I am clinging to my good memories, in the hopes that he will return to classic Burton movies.
Well, the animated Frankenweenie should be arriving soon.
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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DavidS - May 10, 2012 11:22:31 am PDT #20131 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Connie Neil - May 10, 2012 11:39:13 am PDT #20132 of 30000
brillig
I averted my eyes from the Mad Hatter dancing as well.
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2012 11:46:47 am PDT #20133 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Did you not see the Mad Hatter breakdancing?
What.
Fred Pete - May 10, 2012 11:48:56 am PDT #20134 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Pretty much anything from Anthony Trollope would be right out.
Generally true, but it would be interesting to see him tackle the Ferdinand Lopez/Emily Wharton plot line in The Prime Minister. (On the other hand, if Burton decides to tackle a Victorian novel, he'd be more comfortable with Charles Dickens. Or at least Willkie Collins.)
DavidS - May 10, 2012 11:50:28 am PDT #20135 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What.
I refuse to link that for you.
amych - May 10, 2012 11:55:00 am PDT #20136 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I refuse to link that for you.
BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED.
Amy - May 10, 2012 11:55:59 am PDT #20137 of 30000
Because books.
BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED
I saw. And I can never, ever unsee ...
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2012 11:57:07 am PDT #20138 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I refuse to link that for you.
I thank you for not even giving me the temptation to click.
DavidS - May 10, 2012 12:01:29 pm PDT #20139 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The thing is, in the movie it's presented as a positive. Like, if only the Mad Hatter would get his dance on again then we would know that Underland (Wonderland) is free and glorious again. Whereas, it is just the opposite and makes you suspect the Red Queen knew what she was doing repressing all their free expression. If freedom leads to Mad Hatters' breakdancing then freedom must be quashed.
DavidS - May 10, 2012 12:08:26 pm PDT #20140 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ouch, Scott Tobias speaks the painful truth:
Somewhere in the sloping arc of Tim Burton’s career, what was once a sensibility slowly morphed into a brand. That distinctive gothic flair, freed from horror and animated by comedy in great films like Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Beetlejuice, has not gone away, nor has his attraction to stories about imaginative outcasts misunderstood by the squares around them. But what’s gone missing in recent years—Sweeney Todd excepted, though Stephen Sondheim had a hand in that—is the spiky wit and purposefulness that used to accompany that unmistakable visual style. There’s no doubt that viewers still know that they’re watching a Tim Burton movie. The question now is why.