Okay, so all day people were telling me that I have to see the opening titles for SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET that was released over at BroadwayWorld.com today.
Yes, I watched it, and now I am going to send you over there to watch it, so you can form your own opinion before you read on.
So watch the opening of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET here.
I expect a lot of really cool things from Tim Burton. I enjoy his movies greatly, including EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and BIG FISH. But I feel cheated by this. Not only is it absolutely annoying that there has become this new guideline for feature film marketing that the opening of every movie needs to be released on the internet before the movie comes out, to ensure people will come to theaters, I also hate the lack of quality and effort people are putting into these movies. Especially Tim Burton and SWEENEY TODD.
I’ve seen better opening sequences from freshman film students, that are much better executed and composited. It seems like they cheaped their way out of doing a cool Tim Burton live action/claymation titles for cheap 2-Dimensional digital compositing that I can do with my eyes closed. It’s like who ever the visual effects supervisor or titles designer was decided to go to VideoCoPilot.net and steal every tutorial on how to cheat visual effects. But usually thats for people with no budgets and no named actors, not 100 plus million dollars and Johnny Depp.
I mean I can see where they were going with the production design but I mean what happened to doing things practical, ya know instead of making your film look like balls. I really hope that’s the unfinished visual effect, but I totally doubt it. This may be a snobby film kids rant but I hate when people George Lucas their movies.
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET opens December 21st, 2007.