024 The Nightmare Before Christmas - Meet the Thunder Tube!

This is Halloween! The Rotoscoper gang discussese Disney's cult classic Halloween-Christmas film, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Highlights: ■ The Thunder Tube! ■ News: New Disney and Pixar release dates (Phineas & Ferb, Ron & Jon 2D animated film, Untitled Pixar Film), viral website for Monsters University, The Swan Princess Christmas ■ Remember to send in your submissions for the Best of 2012 Show! ■ New game segment: Wizard’s Duel! ■ Main Discussion: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas ■ Misconceptions: Tim Burton did not direct this film; Henry Selick did!  ■ Touchstone release, do you consider it a Disney film? ■ Hardcore Nightmare Before Christmas fans ■ Design & animation: popup book aesthetic, spindly characters ■ The beginning: starts with a rythme, not “scare-the-pants-off-of-you” scary, “This is Halloween”, fangirl witches, muppets cameo? ■ Jack Skellington: iconic Burton character, naive, eccentric genius, James and the Giant Peach cameo ■ Danny Elfman: the film's composer and singing voice of Jack ■ Does the love story between Sally and Jack work?  ■ Other characters: Sally; the Mayor; Santa; Lock, Shock & Barrel ■ Who is Vincent van Ghoul? Vincent Price tangent ■ The songs: subpar, quick and complex, “What’s This?”, “Oogie Boogie’s Song”, “Sally’s Song”, “Kidnap the Sandy Claws”, Nightmare Revisted CD ■ What would be your favorite holiday town? ■ Scenes of note: the swirly hill, relationship between Sally and the mad scientist ■ Lesson and morals of the film? Morgan’s specialization/globalization rant ■ Sequel talk and Haunted Mansion Holiday at Disneyland ■ Who is the real villain? Jack or Oogie Boogie? ■ Don't forget to check out our movie/Blu-Ray/art book reviews! Also enter our Snow White art book contest! Runtime: 1:25:29, 41.1 MB Where to Find Us: ■ Find us on the web: therotoscopers.com, twitter, facebook, YouTube, tumblr, hypable & Animated Views ■ Mason Smith: This Animated Life Blog, Twitter ■ Chelsea Robson: Facebook, Twitter ■ Morgan Stradling: Twitter, Instagram ■ Visit our sponsors: Netflix, Audible, Amazon ■ Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at [email protected] ■ Send us a voicemail at therotoscopers.com/voicemail Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices