Tim Burton -- classic or dud?

While I appreciate the sic-cyclopedia entry, I was speaking more about their recent tendency to lean hard on remakes and sequels of their own previous work as opposed to the familiar adaptations of non-Disney material. Between live action and animated films from 2017 through the end of this year, I count thirteen remakes/sequels of existing Disney properties, two newly-adapted properties (Nutcracker and Artemis Fowl), and one original film (Coco). It wasn't a whole helluva lot better in the years before that, but they were a little closer to a 50/50 split between 'fresh' material and autophagia.

presumably part of that tally is them buying things where new instalments link up, even if they’re not direct sequels? eg Marvel, Star Wars, vs historically “Disney”-branded stuff

I count Pixar separately still, though they’ve obv become sequelier as they became more merged w/ Disney

Nah, I'm just counting movies that announce themselves proudly as a Walt Disney (or Pixar) production, no Lucasfilm or Marvel.

ooooof

i'm not esp likely to ever see this, but a glance at the reviews shows it's not a "photocopy"

but keep thinkin Tarantella is original

I'm never going to see this, but the biggest red flag is that the cartoon runs about an hour and this one runs about twice that.

meh, 2019

In case you failed to see it upthread...

Morbs, you temper your fabled vituperation over the weirdest things.

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Also golf clap for strawmanning all of the zero people in existence who ever called Tarantino original. Yeeeeesh.

i was thinking about this yesterday and its now starting to make more sense to view Disney originals like...broadway musicals or whatever and these remakes as revivals.

revivals which just happen to allow disney to extend the copyright on their properties

thus keeping alive the goose that lays the dollar-crammed eggs

I hope I live long enough to see like the fifth or sixth iteration of a Disney remake where it's just like this crude and barely recognizable rendition of Pinocchio standing in a stark white field for two hours and endlessly repeating 'Hi, I'm Pinocchio!' to the camera from a variety of angles.

Pinocchio (2042): Not as bad as I thought it might be, Pinocchio's enunciation was flawless, and Disney has really upped their game on the presentation of the glaring void in which all of their films are now set. *** + 1/2*

My greatest dream is somehow stripping Disney of all their copyrights and filming everyone crying who will be hit hard in the bank balance by this, so I can watch these crying videos everyday for immense sexual pleasure.

I can't believe he got Mars Attacks! made. I can't believe he assembled that cast.

really liked it when it came out and it goes up in my estimation every time i revisit, some kind of lunatic masterpiece

that and Ed Wood have become my abiding favorites

i haven't seen it in years but every so often, the phrase "the international sign of the donut" pops into my head

It's definitely more Joe Dante than Tim Burton.

Wednesday sucks, right? Is it just me? made it three episodes and decided "nah". the humor doesn't work at all and this cutesy goth thing is so played out.

i was the opposite- i’m surprised by how much i really enjoy it … like there are a lot of dopey jokes and puns and fan service but the mystery is kinda compelling & i like all the main characters

also there is a great scene where she dances to the Cramps “Goo Goo Muck”

clip here bc it’s truly excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE2bY2gOBhk