Posted on 02/19/2010 12:48:03 PM PST by EveningStar
The word is that watching Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland is the closest you can come to falling down the rabbit hole yourself and into Lewis Carroll's fantasy world.
Those who have seen the film, or clips of it, say that it is utterly breathtaking, a hallucinatory alternate universe completely realised in every detail, from the sun streaming in through the gills of the mushrooms to the light falling on the individual fuzzy hairs on the caterpillar's back.
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Alice's very weird wonderland: Why a behind-the-scenes row might see Tim Burton's most fantastical film yet disappear from cinemas as fast as the Cheshire Cat
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Tim Burton = ugh!
I do not like Tim Burton movies period. I will skip this and so will my children.
Tim Burton makes the same movie everytime. He gets Johnny Depp and his wife signed on, changes a few constumes, and bingo. I like HBC though.
I’m really looking forward to this one. Alice in Wonderland has always needed a severe dope fiend at the helm, it’s the only way to actually be willing to put the imagery on screen.
Kinda like Washington, DC.
Hhmmm. I was looking forward to this one.
Time to drink absinthe and enjoy Lewis Carroll in 3D IMAX.
( definitely will need a designated driver.. probably couldn’t watch it otherwise.. Always bring a six pack in your closed umbrella to any Tim Burton movie... That way you can always throw your bottle at the screen during the really bad parts...I know how do you tell the really bad parts? answer - They usually start just after the credits.}
Not enough “Alice in Wonderland” adaptations in the world. What we really need is more versions of “A Christmas Carol” or “Peter Pan,” or yet another “Romeo & Juliet” as well. I just love retreads made out of rehashed dead horse.
I’m rather disappointed with what I’m reading. I may not see it ... Alice is not a “young woman”, she’s a “little girl”. (Or is that Liddell Girl?)
The only movies I might look forward to..
The A-Team
The Last Airbender
Normally I would agree but this one seems to really fit Burton’s style and Depp’s acting.
NO THANKS! I would rather watch my clean herself.
Johnny Depp’s playing yet another palefaced weirdo?
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BUMP!
I like Burton’s movies, I guess it’s just one of those things, you either love it or hate it.
I’m sure Danny Elfman will provide his usual killer soundtrack for the film.
This will not be a telling of the Alice in Wonderland story, but rather its Burton’s own story about the young adult Alice going back into Wonderland.
I still am. Why worry about what somebody else says? Why not see it and have your own opinion of it?
I’m not completely on-board with everything he does, but ‘Big Fish’ was entirely different from just about everything else he did. My problem with Burton is that he has lost any sense of childlike innocence. It was that sense of wonder (seen only in Pee Wee and Beetlejuice) which made the gothic effects wonderful. I could see it somewhat in ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’, but then that was really a Henry Sellick project which Tim funded and to some extent oversaw.
Helena just loves to overact, IMHO. She’s playing Bella Le Strange into the ground, for instance.
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