"I put out lit cigars on my penis." -- That's the line I remember. Classic stuff!

And hardly anyone seemed to realize that it was John Hurt dressed up as the March Hare. Totally random!

Someone get Burton on the phone. Depp must be replaced with Steve Buscemi!!!

Now FUCK OFF.

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This is up there with "Burton's next film will look Gothic"... :P

When was the last time Burton was involved in a good movie?

Sweeney Todd? I left the theatre after 40 minutes at the brain-numbing dullness of the songs and the staging. First movie I've walked out of since Attack Of The Clones

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory? Or: how to take a terrific book and extract a dull movie that's inferior in every respect to the creepy Gene Wilder version. And that includes Johnny Depp's "brilliant" interpretation of Wonka (in reality another of Depp's highly self-conscious "impersonations" where every tic and mannerism is telegraphed hours in advance.

Planet Of The Apes? It achieves a level of awfulness that few directors could achieve, even if they tried hard.

Sleepy Hollow? See comments on Charlie & Chocolate Factory....

The fact is you've got to go all the way back to 1994's Ed Wood (which I love btw: flame away!) to spot a good Burton movie. Because sadly, his mediocre films far outweigh his good ones. You can count his good movies on one hand:

Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas (which he produced only). And you can throw in his short, Vincent, which is a little gem.

So now we get another of Burton's 're-imaginings', which he'll sleepwalk through - and in which Depp will give us some more overacting and a bizarre impression of an English accent.

By God, it was awful. Terrible stodgy direction and acting. Batman spent most of the time just standing still - because clearly that's all his costume would allow him to do. Nicholson was just embarrassing. I had to stop watching after twenty minutes...

But for God's sake, DON'T MESS WITH THE CLASSICS!

Stick to some crappy studio actioners - Transformers or whatnot.

We might call it, "On Darkened Pond"

How can ANYONE be excited for this project. The only decent films Burton has made since Pee Wee and Beetlejuice have been Ed Wood and Sweeny Todd.

Rich people who drive drunk should just be shot. You're fucking rich. Call a goddamn cab.

For more ridiculous blanket statements, see above comments.

Am I the only one who read the Carroll classic? You probably never heard of The Randy Chambermaid, either...

Oh but of course the get-out-of-jail-free card there is that they saw the thread title and all rushed to post their nuggets of wit without reading the other forty million posts that said the same boring, uncreative, snotty thing. So I guess it really IS like you thought of it by yourselves! Bravo TBers!

Julia Horsemouth Roberts for the cat. She's the only one around with enough damn teeth!

Still, all that said, it's a Burton film, so I'm there, for good or for bad.

I'm hoping a good trailer will change my mind.

Unfortunately, this casting choice means that Burton is re-writing the story to focus on the Mad Hatter, and not on Alice.

yeah its lame idiocy, but I laugh myself home just the same.

And Depp needs a good part in a good movie. That pirate thing is REALLY stupid. I never understood why people ate it up like they did. My theory is that chicks like guys in makeup. Seriously. I think girls get hot when they see a good looking guy wearing mascara.

Burton should do a film that doesn't look like a Burton film to shake him out of that over used "style" of his.

Anyone agree?

I still wouldn't mind seeing someone else have a go at the Joker but perhaps down the road and with another "reboot" say, like 15 years from now.