Drake review. Alice in wonderland.
[b]Alice in Wonderland 2010.[/b]
When Oz said this week that he wanted to see Alice in Wonderland I have to admit I was very apathetic towards the idea but none the less oz atpaw and myself wound up at the cinemas to see it. I have to admit my expectations were very, very low having witnessed first hand via twitter and reviews the wave of angry movie-goers projectile vomiting rage about how shit of a movie it was. I left the movie feeling like a fair few people wrote it off misinterpreting intentional grayed story turns for script failures.
I will risk insulting my audience and say one thing that pet peeves me and that is people who BITCH ABOUT REMAKES. Seriously, if you go to see a remake expecting it to be the same and benchmarking your experience against the direction/story of book/movie that game before... save yourself the fucking money and go watch the old one or read the old book. To be enjoyed a remake has to be apprectiated as "this movie is using elements/ideas from X story which I really enjoyed.. I am going to see how DIRECTOR envisions or adapts to it." Anyone who goes into a movie wanting thge story and everything to be the same as the old one is going to get nothing but dissapoint.
But back to my movie...
Personally I felt the acting was spectacular, the characters felt real even through the CG world which was a work of art. I fell in love with a select few of the characters.. especially the red queen who just made the movie for me with fantastic acting and character-writing. I was however, somewhat a little dissapointed with Johnny Depp's inability to make the mad hatter his own, whom was believable and definately insane. The character was confusing and the slightly overly complicated dialogue only added to lack of Depp's unsual inability to bring the bizzare character to life and in the end it came off as forced/unpolished. Anne Hathaways appearance surprised me and apparently expended all her acting tallent prior to taking on this roll. She was flat and her acting lacked any form of animation or expression, I found myself unsure if I disliked her because of her character or because of her B rate performance.
The story borrows from both books (alice in wonderland and the looking glass) and Tim Burton certainly found a way to make his characters blur away from the lines of good and evil. I left the movie cinema will a slight feeling of uncertainty if the right people won, and a inner conflict between GOOD VS BAD and Justice. Personally I loved the movie, they changed enough to give a new breath of air to a old story. It honors the core element of this insane confusing world and shines new light onto characters that before had about as deep as a childs wading pool. The movie blew me away with what I can confidently say that was a fresh new look at a old tale and highly enjoyable movie. Avoiding the risk of appearing pretentious or self important in "rating" a movie I will finish up by saying that if you gave me 10 err... objects and asked me to give back based on the level of enjoyment I would give you back 3.
Ah fuck it, I want a ranking system.
I give it 7 noms out of 10. I should put together a image or something cute like that.
Discuss.
When Oz said this week that he wanted to see Alice in Wonderland I have to admit I was very apathetic towards the idea but none the less oz atpaw and myself wound up at the cinemas to see it. I have to admit my expectations were very, very low having witnessed first hand via twitter and reviews the wave of angry movie-goers projectile vomiting rage about how shit of a movie it was. I left the movie feeling like a fair few people wrote it off misinterpreting intentional grayed story turns for script failures.
I will risk insulting my audience and say one thing that pet peeves me and that is people who BITCH ABOUT REMAKES. Seriously, if you go to see a remake expecting it to be the same and benchmarking your experience against the direction/story of book/movie that game before... save yourself the fucking money and go watch the old one or read the old book. To be enjoyed a remake has to be apprectiated as "this movie is using elements/ideas from X story which I really enjoyed.. I am going to see how DIRECTOR envisions or adapts to it." Anyone who goes into a movie wanting thge story and everything to be the same as the old one is going to get nothing but dissapoint.
But back to my movie...
Personally I felt the acting was spectacular, the characters felt real even through the CG world which was a work of art. I fell in love with a select few of the characters.. especially the red queen who just made the movie for me with fantastic acting and character-writing. I was however, somewhat a little dissapointed with Johnny Depp's inability to make the mad hatter his own, whom was believable and definately insane. The character was confusing and the slightly overly complicated dialogue only added to lack of Depp's unsual inability to bring the bizzare character to life and in the end it came off as forced/unpolished. Anne Hathaways appearance surprised me and apparently expended all her acting tallent prior to taking on this roll. She was flat and her acting lacked any form of animation or expression, I found myself unsure if I disliked her because of her character or because of her B rate performance.
The story borrows from both books (alice in wonderland and the looking glass) and Tim Burton certainly found a way to make his characters blur away from the lines of good and evil. I left the movie cinema will a slight feeling of uncertainty if the right people won, and a inner conflict between GOOD VS BAD and Justice. Personally I loved the movie, they changed enough to give a new breath of air to a old story. It honors the core element of this insane confusing world and shines new light onto characters that before had about as deep as a childs wading pool. The movie blew me away with what I can confidently say that was a fresh new look at a old tale and highly enjoyable movie. Avoiding the risk of appearing pretentious or self important in "rating" a movie I will finish up by saying that if you gave me 10 err... objects and asked me to give back based on the level of enjoyment I would give you back 3.
Ah fuck it, I want a ranking system.
I give it 7 noms out of 10. I should put together a image or something cute like that.
Discuss.