Fri 24 Jul 2009
I wish I was at Comic-Con Pt2: “Alice in Wonderland,” James Cameron’s “Avatar,” “Sherlock Holmes,” etc
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(Entertainment Weekly’s fanboy/fangirl recap)
(also check out Film.com rated Comic-Con’s Day 1 panels: including Avatar, New Moon, Tron Legacy, etc and also rated Day 2 including Sherlock Holmes, The Box, Where the Wild Things Are, etc)
-Tim Burton played a 3-D version of his “Alice in Wonderland” trailer, featuring music from MGMT, and also announced that his next project will be a remake of the classic series “Dark Shadows.” Then Johnny Depp (The Mad Hatter) jumped out onstage, and ppl lost their lunch.
-So many people are saying that they were blown away by the 25-minute-preview they saw of Avatar (James Cameron’s first-project-since-Titantic). Ugh! How come fangirls in the audience of the Twilight panel could sneak out bootlegs but nobody had the guts to pull out their cameraphones during nearly a half-hour of Avatar?
(“25 minutes of Avatar in 3D played, and it surpassed all expectations and anything the guy who gave us Terminator 2 has ever done. What Cameron has done with CGI and performance capture, and making it look photo-real in 3D, is akin to what Miyazaki has done with animation.” — Phil Pirrello, IGN via Cinematical)
Here is Variety’s chat with director James Cameron after the panel…
More Comic-Con coverage after the jump….
-Robert Downey Jr. spoke about the upcoming Guy Ritchie “Sherlock Holmes” movie….(when I saw the trailer, I just didn’t quite remember Sherlock being that…such the cage-fighter type, but ok, I’m willing to go with it.)
-”Oldboy” director Chan Park Wook spoke about his new vampire/horror flick, The Thirst (which my cousins already saw and loved, and which is opening here in NYC next Friday!).
“‘If we went to an investor to get this film financed, and they asked how is this film different from them? If you tell them the vampires don’t have fangs, this is a fresh take on the vampire genre…By taking things away, I was able to have a fresh take on the vampire genre.‘ The moderator is commenting that this film seems like an anti-Twilight to resounding cheers from the remaining audience. The director responds, ‘My daughter hasn’t seen my film yet, but if she found out this film was the anti-Twilight she might really hate my film.‘ (source: Spike)
July 24th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
$10,000 for a comic book? G.T.F.O.H.
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July 25th, 2009 at 3:52 am
I feel like I might be one of the last people alive that loves Dark Shadows. And I’m not even that old.
Thanks to Miss Info for the scoop as always.
Oh wait – Tim Burton
– nuts.
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July 25th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
thanks soooooo much for the comic con updates. i haven’t hit the nerd websites yet so i don’t know what’s going on but i really appreciate this. i saw some of the process work for avatar and i am sooo excited to see the finale product and what they come up with. i wasn’t happy they were making a movie out of this but i know some of the animators and i am excited for them. actually i’m just excited for animation, tech, film period. oh and i was reading some of the stuff about alice movie panel and tim burton having the fans in the palm of his hands then springing depp. man i am going to make it to a comic con one day in my life. i have to.
oh oh oh the thirst. i heard about this film, but i’m not really into that genre. i’ll go and see it when it starts playing here next week.
i feel like such a fangirl reading this. lol. thanks info.
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July 25th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
missinfo, you are nerdier than i thought 0_o
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July 26th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Wow James Cameron is a kool dude
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March 6th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Adding a little bit of a background story and a few more characters to Alice’s adventures didn’t do as much as i thought it would for the story. Truthfully i wanted to love this movie, I’m a huge Tim Burton/ Johnny Depp fan. But this just didn’t do it for me. I came out of the theater wondering if it were just the mediocre script or the director who had failed to meet my expectations. The best part of this movie is probably Johnny Depps portrayal of the mad hatter who truly is mad. However, Mia Wasikowska presents Alice in a dull manner that had me checking my watch every ten or fifteen minutes. Overall this film isn’t awful, but at the same time its no masterpiece, for an interesting film to look at I suppose this would be an alright choice, however if you want a great story and compelling acting, you might want to check out something else, because this isn’t the movie you’re looking for.
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