'War Stories'
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This may be a stupid question, but why is Deadwood discussed here instead of Boxed Set?
Mainly because there's a disclaimer on Boxed Set that it is not a general TV thread but a sci-fi/fantasy/horror thread, and the DEADWOOD posts were getting lost in natter for some who don't keep up there.
eta At least that's why I've been posting about it here. Plus what Polter said - it's come up a few times independent of new episodes due to discussion of westerns.
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka freaked me out as a kid. Still does. There was this underlying menace that scared me.
Dude. That menace is totally overlying.
When I watched the movie again in college, I saw it for what it was, which is a slasher movie.
I've been afraid to check out the remake because I love the original so much.
Dude. That menace is totally overlying.
Thank you. I haven't actually seen it in years. Decades even. See above re: freaked out.
Mainly because there's a disclaimer on Boxed Set that it is not a general TV thread but a sci-fi/fantasy/horror thread, and the DEADWOOD posts were getting lost in natter for some who don't keep up there.
Oh. Makes sense.
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka freaked me out as a kid. Still does. There was this underlying menace that scared me.
He's gone on records saying he did that deliberately - that he wanted the audience to wonder what he was really up to, that you weren't sure what he was capable of, and that anything might happen once they were in the factory.
Thank you. I haven't actually seen it in years. Decades even. See above re: freaked out.
He's totally grabbing children and admonishing them sternly and lacing his every comment with malevolent subtext and not caring in the slightest when children are in peril simply because they brought it on themselves. I love his apathetic "No, stop, don't."
There was this underlying menace that scared me.
See, I didn't get that at all. Except at the end, which shocked me the first time I saw it, before he called Charlie back.
ET CETERA ET CETERA!
See, I didn't get that at all. Except at the end, which shocked me the first time I saw it, before he called Charlie back.
Not even the boat scene, with that patented Wilder hysteria reaching a fever pitch? It was pretty much "all bets are off" for me at that point.