Filmmakers : Directors You Hate

[stuie299]

Yeah I really don't get all of the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp love. Those movies are nothing more than an Emo kids wet dream.

I also really don't like Thomas McCarthy. His movies just annoy me. The Station Agent was especially irritating. He's just the equivalent of Hallmark or Lifetime trying to make quirky Indie Comedy-Dramas. Everything he does seems forced. His style of directing just doesn't work for me at all.

[TheDenizen]

Yeah I really don't get all of the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp love. Those movies are nothing more than an Emo kids wet dream.

Yeah kinda, but he's been making them since before the term "emo kid" existed. It's Burton's own style, it's not like he's specifically trying to cater to the emo crowd with his work.

Also, Burton's best films are the ones without Depp....and the best Burton/Depp collaboration is Ed Wood, which is about as far from emo as you can get.

[stuie299]

Yeah kinda, but he's been making them since before the term "emo kid" existed. It's Burton's own style, it's not like he's specifically trying to cater to the emo crowd with his work.

My point was not that Burton/Depp duo makes them for "emo kids", its that "Emo kids" gush over those movies. Just think of movies like Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride. Look at who is attracted to those movies. I on the other hand am not. I have no problem with his other movies like Big Fish. On a side note, I'm also not a fan of Depp in his non Burton films.

[TheDenizen]

I get your point, but Johnny Depp wasn't in Nightmare before Xmas or Corpse Bride.

[stuie299]

I get your point, but Johnny Depp wasn't in Nightmare before Xmas or Corpse Bride.

Yeah well its still the same style.

[Antares]

I get your point, but Johnny Depp wasn't in Nightmare before Xmas or Corpse Bride.

He was in Corpse Bride, he was the voice of Victor Van Dort

[TheDenizen]

Oops, right you are.

[ShogunRua]

Also, Burton's best films are the ones without Depp....and the best Burton/Depp collaboration is Ed Wood, which is about as far from emo as you can get.

Which is also a genuinely great, outstanding film, regardless of how you feel about Burton overall.

Anyways, Burton might be a little overrated, but he was still exceptionally talented from 1980 to 1995. In my view, he didn't make a single bad movie during that time. Sure, some were overdrawn, simplistic melodramas, with Edward Scissorhands being the worst offender, but even there, the outstanding visual flair and humor made up for it.

As for emos liking Burton's films, who the fuck cares? Does stuie299 really base his opinions on a movie on what (a part) of its fanbase is like? Seems like an awful way to approach rating films.

[TheDenizen]

yeah Ed Wood is my fave Burton/Depp film. Totally underrated.

[stuie299]

As for emos liking Burton's films, who the fuck cares? Does stuie299 really base his opinions on a movie on what (a part) of its fanbase is like? Seems like an awful way to approach rating films.

No I don't. I'm just saying those films don't appeal to me and it makes sense given who they do appeal to. If I liked those films there would be nothing wrong with it. I just don't though.