I just can't...
force myself to sit through any of his movies, other than Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice. The rest suck. There, I said it.
shareThose are definitely his best movies, but you should at least watch Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish.
Sweeney Todd is amazing if you don't hate musicals, and Mars Attacks is a pretty underrated comedy.
Can't pin me down
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.
With what happened to Tim Burton I think it was a combination of a few things.share
He was basically this counterculture, high art director in the 90s; famous for being a weird outsider at the time. You can't be the anti-pop culture force once you become so big that you are pop culture. All the people who used to love him for that now couldn't stand him because even Grandma knows who he is and likes his movies. I think the same thing happened to Christopher Nolan but too a far lesser degree; early films were sort of avant-garde but not enough to alienate big audiences.
As a result of that, he seems dated to 1990s. Using the same actors doesn't help.
There's also the fact that careers peak. When culture is done with you, they're done with you for a good while. In the case of someone like Burton, unable to reinvent himself and totally dependent on a very signature style, it's even more amplified. I've seen the same thing happen with multiple comedians throughout the years. When their brand of comedy is no longer in style, it's fucking over for them.