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DM is in the publishing biz maybe he could score us the Alice in Wonderland promotional book from Disney. There has got to be some reason Kung Fu Magazine needs the promo material. And then you can send it to me.
Alice Promo Book
Of course there is the trailer, but this isn't the trailer from the book. Which is why we need the book, DM.
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Alice is being handed over to Death Eaters & Pirates.
Robert Sabuda put out an amazing AiW pop up book. T has it.
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Can't spend what I don't got. And once a swag whore, always a swag whore.
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Short review for ADD PPFYs: Alice is a lot like Avatar. Visually stunning and entertaining throughout, but you stop thinking about it five minutes after you leave the theater.
Long-winded rant: I'm in some sort of film loop with these iconic revisits like Wicked and Percy Jackson and I want to get out. There's some very Burton-esque cleverness. I'm glad he was inspired by the Lord Tenniel illustrations, especially for the Jabberwocky. But I couldn't help but think of Harry Potter (Bellatrix as Red Queen, Snape as Caterpillar, Madame Maxine as crazy aunt). I also had the same Perseus-already-decapitated-Medusa, Wizard-left-before-Dorothy issues with the Caterpillar becoming a butterfly. And why was Capt. Jack channeling the Scarecrow? Bellatrix rocked, but that figures. Ella was strangely ethereal, but gets introduced too late to really develop in character. Good Tweedledee/dum - almost reminded Dm of PPFY's blood bro Ross; Ross could have totally nailed that part. Burton's Alice is shamelessly predictable in story arc, but gorgeous to watch. Mia makes a good Alice, but may be best suited for a future Jane Austen film. Dm would have preferred if Burton just did a traditional story instead of this new embellishment.
As for the dormouse society: Cheshire (DM) was grand. March Hare (ED) was also spot on.
T liked it. She said she'd see it again but DM probably won't go to the effort. The 3D was great, but still, nothing compares to the spaghetti tornado in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
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DM does the 3-D. I do the non 3-D DVD review.
I kind of liked it. It was visually stunning. Part of the reason I liked it was my expectations were so low. The Fat Boys were good. Helena Bonham was good. It had been so long since I'd seen the trailer that I forgot about the bit with the pig ("Nothing like a good warm pig belly")
I thought they would wrap it up with bringing back the Dad. OOh, spoiler. Sorry. It's been a year. I want to know why everyone in Tim Burton films have to have the sunken eye make up as if everyone suffered from consumption.
The plot was very predictable. All the character arcs could be easily deduced. Except for the Mad Hatter. What was he supposed to be doing. All and all it was very pretty.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass sucked. It was surely better in 3D. Same cast, plus Borat as Time (wth?) this had nothing to do with Carroll. Dumb time travel as a device to tell the Hatter's & Red Queen's origin tale? Better not to know. He went mad because olde English hatters worked with mercury, and she had a big head because Tenniel drew her that way, not this dumb story. Waste of talent and CGI. So disappointing.
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