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Why is Tim Burton hailed as such a visionary director?
I mean, all he does is make adaptations.
Granted, he's turned to a lot of different source material for his oeuvre--in the course of his career, he's directed feature films based on a sketch comedy character, a comic book character, a biography, a series of trading cards, a short story, an ( Read more... )
I mean, all he does is make adaptations.
Granted, he's turned to a lot of different source material for his oeuvre--in the course of his career, he's directed feature films based on a sketch comedy character, a comic book character, a biography, a series of trading cards, a short story, an ( Read more... )
I don't think "lack of originality" is really an issue to people, because at this point they're not in love with his ideas, but with his style. And that's perfectly fair, I suppose. But for me, his style is what I'm getting horribly tired of. Why is everything bathed in blue? Why are so many people sardonic and a little crazy? Why is Helena Bonham Carter/Johnny Depp in everything? (Yes yes, I know he's married to her, but lots of people are married without putting their spouse in everything.)
I went to the 9 panel at Comic-Con (not that I wanted to, that's just when I finally got into the room), and I had to leave because the amount of sycophantism people were displaying during the Q&A session just made me sick. Tim Burton didn't even direct the movie! (And it made me sad that no one had questions for Timur Bekmambetov, because even though he didn't direct the movie either, the man's done some interesting stuff. I guess these people have their head so far up Burton's ass that they never saw Night Watch or Wanted.)
It also didn't help that the clip they showed was very "meh." And friends of mine who did see the movie confirmed my general suspicions about it.
Also, making most of those links above into Amazon links instead of just Wikipedia or IMDb is really obnoxious.
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Ditto. I really have no interest at all in seeing Alice in Wonderland because I feel like I've already seen it, due to all the style flourishes you're talking about. (I noticed the crowds because I went to Brooklyn's Finest this past weekend, actually.)
Kevin Smith put his wife in all of his movies until Cop Out, and it annoys me when he does it, too. (At least Carter was already an actress--Jennifer Schwalbach doesn't have the chops to convincingly pull off significant roles like Emma in Clerks II.)
That Comic-Con incident sounds terrible, especially considering how long you would've had to wait to get in there. :/ I know a number of people sharing ass space with the Burton fans you mentioned, so I can only imagine what a huge room full of them must've been like, and I think his name is what has kept me away from 9. (I also wasn't crazy about Night Watch, to be honest, so that didn't help.)
As for the links, I just use them as trackers for what people are actually paying attention to or following up on here. (At this point, it's not as if I expect anything else to happen with them.) Some people have adopted the habit of making all links in their blog posts into bit.ly addresses for the same purpose, but this seemed easier. I'm sorry if it came across as obnoxious.
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