Dave White sez:

If we could all stop for a moment and think about how excellent and uplifting garbage can be, America would rally around this movie like the treasure it is. Because this is some trash. Some really amazing, thoroughly entertaining, laugh-out-loud trash that doesn't deserve the drubbing it's preemptively getting from adoption advocacy groups. The adopted members of my own family are going to have a blast watching this because it takes all the snotty comments or snubs ever delivered to an adopted child, packages them as a few deserve-to-be-maimed schoolchildren and then has the nerve to actually punish them. It also punishes several innocent, well-meaning bystanders, too. But you can't have everything.

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That end of "Orphan" is absolutely amazing.

"Free Bird"

See? This is what I'm saying.

Isn't Peter Sarsgaard in Orphan? What happened to his career?

Indie cinema, it would seem.

wait, so she's a secret midget hooker but the movie's good?

Laga,

I think your first statement before the "but" is true.

I believe your statement after the "but" is not true.

The reviews for Orphan have been all over the map. It's at 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Better in terms of more awesome/terrible

now I kind of want to see it! I didn't at all before.

I didn't realize this was the premise of the Tim Burton Alice:

In Burton's version Alice is 17-years-old and after trying to find her place in Victorian society she returns to the Wonderland she first visited as a young girl.

It's not a straightforward adaptation, or even necessarily an adaptation at all. But kind of a fanfic what-happened-after.