• The Nightmare Before Christmas

  Posted by Unknown Member on October 13, 2006 at 4:12 AM

  I just saw an ad on TV for a 3D re-release of this classic later this month. This is the first I’ve heard of it, and (if there’s a theater close enough playing it) I’ll definitely go to see this movie on the big screen again.

  Yes, long before this movie was a cliched icon to every dumbarse kid with black eyeliner, it was a box office bomb that Disney refused to acknowledge even existed for almost a decade. And I was happy to be one of the twelve people in the US who saw it in the theater.

  Forget the emo kids for a minute. This is one of those classics that simply does not get old. I’ve seen it at least once a year (sometimes more like six or seven times a year) every year since it first was released on VHS. I’ve listened to the beautiful Oscar-winning (in an ideal world, not in this one, sadly) score probably thousands of times.

  Between the gorgeous stop-motion animation, the quirky Burton humor, the incredible music, and the simple yet sophisticated story of alienation and appreciating one’s place in the world, it’s almost impossible to find a flaw with TNMBC. If there is one, it’s that it’s a bit on the short side. Okay, also that the voice-over intro in the movie wasn’t by Patrick Stewart (as on the CD), and the outro about Santa visiting Halloweentown years later wasn’t filmed (if it was ever even intended to be).

  I think as soon as I log out, I’m going to tell Mrs Chuxter to go into another room to watch her stupid CSI and pop this DVD in for yet another viewing.

  “And since I am dead, I can take off my head
  To recite Shakespearean quotations
  No animal no man can SCREAM like I can
  With the fury of my recitations!”

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