Six impossible things before breakfast

[thepresidentrix]

I love Tim Burton, despite the fact that I all too often find watching his movies to be just like turning up at the most sumptuous banquet imaginable only to come away hungry. Big Fish is my favorite Tim Burton movie (that I know of), because it is the only one (that I know of) where the story fully inhabits and lives up to its own spectacle.

Comments

[valancy_s]

I read this is spite of the spoiler warning and you just confirmed everything that made me hesitant to see this movie! Now, I should admit straight up that I am no particular Alice fan. I mean, it's a good book but it was never a favorite, and I never even saw the Disney movie until a few months ago. But I get rather shirty anyway about adaptations that claim to be a certain thing (in this case, "Alice in Wonderland" - why not call it "Return to Wonderland" and get a pass from me?) and blatantly aren't. And when I saw the trailer for this and there was an epic plot, my interest plummeted. I preferred children's books with epic plots to Alice, but I don't think Alice should have a plot. As you say so well here.

But now that I know they do the whole "the only good nineteenth century woman is an anachronistic nineteenth century woman" thing, I'm even less inclined to rush out and see it!