*sigh*
I wish someone would send me the memo on these things, just a few months ago I remember a thread about everyone discussing which classic stories they'd like to be given the Tim Burton treatment and now here I am with a thread about how 'please for the love of god someone take Burton's licence away'*.
*Note that while I disagree with the opinions of the people who dislike Tim Burton I still respect and acknowledge their rights to them.
Honestly I can kind of understand the annoyance of always seeing Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp in those movies but for me at least that was part of the charm, it's true that these days he's more of a brand but I still think it's at least an aesthetically appealing brand.
Further more he's made some damn good and clever movies in the past, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Sweeny Todd, Beetlejuice as well as a few others so if you ask me the man has got talent, granted he hasn't really been displaying it as much recently but I still consider myself a fan.
Though overall I think the problem is Tim Burton is now more used as a brand and less like a director and even though he can get to make some nice artistic visuals and little bits of quirky humour that are still his style overall I get the feeling he's kind of being peddled around to make movies guarenteed to sell rather then ones he'd want to make personally.
I mean I remember reading a quote of him saying that he loved the musical 'Sweeny Todd' and hence that's why I feel the actual movie he made ended up being so good was because he actually wanted to pour effort into it because it was more or less 'his thing'... I.E. take creepy elements and give them a dark sense of humour to them.
As for Wizard of OZ though, honestly I don't think it's one of those stories that needs remaking by anyone, even a director who could create a portal to heaven through a projector would still be considered redundant. The original film is one of the most beloved movies of all time and any remaking would only garnish the effect of it, because there's nothing that can be done that the original didn't already do perfectly by itself.
If you ask me, I reckon Burton should be given some room for creative venting and maybe come back with another stop motion gleeful and gruesome story involving ghosts and zombies and skeletons and such.... because really that's where he excells if you ask me.
