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[Lemurnator]

So few movies are able to cover 2 holidays at once, let alone so perfectly as this movie does.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is the best Christmas movie of all time while at the same time being the best Halloween movie of all time.

<3 Zero

 

[Memles]

It is better than all; it is one of my posters that hasn't fallen off of my dorm room wall yet. It's an awesome poster. I admittedly have never seen the entire film, though.

 

[Willco]

The Nightmare Before Christmas easily makes my Top 5 movies from the '90s list.

 

[Lemurnator]

The music score in this movie is truely something special.

 

[Trevelyon]

I hope it's on the Disney channel on Christmas eve, like last year. Though, I should really own it by now. :/

 

[Naked Snake]

Is there still no DVD for this movie with anamorphic video?

 

[BuddyC]

Is there still no DVD for this movie with anamorphic video?

I'm fairly confident the Special Edition was anamorphic. Lemme check.

edit: Nope, you're right. Sorry for the confusion.

Oh yea, in before eXxy.

edit 2: IGN's review of the SE still gets me.

On the 8th day we got Frakenweenie. This "uncut never before available" edition of a boy who brings his dog back to life. Um, I got kind of board watching this.

 

[whytemyke]

very awesome stuff, and yeah, elfman did a sweet job with the music. oogie boogie has to be one of the most original villains to date. you guys ever play against him in Kingdom Hearts? That boss battle made that game, imho

 

[Agent Dormer]

We were able to sell out a midnight show of this last year at work on Halloween. We're just that fucking cool. Go campus movie theatre, go!

 

[Bob White]

The Nightmare Before Christmas >>>>>> ***

You know....you're absolutely fucking right.

Jack >>>>>>>>> Anybody else.

 

[MrCheez]

I have so much <3 <3 <3 for this movie!

 

[robox]

awesome awesome movie.

there should be some sorta law that nightmare before christmas should be broadcasted once during halloween season and once during christmas season. it's that damn good.

 

[etiolate]

And since I am dead, I can take of my head and recite Shakespearan quotations!

Awesomeness.

 

[Patrick Klepek]

where there are nightmare before christmas threads, i appear.

a fantastic film, you might say, and i would agree. it only makes the wait for the corpse bride all the more agonizing.

 

[shibbs]

Ive never seen this movie.


*runs*

 

[Grimlock]

Neither have I.

*runs behinds shibbs*

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Well, don't go into it expecting some mind blowing extravaganza.

I'm afraid to say it's sorely "overhyped". I picked it up on DVD shortly after buying my PS2. It's Tim Burton, I like Tim Burton. It's animated, I like animation.

UNfortunately, I didn't like it enough to bother keeping it. There are a few memorable parts, but they were mostly in the trailer back in the day. A handful of the musical numbers are humorous.

I was pretty disappointed. So I'd say avoid the mindless "OMG! Nightmare Before Christmas" crap on the off chance you don't enjoy it all that much.

If you want to see some sweet stop motion animation, track down Jiri Barta's The Pied Piper. F'ing awesome.

 

[JackFrost2012]

It's not Tim Burton, it's Henry Selick.

HENRY SELICK IS THE GENIUS HERE PEOPLE!

 

[Mike Works]

They both are.

 

[Alucard]

This will be the winter when I finally get around to watching this movie. G/f seems to love it so that's a definite night in.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Whoops!

Well then, I was lured in under a false premise! ARRRGH!

I'm telling you Jiri Barta.

Actually, you're in Japan. . . aren't you Mr. Vestal? Hmmmm. . . apparently that's one of the few regions to have a Jiri Barta DVD compilation.

 

[Dan]

They both are.

Debatable overall, but not with respect to this film. Fact is, Tim Burton's credits are for producing it and for story and characters, which is primarily attributed to a poem he wrote ages ago about Jack, the dog and Santa Claus only. Burton was on set of Nightmare Before Christmas for less than 10 whole days and that was spread between 5 or so short visits. If you know anything about the duration of these stop-motion productions, you'd know that is almost completely negligible. He was on a completely different continent during production working on Batman Returns for the entire time.

It's Henry Selick's movie with some inspiration provided by Burton. Burton just gets way too much undeserved credit for it.

I find it interesting that three-quarters through production Burton's name mysteriously popped up as a co-director of The Corpse Bride on IMDB. Seems shady to me.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

The Mayor and Jack > All

EDIT: On second thought, since a few haven't seen it, I'll take that pic off. Here's the classic then: