I loved the trailer too. Seems like there is loads of Tim Burton hate here. Don't know why. Like most directors he is hit and miss in terms of making good movies. I really love Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Batman and Batman Returns.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND new trailer online
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I loved the trailer too. Seems like there is loads of Tim Burton hate here. Don't know why. Like most directors he is hit and miss in terms of making good movies. I really love Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Batman and Batman Returns.
A lot of us are just getting really tired of his style. Most of his movies in recent years have looked way too similar. Weird and creepy for the sake of being weird and creepy.
From the trailer the movie does not appear to be the same story as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass, but some sort of sequel to both, which honestly makes it less interesting to me, though the screenwriter, Linda Woolverton, did pen both The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, both of which are excellent stories.
As for weird and creepy for the sake of being weird and creepy - you definitely should read the books 'cause Burton doesn't have half the weird and creepy imagination that Carroll had. Considering that many critics believe Carroll wrote the story due to his being in love with 11 year old Alice Liddell, everything about Alice is pretty weird and creepy, which is why it's fascinating that it remains such a compelling fictional creation.
Looks slick, then again I'm biased as I''m a big Burton fan.
I had a lit-teacher that swore up and down that Caroll was high on opium and that the Alice novels were largely his drug trip experiences.
Indeed.
It's not hate. Burton makes movies in his own personal style, one I don't enjoy. Full respect to him for doing what he loves, and to those who genuinely dig it, but the corollary to that respect is that neither he nor his supporters should take offense if his uncompromising pursuit of that style turns some people off from the get-go.
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I fully get why Burton isn't to everyone's tastes. And some of the legit criticisms that get lobbed at him are earned-- sacrificing story for style at times is one I've heard a lot.
Funny. It's the reverse for me. If this was yet another movie of the books I probably wouldn't be very interested. There already way too many out there.
It's Disney, therefore likely a sequel to the Disney film, and in that I believe the two Queens were amalgamated there as well. Doesn't seem so surprising.
Edward Scissorhands is my best defence of that - it's a very, very sweet movie. It's odd and weird and oh so very Goth, but not creepy. Even his movies with blood in them - Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd - have a noticeable lack of, er, edge.
Also, I doubt this will be creepy. Just weird. But then I'm of the opinion Burton is never or rarely actually creepy, as much as he dwells in and recites Gothic tropes and visual cues in his movies. The only thing dark is his colour palette, and even then not so in this film.
Edward Scissorhands is my best defence of that - it's a very, very sweet movie. It's odd and weird and oh so very Goth, but not creepy. Even his movies with blood in them - Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd - have a noticeable lack of, er, edge.
I'm not sure people mean "creepy" as in Lovecraft (i.e. provoking dread or fear), more creepy as in Dali. Surrealism freaks a lot of folks out.
Ah. Fair point. But as far as surrealism goes, Burton's still down at the soft, safe end. He's like Vincent in that short of his; imagining foul things but basically harmless.
Though a Burton directed Lovecraft... Johnny Depp as Cthulhu?
It's just getting old. I actually don't mind weird/creepy/surreal/whatever...but why do all of his movies have to look like that?
I think Edward Scissorhands is wonderful. Sleepy Hollow has plenty of beheadings however there is barely any actual blood from them. It's explained away when we find out that the sword is always burning hot. The only scene that I remember there been much blood is during Ichabod Crane's autopsy which is played for laughs and the nightmare scene which obviously wasn't real. There is lots of violence in Sweeny Todd but it's so over the top that I can't take it too seriously.
The trailer looked great in 3D. I think this might be my next IMAX visit.
Any updating of Alice or the like with darker elements ultimately gets a comparison to American McGee's Alice at some point.
True, though the fact that she's having to return to save Wonderland from the mad Queen (different queen in this case) to return it to...er 'normal' makes the comparison a bit more noticeable.
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