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Post by Stripes on Mar 15, 2010 1:00:01 GMT
Did anyone see the movie? It was better than I thought it would be. Alan Rickman, Matt Lucas and Stephen Fry were the best, even if they were digital creatures.
Depp didn't annoy me like he did to everyone else. Though he did something in the end that made me roll my eyes.
Also, this may have been me, however I felt there was a little bit of Alice/Mad Hatter shipping going on. Very very little, but I swear it was there. I didn't like it. I could be wrong.
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 15, 2010 2:02:26 GMT
No, it's not all in your head Newton, there was definitely some disturbing sort of shipping going on towards the end there. Frankly though, I was more disturbed that the apparent moral of the story was 'people who look different are evil, but beautiful white people are a force for good and have to look after the different looking people, for their own good'
I thought we'd moved past that a bit? It annoyed me more because they seemed to be setting it up to do something morally ambiguous with the White Queen, to how her up as not being as good as she pretended, but then nothing came of it.
And then at the end Alice and the company set sail to sell opium to China...
Maybe I'm just reading into it too much. Maybe I've just been in university too long. Yeah...
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Post by Stripes on Mar 15, 2010 2:19:35 GMT
I didn't see the "people who look different are evil". It was just a case of "little sister is prettier than me and had more friends then me, so I became evil." The Red Queen was very lonely, so lonely she allowed herself to be fooled by people who bothered to talk to her. The mad hatter, Alice, the evil guy she was sort of dating. When she thought about becoming good, i thought they were going to go int he dirction of, red queen becoems good, but evil boyfriend is still evil, so they fight against him. Alice wins, everyone is happy and Alice/Mad hatter became lovers. I did love the animation characters, the cat, the caterpillar, the little mouse. They were my favorite.
So that was what Alice was doing on the ship. I didn't really get that part. I also thought she was going to uncover the front of the ship and it was going to be based on one of the characters from Wonderland.
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Post by wanderlust on Jun 6, 2010 23:15:47 GMT
I saw it an thought it was kind of boring. It wasn't as weird as I thought it might be, but it definitely didn't hold my attention like I was expecting.
I'm not fond of the huge emphasis on Mad Hatter, either. Possibly because I've become inundated with Depp fangirls in recent years and while I also find him talented, I don't love him with every ounce of my being. His little dancy thing at the end was really bad, too. So obviously animated.
And no, you're right. Alice/Mad Hatter shipping was definitely going on. I would have found this strange, but the Syfy channel over here in America had a miniseries called Alice fairly recently, and their characters of Alice and the Mad Hatter did actually end up in a relationship in the end. I thought they were adorable, so upon feeding my sick need, I found that apparently people have shipped the Mad Hatter and Alice for years. That, to me, is very very very weird and unnatural.
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