Sometimes, it's helpful to remember that all the GOOD points of the Hollywood "blockbuster machine" having been taken over by the general mindset of a 13 year-old boy (see: Marvel Films' "Avengers" master-plan) come with their price - namely that 13 year-old boys can be pretty daft a lot of the time.
For example, around that age, it's customary to arrive at the assumption that EVERYTHING can be improved by turning it into some kind of Epic Battle - especially if the Epic Battle is also Grim n' Gritty - up to and including otherwise-good-natured superheroes and whimsical fairytales. It's this kind of thinking among 13 year-olds during my time as such that was largely responsible for Image Comics, and right now it seems to be responsible for re-imagining every movie property in the context of a Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell tableau (or, in studio-speak, "we're goin' for a "Pirates of the Carribean" angle."
To that end, here's the new-er trailer for Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" dealie, which despite what you're brain may be telling you he HASN'T already made seven or eight times...
http://wdmp-wdsmp.rd.llnw.net/wdsmp/AIW/Trailer5/AIW_Trailer5_480.mov
Gotta give `em credit, at least, for seemingly hitting every damn mark of this type of "reimagining:" Pseudo-sequelism? Check. Hero-as-vaugely-chosen? Check. Most-prominent baddie as world-conquest supervillain? Check. Massing armies of storm-troopers? Check. And dig what appears to be Alice striding out into the midst of a Braveheart-fight in full battle armor, or Depp's Mad Hatter wielding a broadsword. Or maybe it's kidding, and this is all out of context...
For example, around that age, it's customary to arrive at the assumption that EVERYTHING can be improved by turning it into some kind of Epic Battle - especially if the Epic Battle is also Grim n' Gritty - up to and including otherwise-good-natured superheroes and whimsical fairytales. It's this kind of thinking among 13 year-olds during my time as such that was largely responsible for Image Comics, and right now it seems to be responsible for re-imagining every movie property in the context of a Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell tableau (or, in studio-speak, "we're goin' for a "Pirates of the Carribean" angle."
To that end, here's the new-er trailer for Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" dealie, which despite what you're brain may be telling you he HASN'T already made seven or eight times...
http://wdmp-wdsmp.rd.llnw.net/wdsmp/AIW/Trailer5/AIW_Trailer5_480.mov
Gotta give `em credit, at least, for seemingly hitting every damn mark of this type of "reimagining:" Pseudo-sequelism? Check. Hero-as-vaugely-chosen? Check. Most-prominent baddie as world-conquest supervillain? Check. Massing armies of storm-troopers? Check. And dig what appears to be Alice striding out into the midst of a Braveheart-fight in full battle armor, or Depp's Mad Hatter wielding a broadsword. Or maybe it's kidding, and this is all out of context...
