Celebrity Bashing Is Very American

[geektown]

I hate Tim Burton. He ruined Batman. He ruined Sleepy Hollow. He ruined Planet of the Apes. Now he's going to ruin Alice in Wonderland. I hate, hate, hate him. Quirky is only quirky if it's done a bit; when it becomes a trend, what you have is a one note director who is paid to take a shit on what other people have done

Comments

[oythegreat]

I liked Sleepy Hollow, probably because I had no passion for the original story. I hated Planet of the Apes. I loved Big Fish.

Tim Burton's movies almost always feel small, as if everything belongs in a pop-up book or a shoe box. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it feels clautrophobic to know that the landscape doesn't go on. If you part the curtain, there's a soundstage in a steel building, floating in the middle of pavement somewhere in Los Angeles. It pisses me off to know that.

My entire understanding of Alice in Wonderland, though, seems to be fairly Tim Burton-esque. It always existed within the limits of Alice's head, as I understood it. But I've never actually read the books.

[geektown]

I might have liked Sleepy Hollow if it featured some other color than gray. He tends to work in a muted palette.

Alice in Wonderland may be Tim Burton-esque, and I expected a fair amount of whimsy, but when I saw the pictures I didn't think, Oh, right, that's Lewis Carrol right there. Instead I instantly knew it was a Tim Burton thing. And that's my point. He takes everything and renders it down to this same style again and again. The style was innovative at first. Now it's just boring and predictable. And annoying. Don't forget the annoying.

[quadrathong]

You forgot Charlie and the Chocolate Family. Ruined that too. Although, and I know you will disagree, but I think the pictures from Alice are cool.

[geektown]

Dammit! I swear I had it up there at first, but after a bit of editing I completely forgot to put it back. Simply put, what he did to that story is the worst thing he's done in his career. My apologies.

But you're wrong. The pictures aren't cool for Alice. :)

[quadrathong]

haha I just realized that I type Charlie and the Chocolate Family. Whoops.