[Poggio]

I like the man enough, I think him and his wife and kid are adorable.

I am however over his aesthetic. He has marketed on nouveu gothic culture and I feel like his latest films are not as good as when he was fresh and revolutionary. What I like about a lot of his early work like Edward scissor hands is that it was hyper surreal to the point of creepy. Heightened suburbia juxtaposed to the outsider or the bright and grim aspects of Halloween versus Christmas and the dynamics of simple minded evil and the society. I think Corpse Bride and Willy wonka where the beginning of his decline. Corpse Bride felt to me like recycled Danny Elfman music with Tim Burton and or his studio forcing his style. It doesn't help that Johnny deep is always his leading man, and his wife can usually find a part in his movies. I have not seen Frankenweeine yet but my friend says its good. I actually do not care to see it but I will eventually.

The thing about him is, he is as much as a house hold name now as Disney is.
I can respect the man for getting an exhibition of his work at the moma, and pretty much starting an entire subculture but now a days his movies do not have enough to hold me in his glamor.