nomad2010 wrote:
No one even wants to listen to Christmas music yet. Who’s going to go see a Christmas movie?
To be fair,
The Grinch comes out next week...and Disney's probably banking on RBtI & MPR being huge holiday draws, during Thanksgiving/autumn break and winter break, respectfully.
I wonder what Disney's initial thoughts on making a Nutcracker movie were, how this film changed throughout pre-production/production, but I also wonder, again, if the original director came back for the reshoots, how much that would have affected the final film. I know even when the first trailer came out, this film was being compared to
Alice in Wonderland's live action film; a classic story told with striking visuals, twists, darkness; I wonder if Disney had thought about approaching Tim Burton initially. I wonder: no matter the director, with the screenplay they had, would it have truly mattered? I wonder what the story is behind the actual story process of the film...were some people not happy with the screenplay and wanted to keep working on it, and the suits said that there's no more time, make the movie now?! Financially, not critically, following AiW's theming makes sense, because that movie made money, but critics didn't love AiW, either.
Oh, and with such great visuals in the film, I wonder why no art of book has been released (that I have found...unless they just don't make those for live action films).
It'll be interesting to see how the movie does this weekend. It makes you wonder, critics aside, if it were released nearer to Christmas, if more people would be inclined to see it.
For those of you who already saw it, how full was your theater?