I despise musicals, but....

[anarky]

Sweeney Todd is going to fucking rock!

Severus Snape!
Peter Pettigrew!
Bellatrix LeStrange!

Together again, for the first time with Ichabod Crane, Borat, and Count Dooku!

Directed by Tim Burton!

Only Mr Elfman is missing from the mix, but since I suppose this Sondheim fellow wrote the original music, it makes sense, right?

[vynsane]

yeah, this looks awesome. the mrs. is stoked for it, too.

[Double_G]

I'm actually excited too, and I hate most musicals. I'm sure this will be good. Depp, Bonham Carter, Rickman, Cohen....could the cast be any more awesome? Not to mention the fact that it's a Tim Burton movie.

But I'm afraid Christopher Lee pulled out of the movie a while ago.

[anarky]

Ah. He's still listed in the credits over at Yahoo. My bad.

[kidhuman]

The trailer looks damn good and I hate musicals as well.

[Swedish Chef]

Duusen derspisee dis musicuul??

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

Helena's lookin' mighty tittylicious. This looks pretty sweet.

[Diabolical]

What are all you guys getting hard over?
Doesn't really look all that good.
Looks like more Tim Burton schlock.

[anarky]

The Fox and the Hound
Vincent
Frankenweenie
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Beetlejuice
Batman
Edward Scissorhands
Batman Returns
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ed Wood
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
Planet of the Apes
Big Fish
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Corpse Bride

Yeah, I think that's a resume worth getting excited about. The closest thing to a misstep was the 2001 POTA, but it had Kris Kristofferson fighting monkeys, so it can't be bad.

And before you say I'm acting like a stupid emo kid, I've felt this way since the first time I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure when it first aired on HBO 20 years ago. And I'm one of the six people who watched The Nightmare Before Christmas in its first theatrical release. (I used to say there were twelve, but I think I was attributinig to it too much box office success.)

[Diabolical]

Big Fish is an amazing movie.
I liked Planet of the Apes.
Mars Attacks! was fun for what it was, but not really rewatchable.
With the exception of Jack Nicholson as Joker, Batman ain't all that good anymore (and chock full of miscastings).
The rest are pretty meh.

[anarky]

You didn't like The Fox and the Hound?



(Apologies to Double_G.)

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

I really don't think that his animation stint on Fox and the Hound should count here - but the rest (or what I've seen of them) are great. Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and NBX (even though he didn't direct) are among my favorites.

Speaking of which, has anyone here seen the 3D NBX? It was pretty good. Nothing too amazing, especially given that the tickets are more expensive. Much of it was slightly blurry even when it wasn't supposed to be. What pissed me off, though, is that they replaced the Touchstone logo with the new, drawn-out Disney one, and added another title card with "Walt Disney Pictures Presents" to keep the music the same as it always was. Why wasn't it good enough for them before? Moneygrubbing bastards have to have their names on everything. (I know Touchstone is owned by Disney, but still.)

At any rate, it was fun to see it in the theater.

[Double_G]

The Fox and the Hound

I thought he only animated that bear attack scene.

Yeah, I think that's a resume worth getting excited about. The closest thing to a misstep was the 2001 POTA, but it had Kris Kristofferson fighting monkeys, so it can't be bad.

Didn't Kristofferson die, like, twenty minutes into the movie?

And I'm one of the six people who watched The Nightmare Before Christmas in its first theatrical release. (I used to say there were twelve, but I think I was attributinig to it too much box office success.)

I'm one of the six, too. Plus I saw it again in theaters last year for the 3D release. I think I was the only kid in my class who saw it when it first came out. I even had the original toys from it.

Tim Burton's one of my favorite directors, and there's not one movie of his that I don't like (not even 2001 POTA, because Tim Roth was badass in it, even in a monkey suit), which is why I'm eagerly awaiting "Sweeney Todd".

[anarky]

Tim Burton is not only one of my favorite directors, I think he's one of a very small number who hasn't disappointed me yet. Even Spielberg and Shamalyan can't claim that. I'm pretty sure Guillermo del Toro, Robert Rodriguez, Frank Darabonte, and Bryan Singer are the only others, but I've not seen all their movies so I can't say that with 100% certainty.

Fox and the Hound, he worked on. I was just including everything he's had a hand in that I'm aware of. And, now that we're discussing Disney movies he worked on, it's almost impossible to not bring up the one where his designs would've worked wonders but were unused: The Black Cauldron.

And that makes me think about how much Black Cauldron blew in spite of the source material. And I imagine Zero will agree that Burton should be on the short list of directors to do a live action version of the Chronicles of Prydain. If you have any doubt, think more Big Fish or Sleepy Hollow than Mars Attacks! or Beetlejuice.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

Since we're comparing early stories on Nightmare Before Christmas . . . I was 3 when it came out but my parents didn't want me to see it, partly because they didn't want it to ruin Christmas or tell that there's no Santa Claus. My aunt then saw it, said it was good, and I watched it every day for a while and drew several characters for display on my wall.

I remember commercials for the toys, which I thought looked cool as shit. I never got any.