of all the directors out there, tim burton is the greatest director that has ever lived! he inspires me! he's an artist with a lot of passion
Love his older stuff, his newer stuff is mostly trite. Still I'll "fan" him anyway...
Although his latest films are inferior to the older ones ( how to compare ''Alice in Wonderland'' to ''Nightmare before Christmas'' or ''Corpse Bride''?), he is still one of the most talented dark storytellers of his generation. Not to mention I love the glasses he is wearing in this pic!!!!!!!!!!!!
He used to be an amazingly innovative and demented director. Now all he can do is remakes or 'reimaginings" for the money. Pity.
If you start at Sleepy Hollow and go backwards you have a solid film catalog. Heck, I even like Big Fish it's just his other shit like the un needed remakes of Plant of the Apes and Chocolate Factory. He needs to take a step back and put his glasses on straight.
Some of the worst films and some of my all-time favorites. I wish he would return to his roots and make something fantastic again.
"He really needs to call it a day." my thoughts exactly. I pretend that his films after Ed Wood didn't happen.
He knows what he likes and sticks with it. I don't see why that is such a huge issue. And he isn't unoriginal, he just hasn't changed his style at all. I am fine with that, I enjoy almost every single movie on here because I like his style and his "depressed, dark, and mysterious" twist on everything, not that he's even necessarily my very favorite of directors. I simply enjoy his films a lot. I think it's the trendy thing to do these days too bash on Tim Burton, talk about being "unoriginal".
This man has made some great films in the past but unfortunately he's become a hack. If he wants to continue to make good movies he should go back and look at Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow or even Big Fish (those 4 being his only good films) and study what made those movies worth watching unless he wants to continue being a unoriginal hack.
He is a one trick pony. We get it Tim Burton, you're depressed, dark and mysterious. Cheer up.
I'm not particularly keen on his films but sometimes he...nevermind. I don't like his work. And don't even get me started on his 13 year-old fans. But with the stuff he churns out one must wonder, what would he be doing if he wasn't making movies?
Everything up to Ed Wood is fantastic (mostly). Post Ed Wood, not so much. Not so much at all.
Hard to choose a fave, but ED WOOD is the one for me, with Edward Scissorhands being a close second.