I'm feeling kinda simple tonight:
Best Tim Burton movie?
Things to consider: I'll allow any major degree of involvement by Burton (Directed, Produced or written) but not like "uncredited animation department for TRON." If you say the 2001 Planet of the Apes remake, I might never speak to you again.
Yesterday's answer: I'm sorry, the only correct answer was "yes, yes it is" or something to that effect. Kudos to you two for seeing an awesome movie, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone else by posting your responses.
9 comments:
Hands down, Edward Scissorhands. (Yes, the pun was intended.) Burton both directed and cowrote this beautiful, haunting film. I always like movies which ask you to suspend your disbelief, and in doing so you totally believe what they are telling you. (I am a Vonnegut fan, after all). Such is the case with this movie. Johnny Depp is awesome as the title character, the cinematography is interesting, flawless, and beautiful (think: Winona Ryder twirling in the snow), and the story itself has a heart, complete with themes of alienation, infatuation, acceptance, and love.
As much as I love Edward Scissorhands, it'll be my honorable mention today.
Big Fish is a magical story based around a father-son conflict and wrapped in a world that straddles fantasy and reality. If you've read the book, you'll realize just how far beyond Tim Burton took this movie, as Daniel Wallace's novel only brushed many aspects of the film. There's times in the movie where you can see Burton letting his imagination run wild. Visually it can be stunning as it tells the story of a man trying to come to grips with the stories his father told him and trying to determine what's real and what's not. The ending is fantastic, and almost every girl was crying in the theater when the lights went up.
Also receiving votes:
-- Beetlejuice ("Nice fuckin' model!")
-- Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Wait a minute... did O-train just agree with me on something!? ;)
Nice get on Beetlejuice - I totally forgot that was Tim Burton (shame on me!)
Fuck...only the girls were crying? I cry at the ending of Big Fish. Father and son stuff always gets to me like that.
I'm another Big Fish voter. The fact that Billy Crudup, Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Robert Guillame, Steve Buscemi, Helena Bonham Carter, Loudon Wainwright and The Guy Who Plays Roy on The Office are in it and they're just remarkable , super cool actors certainly doesn't hurt matters.
And I have a soft sport for any movie that can make me cry, because I feel it's genuine, since I'm not usually all Emo like that since Emo is for pussies.
I instantly change my vote, however, because Mars Attacks is his best, while Big Fish is a close second.
Jack Nicholson as the president and his wife, a crazy Glenn Close. Rod Steiger as the crazy general. Michael J. Fox as weirder Stephanopolous. Pierce Brosnan, Annette Bening, Martin Short, Natalie Portman (looking very tasty to my then 15 year old self...I didn't realize then that her tits would never ever grow, which has always disappointed me about her) Jim Fucking Brown, the greatest football player ever, as a badass ex-boxer. Jack Black as a man named Billy Glenn and of course, topping it all, Tom Jones singing It's Not Unusual.
Absurd movie, with crazy bloodthirsty martians. My favorite part comes when the martians are holding up the device that translates their language into English. As the device says 'Don't run, we are your friends," the martian holding said device is toasting some poor soul.
The absurdity of the solution (playing Slim Whitman records that explode the martians' heads) is so brilliant, I won't even take away points for putting that ugly, unfunny hag Sarah Jessica Parker in the movie.
(I can't believe I co-signed Big Fish before I remembered this...I knew I was forgetting something brilliant that I absolutely loved.)
Nick...
How can you leave Joe Don Baker off the list of notables for Mars Attacks? After all, he did play "The Whammer" in "The Natural"...
Nick (again)...
How can you vote against Big Fish? Pearl Jam wrote "Man of the Hour" specifically for the funeral scene (and a brilliant song at that)...
(this shit is gonna make me late for my job...)
It's not so much a vote against Big Fish as it is a vote for one of the craziest, funniest and most absurd movies I've ever seen.
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