Edward Scissorhands

at the start of the movie you can see a very distinct clue as to the color scheme of this film. the neighborhood is almost all exotic colors; while the house on top of the hill (Edward's master's house) is completely engulfed in neutral colors.  in the beginning shots of the movie it makes me laugh at the fact that Tim Burton tried so hard to have a creepy/ Alfred Hitchcock look but failed miserably. 

though i thought it was creative how he used a set from Beetlejuice (the toy neighborhood) as another set in this movie (the pan over the neighborhood). also the significant amount of relations to beetlejuice is absolutely ridiculous. the statues are the same, the feel of the normal people and the creeps are the same (beetlejuice: dead vs. living; E.S.; neighborhood vs Edward) and just the main plot is almost the same, for feel bad for the different and there's always some person to help the person along coincidentally the same actress (Winona Ryder). just like i said in the first review "man is lead threw a new world by another woman" same thing here. you can also tell that the music is almost identical to "A Nightmare Before Christmas" which is made 3 years later. the only question i have is why does tim constantly change Edward's makeup from pail to orange. maybe his happiness? i don't know; but all i do know is its very noticeable. i do like the fact that tim makes a crack at the normal lives of people. what am i talking about? well all the men leave and arrive at their homes at the same time, the wives (when they gossip in the middle of the street) sound like chickens, the boys that are listening to the game. he also (for some reason) makes all the robots with human characteristics.

thus giving a hint at one of his future characters (robot boy) and the belief that robots have a conscience

for the actual plot of the story its pretty good. some parts are very funny and it does move the audience very well. it teaches good lessons and gives a new look on life. a quote from the movie that i think summarizes the whole thing is "all that blood and just a little cut". 

Beetle Juice

after viewing this movie i can say full-heartedly that this is my favorite out of the three we are watching. this is my favorite for many reasons, mainly for the excellent acting, cinematography, and the plot all in itself. why do i like these things more in this movie than the other two? in Edward scissor hands the whole movie seems to be under a cloud. almost as if the whole movie is a dream that can never come true. the corpse bride is another rant for another day which we will not mention in this blog for after seeing it i wanted to go through every forest in Europe and shoot every twig with a 12-gauge. enough about that though lets go back to good movies, like beetle juice. one might say that the main character is the couple who had just died, it is my belief that the main character is Adam (Alec Baldwin) because Tim Burton always has this role play through all of his movies. the role I'm talking about is the confused man that is introduced into a new world and led by a woman. the woman in this movie which leads him into this world is Barbara (Geena Davis). in this movie our main male character is a little more aggressive and does most of the leading (first scene into the "other side"). the cinematography's is very obvious to a person watching the movie. very exciting scenery, very exciting characters, and very exciting music, this all leads to a cartoonish feeling. the characters seem as if they were drawn into this world not by fate but by pencil. the other side presents this well with the characters ridiculous costumes which are very humorous. the plot of this story is a very different outlook on the dead which i think every person should see. besides, beetle juice is probably the best played role and the funniest role since Jesus Christ in "Jesus Christ super star". if i were to say anything about this movie it would be this, "its a must see if you want to live tomorrow" i rate it a 5/5 Dom points.