Oh my God! ...I almost peed my pants. It looks so good!
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter with that huge head they gave her! :excited:
I love Tim Burton.
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Oh my God! ...I almost peed my pants. It looks so good!
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter with that huge head they gave her! :excited:
I love Tim Burton.
Tim Burton is crazy in the best possible way and I'm really looking forward to this :)
I believe one member here told me a while back that this was going to be full CGI. Why did you lie to me?
Also diI like all of Burton's filsm that I've seen, except for Corpse bride, never could sit through all of that. I am even more eager to see this after hearing Chris Gore's review of Coraline on Blu-Ray he said it was so good that it made him cry. Was Edward Scissor Hands directed by him too, I haven't seen that since I was like 6.
Tim Burton wasn't involved in Coraline at all, though. The promotional pieces saying it was from the guy behind Nightmare all referred to Henry Selick, who apparently did the real majority of the visual work on the film (Burton just made the story up). Coraline was based off of a Neil Gaiman story, directed by Selick. But yes, it is a pretty fantastic movie. I highly recommend it.
He did write and direct Edward Scissorhands, which was genuinely a good movie. It was definitely before he decided to make every movie star Johnny Depp with music by Danny Elfman and have them all be knockoffs of each other, so it actually had some heart to it.
I certainly wouldn't mind him taking a break from trying to rebottle Nightmare's lightning to try making another Big Fish instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
A couple years back me and my friends were discussing the possiblity of Tim Burton making an Alice in Wonderland film. Because he tends to but Depp in everything, we figured, if he ever did make one, he would make him the mad hatter. Just a fun little aside.
I think that if this is nothing like the creepy mind smurf of a version Alice, then it can be entertaining. Not all gitty with anticipation over it however.
Some things never change.Quote:
The problem with making a dark and disturbing version of Alice in Wonderland is that it's pretty dark and disturbing to begin with, which gives it little training wheels that help cultural firebrands ride it into geniusdom once every eighteen months or so. Masterminding a trippy reinterpretation of Lewis Carroll is like making a version of Crazy Traxi, only crazy! At this point, about the edgiest thing you could do with Alice in Wonderland is try to make it a little less smurfing insane.
I love Edward Scissorhands!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shoeberto
I liked Sweeny Todd live on stage than in the movie. It was way cooler but the movie wasn't so bad. My roomie my first semester was in the show so I heard the songs all the time when she'd sing them in the morning.
I think it looks good but Depp just doesn't seem to fit the mad hatter for me. It's just weird :/
While I think Berton is more original then some give him credit for, there are plenty of people who are on the opposite end of the spectrum too.
He's definately a good director with a lot of good movies, though he does need to branch out more often.
That being said, I'm happy to go see this one. Seems interesting enough, though I don't know if I'd want to see it in theaters or not.
Tim Burton is a very style-oriented director. As my Film History instructor said, "He's far more interested in style than narrative concerns. " I love his sort of Gothic style a lot, but I'm not sure if it's suited for a movie that I assume is intended for children. This might be entirely too scary for youngsters. It's scary even for me! But then again, I always thought the Cheshire cat was creepy as hell even in the animated version. *goes off to have nightmares*
I think AIW and Burton are a perfect fit. He's obviously a fan and "gets it" I'd be really shocked if it was anything other than excellent.
I don't think it's really that his films are unoriginal, it's just that they're all pretty much original in the exact same way. Against just about any other director's movies, his stand out, but it's just gotten to the point for me where it's like, "Really, Tim? This again?"Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoCracker
He's obviously capable of doing some amazing stuff, but the way in which he sticks so much to the same path (with the exception of Big Fish) with his films is getting a little old. Just my two cents.
It looks kinda boring.
Sweeny Todd might be the only movie I might actually really dislike that has come from a director who is actually talented.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marshall Banana