Rank Burton's Films
There is Batman Returns and then there’s everything else.
If someone wanted to get sensitive information out of me, a good torture technique would be to place me in a room with a constant loop of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland.
The only ones I really care about…
Though I enjoy most of his films up through Sleepy Hollow on some level.
Also, whatever happened to Michael Keaton? I know he still acts, but I haven’t seen him in anything since Jackie Brown. Was it an intentional move to get out of the spotlight?
1.) Ed Wood
2.) Edward Scissorhands
3.) Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
4.) Beetle Juice
5.) Batman Returns/Sweeney Todd
Does this thread make anyone laugh all this shit out of your mouth, or is it just me? Granted not everything he made good, but come on. He’s probably one of the best directors to use a computer, and the look of his films, he has everything. Who cares about plot, Burton is this generations Bruce Connor.
I’m pretty harsh on him sometimes but for my money he has 5 really watchable films.
1. Ed Wood
2. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
3. Beetlejuice
4. Batman Returns
5. Sleepy Hollow
Then ‘Mars Attacks’ has a special place in my heart and his short ‘Vincent’ is a delight. Everything else ranges from shallow to god awful.
1. Big Fish 10/10
2. Batman 9/10
3. Edward Scissorhands 9/10
4. Sweeney Todd 8/10
5. Batman Returns 8/10
6. Beetlejuice 8/10
7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 6/10
8. Sleepy Hollow 6/10
9. Mars Attacks! 6/10
1. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Beckett
3. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
01. Ed Wood
02. Edward Scissorhands
03. Beetlejiuce
04. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
05. Mars Attacks!
06. Nightmare Before Christmas, The
07. Frankenweenie
08. Corpse Bride
09. Sleepy Hollow
10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
11. Batman
12. Batman Returns
13. Big Fish
14. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
15. Planet of the Apes
Ed Wood
… then everything else.
And thanks SCAMPI for the out-loud laugh (or, ‘OLL’ to all those internet hipsters in-the-know).
01. Ed Wood (1994) 96 (Lisa Marie!)
02. Batman Returns (1992) 91 (Danny Elfman!)
03. Batman (1989) 90
04. Edward Scissorhands (1990) 80
05. Sleepy Hollow (1999) 77
06. Beetlejuice (1988) 76
07. Big Fish (2003) 75
08. Vincent (1982) 73
09. Frankenweenie (1984) 71
10. Corpse Bride (2005) 70
11. Mars Attacks! (1996) 69
12. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) 68
13. Dark Shadows (2012) 64
14. Planet of the Apes (2001) 27
as writer:
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 80
Drew.
1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Ed Wood
3. Vincent
4. Sweeney Todd
5. Batman Returns
6. Beetlejuice
7. Batman
8. Frankenweenie (‘84)
9. Big Fish
10. Sleepy Hollow
11. Mars Attacks!
12. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
13. Alice in Wonderland
14. Planet of the Apes
15. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure