She's really not that great an actress. She was on one of the first "Hollywood" Vanity Fair covers in 1997 and had just gotten cast in Rounders, which was her high-water mark. Even though everyone on earth turned down the part in Rounders and she was installed the night before the first day of shooting.
I know. They keep fiddling with the cast, but it's the lead actor that I have the biggest problem with! He looks like someone who strains a muscle when he has to use his brains.
The pic of Depp is totally disreputable...I love it! Is Burton's Alice live or stop action?
Great tunnels of Tacoma. Remind of the underground city of Seattle. Interesting coast. Should be in a story, movie. There's no deficit of material, only imagination.
This is my shortlist of all time favorite authors/books, so color this post with my emotions. Johnny Depp gets a free pass for his entire filmography. BUT--
***WARNING: Tim Burton dissenting opinion ahead***
--Tim Burton can't do anything with Depp that isn't a repetitive riff on the Edward Scissorhands persona -- white pancake makeup, strange vocal stylings, equal parts childlike wonder and violent psychosis, shake well. Works for Depp, but diminishing returns for Burton's auteurship.
After Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's distracting and annoying CGI, and Burton's penchant for focusing on theme-park ready production design/sets over story structure (save for Sweeney Todd his movies don't really sweat their third acts), I fear that this movie will default to Burton's Hot Topic-ready ELEVEN (one higher than ten) in the worst possible ways.
And the jury is still out on the screenplay by Linda Woolverton, who's priors don't instill wild or daring doses of confidence or invention
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Great insight. Though I love Depp to death, his DEAD MAN days are over. He gets to play quirky (as ES) in Burton fare and that's good enough. Though the LIBERTINE showed how great he is.
When I first read that Burton was doing Alice, I thought it was the video game that they meant.
What makes your comment especially true for me, is that I was never a great fan of Edward Scissorhands. Sweeney Todd pretty cemented for me the fact that I only tolerate his films for Depp, little else.
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I remember thinking that she was completely wrong for that role in Rounders. She pretty much ruined that movie for me with her sour face.
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Well, that's interesting. Hmm. They should just do a full recasting - I really can't see Jason O'Mara as Sam, especially with the new Gene and Annie.
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Great tunnels of Tacoma. Remind of the underground city of Seattle. Interesting coast. Should be in a story, movie. There's no deficit of material, only imagination.
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Alice will be in digital 3D, whatever that means.
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Johnny Depp gets a free pass for his entire filmography. BUT--
***WARNING: Tim Burton dissenting opinion ahead***
--Tim Burton can't do anything with Depp that isn't a repetitive riff on the Edward Scissorhands persona -- white pancake makeup, strange vocal stylings, equal parts childlike wonder and violent psychosis, shake well. Works for Depp, but diminishing returns for Burton's auteurship.
After Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's distracting and annoying CGI, and Burton's penchant for focusing on theme-park ready production design/sets over story structure (save for Sweeney Todd his movies don't really sweat their third acts), I fear that this movie will default to Burton's Hot Topic-ready ELEVEN (one higher than ten) in the worst possible ways.
And the jury is still out on the screenplay by Linda Woolverton, who's priors don't instill wild or daring doses of confidence or invention ( ... )
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What makes your comment especially true for me, is that I was never a great fan of Edward Scissorhands. Sweeney Todd pretty cemented for me the fact that I only tolerate his films for Depp, little else.
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