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 Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:28 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 10:01 pm
Tim Burton has always been a hit or miss kind of director. Most of his work I like, many others Not as much.
My two favorite Burton films have to be Beetlejuice and Batman
My least favorites are probably Sweeney Todd and Planet of the Apes
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:40 am
Yeah, he's definitely overrated in my opinion.
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:59 pm
I really don't think he's made any real good or interesting movies since Beetlejuice.
I felt Sleepy Hollow was alright, if you took out the acting and screen play. The filming was really good. Same with Edward Scissorhands.
Everything else was pretty terrible in my opinion. By terrible I mean very few, if any redeeming qualities about them.
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:47 pm
You forgot some movies in there, but that's not the point.
Over all I'm not a fan of Tim Burton. I like some of his movies, such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands. All of those I grew up with as a kid and to this day still enjoy (though I haven't seen Batman in so many years), but a lot of the newer stuff that I have seen I dislike strongly. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one, and then Alice in Wonderland. Alice had potential, it really did...but I think what killed it for me is that stupid a** dance towards the end of it, and I'm not even joking. Anyway..the graphics were impressive, and I still sort of liked the Cheshire Cat, but the story wasn't all that interesting and got boring too.
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:38 am
iBarty You forgot some movies in there, but that's not the point.
Over all I'm not a fan of Tim Burton. I like some of his movies, such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands. All of those I grew up with as a kid and to this day still enjoy (though I haven't seen Batman in so many years), but a lot of the newer stuff that I have seen I dislike strongly. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one, and then Alice in Wonderland. Alice had potential, it really did...but I think what killed it for me is that stupid a** dance towards the end of it, and I'm not even joking. Anyway..the graphics were impressive, and I still sort of liked the Cheshire Cat, but the story wasn't all that interesting and got boring too. I thought the dance was stupid too. I was hoping Depp would do back-flips -- not those lame-a** body turns. :/
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:08 am
iBarty You forgot some movies in there, but that's not the point.
Over all I'm not a fan of Tim Burton. I like some of his movies, such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands. All of those I grew up with as a kid and to this day still enjoy (though I haven't seen Batman in so many years), but a lot of the newer stuff that I have seen I dislike strongly. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one, and then Alice in Wonderland. Alice had potential, it really did...but I think what killed it for me is that stupid a** dance towards the end of it, and I'm not even joking. Anyway..the graphics were impressive, and I still sort of liked the Cheshire Cat, but the story wasn't all that interesting and got boring too. Yeah I left out his short films and things made for tv on purpose. You're welcome to talk about them though.
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:30 pm
Tear-Ruh iBarty You forgot some movies in there, but that's not the point.
Over all I'm not a fan of Tim Burton. I like some of his movies, such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands. All of those I grew up with as a kid and to this day still enjoy (though I haven't seen Batman in so many years), but a lot of the newer stuff that I have seen I dislike strongly. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one, and then Alice in Wonderland. Alice had potential, it really did...but I think what killed it for me is that stupid a** dance towards the end of it, and I'm not even joking. Anyway..the graphics were impressive, and I still sort of liked the Cheshire Cat, but the story wasn't all that interesting and got boring too. I thought the dance was stupid too. I was hoping Depp would do back-flips -- not those lame-a** body turns. :/
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 2:24 pm
iBarty Tear-Ruh iBarty You forgot some movies in there, but that's not the point.
Over all I'm not a fan of Tim Burton. I like some of his movies, such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands. All of those I grew up with as a kid and to this day still enjoy (though I haven't seen Batman in so many years), but a lot of the newer stuff that I have seen I dislike strongly. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one, and then Alice in Wonderland. Alice had potential, it really did...but I think what killed it for me is that stupid a** dance towards the end of it, and I'm not even joking. Anyway..the graphics were impressive, and I still sort of liked the Cheshire Cat, but the story wasn't all that interesting and got boring too. I thought the dance was stupid too. I was hoping Depp would do back-flips -- not those lame-a** body turns. :/ I thought all of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was horrible. I can't really narrow it down to one thing as to why I hated it. I thought Alice in Wonderland would have been better if there was more nonsense and rhymes like the books. I also would have liked it more if the Jabberwocky was called the Jabberwock... I thought it was good though.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:39 am
I like his bizarre style, but I think there are some concepts that should probably have been left alone as they originally were. I couldn't stand Alice in Wonderland. Granted, the book was a headtrip and a half, I just didn't like how very dark and dreary the whole film seemed. I enjoyed Nightmare Before Christmas and Sleepy Hallow. But I think with things like Charlie and the Chocolate factory, I was wondering kind of "what the heck was he thinking?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:09 pm
I have always liked his films and everyone else has already listed my favorites as their own. I think the problem with his movies is that he kind of buys into his own hype and a certain look and feel to things. His aesthetic has become more important than the actual material he's working with and this is really starting to have a negative impact on his films.
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:01 pm
I liked his earlier work, because he's so strongly inspired by german expressionism. It's pretty clear in his short Vincent and Edward Scissorhands. I loved Batman Returns and Sweeney Todd. But I really don't like anything he's done since Sleepy Hollow.
I didn't like Alice in Wonderland merely because it was entirely mislabeled. It implies the story we knew instead of a continuation. Which I'm sure was the point. And I hated the dancing that I had managed to block from my memory until reading some of these posts. neutral
I agree with Raven, he seems to be overwhelmed with following an aesthetic instead of telling a story. It seems like he's more concerned about what t-shirts are going to look like in Hottopic than what he's actually doing in the movie.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:04 am
I really like his work, only a few I'm not really a fan of. I'm sick of the stigma that comes with it (thanks a lot, Hottopic-loving emo ********), but I still watch all his new films.
I thought Alice was cute, but I feel the plot was just...not...quite finished. There was potential but it got cut short. Everything was rushed. Also, most people went in expecting the books, where if they had read any synopsis, they'd know it wasn't. That caused a lot of hate.
I refuse to watch Planet of the Apes, for obvious reasons.
I think the problem is people only look at the more popular ones (Alice, Charlie, Sweeney). I think of all his films, Big Fish is the most underrated and the best. That movie is just plain amazing.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:22 pm
I thought that the strangest thing was I would talk to other people about his Alice in Wonderland movie and people would say, "oh it was based on his second book" and I would be like "I guess you never read Through the Looking Glass..." I know it has the two queens but that was about it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:30 pm
I had a lot of people think that too. It got annoying to explain that it wasn't really based on either. It had the characters and some ties to the Jabberwocky poem, but other than that not much.
I think the weirdest I got though was someone claiming it was similar to ...I think it was Looking Glass Wars or something. Not even close, that book stunk worse.
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