Jackson Jambalaya

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Story line is appropriate now more than ever.

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

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

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.

If you are not greedy you will go far.

9:26 for the win

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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