Great review! Every additional trailer I saw for this film made me want to see it less and less. I think you may be right about Burton creating fantastic worlds and seldom filling them with interesting characters.

Personally, I'd like to see another Pee Wee film.

First of all, awesome list. I couldn't agree more with what you have. I do, however, have a couple more to add.

Best Actor - Sharlto Copley in "District 9". Similarly to "Moon", the entire movie rested on him as, essentially, the only live action actor in the movie. The arc of his character is huge, emotionally and physically. And Copley handles this with such realism and subtlety. Not to mention the fact that his performance was 75% improvised (at least that's what I hear).

Best Original Score - Clint Mansell for "Moon". First of all, Mansell hasn't been nominated yet. His last movie before "Moon" was "The Wrestler". But his score for "Moon" was absolutely one of the year's best. His score is chilling, dramatic, and melodic...without him, the scenes would've seemed all the more repetitive. He does a remarkable job at the film composers main goal in the movie, which is to make music which the audience doesn't notice.......except, i noticed it....but still.....deserved a nod.

I like how the Christian mythology movies featuring God are mostly comedies(Bruce/Evan Almighty, Dear God!, etc), and the other world religion's God's are always bad ass action adventure heroes.

And don't say Passion of the Christ wasn't a comedy...personally, I found it hilarious.

Alice In Wonderland has been "re-imagined" hundreds of times. I actually don't mind seeing the story being put into the Burton Blender. While this is directly based on the novel, we all know that the theme of Alice in Wonderland has been done in countless others movies (and comic books, video games, and television series). Hell, Pan's Labyrinth is essentially Alice in Wonderland, as well as many other movies that came out between 2005 and 2008 (little kids lost in imaginary places were huge those years...don't ask me why).

As for Burton adapting things and failing miserably....I'm kinda shocked no one else has mentioned the last novel Burton adapted. "Big Fish" is actually one of my favorite movies of the last 10 years, and it proved to me that there is something in Tim Burton that will surface from time to time.

Who knows, Alice may very well suck...but I feel like I have to defend the brain behind such films as: Big Fish, Ed Wood, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and Sweeney Todd.