Alea, there are nicer ways to tell people they are not necessarily on point with the comparison of the old and the new one. "Your opinion is worthless" is harsh and unnecessarily rude. Remember not to let your personal feelings govern your behavior too staunchly in these sorts of things; everyone's opinion is as theoretically worthless as the next without facts or the equally permeable factor of personal reasoning.
Regardless, I personally prefer the old one. This one was closer to the book but I feel that the other one was better as a movie (For example...anyone else think the parents reacted in a rather lackluster way to their children being maimed?)
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I also liked the Disco Inferno Oompa Loompas but heavily disliked the fact that it was all changed...the words were different to some extent, it seemed. The original movie's oompa loompa songs were, if I recall, lyrically synchronized to the words written in the book. Also they completely hacked out the entire portion of Wonka dissing Charlie and telling him to get lost and that he won nothing. In the book Wonka had dozens of witty illogical but irrefutable answers to the guest's smart ass questions ("What's the boot for?" "Gives it a little kick," heheh). In this one he just ignored them and repeated himself and, to be frank, seemed to be made out as an unpleasant combination of whiny and incompetent, things that I personally did not get from the book. Child-like maybe; incompetent, never. They completely butchered the sideways semi-insane genius of the character.
I don't know. I just prefer the old one notably. While it was not exactly along the lines of the book I feel that this one butchered the two primary characters far too severely for me to appreciate it (Charlie's name is in the title and he doesn't say anything for the middle hour and twenty minutes of the movie, FFS). They took away the whistle, too--wasn't that in the book? As was the World of Your Imagination song?
Bottom Line: Hair metal oompa loompa and *****ified Wonka FTL.