Not sick of Burton and Depp here. Their last collaboration was one of the finest films of the decade. Long may they continue to collaborate. I’m more eager to see their teamwork than I am to see tired old Scorsese and Dicaprio’s.
I am sick of buron period
I wish depp wud do smaller offbeat films like libertine or don juan demarco or arizona dream
Looks good, though the color schemes aren’t quite like I remember them in the original cartoon.
As for Burton and Depp, why squash a good thing? Ed Wood and Edward Scissor Hands are great stuff.
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Can we do without Burton’s mawkish, self-pitying characters? I can.
I’ve been sick of Burton and Depp since Edward Scissorhands. His next project is another remake surprise suprise with who? You guessed it Depp starring. And I’m not kidding.
You’re referring to Frankenweenie? I feel like an idiot even typing that word.
Burton’s next project is not a remake.
Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow were wonderful.
>>Looks good, though the color schemes aren’t quite like I remember them in the original cartoon.<<
Why would this film follow the Disney color scheme?
Never been a Burton fan, excepting Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, though I haven’t seen Ed Wood to be honest.
stupid DP…
A remake of an old tv show. Dark Shadows
No.
Dark Shadows? I’m not familiar with it. I was never really a television person.
Double post.
Gothic. Vampires. Ghosts. And the women who love them.
Sick and tired of Burton & Depp collaboration over here, Vocalities. Burton’s a perfectly fine director when your 14 but you soon grow out of him and his faux gothic stylings and cardboard cut-out characters. When you’re older you discover the truth: Tim Burton is a world class production designer and illustrator but a great film director he is not.
His Alice in Wonderland adaptation sickens me to the core. Here are two of the greatest pieces of children’s literature ever written (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass) which are defined by their enchanting English Whimsy and Burton has come along and painted over it all with lots of 3D digital effects and dark gothic art direction. Note to Tim Burton: Alice in Wonderland is not a gothic story! I understand that the books have been adapted for the screen so many times so any director who comes on the project has to bring something new to it, but my point is that Burton’s adaptation is a horrible, obvious and immature interpretation of these great works of art. And it’s the same blueprint which he has used for every single film from Edward Scissorhands right through to Sleepy Hollow and Sweeny Todd. Enough is enough! I want pretty green woods and handmade wonky sets with beautiful costumes and subtle art direction from an Alice in Wonderland adaptation not lots of really bad looking 3D CGI with giant oversized heads and self consciously dark, shadowy visuals.
And Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter aggravates me even more. Now Johnny Depp is a brilliant actor, no doubt about it but he should not be playing the Mad Hatter. There is nothing about him, his presence or physique, which suggests the Mad Hatter to me. There are so many other actors out there that would be so much better suited to the part. Just look at him in the trailer with his bright orange hair and his face painted white, he looks ridiculous. The Mad Hatter’s face should not be painted white!!
This looks like a completely wretched film. Give me Jan Svankmajer’s Alice or the 1971 adaptation with Fiona Fullerton any day over this. Stick to your illustrations Tim, it’s wear your talent lies.
Brad, Ed Wood is a WONDERFUL movie.
Am I sick of Burton? Kind of, but only because of how repetitive his movies are. Always Danny Elfman music, always Johnny Depp, always Helena Bonham Carter…
actually I like the last part. :)
There was nothing cardboard cutout about his work on SWEENEY TODD, or ED WOOD. When you’re older you’ll discover the truth: Burton is a world-class production designer and illustrator and a great film director.
Alice in Wonderland looks insane as hell. I don’t know. Like, it might be good, but I’m a tad skeptical…
Savvy
True, Roscoe, there was a maturity and growth to his work on Sweeny Todd and Ed Wood but there is no denying the cardboard cutout characterisation, immaturity and overly reliance on gothic visuals found in the follwoing films:
Edward Scissorhands
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Batman
Pee wee’s Big Adventure
Corpse Bride
Mars Attacks
Beetlejuice
Planet of the Apes
Sleepy Hollow
Big Fish
I really couldn’t agree more with you Lundie. I will say, however, that I did like Ed Wood. But that didn’t feel like a Tim Burton movie, which probably has a lot to do with it.
does the world need this remake? The animated version is rather good even the version with wc fields has its moments.
Den, does the world really need 90% of the remakes released each year?
true enough but most of the originals arent very good anyway so remakes dont do any harm. Burton already made Planet of the Apes (pretty good original) and the Choclate Factory (orignial being a classic) 2 of the worst remakes that I can remember
granted this isnt quite a remake but still not holding out hope
I have never really been a fan of Burtons work.
I agree with you. That’s my problem with remakes, actually. The original film isn’t usually an amazing film to begin with, but it IS usually a movie that had some potential to be amazing. So a remake is a great chance to take either a forgotten film, or a film so old and dated that it could benefit from a certain kind of love and attention, and really turn it into something worth while.
The problem is that rarely happens. Adaptations seem to do better than remakes, and I don’t understand why. Look a film that did poorly 40 years ago. Look at why, reshoot the movie with more talent and more love and…well, it should do better, right? But it doesn’t. Remakes are just vessels for people to make money. It’s an already completed idea that can be recycled and recharged to the public. Only for more money, of course.
Burton has been getting steadily worse for his entire career. Depp has been doing either total kooks or mumbly sarcastic bastards for virtually his entire career (and he’s fine). The Alice trailer was one of those things that’s so far gone I wasn’t compelled to comment.
Vocalities
http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2009/12/16/alice-in-wonderland-trailer-full/
I don’t know the markup coding to make it a link, sorry. Also, there is a link to a HD trailer there as well, if you feel the need.
Anyway, looks about right for Burton and Depp, unfortunately.