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⌈ Secret Post #5015 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

My own unpopular opinion (because this is actually a pretty common one, at least from what I've seen), is I don't even care too much for his older things.

It's possible that his new things soured me, but going back to see things that people are really nostalgic about like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, I just feel they are try-hard. Like, sure, they had different aesthetics, but everyone seems really into them and love them, and I just hate most of the characters.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol

As a kid, I thought Edward Scissorhands was the most beautiful man (I cried at the end lol but the music is still the one I play when it snows), I had a strange repulsion and attraction to Beetlejuice. All of these feelings before I was even 9 years old. I can understand why people would say it's "try hard" a la Nightmare Before Christmas, but aside from some Henson properties, who else was bringing this to the masses? This different aesthetic that appealed to some? Be it a kid in the inner city watching it on TV or some kid out in country watching it on VHS. It was magical. It transported me -- this place so different and yet not entirely foreign to me. And the stories were, to a certain extent, sweet, and about finding a home, family, people who loved and cared for you (as strange as you may seem).

I've seen Big Fish suggested as a good film of his, and admittedly, over the years I have cared less about Burton's films, but there was something there, at least early on. And yeah, there's an element of nostalgia, but...idk. anyway, there's plenty of film makers/films I don't care for that people lose their shit over so I get it lol.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I have to remind myself that some people do sincerely like Beetlejuice or whatever, and they're not deliberately pretending as a prank on me, because I just do not see it. I was in high school when every quirky, artsy, self-described freak was a walking Night Before Christmas billboard, so maybe my frustration with them bled into the work, but. None of it is as counterculture or iconoclastic as it constantly congratulates itself for being, and the style is just not interesting enough to make up for the lack of substance.