1. 15:56 6th Oct 2012

    What happened to Tim Burton's career? How did it all go so wrong, so fast? - Grantland

    CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005)
    SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007)
    ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010)
    Hey, here’s a question: When, exactly, are we as a society going to review Johnny Depp’s membership in the One Of Our Finest Actors club? He’s probably a chill bro to split a bottle of red wine and a carton of cigarettes with, and Rango is the best American Western of the last decade that isn’t Deadwood, but come on — when he’s not taking pirate-booty gigs far beneath a man who already owns a fucking private island or sleepwalking through classy dreck like The Tourist or sewing fresh neck bolts onto the corpus of Hunter S. Thompson, he’s donning funny hats and goon wigs in bad movie after bad movie for Burton, channeling Brando’s perversion through Jerry Lewis’s good taste. At this point his collaboration with Burton post–Ed Wood is such a study in diminishing returns that the only logical next step for them is a 3-D adaptation of Zeno’s paradox with Depp as the voice of the arrow.

    Yup.