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I don't know what frightens me more, the overall production design or the fact that Anne Hathaway is playing Alice. Hell, I'd go insane for a weird and visually disturbing Alice in Wonderland, and if it weren't for Anne, I'd embrace the freakiness. Anne does not strike me as Alice or for that matter, any actual actress in a movie. I still haven't seen Rachel Getting Married and Anne Getting Make Up to Look Ugly because she so irritates me. The rest of the casting I agree with, but couldn't they find someone like Amanda Seyfried, she seems more like an Alice to me.
Bah humbug. I guess I'll just have to deal with the TV movie version of Alice with Ben Kingsley or the one with Carol Channing as the White Queen.
"Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never ever jam today..."

My mom hates clowns; she's not afraid of them (so she says), she just hates them. She'd probably gag if she saw these pictures.

I, however, would probably be down for seeing this.

@kamikazefeminist:

to make you happy: anne hathaway isn't playing alice, she is the white queen.

anne hathaway isn't playing alice - she's the white witch.

here's alice! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1985859/

ha ha guess what I saw over at imdb.com?

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yay, Pajiba, [sniff] they grow up so fast!

I'm loving it. Weirdos can make anything interesting.

Johnny Depp looks like he wants to EAT my SOUL. I'm not sure if I want that.

Why does the phrase "girl power" make me twitch?

Whew, that kind of lifted a heavy weight off of my chest. I remember the girl who played Alice in In Treatment.
Which reminds me, I need to watch more of that show. Like crack it is.

The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power

This phrase makes me want to firebomb a Libby Lu. What? They went out of business? Let's see who is next on the list...Limited Too it is.

I agree that the whole Depp/Burton/Carter franchise can feel a little tiresome and weird to be weird, but they at least have great source material in Alice in Wonderland. I mean, it is seriously creepy and scary story, and hopefully, if they have the courage, they can make a good movie.

When I say "courage" I guess I'm thinking specifically of "Planet of the Apes.' If Burton had made a violent, graphically violent movie, with s freak-out ape/human sex tension thing going on, he would have really made a stunning reinterpretation of the classic, but they wanted to keep their rating, blah, blah, blah, and ended up making a disappointing piece of shit that managed to be neither a kid movie or one that anybody over 15 would enjoy.

It looks like it's going to be wonderfully entertaining on some level. Perhaps not the level Burton intended, but entertaining none the less.

Also, for those who love to call actresses out for "ugly-ing up" for a role, can we have a special discussion on Johnny Depp doing the same? I have never seen a more attractive man go to such extreme lengths to disguise said attractiveness.

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I hope this doesn't mean we have to start behaving like adults, or human beings, or anything like that.

I for one love these pictures and can't wait to see this movie. I actually hadn't looked at the cast list since it only had Depp and Carter on it, and OMG! Alan Rickman is the Caterpillar?! Stephen Fry is the Cheshire Cat?! Christopher Lee is the Jabberwock?! Michael Sheen is the White Rabbit?! Crispin Glover is the Knave of Hearts?! OMG. OMG, you bunch of mayo-haters. Fan-effing-tastic.

Also, not to pick a fight, but TylerDFC, how does one go about not liking Mars Attacks? That's crazy talk, man. Crazy. Talk.

Shit. sorry, ahomos. Thats what I get for trying to be all self righteous.

Johnny Depp looks like Elijah Wood on acid in that photo.

Anna: I know that puts me in the minority, but I really hated that movie. I wanted to leave 5 minutes into it. Too much forced whimsy and good actors shamelessly overacting. Saw it opening night too, I was really psyched for it.

Frankly, those pictures make me more excited to see the film in 2010. It looks like, instead of just rehashing the original illustrations or slightly tweaking the Disney model, we're getting Burton's "fully apeshit" vision. As Sleepy Hollow is the best Hammer horror flick NOT made by Hammer Studios, and Sweeney Todd was an unexpectedly pleasant surprise, I'll choose to remember that Burton's earned plenty of goodwill with me and give him the benefit of the doubt here.

And, as you all seem to have missed a spot on that particular dead horse, let me say that Anne Hathaway is NOT playing Alice. She's playing the White Queen.

Is anybody else disturbed by how much Johnny Depp looks like Elijah Wood in that getup? It's...uncanny. Yes. Very uncanny.

I decided long ago that I will look at anything Tim Burton sees fit to put on film. I am never sorry. Even when the story itself is not all that, the visuals at the very least are worth seeing.

I will totally venture to the theater to see this when it comes out.

And when, for the love of all things right and pure, will Helena Bonham Carter get hit by a bus?.

Preach it, brother. I can't stand her, and my only exception is tolerating her as Bellatrix Lestrange because I hate that bitch anyways.

*squeeeeeeeeeeeels* oh my god oh my god fangasm fangassssssssmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

*passes out*

You know, its odd....Johnny Depp looks like Elijah Wood in that picture.

Oh, and did you know that Anne Hathaway is playing the White Queen?

Huh...the things you find out on Pajiba

The characters look great, the cast is fantastic, but does anyone else feel that the visuals look a little too much like a cross between Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

I think it looks intriguing, because Alice in Wonderland has sort of always had the Tim Burtonish feel to me. Although, Johnny Depp really kind of reminds me of Elijah Wood in the pictures. Is it just me?

Does anyone know who's playing the White Queen?

Well, I like the shot of the flower garden. That was always my favorite part of the Disney animated version.

However, HBC looks oddly skewed and that is resulting in her appearing to have a baby hand. Which I cannot abide. Baby hands scare me.

Excuse me while I go weep in a corner.

I will see this movie for Stephen Fry alone. The man is entirely under-recognized here in the US. He's a genius.

Add me to non-likers-list for Mars Attacks. I also went opening night, and was major disappointed.

This, however, looks interesting enough that I'm keeping an open mind.

These are nice, but I want to see the picture of the Cheshire Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat.

Depp I'll at least acknowledge as a good actor - he truly immerses himself in his characters, rather than playing himself in different movies like so many do. Bonham-Carter just plays weird, all the time. Fry will definitely get my interest, as will Hathaway (but I fear she'll be overdressed) - all this talent, and they had to shackle it to such a nonsensical story as AiW? Pity. It'll be a good fit for Burton, but there's no way the plot can regain my interest.

Nice to see you out and about, ahamos. If it matters, I didn't mean anything personal about the above AiW crack - I'd rather go unhaunted/tormented if at all possible - put in a good word?

How can I be mad at someone who loves "Mars Attacks" AvB? Can we stop fighting?

We totally can. I hate it when we're in a fight. It makes my tummy rumbly.

I'm looking forward to this. My birthday's in March, so it's gonna be my movie of choice.

This past year I got I Love You, Man, which was fine and dandy, but then my dog got killed. Day after my birthday. Really. So even if completely blows, which I doubt, it will still be a better birthday than this past year.

AvB
I don't care how the ratios work out. Either the head is giant, or the head is normal and now she has a baby hand!!
I'm all freaked out now, taunted by memories of my childhood nemesis, who had a baby hand. And made me hold it. And painted her sharp little baby nails.

((shudder))

I don't think HBC has baby hands or bobble head. She's got a, a seventyhead. I could build a house on that space between her cheekbone and her hairline!

It scares me.

For me, Burton has perhaps the most even hit:miss ratio in Hollywood. I've enjoyed some of his films (Big Fish, Sweeney Todd) and found others to be over-designed, over-quirked nonsense (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

So I am neither excited nor full of dread about Alice In Wonderland. It looks like it could go either way. Colour me mildly curious.

I have never been a fan of Tim Burton. I regard anything that he doesn't taint to be chance. Maybe he was good at some point, but now he just gives of that whole Bono-head-up-ass vibe.

I would be interested in watching a very dark AiW. Almost horror, in that everything is fucking outright creepy and terrible but horribly sexy at the same time.

I know the vibe of the book IS more creepy insanity than horror but I think it would be an interesting interpretation, if done by people with talent.

Bah, it's a rip-off of American McGee's Alice. (Now when are they going to do the movie of THAT)

"I would be interested in watching a very dark AiW".

You want dark? Go watch Jan Švankmajer's Alice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(1988_film)

>>You want dark? Go watch Jan Švankmajer's Alice.

Amanda dragged me to a viewing of that cracktastic version in college. There wasn't enough alcohol in the world to make it coherent to me. Probably why I couldn't understand when she had to order her very own copy on DVD. That's a retelling I don't want Alastair stumbling across one lazy afternoon.