I can see where you are coming from, Jade. Like I said, I was never really a fan of the Alice fandom, I've never really seen the Disney animated film, and from what little I did see, I can't recall it much. Even all the remakes that have ensued, I've never known all that much about it. I went into the film not expecting much, and I guess that's why I enjoyed it. Although, I can agree that most of the characters were really just there, such as the Red Queen. It seemed like there were there, because if anyone knows just a bit about the Alice fandom, they could recognize the characters quickly and be all, "Oh yeah, hahaha, she says 'Off with your head,' just like I remember seeing."
A critic noted that Wonderland seemed like a depressed aftermath of what once was and it really sucked out all the fun and wonderment of what the fans know of Wonderland. They also didn't like the way the plot was done for this film. Though I like the simplistic storyline (although, to be honest, I didn't really care for the plot), I agree that it would have been a much better story if Burton had stuck to the original storyline of young girl Alice falling into Wonderland. I just enjoyed that the journey Alice goes through.
the acting was so dry by the girl who played Alice, and why did she look all sickly and dying?
The girl who played Alice looked sort of....ugly. I'm generally not a fan of dark brown eyes with light blonde hair. And her paleness made her look even more freakishly.
I'm not sure why she was so pale. That's kind of a Tim Burton thing. In many of his films, there's a trend of many characters being rather pale. I think it's just an image he really likes. It didn't bother me....but then again, I'm really used to seeing really pale characters in Tim Burton movies.
Oh, hooray! I just read two fascinating things!
1) Tim Burton is finally going to bring "Frankenweenie" to the big screens! I remember him saying in the "NBC" special features that he wanted to make it stop motion. Not sure if it will be, but I thought the short live action film he made of it in the 1980's was really cute.
2)OH.MY.GOSH. I hope that it will happen. I will be a very happy fan if this happens.
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/03/04/hbo-rome-movie/
