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Originally Posted by JD10367
I dunno. He's been pretty lackluster sometimes. IMO, his directorial efforts are:
UNDERRATED: "Big Fish", "Sleepy Hollow", "Ed Wood", "Pee Wee's Big Adventure".
OVERRATED: "Sweeney Todd", "Mars Attacks", "Batman Returns", "Batman", "Beetlejuice".
SIMPLY BAD: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Planet of the Apes".
(The "Batman" films are one of those things which, at the time, seemed really great, but in hindsight were pretty friggin' stupid. Watching them again is almost painful. And I loved "Batman" so much that I saw it around 10 times in the theaters. "Beetlejuice" was mainly Keaton chewing the scenery in what we now realize was the Johnny Depp role of "substituting overacting for story".)
IMO Burton's true genius has been on display in two films: "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
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Yea, hes at his worst when hes a director for hire like Apes and I think this flick.
Hes really been hit and miss for awhile now. Especially the last 10 years being mostly miss for me.