Alice in Wonderland

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Did anyone go see this last night? I thought it was pretty darn good. Though the way the White Queen moved bugged the hell out of me the whole movie. I think Johnny Depp did another great job at being someone with whom has lost part of their mind and gone, well, mad. Alice was pleasantly cast in my opinion. Though I think Tim Burton needs to figure out a few more colors other then black white and red to put into his movies.

What I don't understand is why the movie wasn't called "Through the Looking Glass" as the the movie is based on that book in the series and not the aforementioned "Alice in Wonderland". I will assume it was to grasp watcher who had only knowledge of the original story and nothing of the second.

One thing I will ask you guys and gals here. The wedding party at the start of the film, and the, well I guess the War Party in Wonderland. Do you see a correlation between them?

As in :
The Mad Hater is (forgive me as I am bad with names) The gentleman proposing to Alice.

Gentleman's Father is the Rabbit

Gentleman's Mother is the Red Queen

Alice's sister is the White Queen

Alice's sister's husband is the Red Queen's knight or jabberwocky (unsure on this)

The two girls are tweedle dee and tweedle dum.

Or am I just reading to much into the film?

(p.s. where is lightwizard?)

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[+3] - farmerman - 03/06/2010I sent wiz a PM and told him to get his sorry ass back on A2K. Hes got skills.

yes, where is lightwizard?

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@Seed,

Barry the Mod was going to see it yesterday.

I was waiting to hear from him about it myself...

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Haven't seen the movie, but Lightwizard is now on Facebook. I miss him as well.

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I will see it in Imax, though I am distressed by how poor the reviews are. I loved the trailer, I usually like Depp and Burton stuff, and Ebert sorta likes it and I usually like what Ebert likes...so I have hopes.

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@dyslexia,

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yes, where is lightwizard?

He got stumped off one that went on with the arm and is sat in the pavillion sulking.

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@Letty,

I sent wiz a PM and told him to get his sorry ass back on A2K. Hes got skills.

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@farmerman,

Not in the same league as the skills Vanessa Perroncel has though.

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@farmerman,

Ive seen the trailers and have deemed it interesting for the Farmerfamily to see. My fav (to date) Alice version is one Id seen on "classic TV". It was a live actor film version that was probably produced in the 1940's because it starred W C Fields as Humpty Dumpty and Gary Cooper as the White Knight. Other film stars of the time were also in that one.
SO, since the SyFy version for tv was, in my mind, a total piece of crap, I long to see a worthy new film adaptation of the Rev Dodgson's works

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@Seed,

I hear it's awful, completely unrealistic.

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@Robert Gentel,

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I hear it's awful, completely unrealistic

I think that "unrealistic" was the whole point of Rev Dodgsons works. SO whoever can convey his idea in best cinematic fashion , wins.

Disney was only mildly entertaining but it omitted huge parts of the books except as teeny vignettes. 'Im convinced that "Alice", done as a CGI falls most closely into DOdgsons personal nightmares and fears.

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@farmerman,

I think he's kidding!

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@Seed,

Worth seeing? I am tempted, and I usually cordially dislike Burton.

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@dlowan,

Ya think?

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Saw it and I enjoyed the whole movie, Johnny Depp is as usual a master craftsman of his art. I did feel Anne Hathoway was a bit weak with her acting in the role of the White Queen.

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Saw it a couple of days ago and thought it was just "OK."

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saw it in IMAX, was disappointed. The Movie was OK, the 3-d was annoying. The kids liked it a lot.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

My fav (to date) Alice version is one Id seen on "classic TV". It was a live actor film version that was probably produced in the 1940's because it starred W C Fields as Humpty Dumpty and Gary Cooper as the White Knight. Other film stars of the time were also in that one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(1933_film)

my fave version too

apparently it's just been released on DVD

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