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by **guitarsmashley** » Sun May 13, 2012 11:29 am

Greg wrote:Wow. Everyone I know who's seen it enjoy it, especially the ones that hate musicals. And it was also critically praised and made tons of top ten lists the year it came out. I definitely thought it was the most entertaining of his recent films, my favorite since Sleepy Hollow (although I do love Big Fish and Corpse Bride).

I love sleepy Hollow and Big Fish. Corpse Bride also not so good.

by **Greg** » Sun May 13, 2012 11:40 am

guitarsmashley wrote:
I love sleepy Hollow and Big Fish. Corpse Bride also not so good.

Took me two watches to enjoy Corpse Bride. Disliked it the first time, mostly because I was hoping for another Nightmare Before Christmas. But once I watched it again years later and looked at it as its own movie, I loved it.

by **HNutz** » Sun May 13, 2012 11:41 am

Watching the original series with the gf and her mom.

by **spidertour02** » Sun May 13, 2012 1:42 pm

HNutz wrote:Watching the original series with the gf and her mom.

Netflix? I noticed that a chunk of it is on there, though not from the beginning. (I assume a lot of it is lost to time.)

by **Doc Jon** » Sun May 13, 2012 2:06 pm

I thought Sweeny Todd was the strongest thing Burton's done in a long time.

I was thoroughly disappointed in Alice. I thought it was just a bad film. I'll probably watch this, but maybe I'll wait for the small screen.

by **Chris** » Sun May 13, 2012 2:11 pm

Sweeney Todd was great.

Big Fish is my favorite of his movies of the last 10 years, though.

Although those two are probably the only two I liked in that time.

by **avengingtitan** » Sun May 13, 2012 3:11 pm

Greg wrote:Wow. Everyone I know who's seen it enjoy it, especially the ones that hate musicals. And it was also critically praised and made tons of top ten lists the year it came out. I definitely thought it was the most entertaining of his recent films, my favorite since Sleepy Hollow (although I do love Big Fish and Corpse Bride).

Meh. I saw it when it came out and it was boring. I'm a big fan of musicals but I just didnt enjoy this one. It just didnt have heart. Now I watched the old stage proformace that CBS (i think) aired on tv back in the day starring Angela Lansbury and that was fucking awesome.

by **Greg** » Sun May 13, 2012 3:24 pm

avengingtitan wrote:Meh. I saw it when it came out and it was boring. I'm a big fan of musicals but I just didnt enjoy this one. It just didnt have heart. Now I watched the old stage proformace that CBS (i think) aired on tv back in the day starring Angela Lansbury and that was fucking awesome.

I seen some of that. Liked it, much preferred the movie version for my own tastes.

by **Victorian Squid** » Sun May 13, 2012 3:58 pm

That looks terrible.

by **Rockman** » Sun May 13, 2012 6:35 pm

Sweeny Todd was a good film, I wouldn't watch it again, but it was good.

The songs in it were better than most songs in musicals.

The reason I won't watch it, is because it actually disturbed me a little bit. I guess that's a good thing because I'm sure that was an intention of the filmakers.

by **bkthomson** » Sun May 13, 2012 7:04 pm

While Burton is my favorite director I have not enjoyed his latest films. I think he had a great vision but maybe some of the execution has not been great.