RoDrInCuBuS wrote:Mewberries151 wrote:RoDrInCuBuS wrote:I haven't seen the whole thing yet, but it was between regular and good. At moments, awesome, creepy, sissy... but you gotta admit that Danny Elfman did a d*mn good job with the music on that movie.
IIRC, Elfman voiced a characther from that movie... can't remember who it was.
Danny Elfman voiced "The Clown with the Tear-Away Face" exclusively and was also Jack's singing voice.
And agreed. The music is phenomenal.
Thanks.
Well... Elfman is guaranteed good music.
Indeed! ^.^RoDrInCuBuS wrote:Mewberries151 wrote:RoDrInCuBuS wrote:I gotta admit that the transition from Halloween Land to Christmas Land seems to be an interesting experience... but if TNBC was a bit more darker and rated PG-13 at least (not by insults, by violent scenes in the Halloween world and giving it a horror movie vibe), it could have been somehow better.
I disagree completely there though. ^^; Scarier does not necessarily make something better, nor does up-ing it's rating, especially in the case of NMBC. NMBC is dark enough in it's own right. Tim Burton tends to go for the unusual scare as opposed the the "violent, blood and gore" scare. He also seems to have an interest in promoting the idea that the scary looking may not be so scary on the inside. Just look at the movie "Edward Scissorhands". This guy is frightening looking...but he's not a bad person really. Making NMBC violent and gory would have only resulted in the loss of the bigger picture of things as well as what the movie was really about which is "be true to oneself", I feel.
I said somehow... and we all have different views... I said a "bit", not "let's make the movie completely gorey"... as for "Edward Scissorhands"... it had something that made it better than NMBC... can't remember what that is... I always thought that Jack could have been a tad bit more scarier than what he was shown on the movie.
Gore would have been rather hard to portray in a stop-motion animation feature though. One would either have to CG it in (and possibly make it look "unreal" in doing so), or painstakingly animate it.
Either way though, I think Jack comes off as less scary, because he expresses that he's tired of scaring others in the film. Making him more scary would sort of confuse that, in a way, at least in my opinion. He was pretty scary for me anyway the first time I watched this (pokes her first post on this thread). I still have a fear of human skeletons, actually. ^^;
RoDrInCuBuS wrote:Hmm... Sweeden ratings for that movie was 11+... maybe there could have been a country where it reached PG-13 or almost close enough to it.
That was likely because of the "Christmas Present" scenes. Pulling a shrunken head out of a lovely Christmas present is kind of a vivid image for a child. ^^; Plus...some of the character designs are rather creepy. The "Corpse Child" is one of those that I would figure in particular. This movie definitely has it's infinitely creepy moments and characters. ^^
RoDrInCuBuS wrote:Tom Bone wrote:Great movie, talented actors. BEST MOVIE EVER!!!
There's plenty of movies that can beat TNMBC... Donnie Darko, Cidade De Deus...
Ah, but as you said, we all have different views.
I haven't seen Donnie Darko yet (I'm not even exactly sure what it's about), but NMBC definitely ranks on my list as one of the best movies ever for me. ^^
(listening to soundtrack)
BY JERFIED
The first guy is disgusting (but I used to like the animated show a lot), Jack isn't that scary, unless portrayed in real life... well...
Ah, my public!
Anywho, here's my review!
Contrary to popular belief, not only a few scenes were in 3D, it was the whole movie! There was a narrative before the movie with one of the Jack in the boxes Clown made in the middle of a graveyard. The narrator says: "Put on your glasses, the Pumpkin King beckons, Disney Digital 3D will start in 3 seconds..." Smokey numbers popped out at you. and when it reached zero, a sinister looking pumpkin bursts out and begins laughing at the audience.
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