Disney's Alice In Wonderland is a monster hit despite blowing past its budget and bringing back mediocre reviews. It clearly becomes the biggest 3D bow ever and the best March release ever and the highest grossing movie of 2010 with $41 million on Friday and $44.3 million on Saturday. Remember, those higher priced 3D tickets make all the difference. Even so, the Tim Burton-directed, Johnny Depp-starring fantasy flick had the biggest 3D release of all time. Of its 3,728 North American locations this weekend, its total domestic 3D count is 2,063, plus 180 Imax 3D engagements. That helped the pic post a $116.3M opening weekend with numbers blowing away Avatar's first Fri-Sat-Sun. IMAX on Friday had the biggest day in their history with $4.3M for Alice. The IMAX weekend take of $11+M also is a record for the big screen company. Overseas, Alice shot to #1 almost everywhere after opening day and date in 40 territories beginning Wednesday. Disney narrowly avoided a boycott overseas when UK and other exhibitors were angered by the studio's plans to shorten the theatrical-to-DVD window from 16 weeks to just 12 weeks.
Movie was fucking terrible and the 3D effect was ass in this movie. God this movie was so fucking bad.
Yeah, the lines were gigantic. It coiled around the hallway at our IMAX twice. I thought AVATAR was bad for that. And I don't really like to champion for Avatar but it was a million times better than Alice and the crowd was a million times more bearable. There were people fucking meowing while we were waiting in line and in the actual theater. fucking meowing. Tons of people with fucking cat ears on and masks and shit. And then of course, plenty of these fucking furries were wearing Avatar shirts.Movie was fucking terrible and the 3D effect was ass in this movie. God this movie was so fucking bad.
Yeah I can't believe the lines for it this weekend. I saw Shutter Island on Saturday night and the Alice lines were freakishly huge.
I was going to sneak into Alice just to see the Tron trailer, but they were checking tickets at each door for it.
Burton weirdos. Avatar fucks didn't meow at the theater.
serious. this fat guy kept meowing in line about 3 people down. my wife (4'9") hispanic pokes her little head outside the line and says "shut the fuck up"Burton weirdos. Avatar fucks didn't meow at the theater.
:lol serious?
what's worse, feverish Cameron lovers or smelly overweight Burton weirdos?
How does a movie that grossed 2.5bil get "beat down" by anything ::)
serious. this fat guy kept meowing in line about 3 people down. my wife (4'9") hispanic pokes her little head outside the line and says "shut the fuck up"Burton weirdos. Avatar fucks didn't meow at the theater.
:lol serious?
he shut the fuck up. Too bad there were others we couldn't find.
L liked it. I think the film is an example of how trying to fit into the 'rules' of three acts, climax and resolution can hurt a movie. I think the film would have worked better if it was able to keep going the way it was going without having to setup the finale.:banned
Peaked with Big Fish amirite gaiz
Peaked with Big Fish amirite gaiz
More like Ed Wood
I saw people lining up to see this movie, dressed up in goofy costumes and shit. Disposable White Guy and I passed about a dozen people wearing Mad Hatter hats. I feel like I was totally out of the loop on this one.Only good thing is that a lot of good looking girls decided to take the opportunity to cosplay or whatever.
The Chud review summed up a lot of my thoughts nicely. With this film, the creators try to shoe-horn Alice into the epic hero mold, which is totally wrong for her character. In this film, she's literally supposed to fulfill some prophecy about how a hero will save Wonderland. It's even worse because they completely give away the prophecy within the first ten minutes of Alice arriving in Wonderland. So the whole film becomes a lead-up to a final battle that, once it arrives, is completely mediocre in every way that a final battle can be mediocre.
The film had none of the whimsy of the books or of better Alice movies. The tone was wildly inconsistent, but it felt like they tried to make it far too serious. The Mad Tea Party didn't feel mad at all; they felt like a bunch of douchebags sitting around a table. This is a far cry from the old Disney cartoon, which made it pretty clear (to me anyway) that these were a bunch of drugged-out looneys on an epic coke binge.
In the old cartoon, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were creepy as hell. Seriously watch that scene and tell me it doesn't seem like they can't wait to gang rape Alice. In this film, they're a couple of dumb, lumbering lugs.
I had a lot more problems with the film, but I need to get to work. The Chud review is spot on.
The Chud review summed up a lot of my thoughts nicely. With this film, the creators try to shoe-horn Alice into the epic hero mold, which is totally wrong for her character. In this film, she's literally supposed to fulfill some prophecy about how a hero will save Wonderland. It's even worse because they completely give away the prophecy within the first ten minutes of Alice arriving in Wonderland. So the whole film becomes a lead-up to a final battle that, once it arrives, is completely mediocre in every way that a final battle can be mediocre.