Saw the latest Tim Burton flick tonight, for lack of anything better in the nearby movie houses, and am, not surprisingly, nonplussed. Typical Burton fare--Visually interesting at times, but the story was weakweakWEAK, and at times I had to keep reminding myself that Alice's last name wasn't Baggins and this wasn't the distaff version of Lord of the Rings. If you must see it, you can wait for the DVD.
Thanks. I've been on the fence about this one. It's at the Castro in 3-D, but when I saw Nine there in January, their digital projection system was all screwed up -- the color was awful, making everyone look like they had jaundice. But Alice is making a mint; looks like all those millions who saw 3-D for the first time with Avatar are now rushing out to see anything that's 3-D.
Well, I gave in and saw AinW last nite. And visually is it quite spectacular IMHO, but totally agree on the story. A hodgepodge of the 2
Alice books, plus
Jabberwocky plus enuf "female empowerment" for a season's worth of
Dora the Explorer cartoons -- "Girls can do anything! Woo Hoo!" It's as if Disney said "we liked the dragon at the end of
Enchanted -- give us more dragons!" Glad I saw it at the Castro (they fixed their digital problems) for 10 bucks instead of at Century for 16.
Baffled why it's making *SO* much money; I'd've thought word-of-mouth would've brought it down by now. Be interesting to see how the next two 3-D flicks do.
How to Train Your Dragon looks decent, but the buzz on
Clash of the Titans is that it sucked when it was 2-D and the added-at-the-last-minute 3-D is the cheap kind ("The Diet Coke of 3-D" as James Cameron dismissively calls it).
BTW, the Castro is doing a week of movies with music by Lalo Schifrin -- including
Bullitt, Dirty Harry, and one of my all-time faves:
The President's Analyst.
