6 Reasons I'm NOT looking forward to Alice in Wonderland

[obscuritan]

NOTE - Before you freak out, Kirsten, yes i'm still coming to see it. I'm always up for being plesantly suprised. Plus its your birthday and you'll be needing a buzkill.

(1) I didn't enjoy the book, and i'm only part-way through Through the Looking Glass. Yes, glare at me all you want, but I kind of agree with Terry Pratchett on this one - it's

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[mneiai]

I, too, am not looking forward to this movie. I feel that Tim Burton hasn't really evolved as a director--he just does the same thing over and over again, and generally with the same people. *YAWN*

Also, I think that the Syfy Channel's Alice miniseries is going to end up being more creative, if only because everything we'll see in this movie will just be rehashes of things we've seen him do before. Which, I mean, if Syfy can do it better, other people probably shouldn't bother haha

And it's not as though there aren't tons of "dark" faery tale movies already. I mean, Snow White gave me nightmares as a kid haha But there haven't actually been many good, real action, whimsical faery tale movies in ages--that would've been nice to see. And the thing with faery tales is that they don't have to be made kids-movies-for-adults...they already are. They come with lots of subtext automatically.

[obscuritan]

I've heard good things about the Sci-Fi series, I think I might actually check it out. Once, that is, I can actually be bothered to finish the second book.

[mneiai]

I haven't read the books since I was a kid, so I can't tell you how the miniseries stacks up to that, but it was really fun to watch and a great re-imagining of a sort of "future" Wonderland.

[stormbringer986]

And here I thought I was one of the only people on earth who wasn't madly in love with the idea of this movie. I've never liked the Alice In Wonderland stories regardless of who's doing them, honestly. And I'm more than a little sick of Tim Burton's stuff lately.
But my biggest issue with it? The absolutely pointless and apparently random use of CGI. Why the hell is HBC like...half-animated? It really annoys me for some reason. But probably not as much as the Hot Topic kid Johnny Depp fangirls swarming the movie theater will annoy me if I go.

[obscuritan]

You're tellin' me - my flatmate's birthday is the same day as our local premier, so we're all going along as her birthday treat. The cinema's going to be *thronged* with people.

But heck, like I said, i'm hoping i'll be proven wrong.

[obscuritan]

Of course now i'm dying to know what stupid noises you make :D

Alice the Character or the actress who's going to play her? (I suspect the former)

[obscuritan]

Depends, is the "priest" in the confessional really Angel/Angelus egging them on?

I'm guessing the sound then is a sort of whimper stifled by gagging and dry-heaving? I shan't speculate as to whether you have travelled the desert/told elaborate lies in a confessional to have heard those noises - there's one last piece of my innocence which i'm trying to keep alive.

[demiincarnate]

Yeah, if I weren't so easily entranced by spirals and fluorescent colors I would totally be sick of Burton too. It's all the same after a while, you know? And a level of creepy that's nice... but not for a kids' movie at all. I hated his movies when I was little, I only now enjoy them. But they're not terribly... artistic, I suppose.
I lol'd at all of point 4. brain tumor wtf.

[obscuritan]

Yep, that was a bona-fide quote; it might be that Burton has no idea the writer thinks that, but I hope to the many gods that that isn't canonical.

And i'll freely admit I liked the first few "dark fairytale" films he did, and Sleepy Hollow and Corpse Bride are two of my favourite films, Period. It's just he sticks to one formula which admittedly works and is profitable, but he needs to branch out to stop it going stale. But then again, having seen Planet of the Apes, maybe he's better staying with what he knows ;)