Frankenweenie- Tim Burton's new stop-motion film

-reads more about scene mentioned above-

Screw this, no way am I seeing it now. If I had to watch that bit, I'd run crying out of the theater within the first few seconds.

edited 6th Oct '12 9:10:36 PM by Mort08

This movie was a Tim Burton fever dream. Really, what it comes down to is if you like Tim Burtons usual styles and tropes, you'll like it cause it's basically Tim Burton on roids. It's better than Hotel Transylvania, but no where near as good as Paranorman (or Brave, for that matter.)

Well, I am down with Tim Burton, and I have a history with flawed labors of love. So bring it on!

My Scariness Meter

Paranorman > Frankenweenie > Hotel Transylvania

My YMMV Rating:

Paranorman (80's B-Zombie films) = Frankenweenie ('40s Monster Films)

Nuff Said

edited 7th Oct '12 11:41:12 AM by Mattonymy

Hotel Transylvania (.............. every f***** classic monster movie) :D

edited 7th Oct '12 12:35:07 PM by Shota

I heard Hotel Transylvania has a human-vampire romance in it, so does that make it like Twilight?

Hotel Translyvania is more "Classic Horror Comedy" like Abbot and Costello meet Wolfman or Mad Monster Party.

Frankenweenie's also a little more then Universal Horror considering the Gremlin Sea Monkeys and Gamera.

Funny you mention that. A Take That! to Twilight is included in the film!

But other than that, it's completely different. This has a different tone, situations, and the werewolf has nothing to do with the romance plot. Hell, they stick with the classic form of the Vampire rather than the Sparkling one!

And it's mentioned a few times (other than the Twilight joke) that Dracula thinks humans no longer take vampires seriously.

edited 7th Oct '12 4:05:46 PM by Mort08

I saw Frankenweenie last weekend. (Hurrah for military base theaters being slow to air.) I saw it in 3D. All other 3D movies I've seen, whether animated (Coraline, Despicable Me) or live-action (Avengers), the 3D has been mostly rather gimmicky. By which I mean, there's a handful of scenes where it's actually a useful effect, and the rest of the time it feels like you're watching a 2D movie while wearing funny glasses. Frankenweenie is the first movie I can remember seeing where the entire movie actually felt like it was in 3D and worth watching that way. There were multiple scenes where the multiple layers were subtle and yet clearly there.