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In the earlier movies, did Christina Ricci make anyone else feel a little... uh... you know, I'm just going to stop right there.

Any chance Pugsley dressed up as a turkey in the comic strip and sang, "eat me!!"?

This is just going to make Tim Burton look jerky.

Ok...I'm getting tired of him using Johnny Depp too. However for one second I actually imagined a live action version with Johnny Depp as Gomez kind of channeling Ed Wood and I was happy, if only for a moment.

Tim Burton is the movie director version of The Rolling Stones: he's become his own tribute band. Sad.

Posted by: PaddyDog at March 19, 2010 10:47 AM

Hee! Yes it's sad, but still... hee! He's homaging himself.

STOP RAPING MY MOTHERFUCKING CHILDHOOD!!!

So you're in your mid-50s?

I'm with Jay, actually - this seems like an actually very appropriate project for Burton. Charles Addams' cartoons are essentially where Burton's whole originally aesthetic comes from (OK, that and Edward Gorey). So, yeah, Alice looks like it blows, but, guys:

"Burton is going to ignore both the previous two big-screen adaptations AND the television show and he’s going to based his 3D Stop-Motion The Addams Family movie on the original Charles Addams illustrations, which appeared in The New Yorker for 50 years."

Um, sorry, but that's AWESOME. If he was remaking the movies, I'd have my pitchfork out - but this actually sounds, you know, COOL.

He's going to base it on artwork? *sigh* Sounds filling.

Is anyone else out there tired of these movie makers saying, "Nonono, it's not a remake because we're going back to the SOURCE material. Y'see. It's original now -- again. Get it?" Yeah, Tim. We get it. You're desperate for acceptance.

Helena Bonham Carter playing Morticia?

Surely she could only be the daughter because HB-C is just about a half inch too tall to have her own reality show on TLC.

Assuming it's not animated.

A stop motion Addams Family might be kind of cool, especially if the puppets really look like Charles Addams's drawings. At minimum, that would keep Depp and Carter out of the project. But 3D? What the hell for?

yes, see, I'm with Jay and Tammy on this one. Does no one remember Vincent, which was AWSE?

I loved the TV show.

I also loved the movies, even though they are not the same, in appearance or tone, as the TV show.

I did not discover the original cartoons until I was an adult. I love the cartoons, even though they are very different in appearance and tone from both the TV show and the movies.

I don't know why you're getting so upset over this. Charles Addams and Tim Burton are a match made in creepy heaven. I'd worry a bit if it were live-action, but you say it'll be stop-motion. I think it'll be one more iteration of the Addams Family for me to love.

And shut up about Tim Burton being played out, as if his career's been a straight line on a graph--it hasn't. Remember Planet of the Apes? And that Batman movie. Whichever one it was that sucked. Burton's had ups and downs over the years, but I will still look at anything he creates because I still love his style.

Well that was incoherent.

I'm sick to death of Tim Burton, is what I wanted to say.

I was wondering where you were, figgy!

Jesus, I though Alice in Wonderland was the most predictable, obvious, boring thing he could have done. Do something original or go home.

First, to address anyone defending Tim Burton for anything: Planet of the Apes sucked, and you're going to hell.

Secondly, Tim Burton is just trying to use his "talent" cough, to get Hot Topic's named changed to "The Tim Burton Store" so that he can amass a huge "pretend to be goth, I love AFI post 2001" army of backne "too dark to be Twilight Fans, but still think Ann Rice is the height of literary depth" riddled fucking idiot "never seen boobies" white face wearing ASSHOLES to take over the entire world.
I just wish he'd walk in on Johnny Depp and H.B.C. hooking up already and throw himself off a building.
Of course we all know he'd really just masturbate to it. ARRRRRHHHHHHH WHY WILL HE NOT GO AWAY??!??!?!
Fucking fuck.

You may want to put some ice on that.

I am...cautiously optimistic. Tim Burton REALLY needs to tell an original story, but this sounds better than Alice in Wonderland. At least a little better. But if he makes this into The Nightmare Before The Addams Family's Corpse Bride then I am breakng up with him. For good. Hear that, Timmy?! You better not come crawling back with any brightly colored gothic re-telling of a beloved childhood classic either! Don't even call me unless it's to tell me you're doing an original story.

Now that's what I'm talking about: stop motion animation! It's gonna look awesome and I'm amazed it took Burton this long to get to the Addams family. Must have been a licensing thing. The tv series was so wonderful, but I thought the movies less so, and I don't think he could do the damage he's done in other no-point-in-mentioning films. No worse than when the Addams family guest-starred on Scooby Doo, back in the day. Now THAT was gruesome, y'all.

*snap snap*

Hey now, have some respect for the very much alive John Astin, punk.

I used to really like Burton and I think he's still got some good ones left in him if he did an original story (as others have stated). My problem is that he's rapidly becoming James Cameron in the "if I make it pretty or spectacular enough, no one will notice that the story isn't very good or that the acting is pretty weak" sense of the term.

Why is Tim Burton suddenly a pariah? He hasn't been knocking it out of the park recently but its not like Alice and Willy Wonka other recent works have been abominations, theyve just fallen short of our great expectations. I do think he is better when he does something more original rather than putting the Burton patina over an established story, but jesus you guys are wailing and clutching pearls like you heard Paul Haggis was at the helm of this.

Raul Julia ain't rolling over shit, this could still be interesting, or it could be "meh" but it's unlikely to rape your damn childhood.

I think if I'd heard this news 10 years ago, or right after Big Fish, I'd be super-excited, but since I've absolutely hated all of Tim Burton's recent endeavors, all I can muster up is a lot of MEH. In theory it's a match made in heaven, but it's something that Tim Burton of Christmas Past should do, not Tim Burton of Christmas Present.

saw alice in wonderland at the IMAX today in 3D. God it sucked. Almost fell asleep a few times. It's pretty to look at, but the story was just dumb.

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Im so excited, I am so looking forward to the big day, it is in September

Yeah, dude. I'm sure acting in The Adams Family was the highlight of his career. Right after Street Fighter.

Posted by: Name: at March 19, 2010 2:47 PM

Oh, heavens, no, Name:. I'm pretty sure that was Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

Burton is the textbook case of someone who is really good at something but insists on moving further up the foodchain to something for which he has no aptitude whatsoever. He is a fucking amazing set designer, cinematographer, etc... which somehow to him validates his decision to direct.

What horseshit.

I have a 10 year old son; he loved Alice. No brainer -- I did, too. I grade on a curve when it comes to kid flicks -- and please don't try to tell me this wasn't a kid flick -- so was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , for chrissakes. And they were both spectacular -- compared to the other fare out there? Are you fucking kidding me? I'm fall-down-on-my-face grateful to Burton AND Depp for both those movies.

This hipster bullshit "oh, he's SO last decade, he's played out," blah blah blah -- I can call these comments in my fucking sleep. Hey -- Burton's got a new idea coming down the pike -- wonder what the party line at Pajiba will be -- gee, think it'll rain in Seattle soon?

You all sound so fucking cliche it's ridiculous. You might as well be tattooed, eyelinered teenagers bitching about a band that sold out because it's, you know, famous now.

What the fuck. 83 out of 100 movies that get made suck sweaty monkey balls -- outright SUCK. There is no fucking dimension in which Tim Burton's films deserve to be mentioned in the category of Suck. Ever.

EVEN fucking Planet of the Apes. And I hated that movie. Hell, I am not even that big a fucking FAN of Burton's. But for the love of sweet crippled christ -- look at this list, and then name me 4 other directors with comparable oeuvres:

Alice in Wonderland
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Big Fish
Planet of the Apes
Sleepy Hollow
Mars Attacks!
Ed Wood
Batman Returns
Edward Scissorhands
Batman
Beetlejuice

Fuck me -- there are only two movies on that list I'd say I didn't like, and only one I loathed. And EVEN THOSE, I would gladly watch when they come on cable TV, because they're still fucking better than anything else available. Given a choice between Planet of the Apes, Sleepy Hollow and Mars Attacks! or ANY of the fucking TRIPE that's currently running on a continuous loop on cable television on weekends (and that INCLUDES the fucking overrated Lord of the Goddamned Rings Trilogy), I would watch those three Burton films -- the ones I consider the nadir of his career.

So please, spare me. Just spare me. Lamentations about SHIT filmmaking and cliches and using the same ACTORS again and again?

Suddenly I'm wondering how it was that Martin Scoreses became such a paragon of The Cinema given his dearth of casting imagination for the better part of two fucking decades. And now... another group of actors he's recycling in film after film. Hmm. What DOES this say about the Great Scorsese? Who, by the way, hasn't written HIS own material since Casino. Somehow I've missed the keening hordes of people declaring Scorsese's time has passed...

I find it bizarre that I've opted to take a stand here defending Tim Burton -- a director about whose films I've never really felt all that strongly. But the depth and breadth of the horseshit through which I've been wading lately with respect to good-to-great filmmakers, actors and films who've somehow earned the animus of the Cool People by dint of I dunno, being on the planet too long or being accepted by too many people... it's just too much to bear without saying something.

So I've said something. Now you may rip me to shreds for my lack of taste and discernment.

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Ok...I'm getting tired of him using Johnny Depp too. However for one second I actually imagined a live action version with Johnny Depp as Gomez kind of channeling Ed Wood and I was happy, if only for a moment.