tim burton Archives - Alternate Ending https://www.alternateending.com/category/tim-burton Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:48:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.alternateending.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/favicon.png tim burton Archives - Alternate Ending https://www.alternateending.com/category/tim-burton 32 32 125815950 Dumbo (2019) https://www.alternateending.com/2019/04/dumbo-2019.html https://www.alternateending.com/2019/04/dumbo-2019.html#respond Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:10:51 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=29258

If we must get these Disney remakes of their animated features done in unattractive, narratively slack live-action/CGI hybrids - and 2019 is making a particularly loud case that we must - I would say that you could honestly do a l...

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If we must get these Disney remakes of their animated features done in unattractive, narratively slack live-action/CGI hybrids - and 2019 is making a particularly loud case that we must - I would say that you could honestly do a l...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2019/04/dumbo-2019.html/feed 0 29258 The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) https://www.alternateending.com/2018/12/the-nightmare-before-christmas.html https://www.alternateending.com/2018/12/the-nightmare-before-christmas.html#respond Tue, 25 Dec 2018 08:11:07 +0000 https://alter.txlzzlq1-liquidwebsites.com/?p=22491

It's certainly more common knowledge 25 years later than it was at the time of the film's premiere in October 1993 (when Disney did everything in its power to hide the information), but it still bears mentioning that the film which has bee...

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It's certainly more common knowledge 25 years later than it was at the time of the film's premiere in October 1993 (when Disney did everything in its power to hide the information), but it still bears mentioning that the film which has bee...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2018/12/the-nightmare-before-christmas.html/feed 0 22491 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) https://www.alternateending.com/2016/11/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-movie-review.html https://www.alternateending.com/2016/11/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-movie-review.html#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:03:00 +0000

It's not very hard to imagine a different version of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - only a slightly different version, even - that's a wonderfully imaginative and full of no end of cinematic marvels. For a film that could be de...

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It's not very hard to imagine a different version of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - only a slightly different version, even - that's a wonderfully imaginative and full of no end of cinematic marvels. For a film that could be de...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2016/11/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-movie-review.html/feed 21 12 Big Eyes (2014) https://www.alternateending.com/2015/01/windows-to-the-lack-of-a-soul.html https://www.alternateending.com/2015/01/windows-to-the-lack-of-a-soul.html#respond Thu, 01 Jan 2015 23:11:00 +0000 http://wp2.localhost:8888/2015/01/01/windows-to-the-lack-of-a-soul/

The impressive thing about Big Eyes, the most sedate film directed by Tim Burton in over a decade, maybe even two, is how many different ways its creative team came up with to interpret one script, written by Scott Alexander & Larry Karas...

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The impressive thing about Big Eyes, the most sedate film directed by Tim Burton in over a decade, maybe even two, is how many different ways its creative team came up with to interpret one script, written by Scott Alexander & Larry Karas...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2015/01/windows-to-the-lack-of-a-soul.html/feed 0 561 Frankenweenie https://www.alternateending.com/2012/10/he-tampered-in-dogs-domain.html https://www.alternateending.com/2012/10/he-tampered-in-dogs-domain.html#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:02:00 +0000 http://wp2.localhost:8888/2012/10/10/he-tampered-in-dogs-domain/

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Every week this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. This week: at the time of this writing, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure appeared first on Alternate Ending.

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Every week this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. This week: at the time of this writing, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure appeared first on Alternate Ending.

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This isn't even an actual binary: but let's say you wanted to figure out whether somebody was ultimately a fan of Batman, or ultimately a fan of Tim Burton. They way you do this is by asking their opinion of Batman Returns, which is, honestl...

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This isn't even an actual binary: but let's say you wanted to figure out whether somebody was ultimately a fan of Batman, or ultimately a fan of Tim Burton. They way you do this is by asking their opinion of Batman Returns, which is, honestl...

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I would like to begin, if I could, by restoring to Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation of Batman some of its dignity. Nearly a quarter of a century after it was released to an amount of hype that had not at that point in history been matched by any ...

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I would like to begin, if I could, by restoring to Tim Burton's 1989 adaptation of Batman some of its dignity. Nearly a quarter of a century after it was released to an amount of hype that had not at that point in history been matched by any ...

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Calling Dark S...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2012/05/shadows-of-the-vampire.html/feed 18 1821 Dark Shadows https://www.alternateending.com/blog/best-shot-edward-scissorhands https://www.alternateending.com/blog/best-shot-edward-scissorhands#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 18:04:00 +0000 http://wp2.localhost:8888/2012/05/16/best-shot-edward-scissorhands/ This week, for Hit Me with Your Best Shot, Nathaniel R over at The Film Experience has elected to celebrate the release of Dark Shadows - because, well, somebody h...

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