Wesley ,'Chosen'
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Oh, the 3D was terrible - it wasn't shot for 3D (it was converted in post), and you can really tell the difference. Maybe the IMAX version looks better, I don't know.
The set design was pretty standard Burton. (Take a regular castle, skew it in Photoshop, make the corners into curlycues and paint it with red and white stripes. Rinse, repeat. Yawn.)
Urgh. I just tried to read a True TV article about the Twilight Zone disaster, and I don't think I'll be able to make it to the section about the trial--just hastily skimming the description of the children's deaths and realizing that it was three in the morning and their parents were there and saw all of it is punching all my mommy buttons.
If I ever, ever meet John Landis, I'm punching him in the face, throat and cock. What an utter, utter fucker.
Sigh. So much for ever rewatching The Blues Brothers.
Maybe the IMAX version looks better, I don't know.
That's too much of a maybe to bother. I think I'll try and see if it gets a standard release somewhere, if I bother. I WON"T be making the Imax trip Monday I was thinking of doing (I have the day off, and will be heading back from Maine, so the matinee would have worked really well).
I was a little concerned of the previews with everyone dressed for battle, including Johnny Depp, and what looked like battle scenes. - it looked a little too Narnia-ish to me.
JZ, outragious, huh? And yet, he is still working making movies. I am not naive about movie-making; it can be terribly dangerous. But what happened on that set was criminal.
And then his behaviour aftrwards sealed the deal on his complete reprehensibility.
I am disappointed to hear that Alice isn't as great as the previews suggest. Boo!
Looks like he's directed some episodes of Psych. Too bad. I like the show.
And the movie he's working on now? Some Guy Who Kills People.
Gah!
Oh jeebus. I found an article on the John Landis Twilight Zone thing because I had never heard of it and it had video. I swear I thought it was just from the movie.
I think I'm going to go throw up.
DH and I saw Alice in Wonderland last night, and it was very meh.
Will I at least have pretty pretty Tim Burton eye candy to look at? Really, that's all I'm asking for from this movie.
I am on iPhone now so can't look it up easily, but I think I recall Jennifer Jason Leigh talking about it. Vic Morrow was her father, but iirc it was absentee and estranged. I remember being surprised with an interview she gave eons ago; I think she didn't fault Landis. But my memory is poor and I could be remembeing all wrong.
Will I at least have pretty pretty Tim Burton eye candy to look at? Really, that's all I'm asking for from this movie.
It definitely looks like a Tim Burton movie, but it's nothing we haven't seen from him before. Your house is probably more creatively decorated than his Wonderland.