Our question is: why weren’t these spoofs made about 10 years ago? Either way, these digs at Tim Burton are on-the-money (whether the video is actually that funny, well, that depends on what you find amusing). He’s long devolved into a cliche and we’re glad someone other than us has finally said it. The mocking of Danny Elfman in this piece might be the best part. His “Alice In Wonderland” score was the apogee of unsubtle.
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He's no more predictable than Noah Baumbach, who has "long devolved into a cliche" of uninteresting white people whining about their lives.
A Baumbach/Burton collaboration might be kind of inspired though. Uninteresting white people whine about their lives in an artificially quirky mall goth fantasy world. And in 3D, so Baumbach's bland characterization pops off the screen. However that turns out, it couldn't be worse than The Unfantastic Mr. Fox.
Big Fish: yay! Edward Scissorhands: nay.
Oh, how fun it must be to be a jaded, armchair critic who joylessly consumes pop culture only to regurgitate critical analysis into the blogosphere so everyone can learn how uncool, unoriginal, and underwhelming everything is. Oh, please, may I join the club? I too wish to feel nothing but cynicism! I too wish to find respite only in my over-educated, hyper-critical, nihilistic compartmentalization of all that used to give me happiness–what others call…art. Oh, the glory of it all…
God, this is so spot-on.
Lame
What Tim Burton needs to do is make an r picture. As a horror fan, it is time to head into Jospeh Losey territory…or even the still resonant dump William Friedkin took on haute entertainment industry self-satisfaction with the arrival of the pissing, puking, mocking demon in 'The Exorcist'. Maybe it's time Tim bailed on Disney and got back with Warner Brothers. Is this is even possible? And make that sick, chilling, insightful new movie with Johnny Depp playing 'normal'
The spoof is really REALLY bad. But yeah, it is spot on.
I found the real Burton to be funnier than any other spoof.
I suspect Tim Burton has long gotten over this kind of hand-wringing about whether he's being "cliche" or "original"… when you have certain artistic obsessions, which is a forgivable flaw for creative personalities, you eventually have to decide whether to fight against them and be disingenuous, or completely indulge them and become a parody of yourself. Tim Burton chose the latter, and if this causes him to be pigeonholed, fettered to an adolescent fan-base, and easily-targeted by parody memes… then hey. I may not love everything Mr. Burton does, but I'm sure he's a smart guy, and I'm sure he's no longer concerned with the opinions of armchair critics (which really describes all critics these days, when you get right down to it).
Yeah, not funny, but rather spot-on. A lot of people here are very butt-hurt.
it is funny, and spot-on, babbyby!
that was hilarious!!! 😛 But I like Tim Burton anyway…
Tim Burton likes fast cars and coke. NOTHING ELSE can explain the last ten/fifteen (twenty?) years of the same goddamned motif. Let him have his fun, because I don't see any reason to see the next shadowy, baroque PG-13 pop art disasterpiece he authors. Helena Bonham Carter must be a lynx in the sack.
It never ceases to amaze me just how many hidden geniuses there are out there who could make such a better film (or other creative endeavor) than (insert name here) if only they had the chance, money, backing.
Allow me to quote Mr. William Shatner from his song, "Has Been":
Riding on their armchairs
They dream of wealth and fame
Fear is their companion
Nintendo is their game
Never done jack and two thumbs Don
And sidekick don't say dick
We'll laugh at others failures
Though they have not done sh*t
Just about sums it up.