This is the most objective review I’ve read about this film – and about this director. Tarantino is nothing much more than a fetichist (feet, movies…) with enough crafty camera moves to drag unsuspecting audiences in film theaters. Point is : he got absolutely nothing to say (his trademark long & pointless dialogues maybe meaning more than intended), and sadly, after seven films he is not growing up. Indeed, “Inglorious Basterds” has nothing to do with antisemitism, nor with morale, philosophy, history or violence… Tarantino doesn’t bother a single second. So why should we marvel at him having “the courage to change history in a movie”? Even “Jackie Brown” is only a façade, and while most people have considered it a “mature” movie, I think these people would be embarrassed if asked about the story’s purpose. Thank you for this great review.

However, the end completely threw me when Alice joins the corporation. Although in one way it seemed a corny little womyn’s libber ending, in another way, it seemed to stand the whole movie on its head. It did for me, anyway.

Tim Burton has inspired a following but I think it’s wrong for you to completely attack a generation that hasn’t even come to its maturity and blame this director a faux crime. Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Star Trek have done the same thing.

Though The Jabberwocky did play a weird part in the film, it actually was part of Through The Looking Glass. The film itself does follow Burton’s themes, but in a more mature way- maturity and reclusiveness. He is growing as filmmaker, but more subtly than say Spielberg, but at least he is at all unlike Quentin Tarantino.

I thought with the queen there was a moment of brilliance, when she mentioned that her husband was going to leave her. If only it had lasted longer, there could have been an exploration of the queen’s obsession with loyalty and how she would rather see others dead than having their allegiance with others. It also could have been milked more when she loses to Alice in the end and her subjects refuse to assist her. I also thought the prosthetic wearing subjects concept could have been explained a little better, but I think this is part of some sort of grand queen storyline that was probably interrupted on the cutting room floor or in early drafts of the script.

I admired the cinematography and art direction that contributed to the world, but I agree that the non-3D humans seem very out of place at certain times.

…And that last scene was probably the final nail in the coffin for me.

*I* deserve milk and cake for watching this movie from start to finish.

Everything that we need to know about that is actually conveyed in the very first scene with the surreal backdrop and Teddy vomiting on an imaginary boat. The vomiting is the first indication of the moment he began experiencing withdrawal symptoms from his treatment. Also, as I pointed out, there are other details, such as the fact that his coat is a couple inches too large… a suggestion that the facility physicians gave it to him as part of the role play.

Laeddis was his hallucination. Laeddis keeps talking about atom bombs, World War II, and tells Teddy, “You did this to me.” These are all clues that Laeddis isn’t a separate person and Teddy really has had a psychotic break.

Regarding the ending, Teddy isn’t actually relapsing back into his psychosis and it’s evident that he has been a patient there for at least two years. Listen carefully to the dialogue at the very end. He is, in fact, faking his relapse to force the insane asylum to lobotomize him.

The movie simply lacked substance. It was a predictable hodgepodge of explosions, close-calls, destruction, and chaos. The people that I wanted to live, died (the Russian Billionaire, for example), and the people that should have died (Anheuser), survived to the bitter end.

The special effects… yes, they were unbelievably spectacular, which in my eyes makes them less interesting. Special effects within reason are fine, but when a person who has never flown a multi-engine plane is able to fly it between two collapsing buildings, that’s too much for me.