I think everyone should stop trying to make Jack Kirby adaptations make sense for people who don’t know Jack Kirby’s source material and just put up a disclaimer before the movie or series saying, “For most of you this is going to make a lot more sense if you’re high.” 

I always thought Marvel/Disney dropped the ball and pulled a DC with the Eternals. We had 8 characters new to the MCU and barely on the radar of most comic fans all introduced in one film.

It’s essentially an 1,100 word, mean-spirited ‘OK Boomer.’  Like, grow up, you spoiled children.

It’s such a boring and uncreative way to generate a few clicks. “Maybe we should write another article about Scorsese vs the MCU like it’s fucking 2018. And be sure to put in a few digs at the guy, we need the controversy”.

And euthanize the writers.

And IMO Scorsese’s “theme park” attitude is completely spot-on. I like to think the ending of Casino is a portend of what Scorsese would later publicly declare.

This is genuinely one of the most rancid, thoughtless articles in the history of the AV Club. It is antithetical to what this website used to be. G/O Media should do us a favor and shut the whole fucking thing down.

McKelvie usually does a good job with costumes but this one seems so plain and off.

The wildest part is that it’s not even really “fridging.”

This would have made sense to do years ago when Marvel was trying to do that war between mutants and Inhumans.

She’s going to attend her own funeral.

I kinda feel like Wilder is the center of gravity holding the madness together. “Cuz let’s face it, the kid who plays Charlie is not super-charismatic. He works better as a kind of cipher through which we bear witness to the insanity going on in that place. 

I bet Dahl hated that. He was not fond of the movie.

Yeah I dunno how I feel about him always being eccentric and already making magical candy. I thought part of the “magic” came when he enslaved hired the Oompa Loompa.

Absolutely spot on. You’ve perfectly captured what I was trying to get at in terms of tone and setting.

It’s also got some really dark, cynical, anticapitalist satire about the lengths to which people try to get the golden tickets. Which is really amusing when you realize the movie was financed in part by Quaker Oats, who were trying to use the movie to promote their new candy division.

Wilder struck the right note at times, but not throughout.

Meh.

Willy Wonka needs to be depicted as a confounding weirdo, not whatever is going on here.
I must have read the books a hundred times when I was a kid, none of the film adaptations have ever worked for me.