A tangent inspired by a distant friend’s short comment on disliking the trailer for Tim Burton’s new Alice In Wonderland.
MY REPLY:
You can just see it in the look of the trailer. I have the same feeling of disinterest to the point of anger for this one as I did for Avatar.
Visually unlikeable and indecipherable. It’s Willy Wonka all over again.
Don’t you wish Directors would just use sets and art direction? It would be nice to have them not Photoshop the whole thing.
Make the audience suspend belief just a little bit. It works in theater (not Broadway, but theater) quite well!
I’m sorry for the unasked for tangent, but I’ve been internally reeling since I read a very backhandedly complementary article on The Fall in The AV Club this morning.
The true visionaries are still using the real world in their movies, and we call THEM the pretentious hacks, while we let the Cameron’s and recent-times-Tim-Burton’s get away with this garbage and throw them Oscar nominations or—god-help-me—OSCARS!
If you haven’t, you should watch The Fall. And The Fountain. Find big televisions and bask in their CGI-less wonder.
Also, hey man. How’s it going?
