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1. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Apr-2018 20:55:45 EDT St John's Evil Twin
   Tonight I'm watching the Disney movie of "Alice in Wonderland". The insane popularity of Disney is still inexplicable to me. I appreciate they had some extraordinary technical achievements (the multiplane camera) and artistic achievements ("Fantasia"). But on the whole Disney's saccharine, neutered world has no appeal to me.
   
   When people talk about their favorite Disney bits these days it's always the dark bits — the drunk scene from "Dumbo", Ursula from "The Little Mermaid", Scar from "The Lion King". But they seem so far from the sexless, fangless, lily-white mediocrity that characterizes the bulk of Disney's screen time. And that's what made Disney famous — the likes of Mickey Mouse and totally bland musical numbers.
   
   #Disney #AliceInWonderland
   1. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Apr-2018 21:05:46 EDT St John's Evil Twin

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      Oh good, the Dodo's actually smoking a pipe. I was worried they might have ret-conned it into a lipstick or a lollipop.
   2. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Apr-2018 21:09:16 EDT St John's Evil Twin

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      Oh man, the order of this movie is a hot mess. It's all over the place. It makes you wonder why they bothered adapting this if they didn't even like the book. Was it really just a cash-grab? And who was their target audience — people who hated the book?
   3. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Apr-2018 21:11:59 EDT St John's Evil Twin

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      Here I am wishing they'd made the movie Mary Blair designed — check out her edgy, creative concept art https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2014/08/20/mary-blair-the-movies-the-concept-art-of-alice-in-wonderland/ for the film.
   4. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Apr-2018 21:46:07 EDT St John's Evil Twin

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      There's some brilliant surrealism in this movie. I love the march of the playing cards. I just wish all this creative brilliance were employed in making something worthwhile instead of a twee distraction.
   5. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Apr-2018 21:24:22 EDT St John's Evil Twin

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      This Cheshire cat is high af. He's just tripping balls the whole movie.