I loved Alice in Wonderland as a child. So much so that I knew all the lines to the Disney version by heart. When I was four. Needless to say, if Burton screws this up...BROOKLYN RAGE!!!
Poll: Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland
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I have never liked Alice in Wonderland (I can't watch he disney version because I hate it so much) but I am excited for this movie. I love Tim Burton and want to watch it so bad. I saw the trailer and it looks awesome. Johnny Depp is gonna be awesome in it. The only thing that surprises me is Anne Hathaway. Never saw that coming.
Uhhh, I thought this was a fake thing. Idnknow maybe at some point I'll see it, but I have no idea what to expect given I know nothing about it.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged, eh?Heart of Darkness said:
You appear to have taste. Good on you.
Anyway, on topic, my opinion on this project is not very high. Burton seems to be a bit of a one-trick pony, that trick being "take stories for children and make them dark and demented." The pony used to be somewhat creative and interesting. Now it's dead, and he refuses to stop beating it. Oh well. If he stops making these types of movies, who'll take his place?
Admittedly, I found Batman to be a tremendous accomplishment, and I actually liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (I hated Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory if that clues you in a little). However, I don't quite see the appeal in his other movies. I only sort-of liked The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride was a joke, and Sweeney Todd stopped being good when Sacha Baron got killed off.
In short, I'm not a Burtonite.
It could be worth watching, but it could also be as bad as the new Charley And The Chocolate Factory. You know the one.
Tim Burton is my favorite director ever. Sweeny Todd is the best musical EVER and is one of my favorite movies of all time. Also Nightmare Before Christmas, the man is a genius.
I love the Tim Burton crowd, at least the teenage crowd, the majority of which take great pride in letting you know about the dark mystery of Tim Burtons films. They marvel at the gothic imagery and hail him as a "visionary", but fail to grasp that Burton doesn't really do anything special. Batman is shit, there was no need for the Planet of the Apes remake, Sweeney Todd should've stayed off-off-off-OFF Broadway, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an abomination and The Nightmare Before Christmas wasn't him (He wrote a poem and drew some pictures). Personality starved teens (i.e. emos) love him, because his work is like them, shallow and uninteresting.
Most of his other films are fine, with a few stand-out gems like Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, and Mars Attacks, and Alice seems like it could go either way. It is Burton doing what he is know for, taking a childs fable and turning it into a polished gothic nightmare, without really making it so dark that it scares children out of the theatre, but Alice in Wonderland seems like a good fit for him.
All that being said, there is a high probability (In my mind) that Burton will f**k this up. This is Burton doing Burton, its the same old shtick. I get it, you like simple gothic stories that are as delightfully creepy as they are family friendly, that is great. I don't care. Burton seems to have taken on a project that was almost finished when he started, he simply has to cut and paste his by-the-numbers vision into the story and build some archways out of cardboard. I also take issue with Johnny Depp. Wow, Depp is playing a dissociative character with some sort of neurosis?! Thats so origina-OH, right. He is doing what he does in every Burton film, hes playing crazy. Sure its a different sort of crazy, but its still crazy. Depp's wealth of characters is drying up, they all seem to be running into each other like some sort of neurotically weird blur. So YAY for the Burtonites, but I think i'll wait for the DVD release.
Most of his other films are fine, with a few stand-out gems like Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, and Mars Attacks, and Alice seems like it could go either way. It is Burton doing what he is know for, taking a childs fable and turning it into a polished gothic nightmare, without really making it so dark that it scares children out of the theatre, but Alice in Wonderland seems like a good fit for him.
All that being said, there is a high probability (In my mind) that Burton will f**k this up. This is Burton doing Burton, its the same old shtick. I get it, you like simple gothic stories that are as delightfully creepy as they are family friendly, that is great. I don't care. Burton seems to have taken on a project that was almost finished when he started, he simply has to cut and paste his by-the-numbers vision into the story and build some archways out of cardboard. I also take issue with Johnny Depp. Wow, Depp is playing a dissociative character with some sort of neurosis?! Thats so origina-OH, right. He is doing what he does in every Burton film, hes playing crazy. Sure its a different sort of crazy, but its still crazy. Depp's wealth of characters is drying up, they all seem to be running into each other like some sort of neurotically weird blur. So YAY for the Burtonites, but I think i'll wait for the DVD release.
It seems I'm alone in actually disliking the trailer. The whole thing looked so ridiculously fake that I doubt I'll bother. And I know it's Wonderland, so it's supposed to be different, but when I read the book, I always imagined it as sort of a creepy alternate version of our world. Realistic looking, but with enough subtle things that just make it look somehow wrong.
Anyway, Burton seems to have gone in a completely opposite direction that will never live up to the Wonderland I dreamed of as a child.
Anyway, Burton seems to have gone in a completely opposite direction that will never live up to the Wonderland I dreamed of as a child.
I'm sick of hearing about Tim Burton, seriously the guy has like 3 original movies (his most celebrated one he didn't even direct). All he does these days is make "dark retellings" of movies that don't really need "dark retellings". Alice in Wonderland is twisted enough with out him trying his hand at it as well.
Edit: If you really want someone to do Alice in Wonderland justice I say get someone like Neil Gaiman in on it. Then you'll have an awesome version of Alice in Wonderland!
Edit: If you really want someone to do Alice in Wonderland justice I say get someone like Neil Gaiman in on it. Then you'll have an awesome version of Alice in Wonderland!
I don't have a lot of interest, but like always, I'll go to a movie opening night. It just looks a little too weird for me. I love Alice in Wonderland, and I love Tim Burton, but it looks pretty trippy.
Going to something opening night usually isn't that big of a deal for me. If nothing else is playing, I'll still go see something I'm iffy about.
Going to something opening night usually isn't that big of a deal for me. If nothing else is playing, I'll still go see something I'm iffy about.
I'm definitely going to see it. It looks really interesting, also I herd that Alan Rickman is playing the caterpillar, freakin A.
Hmm. It sounds promising, but I doubt I would be first in line to see it. I'd probably wait for DVD release
I'll see it a couple days after it comes out, but then again, that's same for every movie out there.
