Number 3: Enter Oogie Boogie
October 28, 2009
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Posted by Dr. Disaster
Now that’s an entrance! Throughout the second act of the Nightmare Before Christmas there’s mention of the infamous Oogie Boogie, a Halloween creature so vile he was banished from the town. The build up to his reveal is done effectively in which we only see his shadow throughout the film, but here he’s fully revealed in one hell of a productions number.
First off the lighting is truly inspired. The “black light” effect adds a level of unease to the scene that only adds to Santa’s horrible predicament. The set design is one of my favorites in movie history. Everything in Oogie’s lair causes pain and torture, but with a Vegas gambling theme, most notably the “one armed bandits.” Oogie is disgusting and there’s not one redeeming quality to his character. I love this because he’s very easy to despise, making him a fun villain. The animation on Oogie is amazing considering his puppet isn’t as flexible as the others, and the animation work on his face is incredible.
Kudos Mr. Selick, this is one hell of a showstopper. Interesting bit of trivia, every scene where Oogie rolls the dice the result is always snake eyes.
Bonus Video! At 4:50 do you see any similarities between these two scenes? 
Tags: countdown, halloween, movie, nightmare before christmas
Categories: Movies
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Tags: countdown, halloween, movie, nightmare before christmas
I always thought this scene was the weaker of the pieces. The visuals are clearly the most advanced to create but I didn’t like the song. It fall between the seats of “dialog song” and the “set pieces” that you can listen to without the story.
I would put jacks discovery above this.
Why is oogie boogie a villain? Aren’t people/creatures in Halloween Town supposed to be evil? Thus the more evil they are the better? Oogie Boogie should be the Pumpkin King, not Jack!
No-one in Halloween Town is actually evil. They like to scare people but that’s as far as they go. Oogie Boogie likes to kill people, which crosses the line.
In my opinion, awsome Kingdom Hearts Boss fight with SPOILER!: Oogie Boogie and then his house.
How intolerant of those Halloween guys… Scaring is fine, but as soon as someone kills people that’s a problem! This movie teaches wrong morals of not socially accepting people who think different!
Well yes Ojii. the movie frowns upon the concept of murder. How horrible…
what the heck? since when is murder frowned upon? I’m shocked!
Oh and I watched UP now. Can’t see why you call it so awesome, okay the CGI is quite nice but the rest? I found Nemo better.
Ojii.
You have HORRIBLE taste in movies.
Tell me why you didn’t like it because you clearly didn’t watch it properly.
‘watch it properly’?
- The god damn annoying boy (I know he’s supposed to be annoying, but still he bored me after a while) was one thing I didn’t like, and since he’s in every scene….
- Trying to prevent spoilers I’ll just say I hate the end. That’s too “sweet” for me.
- ‘Steerable balloon’??? I know it’s a CGI and it’s fantasy and blah but that’s just silly… yea I know you gonna bash me for that but I said it anyway
- the movie feels awefully slow. the stories doesn’t tell “fast” enough. I was always waiting for something to happen
- the dog voice joke did nothing but hurt my ears
- there’s not a single surprise in that movie! Okay I already knew the plot partially but still, very predictable thus becoming boring.
Btw where you see his house in the middle of a construction site reminded me of the guy who didn’t want to sell his house which should’ve been ripped down for the peking olympics.
Also who are you to judge my taste of movies? I could also say YOU have horrible taste of movies because you seem to love Up. However I’ll try to refrain from that.
Ok I guess we pronounce these comments as spoiler land.
-The ending is sweet because the beginning is utter sad. you pretty much cant have any other ending because then there would be things in the movie unsolved.
-You like AC and complain about physics? The thing about the physics is that it does not portray how helium actually works it portrays how a child thinks it work and how an adult want it to work. And it respects the fact that it is a old mans dream from a time where Dirigibles was the shit. if it was a boys adventure it would involve rockets or something (as we know rocket engines makes cars go faster)
-well I didnt really like the dogs that much but I forgave them when they made star wars jokes trough the story and the dog jokes was clever at times.
you are missing the points a adult should look at. you looked at the points a adult should react upon if there was nothing else to look at.
-the movie is not about a flying house. its not about talking dogs.
its about the fear of getting old, the sense of loss, the attachment to earthly possessions, the common mans dream of adventures and unfinished business.
I could go on a rant about what points the incorporate these things but if you haven’t seen them you haven’t given the movie proper attention because you were hung up on physics.
1: I dislike uber-happy endings. End of discussion about this.
2: As mentioned earlier, my love for AC is irrational. Also the whole AC/FF universe is far enough from the real world (materia/lifestream/….) to allow silly physics. Up is ‘sorta’ realistic.
3: I didn’t get the Star Wars references because I only watched the really famous Star Wars part (no idea which number) and I’m not a huge fan of that so I can’t recite it by heart
4: IDC
I really tried to give the movie a far chance, but after about 40 minutes of just slowly slowly going on I probably gave up on it.
all star wars parts are the famous ones (all three of them. its a shame that they never made the first 3 episodes).
If you haven’t watched star wars you don’t get to have opinions on movies so I guess its cool then.
I’ve watched the one with the deathstar, and just remembered I watched the really new one as well (we did the Walrus King double-movie sneak). Not that good a movie.
And lol Star Wars is the benchmark for all movies? Or at least a requirement to have opinions about movies? 5 letters my friend: ROFL
There are certain movies that holds the kind of quality that helps building a framework for what kind of movies you like. star wars is a major one in nerd movies. see it as basic discourse.
And there are no new star wars movies.
wtf that one was in the theaters like let’s say in the past 5 years… I did see the ‘how it should have ended’ version of startwars tho, and that one was WAAAAY better!
You guys.. You’re boring the Internets with your mindless typing.