{"id":2599,"date":"2004-06-18T06:32:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/18\/could-be-brilliant-or-horrible\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:51:40","slug":"could-be-brilliant-or-horrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/18\/could-be-brilliant-or-horrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Could be brilliant or horrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8206,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/title\\\/tt0367594&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260225153402\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/title\\\/tt0367594\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 06:22:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:202}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 06:22:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:202},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9837,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0141301155\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0141301155\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10786,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000318&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000318&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10787,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000136&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311102104\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000136\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000136&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10788,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000698&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311085422\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000698\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.imdb.com\\\/name\\\/nm0000698&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10789,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ryanwaddell.com\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/18\\\/holy-crap&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Coming in 2005 &#8212; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367594\/\" title=\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)\">new film version<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0141301155\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000318\/\" title=\"Tim Burton\">Tim Burton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Starring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000136\/\" title=\"Johnny Depp\">Johnny Depp<\/a> as Willy Wonka.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to see anyone surpassing the inspired lunacy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000698\/\" title=\"Gene Wilder\">Gene Wilder<\/a> as Wonka, but I do tend to like Burton\/Depp collaborations. Reserving judgement for now, but it could be worth keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanwaddell.com\/archives\/2004\/06\/18\/holy-crap\/\" title=\"Ryan's Rantin': Holy Crap!!!\">Ryan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Peter Bazooka&#8221; by Dead Milkmen, The from the album <em>Death Rides a Pale Cow<\/em> (1995, 3:07).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming in 2005 &mdash; a new film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. Hmmmmmmm&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2037],"tags":[2547,23],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-tv-and-films","tag-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}