self-explanatory

the scissorhands!

For me, Ed Wood.

me as well

it's all downhill from peewee's big adventure.

i loved ed wood & sleepy hollow, but i think big fish is my fave

Are you thinking Nightmare? Turns out, he didn't direct it, but I liked that a lot too.

something you'd like to share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry?

This list is worthless withoug Frankenweenie

Pee-Wee!

or Vincent

I voted for Pee Wee as did the majority thus far.....because it is one of the funniest movies ever IMO...atleast top 20
second pick would be Charlie....

Pee Wee's? What the heck?

Sleepy Hollow by a landslide. It's not even worth an argument.

It is the obvious best movie on the list.

Is Pee-Wee purely an American thing? I can;t see any other explanation for how unfunny I found it?

It is completely retarded no matter what continent you view it on.

Could it be: Gareth is MitchellStirling?

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

(But the UK gave us Teletubbies, so....)

Speaking of retarded. You just now figured that out? Har har har...

It's a tossup between Beetlejuice, Batman, and Pee Wee.

All the others suck major grass

Ed Wood, brother.

Burton's films-- either love 'em or hate 'em:

Love 'em
Ed Wood
Big Fish

Hate 'em
Everything Else

Yeah, I left out the shorts, hence the words "feature-length" in the poll title (probably should've put that in the poll question as well).

Can you believe Burton was up for After Hours until Scorsese wanted it? It's in the DVD, but Griffin Dunne approached Scorsese first, then didn't hear anything when Burton accepted it. But then Scorsese got back to them and said he wanted it, so Dunne had to break the news to Burton. To Burton's great credit, he made it easy on him; no arguments, he said something like, "Martin Scorsese wants to direct this? I won't get in the way, if he wants it, I'll gladly step aside."



Yeah, definitely a love-it/hate-it type director. He really grew on me after awhile. I dig his stuff because you don't see many people doing these kinds of films, at least at the mainstream level. If there's anything that bothers me, it's the scripts. Even his most imaginative films are bogged down by clumsy stories. I love Ed Wood, but in retrospect, it feels a little shallow. Still great to look at, the acting's great...I put the blame on the writers, the same guys who wrote Man on the Moon.

Funny he's so classy here, as opposed to his reaction at this year's Academy Awards when Aardman won for Wallace & Grommit. Burton looked like he'd swallowed a live crab. The Aardman guys jumped up and were all happy. Burton, who was right in front of them, couldn't be bothered to even look at them.

I voted for Ed Wood, but Big Fish would be my 1a.

Missed that. Heh heh, someone should make a compilation of the funniest loser reactions in Oscar history. I'd even throw in a Meryl-Streep's-disgust-at-Braveheart-winning as a bonus.

My vote easily goes to Pee Wee, with Ed Wood in second place, followed by Big Fish



I've never thought of it as a purely american thing, but it might be. For some reason, I've always associated Paul Reuben's comedy with John Waters; and maybe's it's because they both have somewhat of an obsession with americana and kitsch (although Pee Wee is more subversive, whereas Waters pretty much leaves nothing to the imagination)...plus they both look like weasely perverts.

PWBA is also a road movie, which is a quintessential american film genre, but I always assumed you didn't have to be american to enjoy a road movie...

No I certainly enjoy plenty of other road movies, American or otherwise. I just didn't raise half a smile when I watched it.

I voted Big Fish. Definitely my favorite of Burton's, not to mention one of my favorite films overall. Not top ten, but definitely top fifty.

Look, I know we're being thorough, but is there any reason to have Planet Of The Apes on this list?

Awful movie.

That's the problem. It wasn't any fun. It looked good. But it... wasn't... any... fun... it was just long and boring.

Awful actor.

You need to go stand in the corner, like that guy at the end of The Blair Witch Project.

With the exception of the wonderful Ed Wood, Tim Burton sucks.


OK, that and Pee Wee.

Nothing fun about bluegrass music causing Martian heads to explode?! Those last 5 minutes are comedy gold.

There are those other 101 minutes, though.

Ed Wood, easily my fave of the lot.

Slim Whitman as bluegrass? Now that's comedy gold...

This reminds me that still need to see Big Fish, although I doubt it could top Ed Wood. Pee Wee's is the only thing close.

Oh shit, Sleepy Hollow.

I could see why someone wouldn't like Big Fish...sentimental and a bit bloated. I was hooked from the beginning...a great Father's Day flick.

mars attacks is one of my fav movies!! ack ack ack ack...

i really like tim burton's films...

but the ones i HATED were planet of the apes, charlie and the chocolate factory and wasn't a fan of the batman movies...especially since the latest incarnation of batman which was good...

I voted ed wood and didn't even realize pee wee was on here. I lied to all of you

the end of Big Fish makes me tear up. then i go punch someone in the face to remind myself of my masculinity.

Country, then--even better. Best of all, you could identify Slim Whitman--how'd that happen?

(I voted for Pee-wee).

I really never understood the love for Ed Wood. Sure, Martin Landau's absolutely brilliant as Lugosi, but I have a hard time getting into a film when the main characters are people I really wouldn't choose to hang out with for 5 minutes, let alone 2+ hours.

Personally, I have a soft spot for the flawed-yet-clever Mars Attacks!. Well, I like scifi. And I like how so many Hollywood stars were willing to lampoon their careers from start to finish. Beetlejuice is fun, but really needed more Beetlejuice. Edward Scissorhands was a fun commentary on suburbia, altho I really felt zero chemistry between Wynona Rider and, well, everyone else onscreen. So to make her be the central storyteller really flattens out the film a bit. Pee Wee's Big Adventure was brilliant, tho. I hated it the first time, and then found myself loving it the second time. Go figure.

All of his other films tend to leave me kinda bored. He is a fantastic visual director, but he has a very clumsy style with story and character development. After the story fell apart 1/2 way thru Corpse Bride (when the lead character announces his intent to kill himself to, oh, I dunno, marry some dead twit who pretty much kidnapped him just to make her happy), I pretty much decided to stop wasting any more time on his films.

Mars Attacks! makes Jaws 4 look like Gone with The Wind.