Dr. D’s Countdown to Halloween: My Top 5 Favorite Scenes From the Nightmare Before Christmas
October 26, 2009
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Posted by Dr. Disaster
As you all know by now, I love the Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s one of my top 10 favorite movies, and I cram it down your throats every October. This year I figured it’d be fun to give my top 5 favorite scenes from the movie leading up to Halloween Day. These are my personal favorites due to their attention to atmosphere, animation, and story. I had a really time picking these so know it wasn’t an easy process. Without further adieu here’s my 5th favorite scene from the Nightmare Before Christmas.
Number 5: Jack’s Graveyard Lament
My pick for number 5 is perhaps one of the most iconic scenes from the entire film. It’s on the movie poster for crying out loud! This scene does a great job of establishing a creepy atmosphere for the graveyard and lighting is used perfectly to give it that moonlit feeling. The song does a great job of setting up the premise for the rest of the movie, and you can tell whoever got the job of animating Jack loved what they did for a living. The set designers did a fantastic job of bringing the German expressionist style to life by creating all the twisted and mishmashed shapes in the scene. And of course there’s the iconic spiral hill that gives Halloween Town it’s trademarked quirkiness. This scene is visuals, sound, and animation all combining to make something fantastic. I love it.
An honorable mention to the Christmas Eve montage for coming in a close 6th.
Tags: countdown, movie, nightmare before christmas
Categories: Movies
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Tags: countdown, movie, nightmare before christmas
Ive always liked “whats this” but my favorite is the opening song. does that count as a scene?
speaking of awesome.
I know that I make the impression of being negative at time but I just saw Up.
Ive been waiting for it to release in sweden for moths now and it turned out that they will only show the dubbed version here so I “legally acquired” it from “itunes” in order to maintain the great voice casting pixar always have.
UP is the best Pixar movie ever made period. I have absolutely no nitpicks at all. it has all the components that I would want from a animated film and if somebody here haven’t seen it you should and if you don’t feel good after watching it you have no soul.
Okay it’s Halloween soon so I’ll do some shocking here. I have up till today not seen Nightmare Before Christmas. However I am currently “legally acquiring” it from “itunes”. And now comes shocker number two: I’m not a huge fan of Pixar movies. Okay only seen 4 of them so far and they weren’t bad per se, but it’s just that I don’t particularly like this style of CGI. I prefer CGI in the style of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children or Japanese animation.
Well enough shocking for one comment, I’ll save the rest for later.
Nightmare Before Christmas is the only movie I’ve ever walked out of in the Theaters. Boom.
You’re also a girly man who has a bizarre fear of animated plasticine figures.
BOOM.
the movie is okayish… a tad too much singing
@Sir Michael
You man child!
@Ojii
advent children?
thats what you use as a benchmark? Do the uncanny valley say anything to you? Its not even very good in anime standards! *breathes slowly*
my point is that I was where you are now 2 years ago and its bullshit. yes they do things that is not done in western animation but they do so much stuff that is utter crap just like western animation.
I don’t like much in life. I can find flaws in most things and usually do. But up is the best animation I have seen. Im sorry but if you don’t like up you should probably move to japan because you will be incapable of liking anything outside the shores ever again.
and regarding nightmare before Christmas: ITS A MUSICAL!!! its like saying that final fantasy have weird swords. they are supposed to do that!!!
@Joshua
Easy man… Yes I do know the uncanny valley. Also I use AC as a benchmark for CGI movies which try to look (sort of) realistic, not as a benchmark for animation in general. With Japanese Animation I meant Animes. And in my opinion you can’t say that either western nor japanese animation are ‘utter crap’. What you can say is that *you think* that either (or both or neither) of them are.
Just as a sidenote, I’d love to live in Japan (at least for a couple of years) and I did for the first half of 2009.
Also the thing I dislike about musical is their random singing. I am not stupid, I know musicals are about singing. It’s just that I don’t especially like that. And yea, if you dislike swordfights you can criticize AC for having them, that’s legit imho.
all im saying is that you don’t have to like everything.
Im the first to say so when something is bad. But it should be on equal terms.
I understand Anime. anime is awesome in many ways but by comparing different medias as superior to others is narrowing your scope.
And I would just like to ask some questions on Advent Children (note that I wanted to like it. I really did):
how come they zoom out or in really close on their faces every time there are advanced sword fighting? Awesome fighting is pretty much all that movie has and they were lazy with it. Cowboy bebop don’t have a awful lot of fighting but when they did they animated the whole thing damit >_<
Oh just to clarify: I don’t claim any media is superior to another. All I say is that I personally prefer some types of media over others. And that’s not really narrowing my scope in my case, because I’ll still watch other stuff, eg i just watched The Nightmare Before Christmas which usually would be way out of my scope.
AC: I won’t discuss about that, I’m too much a Final Fantasy (VII) Fanboy to be subjective on this
Also I hope you saw the Complete version of FFVIIAC (it’s a lot better than standard AC because it actually explains stuff!).
I will use simili I picked up from a man named after a certain dice game.
you can explain a joke and people will see why it is funny but they still wont laugh because you had to explain it.
the same applies here. if you have to versions and one is superior to the other you should just tell the best one to begin with.
I can admit that AC is a watchable movie and have some kick ass scenes but comparing them to Nightmare Before Christmas and Up is degrading to all of them.
Now here is the important question:
Have you watched Up? not jut any pixar movie but Up and did you like it? because if you didn’t this discussion is over.
No haven’t watched up (yet?). It’s fairly new isn’t it? I don’t really go to the theaters to watch movies because I find that 99% of all movies are not worth the (horrendous) movie prices we have in Switzerland. So I either wait till they are on TV or I sometimes buy them online. But with Switzerland being a third world country we have dial-up like internet speed, so the second option isn’t too good.
I have read the plot in the source of all knowledge tho. Doesn’t sound like something I absolutely have to watch. I rather waste my time watching mediocre animes
Jeanus Chrispe, your guy’s arguments are tedious and boring.. Disaster, can you post your 4th favorite scene so I can make fun of it already?
Wow Sir M. you’re more negative than joshua
At least I’m laconic. And please, just Sir is fine.
at least I love a good(?) discussion about important(?) things! You however are a conversation stopper, Sir!
I used to watch mediocre animes. Then I realized that there is so much great stuff that you can watch instead.
Just trust me on Up. I am very negative about most things because I dislike things that are shit when they don’t need to. I dislike stuff that have no clear purpose to why they were made.
That is why you can be sure thats it a good watch if I cant find stuff to complain about. the description doesn’t give it justice its the thing they have embedded in the story that makes it great. it has messages and its different messages depending on whos watching. its a movie that have a age span of 2-90 and almost no movie have that. IT is just great.
@Sir Michael
I like being Elaborate.
fine I’ll give that up thingy a chance… reaction to follow