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First Visit To Wonderland - 22/6/2009 8:01:08 AM   
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- 22/6/2009 8:01:08 AM   
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Johhnny Depp looks like Madonna.

Tim Burton is very hit or miss, so I'm not sure what to think of this. Time will tell.

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RE: - 22/6/2009 9:10:04 AM   
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I said the exact same thing. I looked at the pic and instantly thought it was Madonna. But seriously how freaky do they all look? Totally Tim Burton-esque!!!

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Boring and Predictable..? - 22/6/2009 9:12:44 AM   
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 Just not interested in this. Seen so many versions, and Tim Burton should should stop plodding through these usual waters. He's trading a name that was made fifteen years ago and he's not living up to it.

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Beno - 22/6/2009 9:28:47 AM   
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 This looks awesome ... Burton always delivers ... i cant wait

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Wacky!! - 22/6/2009 9:37:13 AM   
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 Let's face it, what makes Burton's movies so special is the fact he has that ability to turn charming and beautiful into wacky and creepy. I love Tim Burton's work as it has always been wildly imaginative, every single film he has made are full of atmosphere, watching a Burton's film almost feels like stepping into another world. And no sir, I am no tripping! Lol! But we've got to give it to him, the man has a lot of imagination to offer, something lacking with most movie makers these days. Count me in or this one!

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- 22/6/2009 9:43:58 AM   
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I think this looks fantastic, and regardless of whether it is or not, you have to admire the originality and creativity Burton is bringing to this: as onyx79 says, this isn't exactly in remake-happy Hollywood these days. . .

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Wow, Cool! - 22/6/2009 9:51:12 AM   
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 Whoa, bright colours there! This looks so cool and totally amazing, so can't wait to see this. It screams brilliant especially that Burton and Depp have teamed up again, even his girlfriend is there! I'm so going to see this next year.

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RE: Wow, Cool! - 22/6/2009 10:11:28 AM   
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Now that looks amazing - 22/6/2009 10:17:49 AM   
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 As spectacle, I reckon this'll be up there with Avatar. Tim Burton get a lot of stick for always using the same iconography (nice skull tie Johnny), but you can never say he doesn't give a shit. From these pictures you can see the love that's been put into this project.

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RE: Now that looks amazing - 22/6/2009 10:23:33 AM   
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 This looks ten times more interesting than I expected it to. I have long taken the common stance that Avatar will be the "official" test for 3D, but tbh, with its mass appeal this could be the film that decides the formats fate.

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- 22/6/2009 10:26:04 AM   
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- 22/6/2009 10:26:11 AM   
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- 22/6/2009 10:26:17 AM   
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Elijah Depp?!? - 22/6/2009 10:27:06 AM   
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Hey really looks like Elijah Wood in that photo

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they all float - 22/6/2009 10:29:03 AM   
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 JD looks like Pennywise the clown but with a budget!

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RE: they all float - 22/6/2009 11:09:46 AM   
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 Fantastic pics, Wonderland will be extremely impressive if it looks anything like that on film.
Cameron's world of Pandora is going to have to be particularly awe inspiring if it's going to look any more amazing/unique than that.

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RE: First Visit To Wonderland - 22/6/2009 11:12:22 AM   
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 Can't wait either!

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Urgh. - 22/6/2009 11:43:57 AM   
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 I don't like that Mad Hatter design at all. Very cheep and cheesy. Nope no no.

The images of Wonderland, I like. The animal trees, although rather Edward Scissor Hands, are lovely as are the mushrooms and flowers.

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum look good but the rest of the characters look god awful.

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- 22/6/2009 11:50:49 AM   
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Is it me, or does Johnny Depp look like Madonna, but more human?

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- 22/6/2009 12:19:30 PM   
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 This looks great. Amazing how JD can reinvent himself in every (Burton) film he's in. He deserves more recognition for his acting abilities than he gets.
paulmcinnes, your Madonna obs was spot on! Freaky

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Tim Tim - 22/6/2009 12:21:09 PM   
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I wish Tim Burton would stop making such rubbish!! Find another job please.

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- 22/6/2009 12:48:11 PM   
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Well, Burton's films are usually quite "meh" for me (Ed Wood and the Nightmare before Xmas aside) but I'll never accuse him of not being creative and making his movies look good.

Why does he insist on casting Depp and Bonham Carter in virtually every bloody movie he makes though?

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RE: Wacky!! - 22/6/2009 1:03:55 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: onyx79

Let's face it, what makes Burton's movies so special is the fact he has that ability to turn charming and beautiful into wacky and creepy. I love Tim Burton's work as it has always been wildly imaginative, every single film he has made are full of atmosphere, watching a Burton's film almost feels like stepping into another world. And no sir, I am no tripping! Lol! But we've got to give it to him, the man has a lot of imagination to offer, something lacking with most movie makers these days. Count me in or this one!


Well said! I'd take Burton over the directing-by-numbers efforts of the likes of hacks like Paul W S Anderson and Stephen Sommers any day.

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This looks shit. - 22/6/2009 1:39:22 PM   
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 Good concept art but the rest looks shit. I wanna see Cronenbergs or David Lynch's take on the tale. That'd be truely fucked up.

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Looks like Charlie & The Choc Factory - 22/6/2009 1:44:05 PM   
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to me. All Burton's movies look the same these days. Even the animated ones.


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Looks like Charlie & The Choc Factory - 22/6/2009 1:55:02 PM   
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Shanewire hit the nail on the head, would much rather see Cronenberg's or Lynch's take on this. Johnny Depp looks like Elijah Wood in drag.

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- 22/6/2009 2:15:22 PM   
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 love it!

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RE: - 22/6/2009 2:35:58 PM   
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I quite like the cast; though Depp has a habit of annoying me (Public Enemies looks ace though) however as has previously been said, Burton does nothing for me with the exception of Ed Wood and the design/look of The Nightmare Before Christmas but that is a Henry Selick film so it's just Ed Wood.  

I find Burton incredibly repetitive which I suppose is great if you love that stuff but for me it's incredibly boring, I love the Alice in Wonderland stories so that has me interested but I would prefer it if it wasn't Tim Burton in the director's chair, someone mentioned Lynch or Cronenberg now that I would have been excited about, maybe even Guillermo del Toro though he also has his own "visually set” world just like Burton, so maybe not.
 
I think that Mad Hatter looks stupid but Tweedledee and Tweedledum look pretty special as does the surrounding foliage and such but then I remember how horrid Charlie and the Chocolate Factory turned out.

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Horrible Concept Art. - 22/6/2009 3:09:02 PM   
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On the whole i consider myself a Tim Burton fan, i think he is a wonderfully weird director amongst so much blandness and a great visual stylist, he has made some truly unique and inspiring films; Edward Scissorhands and the Nightmare Before Christmas ranking among my favourite films of all time but i don't think he was the right person to adapt Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland books, and these horrible, repulsive concept art images confirmed my worst fears. They are so horrible i can't even look at them. They look like a really bad high school pupil's photoshop project gone wrong. It's the colours that really get me, really garish and uninspiring. I understand that Burton is trying to put his stamp on the material because the book has been adapted so many times but it's the same bright over-saturated colour scheme contrasted with dark victorian grimm that he uses in everyone of his films, he never changes! and it's really wearing thin, and these images and this style is not Alice in Wonderland, it's such a bad interpretation of the book(s) Alice in Wonderland is dreamy and weird in an english whimsy kind of way it should be a pastel soft-coloured wonderland full of green, summer woods and wildflowers in fields, not full of horrible garish, bright and over-saturated colours with weird for the sake of being weird characters. I also really don't like the fact that it's technology driven, i wish he would do what he did with charlie and the chocolate factory and build beautiful sets and costumes and only use special effects where it's needed. I would have loved to seen Sofia Coppola tackle alice in wonderland or Guillermo del Toro. The image of johnny depp as the mad hatter especially is so bad i want to cry, the worst ever possible interpretation of the mad hatter. Tim Burton should hang his head in shame.

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