Why Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Beats Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

I was just surfing the tube yesterday and naturally, one of my commercial pitstops is ABC family.  Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory was playing.  Let me update everyone who doesn't already know taht I LOVE the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the old Willy Wonka movie is old and creeps me out.  I allowed myself to become extremely critical and I came up with these reasons why the new movie whomps the old movie.

1) Old Charlie = really really not cute and really really bad actor.

    New Charlie = really really cute and really really good actor.

2) 1st movie = waaaay too much boring singing

(this is the mom about to sing cheer up charlie...gag me.)

3) New movie...MAGICAL...and appropriately creepy

Old factory = looks like a nasty old water park with rusty water

3) I like the new oompa loompas much better :)..I don't dream about them murdering me in the night.

VERSUS

4) The new cast had so much more character.

Versus

5) The background stories were priceless

(I couldn't Find a picture of willy wonka with headgear...forgive me.)

"This is the puppet hospital and burn center. It's relatively new." 

6) Johnny Depp's entrance beats Gene Wilder's

7) Creeper Gene Wilder...he ate the flower by choice...that was not in the script.

8) Slugworth was basically cut in the new movie...loved that.




9) It was just a better movie.  People who say the new movie is too scary and creepy should go learn how to not be such babies.  I distinctly remember going to that movie with the Weenigs and laughing from the beginning to the end.  I remember finishing the old movie for the first time and feeling really uncomfortable.

That's that.

HaleyJ

Halloween at the Johnson home...too fun.

After a spooky day Me and Mike spent the day doing what we do best.  We went and got Chinese food, did the crossword, ate sugar cookies shaped like candycorn (complements of Katie and Joel), and then flipped between Pawn Stars, Cake Boss, and the Chargers/Chiefs game.

(Yes, that is my pumpkin from last year, but I like it better than our 2-face jack-o-lantern this year.)

Best part of all was the political conversation sparked from my book on educational reform in the US.

Mike: "I mean it's pretty impressive, two people from the movie predator became governors.  Who knows, maybe the predator himself will become a governor."  (proceeds to make predator noises and shake his hands)

Yep, married life is pretty glamorous.  Just for fun I'll flash back to one of my favorite Mike quotes:

Preface...Just saw a preview to the Twilight movie that featured Dakota Fanning.
Brittany: "That would be so awkward to be in a movie with Kristen Stewart after making out with her in your last movie".
Mike: "That would be so awkward being in a movie with Kristen Stewart."

Happy Halloween Everyone!
--Haley Johnson

What a wonderful couple of days

Aside from the many things I have to do, there have been some good things these past few days.  Let me start with:

1. It was rainy so I got to try out my new coat that it's been too hot to wear!
2. Because it was so rainy, we went to get chinese food.  Ok that's a terrible reason, let's be honest, we were too lazy to cook and my feet were wet.  HENCE we got chinese food. (ps this is a picture of a raindrop cowboy riding an H2O molecule...enjoy!)

3. The owners of our favorite chinese place just had a baby boy that morning!  And the pictures were adorable, and the dad was in a great mood and he gave me extra steamed rice when I took my leftovers.  What a man!
4. I woke up and I was FREEZING this morning!  How wonderful!!! I missed that feeling of death freezing like I miss a lot of stuff.

5. Me and Mike went to Target, one of my favorite stores alive!

5.2 We bought Stephen's hot chocolate, one of my favorite hot drinks.

5.3 We drank hot chocolate!!!  (for night and morning)
6. I ate leftover chinese food for breakfast this morning!
7. I wore boots to school and I loved it!!! I felt like my feet were sleeping in bed all day!
8. I heard a little bird in the math hallway declare it was snowing.  I promptly ran out of the computer lab and straight to a door in the hall.  True enough, it was snowing and I almost wet my pants I was so happy! (I love the first few snows!)  In true memory of my mom, I am listening to Christmas music now.
9. Snow is not on the ground, BUT it is stuck on the mountains...so beautiful!

10. Provo tabernacle is turning into a temple and every time I drive by those burned-up ruins I want to sing the Hallelujah chorus!!  That will be my favorite temple alive!


few downsides: One of the coat buttons is not attached correctly, so it's about to fall off.  I didn't work half as much as I wanted to this week.  My fortune cookie basically called me a prostitute (you will be rewarded for the special gifts you give to others...clearly prostitution).  I almost slipped in the rain like 6 times.  My phone went off in class........I'll stop there.

HaleyJ  :)

What a fun night!

Well, I kind of worked a lot today, and I went to school, but my I had a grand night.  First I met up ERIN, then we went to my place and enchilada'ed it up.  Nachos and the whole 9-yards.  Then we went to the football game and I enjoyed a giant bag of peanut M&M's, and I'm pretty sure it couldn't have gotten any better.  Then BYU played pretty champ-like during the last quarter of the football game and then BYU kinda beat utah state AND cosmo had a mullet coming out the back of his neck.  I don't think I missed anything in that recap.  So tomorrow I am going to wake up early (9am) and eat both a plate full of bacon and waffles.  Oh what a beautiful conference morning!

haleyJ out!

A good topper to a good day.

Funny Animal Pictures...woohoo!

(yeah most of them are cats...do you know me? those guys are hillarious.)

Hitler Cat

Hahahaha!

Aaby?...(Brittany's old dog)

God Bless Thanksgiving!

Whew that was good stuff!

haleyJ

So many papers

I am happy to say that I just finished the papers that I had to write today.  By "had to write" I mean that I probably could have written at least one of them earlier/throughout this last week.  But who has the time for that?......................bottom line, I don't like writing professionally.  It's just like watching yourself on video, you sound manly, and you look chubby.

haley J

It's true...

I am still alive. I just took a brief hiatus from my blog...brief = 3 months. What happened? Lots.

Spring classes ended

Summer classes started

Mike and I drove to Minnesota and spent a whole week with the fam!...2fun2Btru ;)

Went to P'lina's wedding

Mike's family came and visited

My family came and visited...we spent a weekend at a cabin somewhere past Heber

Summer classes ended!!

I did nothing (literally) for a week...it was fantastic

School Started

We got grants/scholarships in so we were no longer living on dimes...sorta

We received a new addition to our family (I'll explain soon)

Homework started...gag (but that is what led me to blog today)

We took Taylor to Rexburg...SO FUN!

We spent a night with Steve, Gwen and Sienna...again so fun!

Me and Mike cooked REAL food for two nights in a row

I listened to a lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers...don't ask why, b/c I really don't know why

I taught a lesson to a bunch of college students acting like 7th graders

We saw Captain America (last night)...SO GOOD!

So now you are all caught up...Iwould be happy to answer to any questions or comments.