Planet of Burton: Search and Destroy Da Monkey

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Destroy BeetleJuice
Search Mars Attacks!
Planet Of The Apes only comes out at the end of the month (August). Would Bubbles enjoy it? Or is it a stinker?

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Came out a week ago here.
grate movie aesthcally.

Search Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Mars Attacks

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You forgot Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Mr. Easton.

Haven't seen Planet of the Apes. At his worst, though, Burton seems like David Lynch-lite.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He did not direct that
Quick check at imdb.com
okay add one more

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

his two best are nightmare before christmas and ed wood. the rest are all pretty good, except sleepy hollow, which wasn't. planet of the apes doesn't look like burton at all. i should stick up for beetlejuice, the first half of that is near perfect. plus, a great supporting cast, even ryder is okay, and keaton isn't that annoying for the first fifteen minutes of his screentime.

― ethan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, Beetlejuice launched Winona Ryder on her career of pseudo seriousness. But what would I know, I thought it was 7.50 10 minutes ago and now it's 9.45. That means a shorter time than I thought til bedtime which is good because I am bored at home.

― maryann, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

winona ryder is selling her clothes on ebay.

i like them all. even sleepy hollow or pota is much better and better- looking than 99 percent of mainstream films.

― junichiro, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Edward Scissorhands (although being forced to watch it 8 times in one day, including in multiple languages, kind of made me mad at it), Sleepy Hollow, Batman/Batman Returns, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, BeetleJuice, and especially Ed Wood.

Destroy: Mars Attacks!

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Saying "we come in peace" & shooting people = classic.

― AP, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i forgot about mars attacks. it was bloody awful. it was even bad to look at, since the aliens were ugly and uninspired. plus jack "barf" nicholson is in it.

― junichiro, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dont barf on nicholson!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ethan, he didn't direct _Nightmare Before Christmas_. He just provided "inspiration" (& the characters, & probably the storyline, too, & production) (& a couple of other things...) (and you forgot about Catherine O'Hara in _Beetlejuice_...)

Still haven't seen _Pee Wee_, alas. But I think all his films have something to offer (though I'd put _Sleepy Hollow_ & _Mars Attacks_ on the bottom rung of the ladder). _Beetlejuice_ & _Ed Wood_ are CHOICE, though. The two Batmans look great, but (being a comic pedant) I have some minor issues with the scripts.

IMDB shows that he also produced "Family Dog", an animated series from a couple of years ago (early 90s, part of the Simpsons-prime- time-animation ex/implosion). I liked that series (he says, having only seen 2 or 3 episodes, only remembering random puddles of doggie wizz).

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Saying "we come in peace" & shooting people = classic.

It was funny at first but got old very quickly. As I think Pete pointed out, there were lots of things in Mars Attacks! that must have sounded great in the development meetings but didn't work on film.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mars Attacks! is just one of those things that only works theoretically. Like Jaws.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

he didn't 'direct' nightmare before xmas because he didn't actually supervise the painstaking process of moving each fucking clay thing. it's still a tim burton film, and much fucking more than that sleepy hollow piece of shit, which felt like john frankenheimer or joel schumaker or something. (note: i am only dissing SOME of frankenheimer's output, the manchurian candidate is still the greatest movie ever and ronin was damned good too)

― ethan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have you ever just wanted to smack the shit out of someone? Yeah.

Or maybe hit 'em up style. Who the hell knows.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Except for Sleepy Hollow and Planet of the Apes, I've never seen a Tim Burton movie. But I like the Batman movies and Mars Attacks. Edward Scissorhands is terrible. The ape movie was good, I liked it.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think I've ever seen Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, but all the rest of them are absolute classics. BeetleJuice might be a bit eighties (Yuppies! Bright Colours! Jeffrey Jones!) but it's still a great kids story. And very few people do interesting spectacle as well. Although the rumours about Moulin Rouge suggest there's one more of them.

And Mars Attacks is great! What are you people on?

Andrew

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ronin was terrible, yawn yawn car chase movie with awful Sean Bean and dull old Bob De Niro. Would have been better as a bio-pic of the Boyzone frontman. As for Frankenheimers follow up, Reindeer Games (or Deception in the UK), holding a camera six inches from Ben Affleck's uber-chin is the scaryiest thing I've seen in cinema for years. Except for Gary Sneezey channelling Chris Rea for the bad guy.

As for Burton, I wish he would get off this remake treadmill since his original stuff (Wood, Scissorhands even Beetlejuice) are signs of a thoroughly interesting mindset.

― Pete, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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