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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 10 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 4 Points
Ed Wood - 10 Points
Sleepy Hollow - 0 Points (- 2)

Big Fish - 10 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 14 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points (+2)
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 4 Points
Ed Wood - 10 Points
Big Fish - 10 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 14 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 2 Points (-2)
Ed Wood - 10 Points
Big Fish - 10 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 14 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 2 Points
Ed Wood - 12 Points (+2)
Big Fish - 10 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 14 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 4 Points (+2)
Ed Wood - 12 Points
Big Fish - 10 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 14 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 6 Points (+2)
Ed Wood - 12 Points
Big Fish - 10 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 14 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Now it's getting tough. All these films I've seen (with the exception of Batman Returns) and like.

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 6 Points
Ed Wood - 12 Points
Big Fish - 10 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 12 Points (-2)

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Damn it Lazario!

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 5 Points (-1)
Ed Wood - 12 Points
Big Fish - 10 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points (+1)

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 5 Points
Ed Wood - 12 Points
Big Fish - 8 Points (-2)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 6 Points (+1)
Ed Wood - 11 Points (-1)
Big Fish - 8 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Post by Dr Frankenollie »

^ :headshake: Ed Wood is Burton's best film, possibly excluding Sweeney Todd.

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 6 Points
Ed Wood - 13 Points (+2)
Big Fish - 8 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Dr Frankenollie wrote:^ :headshake: Ed Wood is Burton's best film, possibly excluding Sweeney Todd.
Then why do I dislike it so much?

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Why do you dislike it? It's funny, emotional, educational in cinema history, and features great performances from Johnny Depp and Martin Landau. I'm surprised you don't like it.
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Dr Frankenollie wrote: great performances from Johnny Depp and Martin Landau.
Especially Martin Landau.
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 6 Points
Ed Wood - 13 Points
Big Fish - 6 Points(-2)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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[Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 6 Points
Ed Wood - 13 Points
Big Fish - 4 Points (-2)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
Image
Listening to most often lately:
Ariana Grande ~ "we can't be friends (wait for your love)"
Ariana Grande ~ "imperfect for you"
Kacey Musgraves ~ "The Architect"
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Dr Frankenollie wrote:Why do you dislike it? It's funny, emotional, educational in cinema history, and features great performances from Johnny Depp and Martin Landau. I'm surprised you don't like it.
I rented it (only) once back in like 2000 when I was a jerk / punk teen. Although, I was also alternating at the time with John Waters' oeuvre (and not because I was attempting to test my gag reflex) as well as Argento (point being - really, don't trip up on the names, they're not that important just personal factual obligation - that I was expanding the definition of art film in my horizons of whatever movies meant to me previously). It just plain bored the living daylights out of me. Which is fair considering how abused, underrated, and overlooked Burton's Batman movies and Edward Scissorhands had been (by people who weren't "like" tortured souls or seriously visual-minded artists / art lovers) because they were too violent or not classy, standard bio-pic'y enough accounts of a character's life. Good on him for wanting to broaden his reputation with the critical community. But the previous movies meant too much to me. This movie felt, at least tonally, like he was selling out.

Of course, that's me. And I'm fully willing to accept that it looks like (from an outsider's point of view) violence and ultra-dark toned films seem to break through to me more than light toned films which are so tastefully playful with subtlety and nuance that it all goes over my head.
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 8 Points (+2)
Ed Wood - 13 Points
Big Fish - 4 Points
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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4 Disney Atmosphere Images
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 8 Points
Ed Wood - 13 Points
Big Fish - 2 Points(-2)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
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Post by Dr Frankenollie »

Lazario, I think you should watch Ed Wood again, but perhaps without comparing it to Burton's earlier films. I personally love it.

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - 10 Points
Beetlejuice - 12 Points
Batman - 10 Points
Edward Scissorhands - 10 Points
Batman Returns - 8 Points
Ed Wood - 13 Points
Big Fish - 0 Points (-2)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 13 Points

ELIMINATED:
Planet of the Apes
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
Big Fish
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