Alice In Wonderland new film

[London_Calling]

Yep, I thought she was good too.
Burton's said he based her on Nigella Lawson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/24/tim-burton-alice-white-queen-nigella-lawson

He's reads that look differently to me, that's fo sho.

 

[scalyboy]

Saw it last night, 3D was OK, Cheshire Cat was good, Depp entertaining, bit disappointed overall though. The wordplay of the book was lost, the characters were 2-dimensional, it seemed like just another fantasy film and didn't have any unique Burton twist to it.

Oh and the dormouse was a travesty. Not that there's anything wrong with a cockney dormouse, but - this looked nothing like a dormouse - it was just a white mouse. Dormice aren't white, they have big eyes and furry tails.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Gonna see it on Tue. Could have let my daughter go with her mate and her mum but I fancy seeing it too

 

[Reno]

I'm seeing this on Tuesday. It's not been getting great reviews. I think Depp's make up looks rubbish, it's more 80s Toyah Wilcox than Mad Hatter.

Apparently Burton let him design his own make up, but there is a good reason why they have make up artists for films.

 

[metalguru]

Saw it tonight at the IMAX London.

Quite enjoyed it - a brief holiday from reality. Was a bit concerned at the bad reviews but it's quite competently done, and visually interesting.

 

[el topo]

Meh.

 

[SpookyFrank]

This left me pretty cold tbh, neither a decent retelling nor a faithful adaptation of the original story. If anything the 3d spoiled the visual effect of the film, which was still pretty impressive if predictably so. The acting was mostly indifferent and the script was pages and pages of meh.

Not so much the fairy tale for grown ups I was hoping for, more a children's story with the soul ripped out

 

[G. Fieendish]

3D cinema is the new trend to get people actually pay to see movies.

I wonder if 3D tv will change all that

But then again, you will need a 3D Capable Bluray Player (Specs for such players revealed at the recent U.S Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas) to show the Related disc on...
Rumours exist that firms such as Disney might hold back their 3D "blockbusters" on Bluray, such as Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland or James Cameron's Avatar (And yes, they're thinking of doing a sequel to Avatar, but reportedly, James Cameron won't be producing it...), until such 3D capable players come onto the consumer market sometime next year...

 

[zenie]

Got imax tickets for the end of the month

Me too, maybe it'll be the same time, that'll be fun, I'm not going alone

 

[Reno]

But then again, you will need a 3D Capable Bluray Player (Specs for such players revealed at the recent U.S Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas) to show the Related disc on...
Rumours exist that firms such as Disney might hold back their 3D "blockbusters" on Bluray, such as Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland or James Cameron's Avatar (And yes, they're thinking of doing a sequel to Avatar, but reportedly, James Cameron won't be producing it...), until such 3D capable players come onto the consumer market sometime next year...

These films will come out on Blu-ray, but not in 3D until it's esablished as a home video format. Avatar already has a DVD/Blu-ray release date in April.

If Cameron is doing a sequel to Avatar then he will definitely be involved as a producer, even if he doesn't direct it himself. I very much doubt that he would give up on the royalties for that financial juggernaut.

 

[G. Fieendish]

These films will come out on Blu-ray, but not in 3D until it's esablished as a home video format. Avatar already has a DVD/Blu-ray release date in April.

If Cameron is doing a sequel to Avatar then he will definitely be involved as a producer, even if he doesn't direct it himself. I very much doubt that he would give up on the royalties for that financial juggernaut.

Unfortunately, according to reports, James Cameron does'nt want to produce a Avatar sequel, though the studio does want to produce a sequel in order, to recoup Avatar's production costs, & the next big budget film he wants to produce/direct is The Fantastic Voyage remake, due out sometime next year or early 2012...

 

[Reno]

Unfortunately, according to reports, James Cameron does'nt want to produce a Avatar sequel, though the studio does want to produce a sequel in order, to recoup Avatar's production costs, & the next big budget film he wants to produce/direct is The Fantastic Voyage remake, due out sometime next year or early 2012...

Not sure where you are getting your "reports" from. In just about every interview about Avatar before and since its release Cameron has mentioned that he wants to make two sequels, should it be successful. He even has hinted at possible plot developments. It should be obvious to anybody who has been paying attention that Avatar has more than recouped it's production cost by now. In any case, why would he walk away from a sequel considering it's another guaranteed goldmine.

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/01/14/avatar-sequel-under-way/

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-avatar-trilogy.html

etc.

It's also been known for years now that he wants to produce, but not direct the upcoming Fantastic Voyage remake, which is one of several films he is currently attached to. So far he has not committed to what film he will actually direct next, though an Avatar sequel or the long in development Battle Angel are most likely to be up next.

 

[Reno]

Saw this today and absolutely hated it. Burton is often attracted to remake or adapt famous sources for their visual possibilities, only for him not to understand what made those stories and characters work and to impose trite Hollywood plots with unnecessary explanations and motivations onto them. When he sticks close to the source as with Sweeney Todd or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this works reasonably well, but his Alice... is more like his Planet of the Apes or Sleepy Hollow, an adaptations that throw out everything that made the original work.

Burton imposes a standard fantasy plot onto Lewis Carrol's episodic books that completely robs the stories of all their mystery, strangeness and charm. The characters are unengaging, the plot rattles along all too familiar paths and in the end this turns into a bad Narnia/LOTR clone with yet another battle scene. Johnny Depp was giben free reign here and he looks like Toyah Wilcox in her New Romantic phase and self indulgently farts around, finding no consistency in the character.

The film has the type of artifical look where everything looks like it got put together afterwards that gives CGI a bad name. This wasn't shot in 3-d and converted afterwards, so the 3-D here is headache inducing with constant strobing. It's nowhere near as immersive as Avatar.

 

[Stigmata]

Thread title should be 'New Alice in Wonderland film'.

 

[Intastella]

£1 Cineworld tickets, available from now until Fri. Valid 'til April 25th, and for 3D showings

Linky

We're going to see it on Saturday if the vouchers come in time!

 

[dlx1]

Should have gone and seen in 2d, Hurt my eyes just looked bleared to me.
Was ok but not worth the 8 pounds 60p or the mile walk to bus stop.

 

[moonsi til]

I ordered the version from 1972 with Spike Milligan to watch before we see this version on Saturday as my Bfs son has not yet read the book. He wasn't keen on going cos it's got a girls name in the title but he will love it...

 

[tim]

I ordered the version from 1972 with Spike Milligan to watch before we see this version on Saturday as my Bfs son has not yet read the book. He wasn't keen on going cos it's got a girls name in the title but he will love it...

I saw the 1966 Jonathan Miller version at the NFT last night. Not so high tech but packed with big names of the day and very enjoyable. Peter Cook was an excellent Mad Hatter.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I don't know why people bother trying to film it when A) Arthur Rackham created pretty much the definitive visual accompaniment for the book and B) its so full of puns and plays on words that it works much better on the page

Arthur Rackham? I think not...Sir John Tenniel, I think you'll find....anyway, I won't be going to see it because my sight can't do 3D, and nothing will ever beat Jan Švankmajer's film version as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Superdupastupor]

Everytime the trailer on its like aversion therapy, just a sense of great irritation induced.

I'm welcoming of burton, but he hasn't really made a film worth recommending since mars attacks!

I think next he should make a small scale, low budget stop-motion that is proper freaky.


And Depp should franchise Cptn. Jack Sparrow a la James bond and churn out steady pleasers to the end of his days.

 

[Barking_Mad]

saw this this afternoon, ok movie, interesting subtext, especially the opium wars part...

 

[maya]

Hated it- Dumbed-down, "conventional" storyline, absolutely disgusting colours, wooden acting, crap effects... The music annoyingly oompah-oompah/mickey-mousing everything on-screen... Depp wasn't good either

(But I guess I may be a bit older than the film's target audience anyway, though...)

 

[fazey101]

yeah storyline bored me

effects were ok, even in 2d as our crappy cinema dont have 3D

 

[fazey101]

i think tbh

they should of made 2 films...the alice and wonderland re-make

and the one about this girl who learned to say no


but nevermind