Wonka | Official Trailer | December 15

[Mezentine]

I don't think this looks good at all. I can see the tone they're going for, and I want to like it, but everything feels like a half-step off. It doesn't help that all of the "spectacular" stuff just looks like bog-standard VFX at this point, we have got to move beyond "Isn't it cool that we can make people levitate and do big colorful particle effects?"

 

[rashbeep]

eh paddington director has me kind of interested

 

[nonoriri]

I don't know what to make of this. I like Paddington and I like Chalamet but the whole concept just seems like a miss.

 

[Tracksuit Larry]

For comparison's sake, this is how Paddington was sold.

And this is how Paddington 2 was sold.

Thread seems to have a real negative vibe to it!

 

[Era Uma Vez]

First time where I've found Timothee to be... unconvincing.

 

[YorkshireDaveUK]

Both Paddington films are fantastic fun so I have confidence this will be good. Paddington was very much a silly film in all the right ways, like a cartoon come to life, and this seems to have a similar tone.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Chalamet just doesn't seem to fit.

 

[Wil Grieve]

I don't like Timothee's Wonka at all.

Shades of Jesse Eisenberg Lex Luthor.

 

[Fat4all]

what's the odds that wonkas partner is slugworths daughter or sommit

 

[Mezentine]

Chalamet just doesn't seem to fit.

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I don't like Timothee's Wonka at all.

Shades of Jesse Eisenberg Lex Luthor.

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This trailer makes him look like a huge prick

 

[OnionPowder]

Only watching this out of my love for Paddington

 

[WaluigiTime]

The internet has ruined things in jars for me

 

[Dabanton]

Wow looks pretty good.

Smart to release this at Christmas.

Feels cozy

 

[BDrummer1606]

Looks like fun. I have faith in the Paddington director.

 

[Fat4all]

The internet has ruined things in jars for me

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you just need to build up a positive association in real life

may i suggest getting your own cumjar

 

[jett]

This trailer makes him look like a huge prick

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isn't that willy wonka

 

[Ouroboros]

Looks good. CGI needs a bit more work.

 

[Poppy]

hugh grant got polymorphed and sent to another plane for his failure in the dungeons and dragons movie

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Wonka |OT| When Are They Gonna Get To The Candy Factory?!

 

[Brat-Sampson]

Chalamet and the Chocolat factory

 

[Sean C.]

Paul King is the reason to see this; he has earned the benefit of the doubt on a premise I would otherwise have no interest in.

This trailer makes him look like a huge prick

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So, perfectly in character then?

 

[fundogmo]

Trailer feels awful out of context but I'll watch anything Paul King directs.

 

[SparksterMeta0]

I'm cautiously curious as I grew up with the original Willy Wonka movie and the Charlie movie, so we'll see.

 

[Jedi2016]

That actually... looks really good.

I should catch up on the other two films some time, but I know some friends that would definitely want to see this when it drops.

 

[DanGo]

Eh. It was almost certainly never going to appeal me, but that didn't help. King's vibe can't overcome all the problems of prequels/origins oozing from the trailer, and Chalamet's performance seems too affected.

 

[rsfour]

the flash in wonka confirmed

 

[Dice]

This trailer makes him look like a huge prick

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I kinda got that impression from Willy Wonka?

 

[DIE BART DIE]

Hmm, everything about this looks quite good except for Timothee Chalamet, oddly. And Timothee is usually pretty great.

 

[astro]

I like Timothee, but it sounded like he was reading his lines from a held up card here. Something very flat about it.

Maybe it's just lack of context.

 

[Fuchs]

It's wonkin' time

 

[Rlan]

Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa is great.

 

[DIE BART DIE]

Visually, Jeremy Allen White would have been perfect.

 

[Mezentine]

So, perfectly in character then?

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I kinda got that impression from Willy Wonka?

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This is true but I don't think the trailer wants us to think he's a huge prick? I'm not really rooting for this guy

 

[Rob's Zombie]

Looks at least to better than the 2005 film.

 

[DanteSparda504]

Looks like fun. Looks more fun than I expected. I figured they'd try to make this a bit too serious, but looks like they are sticking to the whimsical style of Dahls work.

 

[Dice]

Looks at least to better than the 2005 film.

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2005 film is superior to me if for nothing than a different oompah-loompa song every time. The old song drives me nuts lol

 

[Soapbox Killer]

I dont know how to feel. Perhaps my overwhelming love for Gene Wilder is blocking something. It looks like all the parts are there just something just didnt fill glass.

 

[Dyle]

It's exactly what I expected from the pitch, which I don't think is a good fit for the story. I don't get any mad scientist vibes from Wonka in the trailer. Too much wonder not enough danger. You're supposed to spend half the movie saying "this reckless OSHA ignoring fucker needs to be stopped, this is not ok" so that you're relieved when it works out in the end. Put a big fan at the top of that glass arcade and maybe the floating chocolate would work.

 

[NinjaScooter]

was that an SNL skit?

 

[Fat4all]

was that an SNL skit?

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they make movies based off snl sketches all the time

 

[Markratos]

Visually, Jeremy Allen White would have been perfect.

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WoW Amazing casting

 

[DanteSparda504]

I like how I'm the original movie wonka just makes really good chocolate and the wacky stuff too wild for normals are hidden behind closed doors, while in this one it's just everywhere and out in the open

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Too be fair, the original movie and books made it clear that Wonka had become a hermit and the factory just went silent for a long time. Only really producing the simple stuff.

I don't see why he wouldn't have been more public with the wild shit early on before the factory opened and he became a house hold name.

 

[WhatsInDaBox]

So the actually movie is holding all the stuff about Wonka being bat shit insane until release, right?RIGHT?!

Im expecting Aviator meets Wonka

This is as cookie cutter as humanly possible.

 

[Fat4all]

Too be fair, the original movie and books made it clear that Wonka had become a hermit and the factory just went silent for a long time. Only really producing the simple stuff.

I don't see why he wouldn't have been more public with the wild shit early on before the factory opened and he became a house hold name.

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that shit wouldn't go away after ten years tho, folks would be like 'Wonka needs to bring back the antigravity chocolate" forever, cuz nerds are eternal

 

[Swiggins]

I like how I'm the original movie wonka just makes really good chocolate and the wacky stuff too wild for normals are hidden behind closed doors, while in this one it's just everywhere and out in the open

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It's leading up to the scene where the British Empire tries him for witchcraft and burns him at the stake.

 

[Fat4all]

for some reason this reminds me a lot of The Producers

not the original but the remake

 

[airbagged_]

Director of Paddington has me in.

 

[DanteSparda504]

that shit wouldn't go away after ten years tho, folks would be like 'Wonka needs to bring back the antigravity chocolate" forever, cuz nerds are eternal

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Ehhh, different time periods. It all could've just been brushed off as myths or wise tales of Wonkas work. It wouldn't have become super widespread news at that point.

 

[Ravelle]

Visually, Jeremy Allen White would have been perfect.

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He can also pull it off I think.

 

[Nax]

That looks really bad. Particularly the acting.