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Wanna see a crazy picture... that just might be Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Lord knows my bullshit detector isn't great when it comes to early photos. I posted some early concepts of Heath Ledger as the Joker that, while accurate to all available information at the time, were fan-made.
And I might be duped again. We at AICN have our fingers on the strings of some sources to authenticate this pic if we can, but it's just too bizarre and, in my opinion, sweet as hell not to share. Consider this a rumor, consider it possibly fake, but take a gander at this pic of Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND!
I really, really like it. Even if it could be fake, it has a kind of Kabuki theater mixed with Tim Burton's trademarked gothic style. What do you folks think?
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..if it is real.
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Interesting
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I love some Johnny Depp and Tim Burton.. but the Kabuki thing not so much. I hate the weird cheekbones and lipstick.
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Methinks there's a little too much creative flair in this for it to be a Photoshop moment. I say "legit".
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(ø‹›≈≈
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i guess Tim really desires Depp.
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sorry, I just don't get it. It looks overly busy and unnecessarily ugly. God I hope that's not real...
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Nov 17, 2008 9:27:32 PM CST
I'm still grumpy at Burton for not making Great Glass Elevator
by yotzvonfrelnik
When CatCFactory came out a few years ago I was so looking forward to GGElevator and all the way-out visuals they could now realize with todays effect capabilities. I mean, c'mon, you don't make the first part of a two-part story and NOT MAKE part two. Well, guess it'll take another generation.
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WTF!
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It doesn't matter what he looks like, they could slap a tea cozy over his head and make him do all his lines after sucking helium and 98% of the world public would still gush over his character.
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looks pretty dumb to me
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it looks like a pic from someone's camera phone and seems legit. The shadows behind him seem to match. This could be an interesting film, and a welcome return to form for Burton...
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yeah.
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...is he shoving his fingers up the bunny's arse?
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Depp is nowhere in this picture. God, I had forgotten about her.
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fuckin stupid. fuck depp
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I haven't abjectly hated or, worse, found myself completely indifferent to in years. That said, Depp's performance in it was completely unremarkable, which lead to my post above. I mean how hard is it to brood for 90 minutes, seriously?
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As the casting of Depp in the first place, which is to say...not at all...if this is indeed legit.
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a great look, or a photoshop impress-o-gasm
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shadowing, image blurring, hues.. it all looks pretty legit. but I do have to agree with YackBacker, it does look like Data after a night on the town
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Looks really bad. Too much blush
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Just like everyone wanted to be JOKER. With that said, he looks fuckin badass.
It's like a mixture of edward scissorhands, toshi from x-japan, boy george, and the fairy godmother
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I nearly fell out of my chair...
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rarely do I call bullshit on something, but this just looks bad. It looks like Depp at a halloween party. Burton could have come up with something better than that. I guess we'll wait and see.
And Bernadette Peters? She's just a redheaded Madeline Kahn. Zing! -
i bet hes ruthless.
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It's pretty damn cool. I think Depp is a great actor and there have been many an excellent moments of cinema birthed from his collaborations with Burton. Not a flawless record but close to it. Never did understand the Burton/Depp bashing.
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To You! To Me? Yes, you!
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Definitely looks like Kozi from his Malice Mizer days.
http://tinyurl.com/59mpzs
I'm really hoping more Visual Kei style is used in films...preferably that "Phantom of the Paradise" remake. -
i seriously haven't liked anything the guy has done since big fish and even that was very "burton." why can't he just do original works instead of retellings, or remakes, or whatever? this guy used to be my favorite film maker and now he's a joke. this picture looks ridiculously stupid, count me out.
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this fucking mess.
Who would'a thunk mid-90's thrift store chic, Color blind Japanese girls, and the hijacking of an architectural movement would have led us down this sad road. -
You're dead right. Burton is the worst! A woman a care a great deal for loves him, but shit...Watch Batman Returns and try to defend him. I'm not saying 'remember' Batman Returns, I'm saying watch that steam pile! Enough, Burton, enough.
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... I thought it was gonna be about a Batman sequel. Because Roddy McDowell was just. that. good. on the Batman animated show.
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it looks a damned sight better and more original than the Virus infected MONKEY RAPING JJ is giving Star Trek!
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...but then I realized I liked the idea of Tim Burton movies better than what he came up with! His movies don't age well and aside from being quirky, they aren't terribly original and don't tell stories I haven't experienced before. I must confess that Pee Wee's Big Adventure is my favorite of his films in terms of pure entertainment but his serious efforts miss the mark (and I will never forgive him for the awful Planet of the Apes remake... they didn't need to make a remake, they just needed more Ape movies...) To be fair, I haven't seen Sweeny Todd and want to, but I do hope for the day when his films meet my expectations...
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I always thought it more dayglo/psychedelic, like '67 era Peter Max and John Lennon
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Nov 17, 2008 10:28:06 PM CST
Shit, I thought this was about Depp as Mad Hatter in the next Ba
by chuck_chuckwalla
Fuck Alice.
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Damn word count went over.
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Unlike those early Ledger pics, this actually looks like him. If it's not authentic, it's a GREAT fake.
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Poor dude.
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The Gothic and Lolita movement is gaining momentum in the US and the rest of the world. You can't escape it.
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It's like a character from Nightmare Before Christmas or the Corpse Bride came to life.
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He looks like how he always looks in Tim Burton movies
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Depp is utterly over rated as a character actor...that woeful and silly performance in the Choc Factory I would have though woke people up...the dude can kill it with some roles, but he is NO master of all characters..
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Sick of his self-indulgent, go-nowhere stories. Sick of his "look how creepy I am" attitude. Sick of his choices of same-old-same-old makeup, costumes, and film scores. Sick of his need to have EVERYTHING be a "re-imagining" in his style.
Sleepy Hollow, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Planet of the Apes, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, WHEN WILL HE MAKE AN ORIGINAL FILM AGAIN?!?!
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the HBO series "In Treatment," Mia Wasikowska is Alice and I think he picked one hell of a young actor to play her!
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Seriously. Burton's "style" is nothing more than a hollow & shallow mimicry of his greatest earlier efforts. He's going through the motions now.
And Depp.... Awesome actor. However, he's pigeon-holed himself by sticking with Burton. Depp does some wonderful eccentric characters, but he's also capable of more ... normal stuff. Anybody remember him in "Nick of Time" with Walken? I want to see more of THAT Depp - intense without being odd. Under Burton's direction, he's turning into a one note player. -
Thats an eternity away from now.
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Where's Chevy Chase!!!!
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the makeup just makes it look like make up...id really like to see him steer far clear of both jack sparrow and willy wonka for this..
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My goodness, Depp. Where is Steve Buscemi when you need him?
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That was my initial thought. I think my reaction was a little strong, but I don't like it. Maybe it works wonderfully in context of the full movie, but I don't like the representation.
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It looks fucking crazy...
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and I don't give a shit about future Burton projects.
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Burton hasn't made a "bad" movie since Planet Of The Apes (and I still liked that movie), yet everyone always piles on about how "awful" his last movie was.
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Nov 17, 2008 11:30:54 PM CST
I thought this was a Polar Express type electro-puppet show deal
by vern
not a live action David Bowie tribute band. If it was a real picture wouldn't it be Johnny Depp with a bunch of dots painted on his face?
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**Honk** BRAAAAIIINNSS!! **Honk-Honk** BUUUTTSEX!!
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pic looks aaight though.
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It looks completely unremarkable. It's so thrown together it almost feels like Burton had Depp done up like this and had the picture taken to throw people off how he'll really look, something completely un burtonesque. The Pirates movies seem to be a psychological experiment in actor saturation. Take a likeable actor and character (Depp) and see how much they can overexpose them until audiences actually wretch at the sight of them. I now hate Jack Sparrow with a passion and might find myself hating Depp if it weren't for a little movie called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Depp, the children's entertainer is about in the realm of Pee-Wee Herman, adults find him grating but maladjusted kids can build their entire childhoods off impersonating him. There's an idea, Burton. Get a deal with Paul Reubens to have Depp play the Wee. A handsome Pee Wee for a new generation.
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but I don't freaking know anymore...never can get a straight answer out of anyone nowadays...
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That is all.
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That Meghan Fox is Wonder Women? Or was she already replaced by Don Cheadle.
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IF...IF...wonder what would have been used as the source materials.
That synopsis someone posted in a talkback a while back sounded stupid as hell. The one where this is a "sequel" to Wonderland and how The Hatter and Alice are star crossed lovers or some shit. Stupid as hell. I have no problem with Burton using Depp as his surrogate, but enough with the big budget mastubatory wish fulfillment fantasies already. We get it. You're a misunderstood outcast. Now go comb your hair and stop dressing like you shop at Hot Topic.
I kid...but no...seriously...knock it off. -
... whenI viewed that picture and thought not only, "That's the direction the next Batman is going in?" but, "The Mad Hatter is going to be in the next Batman movie?!"
Eh, I guess it kinda works for Alice in Wonderland... -
Is the design on it Jack Skellington? I think there are little glimpses of Skellington in all Tim Burton movies (i.e. in a lure in Big Fish). Better reason to think it's Burton, or better reason to think it's fan made? Not sure which.
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Looks like typical Burton. So what? The goth retards are having a party.
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just sayin....
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me likes it.
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best burton/depp movie
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1998 says: BATMAN RETURNS is DA BOMB!
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That's what he looks lke in the Unit Photography images I've seen. I don't know where the rabbit came from though. That rabbit and the hand that is holding it seem like they may be photoshopped, because both the March Hare and White Rabbit are completely cgi and they both have white fur and clthes on.
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Seriously? This looks like garbage. There's no way this is anything more than a high school art/ fashion project gone horribly wrong. If it is real then I have lost all respect for TB. Is he banging a seamstress? Kill me now.
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with a touch of Darth Maul thrown in.
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can't wait
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...I'm figgerin'. The face paint is probably an approximation of a more detailed appliance...the thing they were checking for here was to see how the color scheme came together.
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I see you shiver with antici...
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But with Burton directing and all, wouldn't it be more befitting to call it "Through The Looking Glass" in some way? Alice in Wonderland just has no spooky tone to it. If that's the direction he is talking it. I not then whatever. Hope the pic is real.... looks cool.All i kept envisioning was a weirder Wonka. But this is cool.
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Looks Photoshopped as all get out. Cool though.
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he has to look like a different version of edwards scissorhands...maybe this is just a test shot
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Oh. Wait. Waaaait a minute. That's.... that's Depp! FUCKING HELL!
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"Hey, I gots a great idea to reinvent a classic! We'll make it dark and gothic and sprinkle in gayness! Nobody ever does that! Totally original!"
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http://www.mtv.com/movies/photos/s/sweeney_todd_070827/18.jpg
I think he could pull it off. -
God rest his soul
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I'm fairly certain this is a fake based on just a glance. It looks like someone used a paint feature over it on Photoshop and there would be no reason to do that except to hide the fact that it was faked.
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No doubt about it.
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I worked on the production when they filmed in Plymouth and saw a model of the White Rabbit and the actual rabbit hole (plus I have pics but I ain't sharing), and the Mad Hatter pic above fits the style I saw.
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...and just frakking making one.
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but that's it.
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Robert Smith = Obese Goth Clown
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It's Depp's face from Charlie and the Chocolate Factor.
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This could be a fake and even an image taken of Naomi Campbell in a Vivienne Westwood creation. In short, too camp for such a dark twisted character as the hatter.
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I can tell by some of the pixels, and having seen quite a few shops in my day.
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that Tim Burton is ruining her chances at making a movie off the rights to American Mcgee's Alice.
http://tinyurl.com/6olm2w
Mad Hatter: http://tinyurl.com/64sqlm -
Wonderland backgrounds and, obviously, creatures are CG.
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as all getout
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It looks nothing like I pictured a Tim Burton mad hatter would look like. He seriously looks gay.
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The Beautiful People.
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Original Willy Wonka + Edward Scissorhands = this.
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He looks like the chick from the Thompson Twins in that picture
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a forced style foretells a likely lack of substance: lots of Burton is good, lots is not
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in fetish outfits. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Nov 18, 2008 7:46:03 AM CST
Curse you, Depp's nameless teenage friend from the 80s.
by jackpumpkinhead
If you hadn't asked him to accompany you to that "Elm Street" casting, which you failed so badly, we would've been spared John "I need a private jet for my pet monkey, or I won't show up on the set" Depp today.
Speaking of which, how old is he, 45, 50? And he still wants to be called "Johnny"? Maybe that's why he loves that Michael Jackson look so much...
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C'mon guys! This was originally from fangirl (http://fangirlmagazine.livejournal.com/12269.html) - you really have to give credit where it is due!
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Now that site's page is missing! Oh well. That was the source I reported yesterday: http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2008/11/photo-johnny-depp-as-mad-hatter-is-this.html
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i mean really, look at depp's expression, he clearly is at a press event of something and they photoshoped his head onto a costume from some itailian opera...you fanboys are so gullible, hey did you hear depp is playing riddler and mark miller is directing superman..hahaha you guys a fucking lame
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I loved CatCF, and must have more of Depp as Wonka!
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A gesiha and that terrible comedian carrot top.
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FAKE-ety-fake-fake.
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if this is the real deal or even if this is sort of the direction they are going in, i'm kinda disappointed. i was imagining more of a "charlie and the chocolate factory" kinda feel. like the look of the room with candy grass and trees and the chocolate river expanded to fill an entire world but not made out candy. this looks a bit too gothic. i think it's the makeup mostly. especially the lipstick. i don't want to see a "modern dark" version, i want to see one that's more faithful to the source material, which was dark and definitely twisted, but in a cartoony kind of way.
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Andy Serkis for The Joker. :-)
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i'm firin up my lazer
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between the position of the hands and the bunny, which is obviously being held and not Photoshopped in. Who knows...
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So the two main characters from Bull Durham had a son?
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I'm going to come down on the side of very fake..the photoshopper does a so so job conveying a Burton-esque vision of the Mad Hatter but the shadowing and expression is wrong...and it's rather dull and tired from a costuming perspective. I'm going with fake.
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not that anyone cares
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It looks like somebody touched up a pic of Depp as Ichabod Crane from Sleepy Hollow to me
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we hadn't already seen Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd, Willy Wonka, and all of Burton's other pale faced creatures. I won't 100% say it sucks until I see the look in the movie. I just hope he makes this darker than Willy Wonka seemed it was going to be.
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"Tim..Tim..can I have some dark eye circles, lipstick and white face paint..it will so increase my odds at getting into the 3rd Batman"
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but, sweeny todd wasn't good.
neither was CatCF.
planet of the apes was turd dinner.
depp's "lunacy" is getting olde.
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WHo cares anyway Burton films are cack!
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I was "goth" when it wasn't called "goth" and instead we were just "alternative" or "new romantics" or "gothic rockers" or even "goth-punk". Back in the early 80s, when shit like Hot Topic was just a bad nightmare for a truly alternative person-- When Marilyn Manson and Vampire The Masquerade didn't exist. When this was truly unique and interesting...
And we loved Beetlejuice. We loved Pee Wee's Big Adventure. And then Burton thought he could keep milking that ideal and pushing his self-indulgent crap on audiences, and we started to become embarrassed. We wore less makeup. We leaned away from goth because guys like Burton and Marilyn Manson were fucking ruining it for us, making us look like chumps.
They took all the creativity and individual spirit out of goth, and then Hot Topic came along and drove the last nail into goth's coffin, more than a decade after its official death (which was in 1989, when MTV and America's Top 40 started playing the Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees and people who used to ridicule them now said "Ohmigod, they're like, so cool!")
Now, Burton's this overplayed, tired hack that keeps trying to make it seem like the goth audience gives a shit about his work, when only the most pretentious posers flock to him these days. He's one of the most embarrassing things about goth. He never evolved, never grew, never became any more than the same tired cliches. He dragged goth's image down with him, and now it lies rotting somewhere underneath emo, but a few feet above above disco, in a hole in the back alleys of Los Angeles, where it had been kidnapped, tarted up, and raped repeatedly by the usual suspects in the entertainment industry.
If Burton had an ounce of dignity, he'd stop trying to make re-imagined gothy versions of classics, and go back to making original films in a completely different, somewhat normal style. -
I just wanna see an Anne Hathaway pic from this flick!
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"Oh, my! Edward! Your ribs are just divine" "Thank you."
Seriously, the guy who said Mad Hatter should be a villain in the Nolan-verse Batman, you're fucking retarded. And my vote on this is fake. I also vote Who Gives a Fuck, I'm tired of Tim Burton's predictable aesthetics. -
and be done with it already
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are all Burton movies weird looking? Some call it stylish and in the beginning they were different enough to be deemed stylish but seriously-- shouldn't he move on and change things up? Both Batman movies were weird (first one cool in its own way second one sucked balls), Edward Scissorhands was bizarre, Nightmare, Sweeney, Corpse, Willy all feel the same even if they look a little different... It's like Oliver Stone's inability to get away from the "symbolic flashes" of the Doors, Natural Born, JFK, and others... Do something different. Stop beating a dead horse. And American McGee's Alice already "Gothed" this story awhile back...
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picture for Christ's sake. Why was this even posted? It's obvious...
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...YEah, dude, feel your pain. It is sad what's happened to Burton. Although, thankfully, I was NEVER "goth"... I was just another ratbag who liked the Ramones, the Clash, the Stranglers, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, etc... Then later, in college, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, the Mekons, etc. But Burton used to be cool... and suddenly sometime in the 90s, got lame fast. Every once in a while he tries to pull out of it (Big Fish, Sweeney Todd), but never quite succeeds.
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to shoe-horn your musical tastes into a post.
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Straight out gothic horror ... that should be what Burton is doing next. Instead he's cashing paychecks doing drivel like "Alice in Wonderland". I see that he's going to be doing "Dark Shadows" at some point ... and that's great ... I hope he does straight horror more. Things like Frankenweenie are fun and all, but comedy/horror that has classic Universal Pictures nods makes me just long for a classic horror that plays it straight.
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This is some casting gymnastics!
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...getting excited about Tim Burton movies. His last good one was Sleepy Hollow (which is being generous), his last great one was Ed Wood. The only people I know who liked Sweeney Todd have not seen the musical. The movie is okay, but only because the play is so good no one could completely fuck it up. To me, if you haven't made one good movie post-2000, it's time to give it up. And don't get me started on Big Fish, which was a movie full of squandered potential.
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But it's probably not far off from how it's gonna look. Burton is so boring.
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yeah, and it's ugly too
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He used to be so creative, but this looks like total lameass crap.
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if it's fake, it's not bad. Gives me new hope for this. I thought he was only doing voice work, and the mad hatter would be CG? Or was that misinformation?
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That's Johnny Depp on a Tuesday afternoon fucksticks.
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that people bitch about an eyelash being out of place when things like harry potter or watchmen are being adapted, but then marvel at this shit design since it came from Tim Burton? thats NOT what the damn hatter looked like. This has just gone to far, im not as outraged by the design as much as i am the positive response it has garnered. WAKE UP! I'd thought most people have read the book, this is something that was designed by a 16 year old goth girl, its shite. This fucker would scare the piss outta me if i ran into him. Burton needs to deflate that big ass head of his and try to put out a decent adaption rather than Burtonizing the whole thing, art is about being bold, he's been too safe casting the same people over and over. 'cuse the typos or whatever
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Talk about your empty calories. Burton should stick to set design-a director of any note he aint.
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and burton would set up the camera to film it. also danny elfman would be doing the live music in the background.
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actually I have no idea....
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for once
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several times. Maybe a decade ago
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