skyjedi2005 said:
Batman 1989
And Batman Returns great movies,lol.
I don't think you can put any Tim Burton film in that category except maybe Nightmare before Christmas or Edward Scissorhands.
I found his batman to be too bizarre, though it was better than shusucker's batman and robin and overrated Forever.
The only Batman films i think are any good are batman begins, the dark knight and the animated film Mask of the Phantasm. Batman 1989 holds some nostalgia and the score by Danny Elfman is great, returns had Michelle Pheiffer as the standout role. The only thing i hate about the first film is the hammy acting of Nicholson you think he going to break into a "here's johhny" and The Prince music is out of place where a symphonic score should have been used. Also The actress who played vicky vale was horrible. That same chick was in never say never again,lol.
Tim Burton has his moments, I just don't see how he is this genius that every pimpled gothic teen makes him out to be. From 1988 to 1999 (excluding Nightmare Before Christmas) he was a pretty good director. But anything since then is just a pointless screen adaptation for people who think still think he can do no wrong. His style hasn't changed, which isn't a bad thing, but his direction is dying. I like to see different, but I wouldn't mind seeing Tim Burton think outside his own box and do something with a good story. It would prove his worth, because I think what he is doing is hiding behind "different" as a way of cloaking his directorial skills.
In a nutshell, Tim Burton is a visual genius, but his stories are always so... awful. These wonderful visuals completely cloak awful plot. Like George Lucas's films of now, one doesn't say "Damn, that was a good story." one says "Wow, that looked good."
It seems to be the basic formula of supposed "artistic" films today. "Let's make them look as good as we can so people don't realize our movies suck."
And also, if he is going to make a screen adaptation, he could at least respect the source material. Though I will say that Sleepy Hollow would have been very boring to do so.