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Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
Jimmy the Squid:
I've never had a problem wearing the 3D glasses over my own glasses. Maybe it's because my glasses are only half rims and I don't have to deal with big stupid clunky frames (see Fashion Thread for further spectacle-hate).
Lines:
:-P I wear my sunglasses over my glasses, but my sunglasses are huge and 3D glasses aren't. I think if they were a little bigger, it would have been fine.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 07 Mar 2010, 01:04 ---It got 4/5 from one of the Sydney papers and it's sounding pretty good.
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On the other hand
--- Quote ---Worse still, for a guy who made his career on unique and highly original tales, his recent efforts are all remakes.
Which brings us down the rabbit hole to Wonderland and lands us squarely in the blander latter half of Burton's career, with few wonders to rave about at all.
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--- Quote ---the demented tea party pals led by The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), whose pale face, hypnotic eyes and gap-teeth resemble Madonna after midnight.
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--- Quote ---But it comes with a flat, formulaic and traditional story where everyone wonders if this is the same Alice who visited them before, and if she's "the one" to defeat the evil Red Queen (a scene-stealing, bobble-headed Helena Bonham Carter) and slay her nasty Jabberwocky.
As if to compensate for the lack of story, Burton has beefed up the Hatter's role, giving Depp time to shine with a twisty climactic dance that mimics moves by Michael Jackson. More wacky visual set pieces like these would have made Alice a lot more fun.
But I'm not surprised. It was shot in just 40 days against green screens, with another year in post-production adding the visuals, colours, CG characters and voices. Burton was rushing to finish it just two weeks before its premiere, and it shows, for the whole film feels rushed, incomplete and underwhelming.
Perhaps he wanted a dark, adult twist but Disney wanted it more kid-friendly? As such, its mash of loopy colourful characters and heady adult themes puts this Alice in Wonderland in the no-man's land between something too adult for kids and too juvenile for adults.
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Thomas Edison:
Yeah, it was a nice, but it needed more razamataz, y'know?
maxusy3k:
That's what she said!
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