Day #4 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #4 of the 30 Day Film Challenge - a Film with a number in the title.

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(As an aside, I rather like this challenge. It's fun. Most of them ask what's your favorite movie - honestly, how can you possibly answer that question? Be like picking a favorite book.)

Comments

[atpo_onm]

Let's stay with obscure, and go animated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv00WE6o1pI

One of my fave finds from recent years. Always a kick to just be randomly flipping through DVDs at the local Barnes & Noble and coming across something you 1) Never heard of, 2) that looks interesting, and 3) is on sale cheap because it's obviously obscure... and then it turns out to be simply marvelous.

Did I mention marvelous? Oh, good. :-)

[shadowkat]

Oh yes, I remember that one - haven't seen it, but remember it coming out. Burton's best films are his animated ones - I think it's because he likes the details. My brother had some friends who worked on the Nightmare Before Christmas with Burton - and said, it was a painful process. Every single movement, detail, had to be exact, and they would work 18-20 hour days getting it right. Burton liked the stop motion animation techniques of the 1950s and 40s, and sought to revitalize them and improve upon them. Starting with Nightmare, Corpse Bride, Coraline, and 9.

Cool choice, by the way. Perhaps I'll catch it some day.