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I love Tim Burton's movies.
And Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
were amazing books to read. (I have Lewis Caroll's complete works)

I'd definitely see this, I can imagine it'd be interesting and colorful.

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Originally Posted by tocrayzay (Post 658296)

I'm with you, I heard Tim Burton wants to stick closer to the actual novel. We all know Disney dumbs things down and has cut out many details read in origional fairy tales (i.e. Snow White).
Oh yeah when is Manson coming out with his wasn't it supposed to be this year? Two Alice in Wonderlands so close together....interesting. well i'm stoked

Disney's fairy tales arent really bad, I mean, so what if they cut out many details? I wouldnt watch it if it's exactly like the book because that just doesnt make sense.

Manson's will be Phantasmagoria right? It's really interesting, it wouldnt be exactly Alice and Wonderland though. It will focus on Lewis Caroll. I think it would be more of a pyschological horror film about how Alic haunted him.

Victorian England.
A haunted writer in an isolated castle is tormented by sleepless nights and visions of a girl named Alice. He finds himself becoming a symptom of his own invention.

“Now all my nightmares know my name.”

He is Lewis Carroll. Terrified of what waits for him each night

Well, I'll watch it. I don't mind adaptations on classics, as long as it's done well I'll give it a try.

Through hell or high water I'm going to see this movie, I'm already really excited and it won't be out for more than a year. Basically, any Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movie is mandatory viewing for me. :)

I happened to like Sweeney Todd extremely.
I just have a dark humor I guess >=]

Anyway, after reading Alice in Wonderland and
Through The Looking Glass, the movie didn't
seem all that great in comparison. To have an
honest opinion of a movie (a remake or made
from a book) you have to act as if you never
saw the original or read the book and view it
as if you had never seen or heard anything
like it before.

Disney can be a little creepy.
Pinocchio has scarred every child.

I am unbelievably excited about this movie. I heard whispers of it back in mid-2007, and have been nearly peeing my pants since then!

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Originally Posted by PockyMePink (Post 657615)

Actually, Disney has many many many sexual references - they have some crazy subliminal advertisments in their programs =P

I've only heard of the drug references, never any sexual ones.

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Originally Posted by Gwen_Goth (Post 658261)

I hope he goes truer to the original book; it's actually quite dark; I've never been a huge fan of Disney in general;
you do know that in the original Little Mermaid she dies at the end, right? :p

Yep, I knew about that.

Disney "sweetens" things too much, imo. But for kids they have to.

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Originally Posted by Blackmariah (Post 668383)

Same here. For me any Tim Burton/Johnny Depp film is an automatic must see.

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Originally Posted by CarleyGee (Post 668394)

I happened to like Sweeney Todd extremely.
I just have a dark humor I guess >=]

I'm the same. :)

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Originally Posted by Aota (Post 658140)

I hate it when people think that Disney's Alice in Wonderland was the original deal. They changed so much, and even combined the two novels of Alice's journey, both Wonderland, and the Looking Glass.

Mad Hatter wasn't AS crazy as they made him seem in Disney's movie. Or maybe he was, but not the crazy they used.

So if anything, I feel Burton may bring it closer to the original.

Can't wait for Marilyn Manson's take on it either. :'D Phantasmagoria, ya'll.

Yep, not original at all, but it was still an enjoyable film. I believe that Tim Burton's film will make the 18th film based on the two books. The first one was made in 1903.

Hope it won't upset you too much, but this too is a combined story. The Red and White queens, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, The Caterpillar, The Knave of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, are all characters in this adaptation.

Just a FYI for those who have never actually read the original novels:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Alice · The White Rabbit · The Mouse · The Dodo · The Duck ·The Lory · Eaglet · Bill the Lizard · The Caterpillar · The Duchess · The Cheshire Cat · The Mad Hatter · The March Hare · The Dormouse · The Queen of Hearts · The King of Hearts · The Knave of Hearts · The Gryphon · The Mock Turtle

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
Alice · The Red Queen · The White Queen · The Red King · The White King · The White Knight · Tweedledum and Tweedledee · · Humpty Dumpty · Hatta · Haigha · The Lion and the Unicorn The Sheep

holy cow im excited i love burtons work, but iam not surprised that johnny is in it he is in literally in all of burton's movies... but ya either way im excited i really want to read alice too!! YA!!

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Originally Posted by Miyavifan (Post 668399)

I've only heard of the drug references, never any sexual ones.

It's true, you know how in the disney show The Little Mermiad how they never show the top of the castle? It's cus theres a ---- there