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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:38 AM
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Poll question: Favorite Tim Burton Film
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:48 AM
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1. Big Fish.
It's Tim Burton at his best. A lyrical movie. My very favorite Burton film.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:49 AM
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2. I cry thinking of that movie. There are not many descriptive movies on
the relationship between a father and his son, and I thought this one did an excellent job. It made me cry for my husband's childhood.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:52 AM
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3. The ending was beautiful.
Just wonderfully sweet and emotional. I got a bit weepy watching it.

Yes, the relationship between the father and the son was beautifully written...it got me to thinking about the relationship between my dad...and things unsaid after he passed away.

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chemp Donating Member (569 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:16 AM
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8. Big fish
Albert Finney was my Grandfather, throughout the entire film. A wonderful man with a tremendous imagination. All his grandchildren thank him for the sense of humor and crative imagination he gifted to all of us.

By far the best film from a gifted director.
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Cyndee_Lou_Who Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:15 AM
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7. Agreed, Big Fish is a masterpiece. I have not seen my dad get that
emotional over a movie, ever.... fabulous!!
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:57 AM
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4. BATMAN.
AWESOME movie.
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chemp Donating Member (569 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:12 AM
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5. Batman sucked on many levels
Keaton was to stiff. Costume was awful. Looked real hard to move. Hence- stiff.
Joker killed his parents? Since when? Blows consistency. Stay true to the character.
Alfred walks Vicky Vale into the Batcave? WTF?
Biggest problem? Batman kills. Not once but many times. Guns mounted on batmobile firing into a crowd of henchmen. Dropping the Joker to his death. Batman psychosis works in a way that he will do everything possible to prevent anyone from dying ever again.

This movie sucks. Daredevil level, Punisher level sucks. And they just kept getting worse.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:30 AM
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13. K, you're just looking at it from the comic book level.
But, the direction of this movie was outstanding. And the characters were great, I thought, in particular the Joker. And the acting was good, for the most part.
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eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:13 AM
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6. can't wait for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
and The Corpse Bride
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Nomad559 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:20 AM
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9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Have you seen the trailer for the movie?
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/charlieandthechocolatefactory.html

It looks like a loser to me.
:thumbsdown:
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:24 AM
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10. How can you say that?
It looks to me like they finally got the thing right.

And, yes, I finished re-reading the book about ten minutes ago.
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eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:26 AM
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11. Oh no! I hadn't seen the teaser
Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 09:28 AM by eleonora
I'm no fan of the original but I thought Burton would spin it enough to make it likable. GAAAH........it looks just as silly as the first one. -cries-

edit: and Johnny Depp looks creeeepy..I don't know if that's intended or not!

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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:29 AM
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12. I have a feeling
that the trailer is being made to look silly to sucker people in. Burton's done that sort of thing before, after all.
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eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:33 AM
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14. the whole concept of the candy factory creeps me out
There's something unsettling about it...kind of like clowns and the way they make me feel.

:scared::crazy:
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:41 AM
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15. yup
and the Oompa Loompas, and the way all the children are essentially tortured: Violet is, well, violet for the rest of her life, after being run through a juicer; Mike is ten feet tall and thin as a rail after being stretched on a gum stretching machine; Augustus Gloop is now thin after being squeezed in a pipe. Veruca Salt is merely humiliated, along with her parents, by being dumped in a garbage chute by squirrels.

There's no morals test in the book for Charlie, either. The whole fizzy incident was made up. In the book it's fizzy lifting soda, intended to cause you to float, and nobody drinks it. The business with a planted Slugworth trying to get Charlie to steal an everlasting gobstopper was made up.

In the book, Wonka treats it like one of these new reality shows where a rich guy eliminates people capriciously and gives a fortune to the one he likes best.

I still think the four old people living in a bed together in the living room is creepy, too.
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eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:45 AM
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16. Cast Michael jackson as Charlie and you have your perfect horror movie
:scared::scared::scared::scared:



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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:55 AM
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17. Tough call
For me, the film with the most emotional impact is Edward Scissorhands; I've been known to shed a few tears when the movie ended. But Mars Attacks! was an excellent riff on Independence Day, and since it's looking a bit lonely at the moment, I gave it a vote.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:59 AM
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18. Had to go with Nightmare
It may not be considered his best, but it's definitely my favorite.
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