Corpse Bride
The very first thought I had after this movie was that it's incomplete. In every scene of this movie the weight of the world can be seen cutting through it, making it fade just a little bit more as time goes on. In one month the behemoth 'Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children' will wash away the memory of this movie. Here we find a simple love story, told through a very old art of motion film. In many way's it's the last hoorah of a dying style about to be totaly overcome by the next generation of graphic arts.
On its own the film is very nice, the animation is perfect, and so are the voices. The only little problem I had with the story was the villain, he stood in too much with the rest of the movie. None of the characters in this movie stood out, in Nightmare everything had its own unique glow, but here it's almost black and white. That might have been what he was going for, if it was then he succeded.
I think the real tragedy of this movie was the quote Tim Burton gave, "I feel that this is a lost art." The problem is that it isn't a lost art, just an out-dated one. For all his remakes and reliance on Johnny Depp, Tim Burton can't stop the change that is comming. The same cookie cutter love stories, horror movies, and kid level remakes will soon be replaced with digital movies. Where there is much more freedom to do things that human movies can't touch. Expressions that actors can't match, and graphics that work at greater levels than the human eye can contemplate. If this was Tim's attempt to add something else unique that would survive this wave, then he failed.
On its own the film is very nice, the animation is perfect, and so are the voices. The only little problem I had with the story was the villain, he stood in too much with the rest of the movie. None of the characters in this movie stood out, in Nightmare everything had its own unique glow, but here it's almost black and white. That might have been what he was going for, if it was then he succeded.
I think the real tragedy of this movie was the quote Tim Burton gave, "I feel that this is a lost art." The problem is that it isn't a lost art, just an out-dated one. For all his remakes and reliance on Johnny Depp, Tim Burton can't stop the change that is comming. The same cookie cutter love stories, horror movies, and kid level remakes will soon be replaced with digital movies. Where there is much more freedom to do things that human movies can't touch. Expressions that actors can't match, and graphics that work at greater levels than the human eye can contemplate. If this was Tim's attempt to add something else unique that would survive this wave, then he failed.