2010 Oscars

[Lisa Charlimorph]

And yet, at least Perry gives roles to non-white actors. Something Burton hasn't done in like ever. Of course, he's not alone in this in Hollywood, but still. There's a reason Perry's movies are successful(ish) and it's because what else are black people going to watch if they want to see more than two actors of color in a movie?

Burton's "style" is a partially-cribbed-from-Selick crutch that he uses over and over again to cover up for the fact that he hasn't had an original idea in almost a decade. That's why he's doing predictable remakes of the "inoffensively morbid story du jour" for his last three abortions. He's become the Jhonen Vasquez of film except I don't have to hear about Vasquez since I graduated high school, and Burton will not go the fuck away. He just keeps profiting and being hailed as a genius for doing some derivative windowdressing on ideas that aren't his, and I find that repugnant. I don't know how he sleeps at night knowing he's a fraud whose great masterpiece Nightmare was his only in name.

[Uncle_Max]

The fact that Perry is one of the few directors directing movies with predominately non-white casts is actually what makes me angrier.  It's obviously not his fault that there aren't a lot of non-white roles in hollywood, but he should be using that opportunity to make great movies with non-white casts (like "Precious" seems to be), rather than wasting his time on hacky, formulaic shit.  I'm not happy about lame white directors making trashy white films for mostly white audiences, but at least there are some directors making brilliant films with mostly white casts, so there's a choice about what to go to see if you're into mostly white actors.  As you mentioned, there's not as many choices for any minorities who want to see actors that they can relate to unless they go to the garbage that Perry's been putting out.

[Disconnected]

This also quite irks me.  Burton had a distinct cleverness at his start, from "Frankenweenie" and "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", to "Edward Scissorhands", the first 2 "Batman" movies "Beetlejuice" and "Ed Wood", but after that he really lost his way.  I still like his directing style, but he seems to be making films he thinks the audience wants, rather than movies he creatively wants to make, which is what made him great in the first place.  Not sure what happened to him in the mid-90s, but I wish the reverse happens soon.

Haha, you just named all of my favorite Tim Burton movies, I think, except for Big Fish and Mars Attacks (that gets funnier for me every time). He's one of my favorite directors for those movies. Some of his movies, like Corpse Bride, Planet of the Apes and now Alice in Wonderland have been terrible, but I still think his great movies outweigh his stinkers. We'll see how his career turns in the future; remember that Big Fish came out in the 2000s and that was great, so maybe he still has something in him.

[Uncle_Max]

RELEVANT TO THIS THREAD:
4 friends of mine who are crazily into movies have a movie blog, called "That Was Junk".  I recommend it in general if you like movies, as they review not just new releases but old films and incredibly obscure ones.  They did a video for the blog about this year's oscars, and you can find it in THIS POST right here (note, one of the guys calls another guy a faggot at one point, but I'd like to point out that both the caller and the recipient are gay, and like mocking each other).