1. 11:11 1st Mar 2010

    OOC3d.5 During our last Out Of Commission podcast (#37) we mentioned some upcoming movies which would be hitting your local cineplex. We spent a great deal of time recounting the finer plot points of Brooklyn’s Finest and made some other passing references to some other films not being shown in your local cineplex. We didn’t, however, make mention of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which opens this Friday much to the glee of Hot Topic and anyone who still listens to Mindless Self indulgence. Once great innovator, Tim Burton has spent the last couple doing whatever it takes to pin himself down as a one dimensional gothic director. No one can deny Burton’s achievements including whatever fell between Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) and Mars Attacks (1995). During the turn of the century, Burton branched out with some weird and often amazing films including Big Fish.  Beginning in 2005, with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton has begun to cast a dark Gothic shadow over source material already cast in Gothic shadows. The Corpse Bride, Sweeny Todd, that vampire movie coming out in a few years and finally 2010’s Alice In Wonderland. I do not know if Lewis Carrol would approve of his works being turned into fodder for disaffected teenage girls. The once great literary work filled with Victorian satire and academic jokes has been distilled into a contemporary excuse to combine dark fantasy with vague drug allusions as if somehow giving the finger to children’s literature. The cult success of Labyrinth, Dark Crystal and Return to Oz has given directors cues to make movies which cast those Gothic shadows over material originally intended for children but marketed towards teenagers. To like such a movie would not only be giving a nod to tradition literature but show your maturation in aesthetics or something stupid like that. Alice in Wonderland has been adapted so many times, including a 1970’s pornographic film, the original innocence of the text has died long ago. Sorry, everyone this is no longer a childrens book but rather a tome to sit alongside of your Edgar Allen Poe anthology and the unread copy of Goethe’s Faust. Dear Mr. Burton, if you had only done this film ten years ago you may of gotten me to pay 10$ in the theater or even used one of my netflix rentals. I care not for the story or any dark visions you have for its characters. It has been a long ten years and I have grown out of that demographic. I no longer have my hookah smoking caterpillar black light poster. I no longer talk about the real meaning of the Caucus Race. From this point forward, the only adaptations of Alice In Wonderland I still accept were made on or came before the year 1951. This includes both the Disney adaptation and the series of silent movies made in the early 20th Century. -Kaptain Carbon

    OOC3d.5

    During our last Out Of Commission podcast (#37) we mentioned some upcoming movies which would be hitting your local cineplex. We spent a great deal of time recounting the finer plot points of Brooklyn’s Finest and made some other passing references to some other films not being shown in your local cineplex. We didn’t, however, make mention of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which opens this Friday much to the glee of Hot Topic and anyone who still listens to Mindless Self indulgence. Once great innovator, Tim Burton has spent the last couple doing whatever it takes to pin himself down as a one dimensional gothic director. No one can deny Burton’s achievements including whatever fell between Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) and Mars Attacks (1995). During the turn of the century, Burton branched out with some weird and often amazing films including Big Fish.  Beginning in 2005, with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton has begun to cast a dark Gothic shadow over source material already cast in Gothic shadows. The Corpse Bride, Sweeny Todd, that vampire movie coming out in a few years and finally 2010’s Alice In Wonderland.

    I do not know if Lewis Carrol would approve of his works being turned into fodder for disaffected teenage girls. The once great literary work filled with Victorian satire and academic jokes has been distilled into a contemporary excuse to combine dark fantasy with vague drug allusions as if somehow giving the finger to children’s literature. The cult success of Labyrinth, Dark Crystal and Return to Oz has given directors cues to make movies which cast those Gothic shadows over material originally intended for children but marketed towards teenagers. To like such a movie would not only be giving a nod to tradition literature but show your maturation in aesthetics or something stupid like that. Alice in Wonderland has been adapted so many times, including a 1970’s pornographic film, the original innocence of the text has died long ago. Sorry, everyone this is no longer a childrens book but rather a tome to sit alongside of your Edgar Allen Poe anthology and the unread copy of Goethe’s Faust.

    Dear Mr. Burton, if you had only done this film ten years ago you may of gotten me to pay 10$ in the theater or even used one of my netflix rentals. I care not for the story or any dark visions you have for its characters. It has been a long ten years and I have grown out of that demographic. I no longer have my hookah smoking caterpillar black light poster. I no longer talk about the real meaning of the Caucus Race. From this point forward, the only adaptations of Alice In Wonderland I still accept were made on or came before the year 1951. This includes both the Disney adaptation and the series of silent movies made in the early 20th Century.

    -Kaptain Carbon