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What is your favorite Tim Burton movie?

Your favorite Tim Burton movie?

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Ed Wood, followed by Beetlejuice, which are two of my favorite movies of all time. I also have an unaccountable amount of affection for Sleepy Hollow (maybe because it depicts a time period underrepresented in movies). And who doesn't love Mars Attacks! ???

A more interesting question: which of his movies can you simply not stand? I couldn't get thru Big Fish even though I was watching it stuck on an airplane. Liked the Michael Keaton Batman okay but stayed away from the other one. Haven't seen Alice yet. Not sure I want to see Corpse Bride. The rest were okay.

And you forgot The Nightmare Before Christmas, one of his most characteristic movies! (Technically not directed by him, but still...)
 
Poor Pee-Wee. :( I hope someone votes for him. His movie deserves better than to get zero votes. It may have been Burton's first movie, but I still think it's better than anything he's done in the past ten years and is only surpassed by "Ed Wood" - such a sweet, imaginative movie that, unlike many of his others, actually has a good story and lead performance!
 
Batman 1989.

Also, I was surprised to lean that he did Mars Attacks, another movie I really like, but somehow missed that he had directed until I came to this board.
 
The only one I haven't seen is Ed Wood, which seems to be the favourite thus far.
 
1. Sleepy Hollow: it's his only movie that I have absolutely no problems with
2. Mars Attacks
3. Batman Returns: aside from the silly penguin army at the end it was quite good

I liked Planet of the Apes and I did not care for Alice at all. It was just... there. Sweeney Todd was very good.
 
I've only seen Ed Wood once and I didn't even give it my full attention at the time. I've never seen Sleepy Hollow and for some reason thought it wasn't well regarded. Now I'm going to have to look these two movies up. :cool:

I like Tim Burton quite a bit in general, though Planet of the Apes and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were both pretty terrible.
 
Ed Wood is probably my favourite.

I enjoy most of his films, to tell the truth. I was a bit let down by Alice. The visuals were great, and the actress that portrayed Alice was good, but the story fell flat.
 
Omitting Nightmare Before Christmas because Burton didn't direct it? Nightmare is a Tim Burton movie. Or perhaps a Tim Burton/Danny Elfman movie.

And whether or not you like Alice in Wonderland, despite the visual style, it was a very different from movies like Big Fish, Ed Wood, Beetlejuice, Mars Attacks! That's because the little woman with a big, uh, sword, finishing up as the feminist tycoon in the making in the script resonated with none of the typical Tim Burton themes.

And whether or not you like Peewee's Big Adventure, it was a Paul Reubens movie. Compare to Big Top Peewee and Peewee's Playhouse!

Once again, the director threads provide more and more reason to question the whole director=auteur theory.

Frankenweenie was remarkable. Why is it omitted?
 
This was not easy to decide. I've always loved Burton's visual style and quirky humor. Ed Wood is probably his best work, it's a wonderful and sweet movie with great performances by Martin Landau and Johnny Depp.

But since it's winning anyway, I had to follow my heart and vote for Batman Returns, which I loved since I first saw it back in 1992... mostly because of Pfeiffer's Catwoman (which is the reason why I've had the username "Catwoman" on quite a few other online forums) and "Face to Face"... but De Vito is also good as the Penguin Man, Walken plays a villain called Max Schreck - what's not to love? The first Batman was really good, too, but I have a thing for the second one.

But I also liked pretty much everything else I've seen by Burton - Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice... including the often derided Mars Attacks! I haven't seen the other ones, though, so I don't know if The Planet of the Apes is really that bad as people say...
 
I've only seen some of them, but I'll go for Batman as my favourite. Michael Keaton was one of the greatest casting choices ever made. Batman Returns was an excellent follow-up. I've been rather astonished by the sort of backlash against these films from some quarters in the wake of the Nolan films. I do like Nolan's work, but overall, I prefer Burton.

Ed Wood was a damn good film too.
 
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