Movie Project (watch all our movies)

Saturday started our crazy Alice in Wonderland-a-thon.  We happen to own three versions of the stories Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.  The one we watched first was a SyFy movie plainly called Alice.

This version is interesting and I think Lindsey likes it more than I do.  The talking animals and such are actually people in this one who have traits or characteristics like their animal representation in the original.  Like I said it is an interesting take on it.  This is a grown up Alice, unlike the child Alice we are more familiar with.  We never really find out if it is supposed to be the same Alice from the original all grown up or not.  I say no because it is set in modern times and the original obviously wasn't.  So how could a child from the Victorian era grow up to be a 20 something in modern-day America?

The mood is more somber and gritty I guess you'd say.  There are modern looking cities, but in a fairy tail, bizarro kind of way.  So my verdict is that its ok but not my favorite.

Last night we watched Disney's version, Alice in Wonderland.  This is the version we are all comfortably familiar with and I'm pretty sure everyone knows what its like.  What I noticed when we watched it last night is that Alice herself in this one is actually pretty interesting and does funny, querky things.  I always kind of saw her as being this background normal thing to all the crazy antics going on around her.  I like her character a lot more than I thought I did.










Our third Alice movie is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.  I suppose we'll get to that one tonight, but Once Upon A Time might over-ride it assuming there is a new one tonight..  Once Upon A Time is a TV series we are currently enthralled with. It's pretty good you should check it out.

Once Upon A Time - ABC

Movie Project (watch all our movies)

So, its been a little while since my last update, but we have been watching our movies.  We had to take a few nights off for various things like going out with Lindsey's parents for her mom's birthday and we went to the actual movies one day.  We saw Hugo by the way, it was really good.

Last one I told you about was The Abyss.  After that on our list came:

Across the Universe.  This had a very great possibility of being terrible.  But I happen to really enjoy this movie.  The song selections are great and appropriate and I really like all the arrangements.  The only one I take issue with its The Benefit of Mr. Kite.  I love Eddie Izzard, but that was just not good.












Then there was:

The Addams Family double feature.  What can I say?  Both of these movies are great, perfectly cast and I just love watching them.  I love you Raul Julia.














And last night we watched:

So, A.I.  Kind of creepy and kind of touching both together.  OK maybe a lot creepy.  I have a thing for movies with Robots as the lead characters.  You'll find that out though.  Its one of those movies that leaves you saying to yourself "well that was kind of depressing".  And so we needed something a little more upbeat before bed.

So the next in line was Airheads and that fit the bill pretty nicely.  Something that isn't depressing or scary and you don't have to think about too hard.  I find Brandon Fraser's character to be the most  unbelievable in this one.  Something with the way he portrays a Hard Rockin badass just doesn't come across to me.  But it's a funny movie with a semi interesting plot.