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(fan music) remastered underground tunnels: danny elfman much?

OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
edited June 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1vrgbddDVM&feature=related

I saw this on youtube the other day and it really reminded me of Danny Elfman's score to Edward Scissorhands. Who else got that? discuss. It also helps that I went to a Tim Burton exhibition today, and I really started to think, what about a Tim Burton movie of monkey island?

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  • priznaprizna
    edited June 2010
    OzzieMonkey wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1vrgbddDVM&feature=related

    I saw this on youtube the other day and it really reminded me of Danny Elfman's score to Edward Scissorhands. Who else got that? discuss. It also helps that I went to a Tim Burton exhibition today, and I really started to think, what about a Tim Burton movie of monkey island?

    Where was the Tim Burton exhibition?
  • OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
    edited June 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    Where was the Tim Burton exhibition?
    The ACMI centre in Federation Square in Melbourne.
  • priznaprizna
    edited June 2010
    well i couldnt have gone then, coz im in Sydney
  • OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
    edited June 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    well i couldnt have gone then, coz im in Sydney

    It was actually a bit of a let down. Most of the exhibition was filled with Indie films that I hadn't heard of, and weren't particularly interesting. Anyways, I was talking with my Mum about a Tim Burton MI film over lunch, and we were trying to figure out who would be the best for each character. For some reason she figure Tommy Lee Jones had to play someone grumpy.
  • priznaprizna
    edited June 2010
    Well if Tim Burton made one you know Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter would be in it.
  • OzzieMonkeyOzzieMonkey
    edited June 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    Well if Tim Burton made one you know Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter would be in it.

    I don't know about Johnny Depp, I know he's in every film but if he was going to play anyone it would be captain dread, and he might not do it considering the character is very close to his role in Pirates of the Caribbean. As for Carter, I can't even see her playing anyone. If she ended up as Elaine, I would not be happy.
  • priznaprizna
    edited June 2010
    Yea, I dont think they would work either, its just he puts them in nearly all of his movies. So if he did make one he probably would use them.
  • monkeymoviesmonkeymovies
    edited June 2010
    Burton almost ALWAYS uses Depp and Carter as the leads. Depp would probably be Guybrush and Carter as Elaine. Maybe...Alan Rickman as LeChuck? Timothy Spall as Bob?

    Just thinking of the Sweeney Todd cast here.
    :)
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited June 2010
    Johnny Depp has a great talent for portraying strange and obscure characters. Guybrush would certainly work for him. But he has to walk around looking at stuff and saying things like "nice path to nowhere".
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    monkeymovies wrote: »
    Burton almost ALWAYS uses Depp and Carter as the leads. Depp would probably be Guybrush and Carter as Elaine. Maybe...Alan Rickman as LeChuck? Timothy Spall as Bob?

    Just thinking of the Sweeney Todd cast here.
    :)

    I would go ape shit in rage if that happened. I used to like Tim Burton, didn't even mind Depp but seeing he guy in every damn Burton film doesn't rest right with me.

    I'll always love Batman and Batman Returns.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited June 2010
    Heh, I loved Sweeney Todd (although I think it dragged on a bit - the pace was sometimes a bit slow). Edward Scissorhand is great too, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

    Was Batman Returns the that ended with Robin becoming his sidekick in the end scene?

    Also, since Depp is so good at portraying all sorts of weird characters (the specialty of Tim Burton), I don't see why they shouldn't work together in many films. It's no worse than Martin Scorcese using Leonardo Di Caprio for so many of his movies. All of them which are great (to different degrees). Di Caprio is a great actor, just like Depp is. It's not uncommon that I pick up movies based on the actors, because I know they're good. Just like how Jack Nicholson can make every movie great, no matter how bad the story is. Depp and Di Caprio is the same to me.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    StarEye wrote: »
    Heh, I loved Sweeney Todd (although I think it dragged on a bit - the pace was sometimes a bit slow). Edward Scissorhand is great too, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

    Was Batman Returns the that ended with Robin becoming his sidekick in the end scene?

    Also, since Depp is so good at portraying all sorts of weird characters (the specialty of Tim Burton), I don't see why they shouldn't work together in many films. It's no worse than Martin Scorcese using Leonardo Di Caprio for so many of his movies. All of them which are great (to different degrees). Di Caprio is a great actor, just like Depp is.

    No, that wasn't Returns. I watched Edward Scissor Hands. I own it. I disagree about Depp, always have, always will. People say he can play different roles and is so great but I am sick of him in Tim Burton movies.I got nothing against him, I'm just sick of him in Tim Burton movies.

    I just don't like it. I don't mind it in movie series but when it comes down to reusing the actor for every single one of your movies and your style remains the same, it's just horrible. I want to puke.His movies are so artistic and visually brilliant but he has the same damn actor in all his movies. It's just tasteless to me, over done...potatoes and more potatoes without any butter/ salt. "yeah, he's an actor, he can play different parts, so can the rest of the acting world!


    Let's not even get started on the nightmare Pirates 3 was, like a whole damn hour of multiple Jonny Depps. OVER EXPOSURE.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited June 2010
    Well, obviously, if you don't like Johnny Depp, you don't like him. That doesn't really have anything to do with using the same actor for several of his movies though. If there's an actor you don't like, you don't really want him in any movies, no matter whose movie it is. For example... I just can't stand Hugh Grant, and I avoid every movie involving him like the plague. He's got one single character in him that he can play, one that I don't like at all, and he does that in every single movie. Sure, many actors do the same, but not many I dislike as much as Hugh Grant.

    Also, you seem tense... have a cookie! ;)
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    StarEye wrote: »
    Well, obviously, if you don't like Johnny Depp, you don't like him. That doesn't really have anything to do with using the same actor for several of his movies though. If there's an actor you don't like, you don't really want him in any movies, no matter whose movie it is. For example... I just can't stand Hugh Grant, and I avoid every movie involving him like the plague. He's got one single character in him that he can play, one that I don't like at all, and he does that in every single movie. Sure, many actors do the same, but not many I dislike as much as Hugh Grant.

    Also, you seem tense... have a cookie! ;)

    You're not reading what I'm typing. I don't dislike Jonny Depp. I hate the fact that Burton uses him so much.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited June 2010
    doodo! wrote: »
    You're not reading what I'm typing. I don't dislike Jonny Depp. I hate the fact that Burton uses him so much.

    He did read it and you basically said it here:
    doodo! wrote: »
    Let's not even get started on the nightmare Pirates 3 was, like a whole damn hour of multiple Jonny Depps. OVER EXPOSURE.

    Can't blame Burton has he had nothing to do with that film.
  • zhebricazhebrica
    edited June 2010
    I like some of Burton's movies, but I also think that they're getting repetitive, too similar to each other. The "creepy" pseudo-Victorian goth thing isn't the only thing he can do -- look at Ed Wood, for example -- but lately it's the only thing he is doing. A movie like Sweeney Todd might have seemed fresh and new twenty years ago, but when I saw it I just felt like I'd seen all those directorial and stylistic choices before.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    zhebrica wrote: »
    I like some of Burton's movies, but I also think that they're getting repetitive, too similar to each other. The "creepy" pseudo-Victorian goth thing isn't the only thing he can do -- look at Ed Wood, for example -- but lately it's the only thing he is doing. A movie like Sweeney Todd might have seemed fresh and new twenty years ago, but when I saw it I just felt like I'd seen all those directorial and stylistic choices before.

    I add you as a friend.

    To be honest I don't love Depp either, I don't hate him, I saw Public Enemys in theaters and didn't like Bale in it rather. I still stand by that Pirates 3 was over exposure of a actor. He's got his thing going on in Pirates, people love him for it but damn...I think we already "got it" the first 2 movies.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited June 2010
    Ah well, I know it's not a popular opinion, but I think Pirates 3 was better than Pirates 2, and the first one was the best (which is probably a more accepted opinion). I think it was a great finale. And to be honest, I think asking for less Depp in the Pirates movies is like asking for a Monkey Island with less Guybrush. The movies might as well have been called The Misadventures of Captain Jack Sparrow or something.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    StarEye wrote: »
    Ah well, I know it's not a popular opinion, but I think Pirates 3 was better than Pirates 2, and the first one was the best (which is probably a more accepted opinion). I think it was a great finale. And to be honest, I think asking for less Depp in the Pirates movies is like asking for a Monkey Island with less Guybrush. The movies might as well have been called The Misadventures of Captain Jack Sparrow or something.

    Oh come on they flaunted his character. It was tiring. The other characters had importance too, it's because the media and Hollywood saw a huge opening in their wallets as tweenies jumped in...

    They had no tact!
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited June 2010
    Who cares, I thought it was an entertaining film. A movie about ghost pirates, human squids and an actual world's edge isn't supposed to be taken so seriously. It brought me entertainment, I enjoyed it, and that's the end of it really. Sorry you didn't like it, I really am, but I guess that's just how it is... people like different things. No opinion is fact though. Neither yours nor mine.
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