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posted by [identity profile] bayareajenn.livejournal.com at 09:54pm on 11/03/2010
Yeah, I read the same review. I feel the same way about the movie. I had been looking forward to it back when they put out the pictures. It's hard to imagine where it could go wrong with the cast they have, but it's looking like it's just going to be a merchandising opportunity with no real substance.

I hate that the movies are basically strip-mining our childhood favorites. I worry about when/if I have a kid...are they going to read the books, or are they going to just watch the movies and never really have a chance to exercise their own imaginations?
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posted by [identity profile] laurainlimbo.livejournal.com at 11:28pm on 11/03/2010
I totally agree with you about this movie being a merchandising opportunity, and another chance to cash in on the team of Depp and Burton. I loved them in their earlier movies, like Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands... but lately they're getting too weird for me - LOL!

and I also agree with you that kids will see Burton's version of Alice and they won't know how wonderful the original is! Hopefully, as I said to another friend, they will be intrigued enough to want to read the books, but do kids even read anymore? I worry about that stuff too! I want to make sure my niece and nephew read the classics - it's my job to buy them books as they get older, and I've already got a set of The Chronicles of Narnia to give to my nephew when he's old enough. I better go out and buy a good version of Lewis Carroll's classic too:)


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