Alice in Wonderland

[niknnik]

IN THREEEEEEEE DEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
http://nikhilchavdafilm.blogspot.com...onderland.html
I gave it 3 stars, could easily have given it 2.
What do you think

[NinjaLlama]

I thought it was awesome :)
4 stars, i would give it 5 but the story didn't make much sense at some points, like when the mad hatter randomly had a scottish accent...

[AllisonWalker]

3/5

[Xanadu]

I read the books...

[berober04]

Originally Posted by Xanadu

I read the books...

but isn't the film a completely different story?

[Xanadu]

yeah so I don't really wanna see the film lol

[AllisonWalker]

books> movies

It was a bad mess.

[Xanadu]

its rare can they ever do a book justice
they always end up mixing Through the Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland together and it always ruins it!

[NinjaLlama]

True, the books tell a different story. So i like to think that the film was a completely different story and wasn't based on the book (:

[AllisonWalker]

But they killed the Mad Hatter. KILLED HIM.

[Xanadu]

they seem to have put too focus on him, a very minor character

[Evil Zeno]

Hmm mixed thoughts i thought it was extremely random but i was intrigued

[niknnik]

I didn't like how, in the books, Alice often goes back to Wonderland to "get away from it all", but in the film, she's apparently forgotten it even exists.

[Xanadu]

she goes to wonderland once
the looking glass house is something quite different

[niknnik]

Meh, it's been ages since I read the books.
But the film was bad whether you compared it to the book or not.

[Xanadu]

made for stupid kids who don't have the imagination needed to read the book
prior to getting the book last week I'd not read it in 15 years

[Mokuba Kaiba's Girl]

The movie sucks, derived from the movie previews. The book is awesome.

And in the book, Wonderland doesn't even exist. It's just a dream...

[AllisonWalker]

Kids today are lazy readers.

[niknnik]

Hey, I've been an enthusiastic reader for the last 6 years! :V
Then again, I don't really know anyone else who reads as much as me IRL...

[AllisonWalker]

No one reads the classics anymore unless it's for class.

[Xanadu]

Originally Posted by Mokuba Kaiba's Girl

The movie sucks, derived from the movie previews. The book is awesome.

And in the book, Wonderland doesn't even exist. It's just a dream...

kind of
they both are
though we don't know who's dream the Looking Glass world is

[Mokuba Kaiba's Girl]

Coulda been Dinah's

[Xanadu]

point is, some high and mighty douche always comes along, reads the two books, mashes them together...or do whatever the hell this was, and sell it to stupid kids who don't know the story
have no idea what its trying to say
and have no respect for classic literature
special effects and stupid shit to sell
like what Lord of the Rings did
fucks up the entire story for the sake of special effects and names who did movies in the past people liked

[AllisonWalker]

There's nothing wrong with Lord of the Rings. The effects didn't kill the spirit of the books. I never finished them (wasn't my thing), but I know plenty of people who did and loved the movies just as much as the novels.

This Alice in Wonderland movie did.

[Xanadu]

I will say the movies of LOTR were more true to the books, in most ways
they had to ditch a lot of stuff cause they'd have been too long otherwise
and the amount of work that went into it gives it a few more points
Alice in Wonderland...so Tim Burton didn't like the books so remade them in his own stupid idea
and sold it off as, what most kids assume is an acid trip story they never actually read

[musigal]

I've heard it's more like a fanfic...
haven't seen it though, so I can't really say anything

[AllisonWalker]

Alice in Wonderland...so Tim Burton didn't like the books so remade them in his own stupid idea and sold it off as, what most kids assume is an acid trip story they never actually read

That's exactly how I felt about it.

[Xanadu]

but its not as acid was invented about 100 years after both stores were written

[Fat1Fared]

Originally Posted by AllisonWalker

No one reads the classics anymore unless it's for class.

I think this is the problem though, most Classic literature is only shown to most kids in school and most schools are so uncompromising and dispersion in their teaching of it, they ruin it for kids rather than make them wish to read more, it is such a shame as then get poeple who think things like Harry Potter are classic literature without ever reading another book to compare it to and even worse, get poeple who are proud of the fact they don't read, like it is an impressive act that limit themselves from doing the most liberating thing we can.

-PS Guys remember though this book was written when he was on opran trip, so in way she does forget real world, but she isn't on the trip herself, if makes sense lol

-Not seen film for very reasons being stated here not too

[Xanadu]

Lewis Carrol wasn't on drugs when he wrote it
he was just weird, and loved to tell stories
this one was born out of a story he told to a few girls he knew
Through the Looking Glass was born out of something a girl told him
(he had a weird obsession with little girls, though historical records say he didn't do anything to them, for some reason he liked to befriend them)