Someone please kill me. Please?

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Fall Out Boy and Manson Record 'Nightmare' SoundtrackFall Out Boy and Marilyn Manson are among the stars paying tribute to Tim Burton's classic Halloween movie The Nightmare Before Christmas on a new soundtrack album. The acts have recorded covers of the composer Danny Elfman's macabre tunes for the release of the 3-D version of the animated movie this autumn. The film was first released in 1993 and has become a cult hit, spawning merchandise and memorabilia. - IMDBFantastic. That's just what I need to hear from every goth and emo kid in a twenty mile radius. As if I wasn't sick of seeing the movie, sick of seeing the characters plastered all over shitty merch at Hot Topic and hearing those songs sung by every last goth and emo kid I've ever known, I get to experience it all over again. Someone PLEASE kill me. I've tried, like I'm sure many of you have, to look at it objectively. I've watched the movie more than once (I can thank my ex for that) and I've heard the songs ad nauseum. I just don't get what the big appeal is. It's a shitty love story done by a shitty director. I'm sure I'll catch a lot of hipster flack for that, but I am not a fan of Tim Burton. He throws a lot of imagery at you with some catchy music and calls it a movie. The acting in his movies, save "Ed Wood", has never blown me away like it seems to have the rest of my misguided generation. It's all fluff and color, signifying nothing.

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SWozniak says I can't remember if I ever liked Nightmare Before Christmas, but I definitely am glad I'm out of high school so I don't have to see it be a fad.

Permalink posted 08/30/2006
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BarrieSutcliffe says Thank you for posting this, I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get that piece of shit movie. It's a case of being completely overrated. I'm still at a loss as to how that happens, but there seem to be a couple of distinguishing characteristics: a) It has to be COMPLETELY mediocre to vaguely appeal to most people. ie: should not arise great feelings of passion. But it intimates being a "niche" film. This is the killer. Everyone who likes it, even sort of, thinks they are niche, hip, unique, special, edgy. b) the fact that many people are vaguely interested seems to lead to step three: c) popularity for no good reason. It somehow becomes legendary. May this movie and everything spurned from it DIE.

Permalink posted 08/30/2006
Anonymous says I have a rope we can help hang each other

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Dale says WHOA! I love that movie, as do my kids, and I'm more upset that Fall Out Boy are anywhere near anything to do with it.

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tybees says Ohh man, I think the movie's great. I haven't stepped foot in a Hot Topic in many years and I don't hang around 16 years olds, so I must've missed it when it became hip to like it. The music is the driving force of the film, Danny Elfman is a genius! I hear you on the choice of bands to do covers, though.

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Anna says Just because you don't like someone's work doesn't mean he's shitty.

Permalink posted 08/31/2006