Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..

[Craig]

Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#1

Posted: 12/4/08 at 11:50am

Dark Shadows folks...

http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/10021/tcid/1

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[ShbrtAlley44]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#2

Posted: 12/4/08 at 11:55am

Oh GAWD.

[SNAFU]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#2

Posted: 12/4/08 at 12:05pm

NOOOOOOOO! Depp is not Barnabas!

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[Craig]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#3

Posted: 12/4/08 at 12:06pm

Is Dark and Brooding the only acting Depp knows?

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[JerseyGirl2]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#4

Posted: 12/4/08 at 12:18pm

Ohhhh... my mother will be thrilled.

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[Dein Herr]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#5

Posted: 12/4/08 at 12:21pm

How many weeks until Helena Bonham Carter is announced as the female lead?

[Roscoe]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#6

Posted: 12/4/08 at 12:22pm

And why not? I'd rather see what Tim Burton and Johnny Depp come up with than just about any other actor/director collaboration out there.

Yeah, I'm a bit disappointed in the rather drab choice of subject matter, but who knows. I'll wait to see the film.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[SNAFU]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#7

Posted: 12/4/08 at 12:27pm

Will Helena Bonham Carter be Dr Julia Hoffman?

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[Luscious]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#8

Posted: 12/4/08 at 12:29pm

They should get a room.

[SNAFU]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#9

Posted: 12/4/08 at 12:34pm

Let me guess, pale faces dark circles under the eyes. Frizzy hair and corsets.

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[best12bars]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#10

Posted: 12/4/08 at 1:08pm

...and that's just on Tim Burton.

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[Mister Matt]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#11

Posted: 12/4/08 at 1:15pm

I really don't understand why they assume we want to see Johnny Depp in every Burton film. At this point, it's just turning me off Burton films altogether. This is worse than Scorsesi and DiCaprio.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[KrissySim]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#12

Posted: 12/4/08 at 1:27pm

I can see it both ways. It's like repertory theatre. When you find a team you can work well with, why change it? Like being in a good band. However it can also come close to falling into a rut.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#13

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:06pm

Johnny Depp's acting is almost as tired as Tim Burton's films.

"[Gore] was widely perceived as arrogant. If you know something, you're not smart. You're a smarty-pants. It's annoying. People get annoyed with your knowledge. It goes back to high school, to not doing your homework ... 'There's something I should know, I don't know why I should know it but someone knows it and I don't. So I'm going to have to make fun of him now.'" -Sarah Vowell, The Partly-Cloudy Patriot

[Roscoe]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#14

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:32pm

Sorry, folks I just don't see it. I don't see Depp's work as being even remotely tired. His work continues to amuse and surprise me. I'll take Depp over that Philip Seymour Hoffman creature any day.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#15

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:39pm

I'd love to see Johnny Depp in a present-times set film, I'd also love to see him work with a different director.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[Mister Matt]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#16

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:42pm

Roscoe - I agree, but it doesn't mean I want to see Depp in every Tim Burton film. It does remind me of repertory theatre, which is why I stop attending many repertory theatres. As versatile as Depp is, Burton is less so. So essentially, we're just getting more of the same with each additional film collaboration. And there are plenty of other actors I would love to see starring in a Burton film for a change. Lord, I've even take DiCaprio or Hanks at this point, and I thought I would never want to see them again in anything.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[Roscoe]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#17

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:50pm

I haven't reached the total saturation on Depp/Burton that others have. Yeah, not all of Burton's films are masterworks (PLANET OF THE APES I have a hard time forgiving) but I don't see how he's really repeated himself. C'est la vie, opinions will differ.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[Mister Matt]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#18

Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:06pm

It's not that Burton repeats himself so much, as he achieves a stylistic rut. I actually like Planet of the Apes because it is such a departure from his other films. But I definitely see similarities in many of his films. Sweeney Todd reminded me of Sleepy Hollow, all the way down to Ricci's huge forhead and blonde locks. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was reminiscent of Edward Scissorhands. And the only surprising thing about Big Fish was that there was almost no darkness in the story, but as for everything else, textbook Burton. Of the Burton/Depp collaboration, I think they probably should have stopped after Ed Wood, which was the peak of their work together.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[Roscoe]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#19

Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:20pm

Yeah, point taken up to a point, I guess. I'd forgotten about BIG FISH, which is pretty easy to do. For me his best films are the ones that are his most typical. That BIG FISH thing, MARS ATTACKS, the unfortunate PLANET OF THE APES are his weakest films and the furthest from being stereotypical "Burton" films, I'd say. His best work like BATMAN RETURNS, ED WOOD, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and the magnificent SWEENEY TODD are squarely in that groove of his. Groove or rut, I'll still take Burton over most directors out there.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

re: Burton and Depp Together (YET) Again After Alice Movie Completes..#20

Posted: 12/4/08 at 8:33pm

I love everything they've done together, but this is getting ridiculous. PLEASE branch out!

Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood are without a doubt the best Depp/Burton movies.