5 Pages Tagged “Tim Burton”
Reviews
- Edward Scissorhands ★★★★☆ The film still holds up: the fairy tale music, the contrast between ‘normal’ suburbia and Edward’s home, and the tension between appearances and heart.
- Nightmare Before Christmas (in 3D) ★★★★⯪ ILM remade the entire film in CGI, then shifted the virtual camera over for the second viewpoint. They match seamlessly. That said, 3D doesn’t add much to the original, but it doesn’t interfere either.
Blog Posts
- NBC 3D
I caught a re-release of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D. Movie: Good. 3D: Good. Digital Projection: Not so good, with visible pixels.
- Not so comforting
We had some free time before seeing Serenity again on Saturday, so we wandered into Hot Topic. (Katie finds T-shirts there from time to time, and it’s always interesting to just look at the slogans you wouldn’t think of actually wearing.) Well, they’ve had a line of Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise for a while, so […]
- Comic art should tell the story
There are two books I picked up recently that demonstrate how not to tell a story with pictures: Teen Titans #27 and the manga of The Nightmare Before Christmas. First, Teen Titans #27, first half of a two parter by fill-in team of Gail Simone and Rob Liefeld. I’d planned on writing a more thorough […]