Oh, that's good to know. I used to follow movie special effects obsessively back in the 90's but I've kind of, uh... fallen off since then. Thanks for letting me know. When I think about it, it DOES look exactly like wax, and I seem to recall even thinking that at some point.
And yeah, it was almost surely intentional -- Burton's pretty particular about his movies, so I can't imagine something like this slipping under his radar. I just really really disagree with the creative choice -- I'm sure it was meant as some combination of in-your-face, comically fake, startlingly contrasting and out of place, etc. etc. but it just really did not work for me. The colour, fine, I thought that was quite pretty. Everything else, no not really. The inconsistency bothered me too, since like I said, sometimes it looked like the wax stuff and sometimes it looked thin as water. You seriously gotta pick one: either people are like wine-filled sacs or like strawberry Gushers; you can't have it both ways.
... either way, though, the blood looked great on Sweeney's white shirt >.>
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And yeah, it was almost surely intentional -- Burton's pretty particular about his movies, so I can't imagine something like this slipping under his radar. I just really really disagree with the creative choice -- I'm sure it was meant as some combination of in-your-face, comically fake, startlingly contrasting and out of place, etc. etc. but it just really did not work for me. The colour, fine, I thought that was quite pretty. Everything else, no not really. The inconsistency bothered me too, since like I said, sometimes it looked like the wax stuff and sometimes it looked thin as water. You seriously gotta pick one: either people are like wine-filled sacs or like strawberry Gushers; you can't have it both ways.
... either way, though, the blood looked great on Sweeney's white shirt >.>