Alice In Wonderland

bigaudiofanatic
bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
edited March 2010 in Music & Movies
Well I was expecting this to be weird but still good. Tonight went and saw it. Besides the few funny parts, it was a very un organized movie. Half the time you could not understand some of the characters and as I said the story line was very poor. Also it was not something I could get into, it might of been the lack of story line or the lack of understanding. All I know is this movie did not impress me. Thumbs down.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    edited March 2010
    Agreed... The visuals were great but there was no substance to support them. There was no passion within the story and the acting was utterly flat. Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter was the high point for me, but he kept sounding like a Capt. Jack Sparrow that had gone rather light in the loafers.

    Two thumbs down.
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  • BottomFeeder
    BottomFeeder Posts: 1,684
    edited March 2010
    Huh! My family and I all enjoyed it!

    Shows you what we know....
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  • Uilleann
    Uilleann Posts: 159
    edited March 2010
    I would agree - mediocre at best. And I am a big Burton fan at that.

    Let me be the first to poo poo the appalling trend for every movie to be "fancy" and "3-D" or whatever the catch technology of the week is now. It isn't helping you. You make a suck movie, and make it 3-D, it sucks in 3-D is all. NO improvement in the "experience" for the moviegoer. Avatar was the biggest complete and utter flop in that regard. Sadly, Alice was all fluff, very busy, but with no real substance. I wasn't even moved by Depp's performance. All and all, not the worst movie I've seen (that honor rests very squarely with the 10 foot smurfs and James Cameron), but I was left wanting with Alice too. Pity.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2010
    Wow, really? Two things:

    1 - Why do we need more than one thread on this movie? I'm not just saying this to be an ****, it literally makes discussion more difficult because it's harder to follow and people have to repeat themselves...
    2 - My response is in the other thread, but basically, it's a Tim Burton movie and you expected 'substance'? I just don't get people I suppose...
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    edited March 2010
    Uilleann wrote: »
    All and all, not the worst movie I've seen (that honor rests very squarely with the 10 foot smurfs and James Cameron), but I was left wanting with Alice too. Pity.

    Lol.... Them's could be called fightin' words for some.:eek::p;)

    I hope bigaudiofanatic does not see this.:D
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  • Uilleann
    Uilleann Posts: 159
    edited March 2010
    Yeah - Burton is quite capable. Ever seen Sleepy Hollow? While completely silly in many regards, it had something in the story that you could follow. "Substance". At least Tim Burton style...

    But Alice just didn't have it. And the glasses made me sick all of two minutes in to boot. Oh well. Here's to hoping his next will be better.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited March 2010
    I'd say both Big Fish and Ed Wood had all kinds of "substance".
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited March 2010
    Uilleann wrote: »
    I would agree - mediocre at best. And I am a big Burton fan at that.

    Let me be the first to poo poo the appalling trend for every movie to be "fancy" and "3-D" or whatever the catch technology of the week is now. It isn't helping you. You make a suck movie, and make it 3-D, it sucks in 3-D is all. NO improvement in the "experience" for the moviegoer. Avatar was the biggest complete and utter flop in that regard. Sadly, Alice was all fluff, very busy, but with no real substance. I wasn't even moved by Depp's performance. All and all, not the worst movie I've seen (that honor rests very squarely with the 10 foot smurfs and James Cameron), but I was left wanting with Alice too. Pity.
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Lol.... Them's could be called fightin' words for some.:eek::p;)

    I hope bigaudiofanatic does not see this.:D

    ...To late, your kidding me right? Avatar had to be one of the best movies of all time. That movie had a good story line and I will agree it was not the best but the ability to pull you into another world like your actually there was stunning. Anyway back to alice.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2010
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    Wow, really? Two things:

    1 - Why do we need more than one thread on this movie? I'm not just saying this to be an ****, it literally makes discussion more difficult because it's harder to follow and people have to repeat themselves...

    I've been trying to stress this for a very long time, people just don't get it. Like you said, makes it difficult to discuss a film. It's so easy to just search before posting.
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited March 2010
    I did search a few pages back but I did not find anything. My fault for not using the search.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited March 2010
    zombie boy 2000 wrote: »
    I'd say both Big Fish and Ed Wood had all kinds of "substance".
    Granted, but those are obviously the exception rather than the rule. I'm a big Tim Burton fan as I've stated before, but to walk into Alice expecting a very deep story line or substance is silly. For Tim Burton, the story is usually just a vehicle that allows him to display his art, which I'm fine with because I like his style.

    It's kind of like all thsoe people who were dissapointed with Transformers 2 because there wasn't a deep story line and just robots fighting the whole time...It's a movie about alien robots from outer space, directed by Michael Bay - what the hell did you expect?
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited March 2010
    Gotcha. For the record, I'm a huge fan as well.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited March 2010
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    Granted, but those are obviously the exception rather than the rule. I'm a big Tim Burton fan as I've stated before, but to walk into Alice expecting a very deep story line or substance is silly. For Tim Burton, the story is usually just a vehicle that allows him to display his art, which I'm fine with because I like his style.

    It's kind of like all thsoe people who were dissapointed with Transformers 2 because there wasn't a deep story line and just robots fighting the whole time...It's a movie about alien robots from outer space, directed by Michael Bay - what the hell did you expect?

    No, it wasn't about robots or Burton styling. Burton was trying to create a mythos. If you're familiar with mythic archetypes,King Arthur, The Magic Flute, Parsifal or Wagnerian justaboutanything- you've got snakes, dragons, magical oracles, swords: it's apparent he had that in mind instead of just trying to create a 3D fluff fest.
    And the film is only incidentally related to Alice in Wonderland, except in a cool way of having a female,a heroine instead of Parsifal or Arthur.
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited March 2010
    tim burton is not an artist.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2010
    falconcry72 wrote: »
    tim burton is not an artist.
    Really, how's that?
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,329
    edited March 2010
    falconcry72 wrote: »
    tim burton is not an artist.

    :rolleyes:
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  • shepx2
    shepx2 Posts: 646
    edited March 2010
    falconcry72 wrote: »
    tim burton is not an artist.

    Run dude. Seriously.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited March 2010
    Hey....noooo....isn't that Crispin Clover??
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  • MrNightly
    MrNightly Posts: 3,370
    edited March 2010
    I took my girls to see this... it was so so... i actually got bored with it, and wanted everyone to die at the end! Oh well.

    The 3-D was pretty good, but not as good as Avatar obviously.

    Wouldn't waste the money in the theater.
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