Post by Toasted Cheese on Jun 18, 2018 6:40:12 GMT
1.Batman Returns (1992) - 5.5-6/10 (barely a Thumbs Up) (NOTE: my most recent re-watch of this was June 1st 2013 ; damn, already 5+ years since I last seen it. time flies.)
basically I think his general style is a bit weird. it's just not something that sticks with you as it pretty much lost it's appeal as I got older. but maybe he's one of those directors people either lie or don't for the most part.
I am not sure what you mean by your last statement. Burton has a tremendous sense of visual style and while it may be surreal, strange or weird, when he gets it right, he is sublime.
For my choices, which are in no order, expect for release date, I feel they are also ones where the style and the substance perfectly compliment each other:
Batman Returns - the fairy tale winter, turned dark and metropolis.
Ed Wood - a homage to cheaply produced old b&w crappy films from the 50's that had much warmth to it and was true to boot.
Mars Attacks - incorporated a parody of Hollywood sci-fi films from the 50's in a contemporary setting, which also wryly mocked and took kindly jabs at our own society.
Sweeny Todd - in which the *design was grim sparse and cold in many scenes, yet also breathed an uncanny authenticity and simple complexity in the detail, that made me feel what it must have really been like to have been living in Victorian London.
Frankenweenie - in beautiful b&w, gave us a terrific blend of stop motion animation and a fondness and nostalgia for the creature feature films of an era long gone.
* Deserved Academy Award® for it's production design.