At the Movies...
So... last_bastion and I took off to see Alice in Wonderland with a friend tonight. We had fun. It was a visually stunning movie... and honestly, I actually thing the 3D did it a disservice.
For my overall opinion, see the cut... as I'm going to talk spoilers a little bit.
Its Tim Burton. I knew what I was getting into when I stepped into the theater. Visually pretty, and very strange. I wasn't expecting books... which was a good thing given that I just finished reading Through the Looking Glass recently. Still, Buron does strange with the best of them anyway, and what is that couple of books if not someone's absenth addled daydreaming?
The one thing that a storyteller, bit it video game designer or movie director, cannot screw up on anything that has our famour Alice's name attached to it is the Cheshire. And I was quite happy with the cat. How you could hear it purring any time it was on screen if you listened for it... its languid, high movement across the screen... the way it briefly happy pawed the Hatter's hat... and its pleasant "Goodbye, lovely hat..." Best part of the movie for me easily... Good job to the cat's animator's and also to the man who gave it a voice.
Overall... I found the movie entertaining, but more than anything I found myself engaged in the visuals of the story. One beautiful scene after another all the way to the end. Costumes to sets (where they were used) to CG, the whole thing was stunning. And _this_ is honestly why I feel like the 3D did the movie a disservice. It was distracting. In about two weeks, when this movie's down to the Kerasotes $5 club list, I intend to go back and see it again... without the 3D.
Depp was pretty... and Depp was Depp. *smiles* I don't think there's really anything else to say there. Anne Hathaway's White Queen was gorgeous; I expect to see a rash of completely white garbed people with black fingernails and lips before horribly long.
What I didn't like was the rush at the end of the movie. I realize that people don't necessarily like the celebration in the ewok village at the end of a movie, but sometimes its appropriate. And it would have worked better if they'd shown some of Wonderland recovering post the White Queen's reestablishment... not to mention that the Hatter dancing would have felt a little less forced. Then we could have returned Alice to her home. Although I admit, I was expecing Alice on the boat to pass by Depp out of make up, dressed as a sailor. That would have been an appropriate punctuation to the story they were telling, I think.
I did resist the urge to lean over to last_bastion to comment, "And she sailed away to become part of the East Indies Trading Company, where she would later meet Captain Jack Sparrow..."
*smiles* And with that, we're off to claim our tea...
Raen.
For my overall opinion, see the cut... as I'm going to talk spoilers a little bit.
Its Tim Burton. I knew what I was getting into when I stepped into the theater. Visually pretty, and very strange. I wasn't expecting books... which was a good thing given that I just finished reading Through the Looking Glass recently. Still, Buron does strange with the best of them anyway, and what is that couple of books if not someone's absenth addled daydreaming?
The one thing that a storyteller, bit it video game designer or movie director, cannot screw up on anything that has our famour Alice's name attached to it is the Cheshire. And I was quite happy with the cat. How you could hear it purring any time it was on screen if you listened for it... its languid, high movement across the screen... the way it briefly happy pawed the Hatter's hat... and its pleasant "Goodbye, lovely hat..." Best part of the movie for me easily... Good job to the cat's animator's and also to the man who gave it a voice.
Overall... I found the movie entertaining, but more than anything I found myself engaged in the visuals of the story. One beautiful scene after another all the way to the end. Costumes to sets (where they were used) to CG, the whole thing was stunning. And _this_ is honestly why I feel like the 3D did the movie a disservice. It was distracting. In about two weeks, when this movie's down to the Kerasotes $5 club list, I intend to go back and see it again... without the 3D.
Depp was pretty... and Depp was Depp. *smiles* I don't think there's really anything else to say there. Anne Hathaway's White Queen was gorgeous; I expect to see a rash of completely white garbed people with black fingernails and lips before horribly long.
What I didn't like was the rush at the end of the movie. I realize that people don't necessarily like the celebration in the ewok village at the end of a movie, but sometimes its appropriate. And it would have worked better if they'd shown some of Wonderland recovering post the White Queen's reestablishment... not to mention that the Hatter dancing would have felt a little less forced. Then we could have returned Alice to her home. Although I admit, I was expecing Alice on the boat to pass by Depp out of make up, dressed as a sailor. That would have been an appropriate punctuation to the story they were telling, I think.
I did resist the urge to lean over to last_bastion to comment, "And she sailed away to become part of the East Indies Trading Company, where she would later meet Captain Jack Sparrow..."
*smiles* And with that, we're off to claim our tea...
Raen.