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Corpse Bride Trailer

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BlueLegs

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I forgot all about this movie, September can not come fast enough.

What's the deal with Burton choosing Depp for every other movie he does? (not that i have anything bad to say against this)
 
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FoneBone

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Stop-motion animation has been so rare in recent years -- it's kinda weird that there are two big movies coming out in the space of one month (this and Wallace & Gromit). Not that I'm complaining.
 
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SteveMeister

Hang out with Steve.
sefskillz said:
It looks awful clean to be stop motion.
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Check it out.

From the link:
This is a stop motion animated feature film, based on a 19th Century Russian folktale, where a man mistakenly weds a corpse.
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There are plenty of other sites that mention the movie uses stop-motion animation. Just do a google on "Corpse Bride" & follow the search results.

It does look fantastic, though, even better than Nightmare Before Christmas.
 
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Mama Smurf

My penis is still intact.
Looks amazing. I hope it's better than Nightmare Before Christmas, which I saw recently and was disappointed with.

Man, exXy's so going to ban me for both being disappointed in it and for not seeing it until just this Christmas.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
I'm not sure why everyone is surprised that this looks better - technically speaking - than Nightmare Before Christmas. It's only natural for the medium to evolve over a 12 year period, and many important techniques were invented on the set of Nightmare, so those have surely been perfected and improved on since.

I'm hoping this is great, but my anticipation went down a notch when Tim Burton's name was suddenly and mysteriously added as co-director. This footage looks great though. Then again, Burton said the following today: "We're still working the story out. We're being as improvisational with an animated film as you can be." That scares me.

I've never heard anything about this being a musical though. I'm almost positive that it is not.
 
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BarneyBP

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I'm sure they've got the basic ideas fleshed out and are just fine tuning some portions as they work on them, September is still a ways away.

Be not afraid!
 
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Trevelyon

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It seems like a similar situation to what Burton was doing in 1992. He was directing Returns for WB, while producing The Nightmare Before Christmas & having his friend, Henry Selick direct. While this year, he has both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake & this to juggle between.

But it I think Tim will have more input into the Corpse Bride then Nightmare.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Trevelyon said:
It seems like a similar situation to what Burton was doing in 1992. He was directing Returns for WB, while producing The Nightmare Before Christmas & having his friend, Henry Selick direct. While this year, he has both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake & this to juggle between.

But it I think Tim will have more input into the Corpse Bride then Nightmare.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, Burton had shit to do with Nightmare. He was on set for less than ten days out of the two year shooting period, and that's straight from Selick's mouth. Burton was on a different continent for the vast majority of the shoot worrying about Batman Returns. His creative contribution was primarily a poem he wrote in the 80s that featured only Jack, Zero and Santa Claus.

And I should add that it's more input from Burton that worries me most considering he hasn't done anything good since 1994.

BarneyBP said:
I'm sure they've got the basic ideas fleshed out and are just fine tuning some portions as they work on them, September is still a ways away.

Be not afraid!
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Corpse Bride has been filming since February 2003. Burton's name didn't appear as a co-director until June 2004. Now, January 2005, he says they're still working on the story and doing as much improvisation as possible. I see a lot to worry about.

I hope to hell Corpse Bride turns out amazing, but I'm very skeptical given some of the shady manueverings that have occured around this production.
 
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Willco

Hollywood Square
Yeah, Big Fish was a solid movie. Sleepy Hollow ruled. I like Mars Attacks!, but that's a 50/50 thing with people.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
I'll quote what I said about Big Fish in the last Burton thread:
Dan said:
Big Fish was an emotionally manipulative collection of disjointed set pieces that ultimately made a point that had no need of being made. It was utterly forgettable.
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Mars Attacks! suffers from a similar problem in that it is also a collection of disjointed set pieces. It doesn't come together as a cohesive whole at all. Mars Attacks! is Burton's failure to do for old B-rated sci-fi what Tarantino succeeded in doing with Kill Bill for spaghetti westerns and Asian genres. He doesn't fail in paying homage and adding some fresh twists, but he fails to pull it all together. It's just a mess of multiple poorly realized storylines. He spread himself too thin. There are some great moments in Mars Attacks! but there's also a lot of crap.

Sleepy Hollow, well I only watched that one once back when it first came out, but I remember being really annoyed by how much ridiculous drama there was between every damned person in the town. Everyone had a dark secret and most of it came down to family relations and affairs. It was like a moody soap opera with a headless horseman running around. I didn't care about the people in the town, I didn't care what happened to Ichabod and I didn't care to find out why this horseman was offing people. The only thing I liked was the art direction and cinematography, which is always what Burton focuses on. Without a good script, he's got nothing but a pretty shell of a film. Hopefully Corpse Bride has something of substance going for it since Caroline Thompson also wrote Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands.

I think we can all agree that Planet of the Apes was awful.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Littleberu said:
This doesn't look very fun to watch. Oh, he's running into a tree! FUNNY ISN'T IT!?!
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Duh, it's a new rule, any character played by Depp in a Burton film is now obligated to run into something head first.

Willco said:
Your opinion sucks, Dan.
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Thank you for that detailed retort.
 
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Mama Smurf

My penis is still intact.
Funny, I found Nightmare Before Christmas to have a pretty weak story personally. Oh the ideas were there, and were great, but I just sat there thinking: "I guess you've got to like the songs more than I do to get into this film."

Wasn't the cheesy, over the top drama of the characters the whole point of Sleepy Hollow? As the film made no pretences at seriousness and made sure practically every character you saw was under suspicion at some point, that's the feeling I got.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Mama Smurf said:
Funny, I found Nightmare Before Christmas to have a pretty weak story personally. Oh the ideas were there, and were great, but I just sat there thinking: "I guess you've got to like the songs more than I do to get into this film."
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I'd say the script was pretty great. In such a short amount of time you're introduced to many characters that had surprisingly nuanced personalities for a 76 minute picture. Every scene is either developing a character (or the world, which in itself is a very active character) or the story. I find the film to be quite engaging for reasons beyond the visual attributes. I think it's a great little vignette about a man who discovers something new and dives in head first without seeing the whole picture or knowing the consequences, and then has to deal with that.

Wasn't the cheesy, over the top drama of the characters the whole point of Sleepy Hollow? As the film made no pretences at seriousness and made sure practically every character you saw was under suspicion at some point, that's the feeling I got.
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I suppose that's possible, although I don't remember Sleepy Hollow being either significantly cheesy or self-conscious of how overly dramatic it was. It might be a movie I should watch again, I don't know.
 
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Mama Smurf

My penis is still intact.
Dan said:
I'd say the script was pretty great. In such a short amount of time you're introduced to many characters that had surprisingly nuanced personalities for a 76 minute picture. Every scene is either developing a character (or the world, which in itself is a very active character) or the story. I find the film to be quite engaging for reasons beyond the visual attributes. I think it's a great little vignette about a man who discovers something new and dives in head first without seeing the whole picture or knowing the consequences, and then has to deal with that.
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I didn't really have a problem with Jack's story. It was things like the love story that felt contrived and formulaic that bothered me.

I'd have been more interested to see a bigger storyline about a Jack/Oogie Boogie rivalry or something. Like I say, the basic premise is great, but they don't really take it anywhere and it just turns into another musical, as they nver seem to be very big on plot. Which would be fine, if I liked the songs more. What's This (assuming that's the name) was far and away the best song, and I can't even remember the others. I need to hear the soundtrack a few more times though, sometimes songs I don't like at first grow on me strongly after repeated listening, so I don't like to judge them straight away.

I suppose that's possible, although I don't remember Sleepy Hollow being either significantly cheesy or self-conscious of how overly dramatic it was. It might be a movie I should watch again, I don't know.
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I think you should, it totally had that self concious vibe. They basically made Depp's character a bumbling idiot who practically accused the entire village as clues unravelled.
 
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Matlock

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Formula for Tim Burton movie:

1. Bring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny Elfman on board
2. Decide on theme
--a. Bright and slightly creepy
--b. Dark and slightly comedic
3. ??????
4. Profit
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Mama Smurf said:
I think you should, it totally had that self concious vibe. They basically made Depp's character a bumbling idiot who practically accused the entire village as clues unravelled.
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Hmm, alright, Netflix queue +1.
 
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android

Theoretical Magician
very cool. I thought it would be more like Nightmare before Christmas, but it felt more Edgar Allan Poe inspired.
 
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Malcolm Reynolds

Banned
This looks excellent.

I think its pratically a given that this is going to be a great year for both Burton and Depp. Both this and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (NOT a gorram remake) have the trademark Burton look and are sure to make a dent in the box office, especially with Depp's huge leap in popularity since PotC.

I suppose that's possible, although I don't remember Sleepy Hollow being either significantly cheesy or self-conscious of how overly dramatic it was. It might be a movie I should watch again, I don't know.
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I agree with Mama Smurf you most definitely should see it again because you seem to have totally missed the point, i'm sure if you watch it again you'll be laughing hysterically. I think its one of Depps best performances, his comedic timing is perfection.
 
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