tape, cardboard strips, spray-paint, or whatever opaque material desired, to your television screen.
Thanks for the heads-up on that. I ended up watching it last night and it really cheered me up. Well, and creeped me out of course, lol. It’s funny to see how cheezy some of the effects were (like during the news reports it looked like the words “daily report” or whatever were cut out of construction paper and haphazardly stuck on the wall with scotch tape) but for a lot of things like the room where everything is edible I’d think improved special effects would just be guilding the lily, eh?
Catching up with the kids was pretty fun too, but did you get a load of how the German guy was dressed? It reminded me of when Ben Stiller used to play Butch Patrick/Eddie Munster.
I caught part of this and when the boat was going through the tunnel, Gene Wilder was reciting a very weird poem. From the cadence and the rhyme scheme, it occurred to me that it might actually be Edgar Allan Poe rather than something made up for the movie. Anyone know for sure?
Do you mean the one that starts like this?
That’s definitely not Poe. My WAG is that it’s from Dahl’s original story (which I’ve never read).
That is correct.
Probably because Willy is a paranoid fascist dictator who does away with any child who does not show him proper manners or respect. Yep, Willy’s got issues.
Ummm… I hate it. And last time I checked I was an adult, though that changes from moment to moment. 
In fact, I’ve been avoiding our local WallyWorld because they have a huge, scary display for the video/DVD release right next to the front door, and posters all over. shudder
-BK
I bought the DVD and gathered my son to watch it together… and the stupid thing kept freezing up! Grrrrr… now I have to take it back and go through the hassle of returning an opened DVD.
OTOH, the interviews with the grown-up kids were great. Only “Augustus Gloop” looks like you’d expect them to turn out. “Charlie” looks like one of the Village People now! He isn’t blond anymore… more of a redhead… and he has this HUGE Jim Croce mustache. hee hee hee…