craig [email] said at 5:58 PM 03-07-2006: I watched Mirror Mask last night. If you liked return to OZ, you might like this movie. It is sort of Wizard of Oz meets Alice in Wonderland, meets labyrinth, meets Legend. It was directed by Dave McKean and written by Neil Gaiman of Sandman fame.
craig [email] said at 6:06 PM 03-07-2006: You may already know about these movies, but you may also want to check out Alice and Faust by Jan Svankmajer. They are both stop motion and excellent.
reggie [email] said at 6:14 PM 03-07-2006: Since they're in the business of remaking classic movies I actually wouldn't mind seeing a NON-MUSICAL re-adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. I never read it but if I'm not mistaken I believe Baum's original book was an allegory about the Great Depression, something that the most famous version completely overlooks (there are actually two versions of The Wizard of Oz the original was silent and, obviously, not a musical...and also apparently really bad.)
kara [email] said at 12:24 PM 03-08-2006: I have some beautifully illustrated copies of some of the books - the technicolor movie was really nothing like the stories... the above movie was more true to them.
However, I think making a Wizard of Oz movie (especially with that name), would be disaterous, especially if it was live-action.
Why bother
reggie [email] said at 11:46 PM 03-08-2006: I don't think it would be disastrous. With Lord of the Rings and Narnia and Harry Potter blowin up the spot recently if it were to happen, now would be the time.
Why Bother? I don't know, I just don't dig musicals that much. In the end it's about what I want.
myriam [email] said at 6:58 PM 03-07-2006: The movie terrorized my nights as a child. Fucking jack o'lantern and the hall of heads and even tick tock the talking clock... ugh. I've told people about this movie for years but no one seems to know about it. For awhile I thought it was all in my head.
I'd be interested to see it now and see if it surprises me that it scared me as a kid, or if I am still creeped out.
Another good one is definitely "Through the Looking Glass" with the jabberwocky chasing Alice.
myriam [email] said at 7:27 PM 03-07-2006: oh fuck he ticks all the fucking time. he has a big key in his back. that's all i remember. he creeped me out. his face ticked.
myriam [email] said at 7:28 PM 03-07-2006: i thought he had a clock in his belly but i guess not, i didn't look anything up. these are creeped out kid memories here, straight from the heart.
julie [email] said at 7:40 PM 03-07-2006: You're lucky I stopped short of calling you out for misnaming "Jack Pumpkinhead" as Jack O'lantern. Oh, whoops, I just did. SNAP
brandonA [email] said at 7:31 PM 03-07-2006: you're likely jumbling in the dog, 'Tock' (who is on the classic cover) from the phantom tollboth who does have a clock in his body.
myriam [email] said at 7:42 PM 03-07-2006: Oddly enough I loved that book. Tock was calming and did not creep me out at all. Wind-up man who ticks and makes mechanical eyebrow movements = creep.
Like the animatronic characters at Disneyland... ::shudder::
myriam [email] said at 7:41 PM 03-07-2006: I know it is, I said that. I know he winds up, it creeped me out. I guess I added a clock in in my mind. WHO CARES, he's a fucking creep.
There's this whole scene where she winds him when she meets him and he comes to life. I KNOW he is a wind-up man......... rargh.
Ha ha, I am sincerely grouchy at the moment. Tell my job to pay me, bitches.
H. Pommefrittes said at 10:16 AM 03-08-2006: Yep, Return to Oz really is that freaky. It was directed by Walter Murch, who "conceptualized" the opening montage in Apocalypse Now.
carla [email] said at 1:07 PM 03-08-2006: I haven't seen this movie in forever but I remember some scene where there is a tree full of happy meal looking things.
I was always like "damn! I wish I came across a tree filled with happy meals" that would be heaaaaven.
kate [email] said at 2:32 PM 03-08-2006: totally, that is what i was going to comment on. i want to pluck a lunch pail out of a tree. MMM a ham sandwich. the way she said that was cool. she never lost that quality in her voice.
kate [email] said at 2:35 PM 03-08-2006: It used to really REALLY bother me that in this poster, and other movie posters in particular, okay in barbies and other dolls too, that every other character is drawn perfectly, but the GIRL! that is not her face!? i mean, it's not! i always blew it off that they must have made the poster before they picked the girl. that was the only explanation for why she looks nothing like the lead girl. i also hated that dolls of real people look nothing like them.
linus [email] said at 11:33 PM 03-09-2006: I remember being pretty freaked out by all the mental asylum stuff. I was a pretty out-of-touch-with-reality kid. I mean I didn't have a talking chicken. But close.
