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09-13-2005, 11:46 PM
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Saw it yesterday at the Toronto Film Festival. Very Enjoyable! It has about the same amount of songs as nightmare.
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09-14-2005, 12:33 AM
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Saw the trailer and heard about it for the first time this weekend. I am pretty excited for it. It looks incredible.
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09-14-2005, 12:34 AM
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09-23-2005, 04:49 PM
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Saw it this afternoon. Without any spoilers I thought it was amazing. Some might think it "too simple" but that's where a lot of the charm comes from. Reminded me in a lot of ways of those old Hammer Horror films (with the voices of Christopher Lee and Michael Gough to boot).
It's a good year to be a Tim Burton fan. Even though he doesn't need to, to get his vision across, I'd love to see Burton team up with Pixar sometime. I know that John Lasseter and Burton attended Cal Arts around the same time and had great respect for one another. This film is even dedicated to the memory of Joe Ranft.
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09-23-2005, 11:49 PM
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My daughter and I saw this today and we both loved it. By far the best film I've seen all year. Burton (as usual) did a wonderful job. It's hard to compare this to Nightmare as it is a very different film but it's the best way to describe it.
The story is heavier then Burtons previous Nightmare before Christmas as it deals with death, murder and suicide, the entire film has a much darker tone to it as well. The songs are more in the style of Oingo Boingo (just like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) which I found enjoyable. What I found odd was Burtons look he gave to the film. The mortal world is dark, gray and depressing where as the world of the dead is much more colorful and fun.
It's easy to see that CGI has been added to enhance this film over Nightmare, which I am still hung up on. I really enjoyed how Nightmare was done and although this was done in the same way the CGI takes away from the three-dimensional look that Nightmare had.
The movie paces itself very well and will keep you guessing right to the end. By far one of Burton's best films to date. I'll be going back to the theater this weekend for a second show.
Sometime's you reach what's real by making believe.
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09-24-2005, 01:25 AM
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What a great film.
I still can't get over the fact that it was shot using commercially available (albeit expensive) digital still cameras!
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09-24-2005, 02:01 AM
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I was pleasantly surprised by this film. I just put my review up here.
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I still can't get over the fact that it was shot using commercially available (albeit expensive) digital still cameras!
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Holy cow! That's somewhere in the range of 103,680 digital photographs!
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09-24-2005, 02:43 AM
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oh wow! im really excited about this. i love tim!
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09-24-2005, 06:21 PM
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I thought it was pretty good, with care given to show the living with a drab color palette, while the dead had a nice vibrant color palette.
I found the story fairly simple without an immense amount of characterization to load down the film, but, again, Burton films are almost always about flair, and bizarre design sense, fun to look at and watch.
I give it 3 stars, or a grade of B.
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09-25-2005, 01:35 AM
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09-25-2005, 03:39 PM
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I thought it kind of dragged in the middle -- really bad for a movie that's only like 75 minutes -- and was pretty predictable.
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I like Boingo, but because of CatCF, I was thinking here's another Burton movie with wacky stuff happening while they're singing not particularly memorable Elfman songs.
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09-25-2005, 03:46 PM
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