Mar
4
2010

Getting caught up in ‘Wonderland’

posted by Raissa Rocha at 1:45 am.

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(917): im pretty sure every drug dealer is going to be able to retire the day after alice in wonderland comes out

God, I love Texts From Last Night. It’s funny that I came across this during my routine fix of TFLN, because last night one of my roommates actually suggested we go watch Alice in Wonderland when it comes out on Friday — all drunk from Unofficial revelry. We were wondering just how trippy it would be to watch Alice in A) 3D and B) -toxicated.

First of all, it’s a Tim Burton film. Any work of his is trippy enough. But what is it with people and wanting to go see movies under the influence of some substance or another? It looks LSD-enough on its own.

I can think of a few other movies that have made me go “Whoa. That’s trippy.” Avatar, for one. When the main characters (wow, it’s been 2 months and already I’ve forgotten all of their names) go bouncing around in the forest or whatever, there are colors everywhere. And it was all in 3D. I remember thinking the colors looked so corporeal, I just wanted to let my hands ruffle through them. Add all that to the fact that you have giant blue aliens as the center of everything…yeah, that was pretty interesting.

There was another film I remember watching for a bit: 2008’s Speed Racer. Never saw the whole thing, but I snuck into it late at night with a friend, and all I remember was fast cars and lots of colors. Those damn colors again. My friend commented as well what it would have been like to watch that movie while shrooming or something.

The Hangover was a bit of a novelty also last summer. The nature of the title seemed to have loads of people drinking up before watching it, because of course, one can only watch a movie called The Hangover while on your way to having one.

I wonder how many people will be “pregaming” to watch Alice in Wonderland this weekend.

Raissa Rocha: I'm an ordinary girl who dreams of extraordinary things. Find me at http://bumplum.com

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