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Against my better judgment, I went with my friend Kristin on Monday to see Alice in Wonderland. Opening weekend is usually my last choice in times to see a movie, but we were both really excited, and as my Avatar experience proved, some movies don't make a difference how long you wait. And that evidently no one works on Mondays anymore.
Sure enough, we arrived at 10:45 for an 11:30 IMAX 3D show. We tried buying tickets online but for some reason IMAX isn't available. We were first in line to buy tickets, not to be confused with the line to enter the theater populated by people who must have some inside information because they already had their tickets. Maybe they weren't going to IMAX.
We were alarmed by a sign in the window that said "Alice in Wonderland IMAX 3D sold out:" followed by what looked like every showtime for the day, until two women behind us (who seemed to make a career out of movie-watching) assured us they normally black out the sold out times.
By 11:00 the line stretched farther back than the line for Avatar did. No one works on Monday anymore. There was no sign of a theater employee, until we finally spotted one leisurely strolling up at about 11:10. She told us there were "plenty" of tickets for IMAX, but it was still nice to be first.
As we joined the ticket-owning line, we watched another customer heading back from the box office announcing to everyone "IMAX sold out! IMAX sold out!" Kristin looked at me skeptically. "IMAX sold out in the 60 seconds it took us to walk to this line?" I figured the woman saw the same sign we did and panicked. Pretty damn irresponsible, if you ask me, and why I refuse to believe anything before speaking to someone in a position to know for sure. That there seems like a good policy to employ for life in general.
So anyway, ( ::Alice in Wonderland:: )
From what I'm reading the movie is getting a lukewarm reception from just about everyone, which is a shame. It's hard to tell if it's a critique of the movie as a movie or a result of sky-high expectations due to the source material, or sky-high expectations of Burton in general. It reminded me most strongly of Labyrinth and everyone loves Labyrinth, so I suspect the complaints are more a function of the latter two than the first.
I personally thoroughly enjoyed it, until the end when Johnny breaks into an out-of-place Michael Jacksonesque dance, set to even more out of place, rather jarring Oingo Boingo-type music a la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, followed by an even more out-of-place pop song over the credits that turned the movie into just another vehicle for some Miley Cyrus-ish star and made it as cheap and hollow as critics complain the rest of the film is. I blame Disney for that last more than Burton.
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swankyfunk: Mad Hatter futterwacken. It's blurry, but see for yourself how completely un-frabjous it is.
Shoe-in for a Blu-ray purchase. Whether that means anyone else will enjoy it, you'd be better off speaking to someone in a position to know for sure.
Sure enough, we arrived at 10:45 for an 11:30 IMAX 3D show. We tried buying tickets online but for some reason IMAX isn't available. We were first in line to buy tickets, not to be confused with the line to enter the theater populated by people who must have some inside information because they already had their tickets. Maybe they weren't going to IMAX.
We were alarmed by a sign in the window that said "Alice in Wonderland IMAX 3D sold out:" followed by what looked like every showtime for the day, until two women behind us (who seemed to make a career out of movie-watching) assured us they normally black out the sold out times.
By 11:00 the line stretched farther back than the line for Avatar did. No one works on Monday anymore. There was no sign of a theater employee, until we finally spotted one leisurely strolling up at about 11:10. She told us there were "plenty" of tickets for IMAX, but it was still nice to be first.
As we joined the ticket-owning line, we watched another customer heading back from the box office announcing to everyone "IMAX sold out! IMAX sold out!" Kristin looked at me skeptically. "IMAX sold out in the 60 seconds it took us to walk to this line?" I figured the woman saw the same sign we did and panicked. Pretty damn irresponsible, if you ask me, and why I refuse to believe anything before speaking to someone in a position to know for sure. That there seems like a good policy to employ for life in general.
So anyway, ( ::Alice in Wonderland:: )
From what I'm reading the movie is getting a lukewarm reception from just about everyone, which is a shame. It's hard to tell if it's a critique of the movie as a movie or a result of sky-high expectations due to the source material, or sky-high expectations of Burton in general. It reminded me most strongly of Labyrinth and everyone loves Labyrinth, so I suspect the complaints are more a function of the latter two than the first.
I personally thoroughly enjoyed it, until the end when Johnny breaks into an out-of-place Michael Jacksonesque dance, set to even more out of place, rather jarring Oingo Boingo-type music a la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, followed by an even more out-of-place pop song over the credits that turned the movie into just another vehicle for some Miley Cyrus-ish star and made it as cheap and hollow as critics complain the rest of the film is. I blame Disney for that last more than Burton.
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swankyfunk: Mad Hatter futterwacken. It's blurry, but see for yourself how completely un-frabjous it is.Shoe-in for a Blu-ray purchase. Whether that means anyone else will enjoy it, you'd be better off speaking to someone in a position to know for sure.