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I prefer his animated movies to his live action stuff any day. The Nightmare Before Christmas is my favourite Burton, hands down.
It's not a Burton film. It's a Selick film. Burton was just the producer. Over two years he only visited the set four times. He was busy making
Batman Returns during almost the entire production. Selick was there every day, working with the puppets and working with Danny Elfman, working with everybody.
It's Selick's film.
As for Burton's animated movies, which one is your favorite? Meaning one he actually made himself, thus can be counted as a Burton movie.
The movie is his story, hence, it kinda counts as his movie just like the Harry Potter movies count as a work of J.K. Rowling. Her idea.
But they're not
her movies. She didn't make THE MOVIES themselves. She wrote the books they are based on, but she did not make
the movies.
Tim Burton did not make
The Nightmare Before Christmas. It was based off a really short poem he wrote, sure. If we're going to give credit that way, then Tim Burton only has two movies, being
Edward Scissorhands and
Frankenweenie, and even
Frankenweenie is largely based on and inspired by classic horror films. Literally every other movie of his was someone else's idea, someone else's characters, or based on someone or something else.
But credit doesn't work that way, because we generally understand that those are Burton's films anyway. Because
he made those films. He may not have invented Batman, but he made
Batman and
Batman Returns. He didn't come up with Sweeney Todd as a character, or even the musical based on the old novel, but he made the most recent and most well-known film version of the character and his story. And no, he did not come up with
Beetlejuice or
Big Fish.
Beetlejuice was someone else's idea and was given to him before he got the chance to make
Batman, and
Big Fish is based on a novel.
Ed Wood was based on the life story of a real person, and the idea to write the script and make the film wasn't his either.
Simple fact is, Tim Burton did not make
The Nightmare Before Christmas. Therefore, it is not his film.