What did you think of Edward Scissorhands?

ryanciara

Hi,

What did you think of Edward Scissorhands?

I really liked it, Edward Scissorhands explores themes such as isolation, loneliness and self-discovery. Edward Scissorhands is not just some whimsical fairy tale, under the surface it is full of metaphors and subtext that represents or portrays society. It is essentially a dark tale about a man who only wanted to fit in. It is just hauntingly poetic. What did you think of it? Do you agree?

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krudler

I like it, back when Tim Burton wasn't just rehashing the same concepts over and over. Great cast, funny, great musical score, some really touching moments.

Mickeroo

One of my favourite films growing up, I still throw a wobbler on the inside when I hear the music.

dark crystal

krudler wrote: »

I like it, back when Tim Burton wasn't just rehashing the same concepts over and over. Great cast, funny, great musical score, some really touching moments.

It was also back when Johnny Depp playing a kooky weirdo hadn't become his somewhat hackneyed trademark.

I love Edward Scissorhands. It's like a beautiful, funny, gothic modern fairytale. One of my favourite ever film scores too.

Adamantium

This depressed me out as a kid more than that horse drowning in a swamp in Neverending Story, and I only ever seen it in small parts, but I always remember how profoundly sad it was. Even now it puts a bit of sinking feeling in my stomach thinking about it. DAMN YOU

Fantastic film, and a totally original fairytale that can stand with the classics.

krudler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfs1rlw4tc

Prepare feels for impact

_Kaiser_

At the risk of going against the flow here, I didn't like it.

But then I didn't like Tim Burton's take on Batman either. Not into that whole gothic fantasy thing

FearDark

I didn't like it either, granted it's a while since I saw it but there's something about Tim Burton that I don't like, I find his films a bit...gloomy. It's just not for me that's all.

mike65

Easily Burtons finest film that I've seen. Perfect meshing of suburban America parody and European fairy tale.

MakeEmLaugh

This film scared the absolute bejesus out of me as a child. I couldn’t believe it had a PG certificate (it’s since been bumped up to 12 on Blu-Ray because of a few extra seconds of footage).

Seriously, that music, that makeup, that set design. The scene in which Diane Wiest first sees Edward emerging from the shadows... Even thinking about it now is giving me shivers.

I can’t be alone on this, can I?

Irish Aris

I am a huge fan of Tim Burton even today when he is not in his best form.

I consider Edward Scissorhands his best film by far. . .probably for the exact reasons that Kaiser and FearDark didn't like it. The gothic set up is something that Tim Burton is always interested and in many occasions he had made wonders in the production designing.
Danny Elfman's music: I have reached to the point that a Tim Burton film without Elfman's music is incomplete. This is one of the best soundtracks that Elfman has written.
Johnny Depp: If there was ever an actor that fit in Burton's vision, that's him. The look in his face says everything, a wide range of emotions coming through. He never quite repeated such a high standard in a Burton film (actually he did as Ed Wood, but that was a completely different type of film), but you can understand why Burton calls him back very often and why Depp goes back.

For me an absolute masterpiece.

Mickeroo

I think Big Fish was the only one of his films that came anywhere near close to recapturing what they made with this.

krudler

Mickeroo wrote: »

I think Big Fish was the only one of his films that came anywhere near close to recapturing what they made with this.

Big Fish was probably Burton's last good film, Sweeney Todd had it's moments but it used so many of the typical Burton tropes that I couldnt see past all the box ticking cliches. Alice In Wonderland was truly awful, how it made a billion dollars I'll never know.

MJ23

A stoner who casts the same stoner in all his stoner movies.

CiDeRmAn

I have been going to Tim Burton movies since seeing Beetlejuice when I was 15 in the cinema.
And I've been addicted ever since.
I know he has had a few missteps, but even his mistakes are interesting.
At least they are seldom boring tripe.
Scissorhands was a remarkable piece of storytelling, with some inspired casting choices in the adult leads, Alan Arkin, Diane Weist, Winona, Johnny and a great turn from Anthony Michael Hall.
But it was Vincent Price in it that was so incredible, and it was a magnificent epitaph to the legendary actors career, and it always brings a lump to the throat, even when you know what's coming.
The music was fantastic, at a time when Danny Elfman's soundtracks were slightly less familiar than they have become, and I still have it on the cassette I bought at the time!
And the ending, a fitting ending, with no concern for the typical Hollywood variants of the fairytale, with the perfectly happy outcomes, instead delivering a bitter sweet closing scene, with far more in common with actual fairy tales of old, the ones where granny really does get eaten and the Little Mermaid turns into foam on the waves, and a heart rending reprise too of the main musical theme of the film playing over it.
I'd love to see it again on the big screen, perhaps along with Ed Wood and Big Fish.

Alice In Wonderland, I didn't hate it that much, although the 3D just didn't work at all, too dark and gloomy while watching wearing sunglasses in the dark, in 2D it looks superb, and I fell in love with the Bandersnatch and the Christopher Lee voiced Jabberwocky, the latter taken straight from the illustrations in my copy of the books.