I haaaaaaate Alice in Wonderland but I've never read Peter Pan
"Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom."
"Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee."
Without more words they fell to, and for a space there was no advantage to either blade. Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defence, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home. Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again. Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs. At the sight of his own blood, whose peculiar colour, you remember, was offensive to him, the sword fell from Hook's hand, and he was at Peter's mercy.
"Now!" cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword. Hook did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form.
Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now.
"Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form.
I haaaaaaate Alice in Wonderland but I've never read Peter Pan
"Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom."
"Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee."
Without more words they fell to, and for a space there was no advantage to either blade. Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defence, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home. Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again. Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs. At the sight of his own blood, whose peculiar colour, you remember, was offensive to him, the sword fell from Hook's hand, and he was at Peter's mercy.
"Now!" cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword. Hook did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form.
Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now.
"Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form.
I liked the book versions of Alice. Never read Peter Pan as a book.
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Oh, I liked both books
But they were both rambling and clumsy
With conflicting themes and plots that never really come together
The Disney versions are a lot more focused
Maybe if it were an Alice movie done by the Coraline animators (which wasn't a Tim Burton film). Instead of having Johnny Depp in disturbing makeup specifically seeking to unsettle the audience.
Anyway, regarding Holmes, is this film intended to fit in a certain location in the stories' timeline, or is it an alternate-universe anachronism that's standalone? Of course, where Moriarty is concerned, Holmes did mention him to Watson twice; in The Final Problem where Watson says he'd never heard of him, and The Valley of Fear (set earlier chronologically) in which he had. Might not be too much of a stretch to say this is out of order too.
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Beetlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
even Sleepy Hollow and Big Fish I enjoyed
but enough
TIM BURTON MUST BE STOPPED
Oh wow
But they were both rambling and clumsy
With conflicting themes and plots that never really come together
The Disney versions are a lot more focused
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I was sure I was the only person who didn't care about it
Maybe you should post more about how much you don't care about it
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then we can all post about we hope no one else ever mentions twilight
Anyway, regarding Holmes, is this film intended to fit in a certain location in the stories' timeline, or is it an alternate-universe anachronism that's standalone? Of course, where Moriarty is concerned, Holmes did mention him to Watson twice; in The Final Problem where Watson says he'd never heard of him, and The Valley of Fear (set earlier chronologically) in which he had. Might not be too much of a stretch to say this is out of order too.
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but are you seeing the parallel
Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes