Why do I hate this movie so?
The Sysmidgets are (right this very minute) watching "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
If you haven't seen it yet, you have lived an extremely fulfilled life. Don't ruin it now.
What's not to like?
A. It's 3 hours long (or seems like it)
B. Danny Elfman wrote the score - but neglected to write any music. I couldn't hum any of these tunes at gunpoint.
C. It's neither funny nor scary
In retrospect, the only Tim Burton movie that has held up for me is "Beetlejuice".
His "Planet of the Apes" made me hate monkeys.
His "Batman" showed how a man in a plastic suit could only kick people.
His "Johnny Depp" featured Johnny Depp
Your thoughts?
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9:20 PM"This is Halloween
Everybody Jump and Scream"
Okay, that's about all I can do.
I found it disjointed and jarring.
Let me ruminate a bit more on the Tim Burton thing. There has to be SOMETHING besides Beetlejuice, which was of course saved by a raunchy Michael Keaton.
12:14 PM
I think he's a wonderful production designer/art director/set dresser.
word verification: ibjasty
(Miss Jackson if you're jasty.
Oh...I be jasty all right).
1:49 PM
Never seen it, but the whole goth and goth-ification of things never really grabbed my interest at all.
I did love Beetlejuice, though. It had Dick Cavett in it for God sakes!
xoxo Rev. Jack
4:04 PM
Umm, excuse me. What about a little thing I like to call Pee Wee's Big Adventure?
4:24 PM
There's no basement in the Alamo.
5:50 PM
i have invested a great deal of emotion in excited anticipation of Tim Burton films over the years, most times in vain. And I ain't lying when I say I could prattle on about Burton's films for quite a spell. But in short, I think he is a fantastic art director and a terrible story teller. Many of his films' narratives feel like they are barely held together, hoping that the color, light and whimsical characters will carry the movie.
I want so badly to like Nightmare; it has great little critters, and gives us a new generation of the stop motion sorely lacking since those Christmas specials back in the 60's or whenever. Great look. But JESUS F, a musical? And a horrible one at that, I couldnt agree with you more, sysm: the songs are horrible to sit through, and (to paraphase the old joke about the two old ladies complaining about the small portions of lousy food)absolutely unmemorable.
The monkey movie couldn't decide what to be...and was awful. To have C Heston say "damn dirty human" was the pinnacle of a ridiculous film...a ridiculous film that took itself seriously.
Sleepy Hollow - again great look. Beautiful. But, just, not quite --
Big Fish - great look, but more a meandering piece of vingettes with a Fellini ending
Ed Wood - watching Martin Landau say "cocksucker" a hundred and elevn times can make any movie entertaining. But that's about it...
Mars Attacks - yeah, i get it, but its still not quite working
Is it that his characters, while eccentric, are just intangible? Or too much caricatures rather than characters?
mm.
I read that the CharlieChFactory "delivers what Beetlejuice promises" so i'm gonna check it out.
(ps. i picked up the Elfman cd and played that pee wee theme on 11 for about 4 weeks. Yelling "Meow Meow Meow Meow-meow-meow-meow!" along with the band and marching around the apartment.
And someone still wanted to marry me. huh.)
5:51 PM
Oof! Sorry, that looks like alot more than i planned on saying
5:56 PM
Note: We had a rental car and she did the same thing while I was driving, except with marching in place.
6:20 PM
(shrug)
I'm simple.
9:32 AM
I shall withhold my opinion until FDC chimes in. Ah fuck it. Tim Burton sux sux sux. He's a good storyboard artist with a relatively bad haircut. Great! You've got me ranting and it's only Monday morning. Now I need a schnapps and half a valium!
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