Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (Disney) represents the confluence of a number of depressing cinematic trends: the need to ransack classic children's literature for ideas, the unimaginative layering of 3-D technology onto a visual universe that would look just fine without it, and the belief that slathering familiar storylines with a superficial gloss of Gothic "darkness" constitutes a substantial reinterpretation. [Emphasis added]
That loud rattling noise you hear is readers everywhere rolling their eyes.
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