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Chicago deserves a trip down the rabbit hole too. Capone has the details on an early ALICE IN WONDERLAND screening!
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
By the time we make it to this glorious event, I'll have done six preview screenings in two weeks for the citizens of Chicago and the surrounding areas. I'm pretty sure that's a personal best, and I swear I wasn't even trying. But the films offered up such unique opportunities for AICN readers (three of these screenings has guests) that I really couldn't turn them down. And with my trip to the SXSW Film Festival coming up in two weeks, I believe this will be the final screening I attempt to do in Chicago before one extremely cool event I'm cooking up for early April. And this final event is a whopper in more ways than one.
I've got 200 seats for Chicago-area Ain't It Cool News readers for a screening of director Tim Burton's latest brand of wackiness, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, and Mia Wasikowska as Alice. The screening will take place on Thursday, March 4, 2010, at 7:00pm at the Navy Pier IMAX theater. And, yes, this will be in glorious 3-D. That's right, people--3-D, IMAX, Burton, Depp. Can your brain handle it?
Here's how to secure a pass good for you and one guest: Send me an email at therealcapone@aintitcoolmail.com with the subject line "VERY IMPORTANT DATE!" In the body of the email, I need your Name, whether or not you're bringing a Guest (guests' names are not required), and the answer to the following question (read carefully): "What is your favorite Burton-Depp collaboration, and why?" Keep your responses BRIEF--limit your answers to 75 words or less (no matter how tempted you are to go over the limit). Winners will receive an email from me over the weekend. I'll be reading every entry that comes in over the next 24 hours; this is going to fill up very fast. And by the way, if you give me a film title and say something along the lines of "Nuff said," you won't win.
Please keep in mind that this is not an exclusive AICN event, and it is slightly overbooked to make sure there is a full house. If you cannot arrive at this screening early, please do not enter. If there's even the slightest chance you'll have to back out of attending if you do win, don't enter. If you have a job that might make you late or unable to attend, or an ill/pregnant relative, or a temperamental significant other, or a scratchy throat, do not enter. Anyone not showing up without informing me ahead of time so I can fill their seats could potentially be blacklisted from future screenings.
Good luck, everyone!
-- Capone
therealcapone@aintitcoolmail.com
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maybe not
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I am really not all that excited about this movie. But thanx for sharing.
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for my liking.Also I dont live in Chicago... but seriously this looks like vacuous glossy CGI instantly forgetable mehh.Alice looks as wooden as little charlie 2.0 was! C&tCF was strike 3 for me (the first was Apes and second Corpse Bride) Hes coasting on his name and Depp now, im sorry Burton fans, hes lost it, whatever spark me may have had, the only movie of his i would pay to watch would be his real directed sequel to Batman returns! It could happen!, (in Bizarro hollywood)
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...what is it with you guys and Roman Polanski?
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Burton is a fucking hack.
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Very very 'Meh' not bad, not good and utterly forgettable. Fans of the books will still be annoyed by inaccuracies of the characters (The Red queen IS NOT the Queen of Hearts, people)Tries to be Lord of the Rings, ends up closer to Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe (def. not a compliment) art direction is by far the best part of the feature. The Mad Hatter was the Weird Hatter at best and essentially did not need to be in the story. The attempt to create illogical logic in the dialogue seemed lazy and pales in comparison to anything Lewis Carroll ever wrote. The Actress that played Alice however was pretty good, not spectacular but good. Anne Hathaway was horrendous in both acting and visual aesthetic. The plot, well , let's say I never cared for a second who won and who lost. It seemed like it was just an excuse to use the Jabberwocky and the Vorpal sword, however, it does not really do much to show why it needed to be Alice and the Vorpal Sword to slay the Jabberwocky, other than saying that is how it is supposed to be ("If it's not the sword it doesn't die"). Basically this movie did not need to be made and only serves to dilute the joyous world that Lewis Carrol created all those years ago.
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