Sep 30 2008It's Alice! (in Wonderland, on a Boat)

I can't fucking wait.

I admit it seems more than appropriate that Tim Burton is making Alice in Wonderland, but he better spice this thing up, if it's just a pasty alice in a pasty, half dead looking wonderland, with Johnny Depp floatin' around, I won't be impressed

can't wait to see this!

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#1 & 3, Are you guys quoting Stevie Nicks?
"I cant wait I cant wait
Am I wasting my time while you make up your mind"

Is that Macaulay Culkin with a wig???

Bonus points for Stevie Nicks comment.

Alice kind of looks like Tobey Maguire in a long blonde wig.

Is that Martha Plimpton? Haven't seen her since Parenthood.

this is going to be so fucking awsome
I've got nothing against you Daniel, but shove it up your ass
..*forgive me, Santa...*

the woman in the picture, Mia Wasikowska, is the very fine actress in last year's
In Treatment on HBO. She's one to keep an eye on

Warning ! Ramones-poser alert in the background !

Tim Burton is SO tired. He hasn't grown at all - it's still all mechanical men and pumpkin heads.

I was going to comment, but Daniel pretty much said it.

I wonder if Lewis Carroll originally envisioned Wonderland as a brightly-colored but bizarre fantasyland, or a bleak, grey, twisted Gothic horror-world? I wonder how he would feel now that it is becoming increasingly associated with the latter?

... Then again, he might have been too high to tell the difference.

@Bobeyo
Yeah, considering that the entire thing was written on acid, I have a feeling Wonderland was actually pretty fucking horrifying. The Jabberwocky sure as hell wasn't Disney style shenanigans.

Also, yes we all realize exactly what we're getting when we go see a Burton film, but is that necessarily a bad thing? They're still extraordinarily well made films.

@15

Yeah... Acid didn't even exist then.

To begin with, the books weren't very dark at all. Have any of you actually read the books? Sure they were a little odd, but most children's literature is a little twisted if you view it in a serious light as an adult. What most people do not realize (probably because they haven't bothered to read it), is that the book is primarily a political satire based on politicians of Carrol's time. Sure, you might bring into account that the odd characters were a result of the author's use of opium, but it was common among upperclass citizens of his time. In fact, upon examination, almost every successful author has used drugs or alcohol. It is not unheard of. I don't know why this particular series has gained such goth fandom.

This will be nothing new. There have been countless remakes, not to mention video game(s), of this book series. From Neco z Alenky in 1988 to Manson's upcoming Phantasmagoria, this seems overdone and stale.

Can someone explain why Burton never writes anything original? He should stay the hell away from film. All he does is ruin good movies by making them "dark" and appealing to 13-year-olds who spend all their parents' money buying metallic jeans from Hot Topic.

Johnny Depp seems to have been given an unnecessary role in each of his movies, for the sole purpose of appeasing the aforementioned 13-year-old fan girls.

@17
How do you even know Burton's film is going to be a gothic version? Alice in Wonderland is something so overdone, I would be very surprised if Burton decided to go down that path. His adaptation of Willy Wonka wasn't "gothic" or "dark", it was just a bit weird, but colorful and upbeat none the less.

Also, Tim Burton isn't writing Alice in Wonderland, he's directing it.
How can you say movies like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands aren't original, anyway? Just because Touchstone whored itself to Hot Topic for Nightmare Before Christmas doesn't mean Tim Burton is always going to produce gothic material. The movie came out over a decade ago, anyway, you don't think Burton has moved on?

@17 Good job.

@18 Fail.

oh deary eccoli come back to bed

Damn, woman, you're insatiable.