I didn’t see Alice in Wonderland this weekend, and I’ll probably wait until it comes out on video. But it seems that wasn’t the norm; the rest of you went out to the theater this weekend and gave the film the biggest March opening ever at $112 million for the weekend. That smashes the record set by 300 in 2007.
I’ve seen every other Tim Burton movie that has come out in the last 10 years, so in a way, I’ve already seen Alice in Wonderland. My friend described it as taking all the parts of Alice in Wonderland that the masses know about– not necessarily from the book– and vomitting it up on a timeline with lots of white face paint. Sounds about right to me.
Saw it opening night in 3D. Save the $13 and wait for it on DVD. Meh.
Frank Beddor, author of the Looking-Glass War Trilogy, should sue Disney and Burton both for basically taking his story and then Disneyfying them while simultaneously raping the original stories and removing all the fun and wit from them. Plus the 3D sucked and only made the movie blurry and frantic.
I liked it you should for sure see it on the big screen. don’t listen to the detractors!
I think JD totally looks like Madonna.
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I saw it on opening night as well… the acting was ok… except for Johnny Depp still just playing Jack Sparrow at times and Anne Hathaway looking like Leo DiCaprio after the Titanic sunk.
As an illustrator/animator I looooooooved the aesthetics of the movie. I really appreciate it more than say (papyrus) AVATAR (/papyrus) with all its fancy CGI blue aliens that still look incredibly fake compared to the humans and therefore just put me off the whole thing.
I acknowledge that James Cameron did some great stuff when it comes to CGI but I still think his characters cause a bit of tension when placed next to a real character, or the real characters when placed on the computers generated enviorements.
Burton actually managed to balance quite well all the different characters. I could see the twiddles and Alice together and didn’t bother me one bit.
…but that was actually it. The stupid little dance at the end, the whole jubberwocky nonesense, that weird one-eyed guy, and the awkward, almost romantic relationship between the hatter and Alice.
oh, kelly, you dummy. this movie was really good. LOL @ the other ‘b’- That Papyrus was sooo lame! yeah the dance at the end was soo ‘wtf’ and I swear I was just waiting for Alice and the hatter to just do it already. very bizarre. JD really was playing another version of jack sparrow. I wanted to hug Mr. Rabbit the whole time. so cute =)
Can’t wait to see it.
Don’t cheat yourself. I saw it today on IMAX in 3d and it was simply one of the most gorgeous things I’ve ever seen.
“I’ve seen every other Tim Burton movie that has come out in the last 10 years, so in a way, I’ve already seen Alice in Wonderland.”
No, silly girl, you haven’t.
see it on IMAX in 3D. It is a beautiful movie. I thought it was GREAT. SEE IT.
visually stunning. the part where she was falling down the hole, i was “wow”. but he made the mistake of turning the original beautiful nonsense into a pedestrian adventure flick. In my opinion, the publicity photos are better than the actual movie. HBC stole the show though,
f@#$ you Kelly, it was a great movie and effects were awesome
I’m still voting for Tron over Avatar.