In addition, they didn't explain the central conflict - but why did the Red Queen attack? Sisterly jealousy? Really? She went apeshit over that? Alice really did need to show more agency throughout. She experienced extreme social pressures early on and her response was essentially to run away. It would have been good for her to not assert constantly that she was dreaming. She took denial into a new category. It was only until a character was kidnapped and another showed up offering help that she finally took some agency. It made no sense to me that she would constantly assert "this is a dream" and then be so reluctant to fight the Jabberwocky. If it is a dream, fight the damn thing. Who cares ?
No, no, no, sir. No more chick pit for you. Come on.
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le nubian - Mar 08, 2010 12:49:09 pm PST #7133 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Frankenbuddha - Mar 08, 2010 12:55:33 pm PST #7134 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I said to Jilli that I wonder what kind of Alice movie the Beetlejuice-era Burton would have created. I suspect it would have been better because it would have at least honored the nonsensical nature of Wonderland
Or, you know, Terry Gilliam. Whatever his problems as a director, he wouldn't have conventionalized it. Everything I hear about Alice makes it sound like a Narnia movie with Burton-esque touches.
Laga - Mar 08, 2010 2:21:02 pm PST #7135 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Jeremy Sumpter's Peter Pan!
love love love.
Did you know they had to rebuild the nursery window four times because he was growing like a weed during filming?
JZ - Mar 08, 2010 2:38:09 pm PST #7136 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I think I'm already on record as loving that Peter Pan to a dangerous degree -- it wrecks me about as thoroughly (and cathartically) as Lilo & Stitch wrecks Jilli.
Though do avoid the IMDB user reviews -- somewhere in there is a remarkably wrongheaded asshat who gripes about the blandness of Jason Isaac and complains that everyone's always ignoring the perfect sublimity of Dustin Hoffman in the vastly superior Hook.
eta: Also, holy shit! Jeremy Sumpter is on FNL? That's exactly the last nudge I needed to get me over my don't-like-football-stories block and dig into the DVDs Perkins lent me so tragically long ago.
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2010 3:32:48 pm PST #7137 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
OMGNEWIRONMAN2TRAILERSOCOOOOOOL!!!!!
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2010 3:32:48 pm PST #7138 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And yet it didn't need to double post, so I'll say it without ASSCAPS:
omg, new iron man 2 trailer so cool!!!!!!!
Frankenbuddha - Mar 08, 2010 3:39:13 pm PST #7139 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
the blandness of Jason Isaac
These words do not make sense together. Asshat indeed.
I do think Hoffman (and Hoskins) WERE the best thing about Hook, but that's faint praise indeed.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2010 3:41:50 pm PST #7140 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
new iron man 2 trailer so cool!!!!!!!
I am so totally psyched for this, it's unreal. Despite it having ScarJo and Gwyneth.
bon bon - Mar 08, 2010 3:43:57 pm PST #7141 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
You know, I regret seeing the IM trailer. I'm gonna see the movie anyway, right? So if you can hold off, I say do it. Because it looks like it gives away the entire plot. (HOWEVER look for my friend the extra, who plays a Monaco police!)
javachik - Mar 08, 2010 3:47:39 pm PST #7142 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
bon bon, that was one of my biggest beefs with the format of the Oscars last night. In the past, they'd play one key scene from each Best Picture nominee; last night they basically played an extended trailer for each, and showed EVERY highlight. So I guess people really don't need to go pay and see those movies now. I started muting and turning away so that the movies I still want to see weren't completely ruined.