Alice and Wonderland

I'm so sorry for my long hiatus...i got distracted for a few months.  i'll try not to let it happen again.

Just thought I'd share this brief story about my adventures in the pretend (bahaha) today.  Feeling like the independent unemployed person that I am, I decided to go to see Alice and Wonderland by myself.  Now, many people think this is sad.  and yes, I always feel sad for those people that attend movies alone.  But no people, this was not me being sad or lonely, this was me being INDEPENDENT.

So I got my 3D glasses and found a nice aisle seat on the right side of the theater.  Well...it ended up being not so nice because there were three small children screaming and kicking my seat.  The movie hadn't even started yet...so I had one of two options, to politely ask the children behind me not to kick (which would likely last for five minutes), or to move to some open seats on the opposite side of the theater.  So I put the can of diet coke i brought from home back in my purse and moved to the other side, proceeding to seat myself in front of some calm adults.  Getting comfy, I accidently tapped the seat in front of me, where a grumpy old fat man was sitting.  Well that man turned around and yelled at me to not kick his seat.  Is that ironic or what?  Ironic is definitely not the right word.  I'd have to say it's somewhere in between ironic and karma.

Anyways, I was so angry for this man's rude and uncalled for comment that I was almost too angry to focus on the magical journey playing out in the screen in front of me.  Yet, I managed to get past it, and wound up liking the movie...sort of.  I'd have to say, it made me really appreciate Avatar's 3D experience.  With Alice and Wonderland, they tried to scare you with things flying at your face. With Avatar, the 3Dness of it was much more subtle--it's more like the film wasn't constrained by the boundaries of the screen and almost immersed you in the world--where Alice and Wonderland, in my personal opinion, was a big fat show off.  I think by comparing the two, you really do understand just how groundbreaking Avatar really was.  Before, I wasn't sure if part of the reason why I loved Avatar so much was because I had seen nothing like it before in my life.  Having seen Alice in Wonderland, I know it wasn't just the technology used in Avatar that made me feel that way.

3D aside, the film was pretty good!  It's way too scary for children. You also have to go into it knowing it's a sequel to the original Disney version.  Johnny Depp was by far the best part--I actually don't think he was acting.   However, I don't know if I'm ever going to love Tim Burton's films.  I appreciate him as an artist, but the Nightmare Before Christmas gave me actual nightmares as a child... every one of his movies since makes me think of stick figure skeletons and death.  But the ultimate moral of this story is, don't see movies alone...especially PG rated ones.