I LOVE TIM BURTON!

I think he is absoluetly amazing! The movies he comes up with and the ideas in his head are spectacular. Any one else have any thoughts on him?

He's certainly brilliant. I love his movies. My favourite is probably Sleepy Hollow; it's so fun and the cast is absolutely fantastic.

Tim Burton is the guy who directed "The Nitemare before Christmas," right? That was probably my favorite movie growing up as a kid. I still love it.

He is pretty awesome - I loved the first two Batman films..they had an angsty darkness (that made Michael Keaton shine in the role) that was sadly lacking from the other two. And Beetlejuice was just an all time classic.

I do feel he hit a bit of a bump with Mars Attacks though...that movie was sooooo bad I almost got up and walked out of the cinema (and that's a big thing for me to say, 'cos I'm really skingy when it comes to the old purse strings!! )

But Jack Nicholson was in that movie too, and he's just about the best actor ever, so I guess everyone makes bad calls from time to time....

*gasp* He directed Beetlejuice and Mars Attacks?

I LOVED THOSE MOVIES!!!

I'm now a huge fan of Tim Burton.

Tim Burton is totally my favourite director, closely followed by the Coen Brothers..the only Tim Burton film I didn't much care for was his remake of Planet of the Apes...It just didn't seem to have that....touch...that beautiful kookiness and creepiness *hums Addams family quietly* that makes his films so amazing...
He's just...excellent...

Oh, btw, Tim Burton didn't actualy direct Nightmare before Christmas...That one SO caught me out on the trivia quiz on the Big Fish dvd...*grumbles* darn tricksters calling it Tim Burton's Nightmare before Christmas....*wanders off muttering*

Nightmare Before Christmas is defiantly my favorite out of his movies. I watch it almost everynight! (I know I'm a loser LOL!!) Beetlejuice is my second favorite.

And has anyone heard of American McGee's Alice? Well I think if a movie comes out on that Tim Burton should most defiantly direct it!!! That would be a god sent!

I think Tim Burton is SO cool. I LOVE his work. I love: Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, I love them all!

Big Fish....*drools obsessively*

Tim Burton is a genious, and looks freakin' awesome (Big Fish commentary...).

he did edward scissorhands? omg! i love that movie! i actually cry!

big fish! hehehe. i just finished that tonight! lol. it's different though.

Tim Burton is such a great director, definately one of the best of our generation, if not of all time. He has such a great eye for visuals and his movies have such a distinct feeling, though not a stereotype. Oh, and when Dannie Elfman scores his movies, its magic

Burton and Elfman is a dream combination. They are both geniuses and complement each other perfectly.

I loved Big Fish, such a strange and wonderful movie. Not so crazy about seeing the backside of Danny Devito naked though

But isn't that every girl's dream?!?! I think it's actually a sign of a good and confident director, to feel ABLE to show Danny DeVito's naked behind!!!

LOL yeah, but my poor little eyes weren't ready for that. Would much rather have seen Ewan McGreggors.

Oh everyone's seen Ewan McGregor's bottom!!! Front AND back....
Well I have in more than one movie anyway...

*hasn't* I still want to see Young Adam, it looked really good but the theatres never got it until this summer, or at a time when I was able to get to see it. *curses theatres*

Tim Burton is definitely a great man, wow he's done so much. He's old now isn't he?

Hardly. I thought he'd be older but he's still so young.

Hmmm, how old is he exactly?

I love Tim Burton

I love his movies. the Corpse bride would have to be my all time favorite and sleepy hollow but I wasn't ready for the violence, if you haven't ever since sleepy hollow Don't eat while you watch I learned my lession.
I also enjoyed The nightmare before christmas and Edward Sicssorhands those moives were awesome.

I really want to fallow in his foot steps one day.

Did you guys know that Tim Burton Wrote a book?

I think he is Great!
I loved all the movies hes made.My favorite is the Nightmare before Christmas!

Tim Burton is great! All of his movies are one-of-a-kind and interesting to watch. I can't wait to see his rendition of Sweeney Todd (starring Johnny Depp of course).

Tim Burton! AH! My savior! Man love his movies! Man Nightmare Before Christmas was genuis as far as animation went. Man I will never forget Jack Skellington. Abosolutly loved Corspe Bride...I love how all of his main women characters seem to be stiched up. Edward Scissorhands is really sad....sorry I still love it though!

Fawkes

... and don't forget Beetlejuice. It offers a completely new view on ghosts and the meaning of the word "haunted house". I don't know how he does it, but he manages to make films that are unique, zany, great art, dark and humourous at the same time.

Oh yeah! Man I totally forgot Beetlejuice. Such a great movie. I agree I don't think anyone could ever top Burton with his great originality! Man I will always be a huge fan of him. I just hope he makes more movies.


Fawkes

Tim Burton is 48 years old. REally isn't that old compared to like...an 80 year old, right? I love Tim Burton. Just. Love. His movies are probably the greatest that have ever been made, and I do pretty much idolize him for his work. Edward Scissorhands is my favorite movie of all time. Ever. When I get older, I want to go to school to direct and write movies. My goal is to write a movie alongside Tim Burton. Keep your fingers crossed, and....go ahead, if you must, you can call me crazy now.

thank you.

lol, phoenix song, i completely understand if you want to make your own movie alongside tim burton...because tim burton is really a great movie maker...edward scissorhands, corpse bride, beetlejuice, chocolate factory(new, of course) just all those amazing movies...and guess what people? hehe, we share the same love of Johnny Depp ..i'm crazy, not you phoneix song...

Tim is a great director!!
I think my favorite if Edward Scissorhands. Johnny in that movie is just too adorable.
Anyway, I can't wait to see his upcoming film Sweeny Todd!! I think he is teh perfect director for it.

Tim Burton is a genius!
His films are absolutely magic!

He and Johnny Depp are a dreamteam and also Tim Burtons wife Helena Bonham Carter!
I am so curious about Sweeny Todd! >< Can`t wait to watch it!

Greets

Meredith Meadows

My favourite director... He just seems to have that "magic touch"... Man, he's cool. Just the atmosphere of the films is breathtaking. Tim Burton + Johnny Depp + Danny Elfman (sometimes + Helena Bonham Carter) = Best combination ever.

I absolutely love Tim Burton! His movies are so great! I'm jacked to see Sweeney Todd ... can't wait. I love the fact that he puts my two favourite actors into a lot of his movies: Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

Tim Burton is such a brilliant director! His films are just brilliant, and what a partnership he has with Danny Elfman! Tim's film with Danny's music is great, but what also makes it perfect is either Helena Bonham Carter - who is my favourite actor - (or Jonny Depp) starring in the film - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride ...

I must say, my favourite TB films are Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands.

Danny did the music for all 3 of them I think, Helena was Emily in the Corpse Bride, Jonny was Edward in Edward Scissorhands, and Danny even provided Jack's singing voice in the Nightmare Before Christmas! You've got the admire the 4 of them, they have amazing partnerships!

I haven't seen a lot of his movies, but Edward Scissorhands and The Corpse Bride were simply great! I just loved The Corpse Bride, it had a weird (in a good way) story and it had a very nice ending!

I guess I'm into the supernatural, but it was really nice what they did with it!

I believe he's a great director, and I'm really looking forward to watching A Nightmare Before Christmas, as soon as I get a hold of it, and Sweeney Todd, as soon as one of my friends nice enough will come with me to the movies...

Ah, Kaitlyn, you just MUST see Sweeney Todd! It's my favourite film at the minute, and I've already watched it 3 times through!! It's so Tim Burtonish, and again, there's the weird, mysterious air to it. It's definately my favourite TB film to date. It's completely brilliant. It would have been better if Danny Elfman had composed the background music, but since the majority of it was ready-made, there wasn't really much to be done!

Starting my post saying how much I love Tim Burton’s poetics wouldn’t be too original, I guess, judging from all your previous posts. Nevertheless, I have to say it, because I think the way he is able to materialize his imagination on the screen is amazing.

I’ve been a huge fan of his movies ever since I saw Beetlejuice some fifteen years ago ( goodness, time flies). I’d been always fond of the paranormal, but his portrayal of ghosts was so original and fresh. Like someone says before me, Beetlejuice provides a whole new perspective on the concept of a haunted house. I think we may encounter a resembling idea in The Others by Alejandro Amenábar, which tackles the theme very well too, but which in my opinion lacks Mr. Burton’s poetics (though it has a poetics of its own, and generally I like this movie very much too... but I'm digressing now).

As for Sweeney Todd, I cannot agree with you more, Amy. Indeed, Kaitlyn, you have to go watch the movie, with our without your friend. It’s my present favorite too. I think it’s Tim Burton all over again and even better. All the gloom, black and blue shades and the artificiality of the scene. I mean the artificiality in a good way, because Mr. Burton really takes pride in shooting in a studio – the whole of Sleepy Hollow and I guess majority of the Batmans was shot like this. I like the game he is playing with the audience in this way. You can always tell that the setting is artificial and the smoke from the chimneys merely drawn on canvas (not in Sweeney Todd but in the Batmans for instance). It is as if the director was winking at his audience that despite the spooky themes of the movies, the ghosts and creatures are not real and thus we don’t have to be afraid of them. Such interaction with the viewers is what I love about his movies the most, I guess.

My ever favorite scene from Sweeney Todd must be “By the Sea.” The colors and Johnny’s and Helen’s costumes and the way Johnny is brooding while Helen is happy as a school girl, are all simply brilliant. And again, the artificiality is more than great.

Also, the fact that he makes the actors sing only by themselves, and not in a chorus like in classic musicals, enhances the genre of movie musical a little bit further. And allows the tortured souls of his characters to excel.

Has anyone of you guys seen his Vincent? It’s a short cartoon from 1982 and I believe it portrays young Tim, haunted by his imagination. I believe that if we ever want to analyze his movies and the way he narrates them, we have to start with Vincent. I think it provides a lot of answers.

Oh, and just the day before yesterday I saw Ed Wood. Completely different genre, but all the more worthwhile watching.

Oops, what a long post. Anyway, I love Mr. Burton’s movies. That’s what I basically wanted to say.

~Jana

I loved Big Fish. That's my favourite Tim Burton movie.

We had to study his work for English last year and my teacher was like... in love with him or something, it was pretty funny.

But to me... all his other movies were sort of the same.

Yes well his films are mainly the same because he follows the same genre for every one, even for his stop motions, because every director has their style, and his is Black Comedy.

And has anyone noticed that for his stop-motions he tends to give them really long legs and little feet? They do on James and the Giant Peach, Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride - I think they look great! I love looking out for them

I loved almost all of his movies, especiallly Big Fish. I just thought the whole thing was so perfect, it all made sense with me without making any sort of sense at all, if that's possible!
The only one I couldn't stand was The Nightmare Before Christmas, which I didn't manage to finish. I did notice the feet thing though; his animations are so neat! Corspe Bride was awesome just for the animations, although I loved everything else about it though...
I really, really want to see Sweeny Todd, but I'm not old enough! It's not that gruesome, is it? it sounds perfect..directed by Tim Burton, with Johney Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman and theiy're all singing! Plus somebody finds a toe in their pie! (Or so I am told) Could it be any better?

Well I'm 15, but I have my ways of seeing these things Nope, it isn't really gruesome at all. The blood is quite naff, but that's the only downside, because the rest is just so brilliant! Johnny Depp has a really good voice, but I suppose that's what you get when you used to sing in a band Helena doesn't have as strong a voice as I thought she would, but she's still great in it, and Alan Rickman is great ... no, it couldn't get any better! I hope you find a way of seeing it *cough* Youtube *cough*

edward scissor hands... well the idea was good but its a bit boring i wouldnt like it at all if 1) it wasnt tim burton and 2) depp was amazing in this his performance in this made me try out drama and i love it

It is an amazing movie!! My all time favorite i think!! Tim Burton together with Johnny Depp(again) with Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Timothy Spall. Sacha Baron Cohen is also in it. (Borat) There are only 3 scenes in the movie with large amounts of blood. The blood is very fake looking. But it is dark and a bit depressing. I still love it! It is just... awesome!!


By the way, im a big fan of Tim Burton's movies! I think he is a genious, even thogh his movies are all quite dark.

You've all said it but I thought I'd toss in my identical 2 snickles and say that Tim Burton is brilliant. I would actually have liked to see him do one of the Harry Potter movies but it would be sort of restraining for him if he only did one and it wasn't the first one. Still- I love all of his other movies, Nightmare Before Christmas and BeetleJuice are my personal favorites. I happen to be a huge fan of Jonny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and it's cool how there in alot of his movies.
As for Sweeny Todd...I nearly puked .
The acting was wonderful (well, duh), the story was interesting, and it was all around good. I know the blood was fake looking and that none of it was reall but I am really (and when I say it I mean it) really touchy about throught slittings (I cring at the line "I've almost forgotten how to slit a throught" in Peter Pan) . I know I know- I shouldn't have watched the movie in the first place because that's, like, the biggest plot device in the movie but it was 3 against 1; (Sweeny Todd or Juno...). I hid under a blanket through most of it I didn't hate it or anything but the blood was too much for me. BUT don't be scared to see it or anything because my three friends were like "Ohhh thats sooo cool" when he killled one guy (Alan Rickman) and bood spattered everywhere, I'm just really squemish about that sort of thing....
IN CONCLUSION- I recomend it but, if your like me, watch it with a fuzzy blanket handy...

(wow, quite the rant...)

I never find time to see Sweeny Todd ..

But I worship Tim Burton...



Dam* , he is good !



Betlejuice, Nightmare before Christmas, all movies he worked with Johnny Depp, and other tim's movies i cant remember right now..



That man is a genius.. He has such amazing ideas, and the way movie is filmed is unique, and when you see result at the end, you can only stand up and say: OMG.

what i haev noticed is how alot of fans say this bit looked really fake or it was a bit boring

but then they like not just because its directed by tim but because it IS tim i think its just that we love seeing how somebody else proccesses their thoughts and tim happens to do this in a wonderfully creative, bizzare and magical way

i can wait till december im going to see the ballet of edward scissor hands!

Oh my gosh!!! I love Tim Burton!!! He is amazing. Sweeney Todd... Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, and Helena Bonham Carter!!! Amazing. It did look kinda fake though. The blood looked like paint. But other hen that i was a great movie. I liked Edward Scissorhands, The Corpse Bride, well all his movies!!!

Lily

I think that Tim Burton is an amazing director. I love Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd & the Corpse Bride I believe. Johnny Depp does wonderfully when in a Tim Burton movie I love his visions and sense of style. It's disturbing funny. I like ho everything looks in his movie. Does anyone get what I mean?

Okay, i have an utter obsession with Tim Burton. I've watched every single film that he has ever even been near. (: I cannot tell you my favorite film, though. It is a tie between Sleepy Hollow, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Beetlejuice. I can only say that there are only a couple of things that I didn't like by him; those were Frankenweenie and Ed Wood. I can say that I am not a real big fan of Ed wood, so it's no real suprise why I don't like his biography, even if Johnny Depp did play his role. His looks can only get the movie so many stars. Anyway, i am eagerly awaiting the arrival of 9 and Alice in Wonderland!! They look awesome!!!

September 9th, 2009 for the movie 9

March 5th, 2010 for Alice in Wonderland



Can't wait. I hope he's immortal, because I can't see a world without new Tim Burton movies!!



(i just noticed that no one has posted in this thread since 2008. xDDD)

I got soooooo excited seeing the Alice in wonderland trailer
It was one of my favourite disney movies!!!
I wonder if it will focus as much on the mad hatter as the trailer does, or if burton just used depp as a selling/ promotional point in the trailer???

Any movie with Johnny Depp will sell tickets. He's not as bankable as Will Smith (who can fill a theatre for weeks after the release) but he's big enough (and hot enough ) to draw a good crowd.

I'm also eagerly awaiting Alive in Wonderland. As you could probably tell form my sig and avie. I used to watch the Disney Alive every weekend for months. And the movie version when I could rent it. They can only get better and with Tim Burton's genius I expect it to be the best Alive ever!