B Movies in the Park
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radfrac_archivePouring rain somehow feels right. Permission to go back to bed. I slept all night with the thick furry blanket over me, the one patterned with suns and moons, and didn't kick it off for heat, although the ceiling fan was not on, and this is not Australia, this is just the Year Without a Summer in Victoria, which means we will soon be producing monster stories in remarkable numbers, and today I don't mind, except that I almost want to put the heat on.
Last night was the free B-movie festival in the park -- Edward Scissorhands. We were lying under a sleeping bag -- a mummy bag, mind you -- but like an idiot I was wearing shorts, and I was cold, so cold I was more or less just enduring the last half-hour of the movie. Today I feel as though I'm getting over some unspecified enervating illness. A Chill.
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lemon_pickle asked me a very good question: have you ever seen a Tim Burton film you loved, that became part of your awareness the way a good movie does? And we were forced to conclude that neither of us have -- that we treat him like a filmmaker who at some point had made a movie we loved and couldn't do without, but that we couldn't think what that was.
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Last night was the free B-movie festival in the park -- Edward Scissorhands. We were lying under a sleeping bag -- a mummy bag, mind you -- but like an idiot I was wearing shorts, and I was cold, so cold I was more or less just enduring the last half-hour of the movie. Today I feel as though I'm getting over some unspecified enervating illness. A Chill.
lemon_pickle asked me a very good question: have you ever seen a Tim Burton film you loved, that became part of your awareness the way a good movie does? And we were forced to conclude that neither of us have -- that we treat him like a filmmaker who at some point had made a movie we loved and couldn't do without, but that we couldn't think what that was.{rf}
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Date: 2010-08-20 07:37 pm (UTC)I think my conclusion is that Tim Burton favours style over content and, while I love a good, stylish movie romp, I ultimately require content. I could watch a movie starring two thumbnails as long as the plot was compelling and the writing sound. The Tim Burton movies I've seen are lovely in their style but he really needs to hire a good ghost writer to construct a decent storyline. Then he could occupy that space that I want him to in my favorite filmmaker lineup.