Saturday, August 7, 2021

I Want It NOW!!!

Or.... The Return of the Oompa-Loompas.  Yup, the classic visits the big screens of Madison and Pearl in a few days. Check out the showtimes below and order your tickets at Fandango. 

 

Showtimes

August 15 (Sunday)

Malco: 3 

Tinseltown: 3

 August 18 (Wednesday)

Malco: 7

Tinseltown: 7

 

Note: Old curmudgeon to come along and trash the movie in 3...2....1.....

 

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Call me a curmudgeon. But if a rich jewish bachelor was trying to lure my child into his psychedelic dungeon with golden tickets I would forbid them from participating.

Anonymous said...

Oompa Loompas scare the $--t out of me.

Anonymous said...

I guess I can be a curmudgeon too, because the kid getting sucked up into the tube scared the daylights out of me when I was little, and I never wanted to watch it again.

Anonymous said...

I actually saw this film in a theater even though I was not born early enough to see it when it was new.
Sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s my elementary class visited DeVille Cinema on a field trip and we watched this. I believe I remember that we were supposed to have different field trip, but ended up there. We were all bored because we had all seen this movie on TV before. The highlight of the trip was we all went to Swenson’s after the movie.

I had been to numerous movie theaters in the Jackson metro at that age. I remember that DeVille was the smelliest and dingiest theater I had ever been in to that point.

Anonymous said...

If Deville wasn't up to standards, it was probably because of all the Rocky Horror Picture Show movies every Saturday midnight!

Anonymous said...

Story line is appropriate now more than ever.

Anonymous said...

I've never seen it. I do know it was a favorite of the Gilmore Girls, whatever that means.

Anonymous said...

Great movie! Gene Wilder had some of the best lines. I didn’t appreciate many of them until later in life.

Anonymous said...

Grandpa Joe is not a good grandpa. He laid up in bed and let everyone work and take care of him, but jumped up like a MF’er to go to the chocolate factory.

Anonymous said...

If you are not greedy you will go far.

Anonymous said...

9:26 for the win

Anonymous said...

Any one scared of an Oompa Loompa is a bona fide sissy.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone remember a magic or costume shop in the area of Maywood Mart or Deville cineme in the mid to late 1980s?
I remember going there with my lates grandpa. It is a cherished memory i’ve held on too, but auestion if it was even real because he died when i was 10. I am certain it was in Jackson. I would really appreciate if anyone can remember the name of this shop or has any pictures of it. I remember racks of costumes and glass cases with magic and card tricks.

Anonymous said...

@6:35
Watch Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto and tell me that small orange/red painted goblin-like humans aren’t terrifying.

Would ya believe said...

Didja see what Rick of Las Vegas "Pawn Stars" fame paid for THE one and only original straight from the movie set "Everlasting Gobstopper" and a single Wonka Bar?!

Everlasting Gobstopper: $100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Dollars!)
Single Wonka Bar: $5,000 (Five Thousand Dollars!---only cause the seller wouldn't "throw it in" on the deal for the Gobstopper!)

I seen it on Youtube!

Anonymous said...

9:49 PM- sorry Im a little late to the party, but could you be thinking about Jackie’s on I-55 North? It’s still located by the used car dealership that used to be a barbecue restaurant that I can’t remember the name of.

Anonymous said...

8:49- could you be thinking about Jackie’s on I-55 North? It’s located just before you get to the Briarwood exit if you’re headed towards Madison.

Anonymous said...

@1:56 - Tony Roma's - the most overrated rib place ever.


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