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So, just got back from Alice in Wonderland
Movie = awesome
Brain = broken
effects = cool
Hathaway = HOT
I mean, just... wow.
But anyways. Was an excellent movie. Not something to take a kid to, though. Basically, this movie is meant for the people who saw (animated) Alice in Wonderland as kids, and are now older and have fond memories of it. If you're reading this and have kids... who are you? I don't have any friends on here with kids?!? but apart from that, go out and rent the Animated Alice in Wonderland for them instead, then when they turn about 18 drop this in their laps. I was kinda "Eh, you could get away with giving this to a kid, I guess." until the scene where Alice has to cross the Red Queen's moat by jumping from floating severed head to floating severed head. That's the kinda stuff that'll scar a 4 year old for life.
I've seen one person describe the movie as "trippy" which is not an evaluation I am able to disagree with. Though I may add Grumpulous, Faznazzle, Gorginius, and.... Fez. (I'm alright...) The Rabbit hole scene was, thankfully, much shorter than in the original, since in 3D it will mess you up, hard.
Johnny Depp in Mad hatter outfit from the waste up and the knees down, but joined in the middle by a kilt and claymore made me giggle Jamtumbulously every time it showed him.
Jabberwocky was actually a bit unnerving. Not sure if he model was scary, or if it was because it was voiced by Christopher Lee... yipes.
The story (and I apologize if this actually sounds like a movie review for the next paragraph or so...) was actually quite intriguing. While I've never seen the movie, I'm familiar with the concept behind "Return to Oz" and this is basically that, but for Alice in Wonderland, and done properly. In terms of message it's quite fascinatingly (and given the source material, appropriately) self-contradictory. At first glance the story is about living your life your way, not being a slave to fate and making your own decisions rather than letting people around you tell you what to do. But then you realize that at the start of the movie, and indeed throughout the movie, people are Telling Alice what she's destined to do, that she has to do this thing because it's been foretold (sometimes within moments of telling her she must make her own destiny) and she ends up doing it. So you're bound by fate and will do what you're destined to do no matter what decisions you make.
I may well go see it again, I'm sure there's subtleties I missed in it, it's such a wonderfully rich world Burton's made for the film, but he does tend to do that.
In semi-related news while waiting to get into the theater (a Depp/Burton movie on Opening Night, there was a stroke of brilliance...) I was standing in line and saw a poster for Repo Men. The tagline:
"For a price, any organ in your body can be replaced. But it can also be repossessed."
My mind immediately went to this.
Ah, Monty Python, 30 years on and you're STILL good enough that people steal your material. :)
Jobs wise, Rogers doesn't want me. They moved their job fair up to Yesterday (day before yesterday... Thursday. Stupid midnight) at work, I got my interview on, then today (yesterday? dammit) they sent me a "thanks for coming out, go die in a fire for now, but we'll keep your resume for future postings" email. Not my first choice of employment anyways, they were only hiring for sales agents and "Loyalty support" which is calling out to customers about a month after they start service to make sure every thing's going alright. My love of food would over-ride my lack of interest in such positions, but I didn't have to make that call. :P
Movie = awesome
Brain = broken
effects = cool
Hathaway = HOT
I mean, just... wow.
But anyways. Was an excellent movie. Not something to take a kid to, though. Basically, this movie is meant for the people who saw (animated) Alice in Wonderland as kids, and are now older and have fond memories of it. If you're reading this and have kids... who are you? I don't have any friends on here with kids?!? but apart from that, go out and rent the Animated Alice in Wonderland for them instead, then when they turn about 18 drop this in their laps. I was kinda "Eh, you could get away with giving this to a kid, I guess." until the scene where Alice has to cross the Red Queen's moat by jumping from floating severed head to floating severed head. That's the kinda stuff that'll scar a 4 year old for life.
I've seen one person describe the movie as "trippy" which is not an evaluation I am able to disagree with. Though I may add Grumpulous, Faznazzle, Gorginius, and.... Fez. (I'm alright...) The Rabbit hole scene was, thankfully, much shorter than in the original, since in 3D it will mess you up, hard.
Johnny Depp in Mad hatter outfit from the waste up and the knees down, but joined in the middle by a kilt and claymore made me giggle Jamtumbulously every time it showed him.
Jabberwocky was actually a bit unnerving. Not sure if he model was scary, or if it was because it was voiced by Christopher Lee... yipes.
The story (and I apologize if this actually sounds like a movie review for the next paragraph or so...) was actually quite intriguing. While I've never seen the movie, I'm familiar with the concept behind "Return to Oz" and this is basically that, but for Alice in Wonderland, and done properly. In terms of message it's quite fascinatingly (and given the source material, appropriately) self-contradictory. At first glance the story is about living your life your way, not being a slave to fate and making your own decisions rather than letting people around you tell you what to do. But then you realize that at the start of the movie, and indeed throughout the movie, people are Telling Alice what she's destined to do, that she has to do this thing because it's been foretold (sometimes within moments of telling her she must make her own destiny) and she ends up doing it. So you're bound by fate and will do what you're destined to do no matter what decisions you make.
I may well go see it again, I'm sure there's subtleties I missed in it, it's such a wonderfully rich world Burton's made for the film, but he does tend to do that.
In semi-related news while waiting to get into the theater (a Depp/Burton movie on Opening Night, there was a stroke of brilliance...) I was standing in line and saw a poster for Repo Men. The tagline:
"For a price, any organ in your body can be replaced. But it can also be repossessed."
My mind immediately went to this.
Ah, Monty Python, 30 years on and you're STILL good enough that people steal your material. :)
Jobs wise, Rogers doesn't want me. They moved their job fair up to Yesterday (day before yesterday... Thursday. Stupid midnight) at work, I got my interview on, then today (yesterday? dammit) they sent me a "thanks for coming out, go die in a fire for now, but we'll keep your resume for future postings" email. Not my first choice of employment anyways, they were only hiring for sales agents and "Loyalty support" which is calling out to customers about a month after they start service to make sure every thing's going alright. My love of food would over-ride my lack of interest in such positions, but I didn't have to make that call. :P