Next Burton

Here's a Burton remake that I like quite a bit.  Like John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), it is closely based on the source material.  People  say that the original Willie Wonka (1971) is so much better, that this is a gross reinterpretation of that film, when, in fact, it uses the original story to inform it's look, not the much loved Gene Wilder venture.  People have said similar things about Carpenter's Thing in comparison to the Howard Hawkes produced The Thing From Another World (1951), which while it is a great 50's horror film, doesn't use much of the original story for many reasons--that, at the time, were good ones.  Times changes and so has the way movies are funded.  A lot of people just don't like Johnny Depp's performance in this either; but again, it's based very closely on the description of Willie Wonka's behavior in the original Dahl book (and yes, I am aware that Dahl wrote the screenplay for the 1971 musical).  I guess, it also just depends quite a bit on whether you are a Depp fan to begin with.  I am a fan.