Nachokoolaid wrote:Fuck the haters. I liked BIG FISH... a lot.
darkjedijaina wrote:ugh. what? seriously? I saw it in IMAX today. It was utter shite. it looked absolutely horrible. not only that, but the story was boring. BORING. not once did i laugh (except to make fun of all the shit that you blatantly see in every other Burton movie). horrible.
i can't stress enough how absolutely shite this was. not once was i drawn into the story, not once was i curious, not once was i smiling, not once was i scared, not once did i feel anything except utter boredom.
there is not one single redeeming factor about this movie. not helena, not johnny, not anne, not the voices, not the visuals, not the story... there's no reason to go see this unless you just want to waste your money.
bayou told me at the end that if i weren't with him, he would've walked out. i felt like it myself, but i thought... no, i'll stay. i'll see if there's a twist. nope. no payoff.
0/10
darkjedijaina wrote:
0/10
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
bastard_robo wrote:GODDAMNIT... to tired to post in-depth love for this film...
Tomorrow.. when I'm refreshed...
BTW.. $116 million.. not to shabby for a piece of shit film..eh?
Bayouwolf wrote:bastard_robo wrote:GODDAMNIT... to tired to post in-depth love for this film...
Tomorrow.. when I'm refreshed...
BTW.. $116 million.. not to shabby for a piece of shit film..eh?
Based on that logic,I'm assuming you liked Twilight as well...![]()
Bloo wrote:Bastard, the stage version of Alice I wrote premires in 2 weeks, I'll make sure to send you a link to the video copy
Bloo wrote:Bastard, the stage version of Alice I wrote premires in 2 weeks, I'll make sure to send you a link to the video copy
Ribbons wrote:Bloo wrote:Bastard, the stage version of Alice I wrote premires in 2 weeks, I'll make sure to send you a link to the video copy
I hope you worked "IPAMPILASH" into the script somewhere. Otherwise you're dead to me. Dead!
Bloo wrote:Ribbons wrote:Bloo wrote:Bastard, the stage version of Alice I wrote premires in 2 weeks, I'll make sure to send you a link to the video copy
I hope you worked "IPAMPILASH" into the script somewhere. Otherwise you're dead to me. Dead!I guess I'm dead then because I couldn't
Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub wrote:I’m a fan of your work and I was definitely curious what you were going to do next, and it definitely surprised me when I heard Alice in Wonderland sequel. So was that something that the studio came to you on or was that something that they were taking meetings on and you were like, “I have a take on this”?
BOBIN: It was both of those things. The thing about me is that my secret passion is history. My films have a lot of historical context. I’m a huge fan of ruins, you’ll see a lot of ruin work in my movies. I like ruins, they’re my specialty. I love ruins, its one of my favorite things. Any kind of movie ruin is my best thing. So the idea of doing a movie which is not only historical, but also fantastical, like a fantasy world, I just couldn’t pass it up. It was one of those things I really wanted to do. I’m also a huge fan of Lewis Carroll, in England he’s this incredibly influential, basically comedy writer. Lewis Carroll is known as this fantasy guy, but if you read the book as an allegory of the world or satire of the world and how it works in those days, you can trace Lewis Carroll to to Monty Python, they’re part of the same family to me. So it felt to me like it was something that I would find interesting. That’s all I ask of my work, that it’s interesting to me, because I do it, as you know, to a very deep level so you spend a lot of time doing this stuff. You have to love the material and I love Lewis Carroll, so I’m really fascinated about doing it.
One of the strengths of the first film was the production design, the world looked great.
BOBIN: Yes, very important.
Very important. I forget the guy’s name, he won the Academy Award-
BOBIN: Robert Stromberg.
Yes, did you manage to get him back?
BOBIN: No, he’s not directing as you may know, he’s directing Maleficent so he does other things now. But I’ve hired Dan Hennah, who did The Hobbit. The Hobbit 2 in particular was beautiful and Laketown in particular impressed me. This one is in a slightly different- it’s in Underland, but it’s in different parts of Underland so it has slightly more human worlds. I can’t really talk about it very much, but I certainly knew that the work he showed me on The Hobbit was so spectacularly good he’d be perfect for this.
Becase the world is-
BOBIN: Yeah, it’s the key. The movie is not really an action movie, the movie is a movie where you want to create a world where you’re happy to spend an hour and a half, two hours of your life. You want to be there and think “What’s around that corner? I love being in this place,” and that’s what I felt about the first movie. I liked being in Underland. I love that idea that we’re going to create that world again, a place where you’re happy to spend time. I love that idea.
One of the things people love about movies is being able to transport to another place, I’m definitely curious if you’ve thought about that in terms of IMAX, shooting in 3D, ways of bring the world-
BOBIN: Yeah, all very important part of the Alice experience and also when you bring that world together in 3D—Alice is in a Victorian fantasy land and nowhere suits me any better than that. There’s no limits to your ideas and what you can do, but at that same time you have this great palate of Victoriana to use to create a fantastical world and that is, to me, really fun. Just because, I did history at University, my wife is a historian, I read history all the time; history is my thing. So for me, it’s such an opportunity to try and recreate a world I love from the past in an interesting way.
Moriarty wrote:This may be the first Disney trailer to ever open with the heroine of the film running away from someone because they are about to manually stimulate her to orgasm. Well-played, Alice Through The Looking Glass.
Moriarty wrote:Well, it’s better than the first one.
That is by no means an endorsement. Instead, it’s an acknowledgment that when it comes to mainstream Hollywood trauma, few scars run as deep as Alice In Wonderland. When Tim Burton gets to Hell, this is the film that will kick off the highlights reel they screen. A near-total refutation of what makes Lewis Carroll’s enduring classic endure, that first film tested my patience in a way few Hollywood films do. I’ve said it before… to be a film critic, you need to generally love movies. You need to love the very act of walking into a theater, sitting down among a crowd of strangers, and then taking that ride when the lights go out. I’ve written before about how it’s my church, and of course, I root for that experience to be great every time it happens. That is not the case, though, and I try to be honest and clear about what happens when that experience turns out to be a bust. It’s not enough to say, “I didn’t like this.”
If you even remotely like your children and value your free time, consider alternatives when Alice Through The Looking Glass descends on theaters everywhere May 27.
Anthony D'Alessandro wrote:Both of these films cost north of $170M. Was it a good idea for one to butt up against the other?
Each title needs the widest audience possible in order to see black. We need to question whether pitting two tentpoles of this magnitude over the four-day holiday is a financially sound practice. We know people go to the movies at the end of the year, however, the Memorial Day frame has shown leaks; it’s arguably only big enough to withstand one four-quad gorilla. For Disney, this is their third Memorial Day opening disaster following last year’s Tomorrowland and 2010’s Prince of Persia.
Currently, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse is coming in toward Fox’s conservative projection of $80M+ over FSSM. Earlier in the week many rivals predicted a $100M+ opening, but Fox always knew the fourth X-Men movie directed by Bryan Singer was going to file lower, first because they were coming off a high with Days of Future Past (FSSM opening $110.6M), and second those God-awful Apocalypse reviews at 48% rotten. X-Men: Apocalypse is set to make $65M-$66.4M over FSS with $26.3M from Friday at 4,150 theaters. On a three-day basis it will be the fourth best opening for an X-Men movie not counting Wolverine.
Are flagging tickets sales such a great thing though?
Many critics do make a point that the sixth X-men is a lot of the same clang, bang, boom and that this mythology is growing long in the tooth. Let’s not forget that X-Men is being handled by the same studio who turned the superhero genre upside down for the better back in February with Deadpool. Despite rebooting the franchise slightly with 2011’s X-Men: First Class, it might be time for Fox to put the series back on the shelf for a while or at least go back to the drawing board. Dare we point out that the opening weekend for Sony’s broken-down The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is bigger with $91.6M?
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