>>150100190
It is just edgy enough for you to watch during your edgelord phase, but also just wholesome enough for you to still watch it after the phase is over.

It's considered a classic
Also no one thought about Stitch for a long ass time, Disney just churned out merch to get people ready for the live action remake years in advanced, we just buy whatever the tv man tells us to

>>150100190
There aren't a lot of good family Halloween movies, so Nightmare was the best one that got thrown into the television Halloween rotation. In addition, it also gets play at Christmas

>>150100190
Jack is the ultimate husbando for obese white women

>>150100286
Real answer. Jack is everything bitches love.

>>150100190
It's revisited every holiday season.

>>150100190
>short answer
holiday movie for both halloween and christmas; easy to revisit
>long answer
it's an all-time classic and a stand out in the disney film library
almost every single thing about it: the shots, the music, the characters, the acting, the writing, the direction, and the vfx are extremely memorable, additionally the choice to make it a stop motion movie elicits the feeling of watching an old rankin bass movie, adding to the film's thematic core

this is definitely one of the few movies made after walt's death that he definitely would've loved

It’s a perfect movie, from the sound design to the animation itself.

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>>150100190
Nothing else like it. The Nightmare Before Christmas remains the edgiest thing Disney's ever slapped their name on. Seeing as this was a product of the '90s, I doubt the company will ever support something similar ever again. Killer soundtrack and voice cast, too.

>>150100190
Stop motion never stops being cool as shit, that's why.

>>150100190
It's a double feature

>>150100190
Because it's a solid yet unique story, fun if not slightly macabre character designs, edgy enough to be fun as a kid but not so edgy that parents will disapprove, it's one of the few musicals where the songs don't feel like needless filler (Danny Elfman at his peak), the movie is seasonally appropriate for the entire span between Halloween and Christmas, and ending is so perfectly sweet but it dovetails nicely right back into the beginning musically so you can watch it on repeat.
Many have tried to replicate its success, but none have been able to match it.

>>150103551
especially in that pre CGI era. Some of the more contemporary stop motion animations have been almost too smooth because they can plan out their shots ahead of time frame by frame with CGI, and 3d print entire heads for each frame of the film. Sometimes with some of the newer stuff it's easy to forget that you're actually watching stop motion which I think takes a bit away from the experience.
Nightmare Before Christmas was in that sweet spot where the animation was extremely evolved and they started using devices (what they called the lunchbox) to essentially onionskin their shots as they were making them so they could check the motion before committing it to film, but it was still rough enough that you could fully appreciate the craftsmanship that went into making it.

>>150103935
I feel like Boxtrolls is where Laika began losing its sense of tangibility since all the hair is stiff plastic, which is interesting because its where they started putting gigantic record breaking puppets into their movies with Snatcher's machine and you'd think you'd want to emphasize that by grounding the visuals somewhat into that "Imperfections of using handmade materials" quality.

>>150100190
Because Hot Topic

>>150101312
>perfect movie
The showdown with oogie boogie feels kinda tacked on and kind of dilutes jack getting shot down and the cenetary scene as the proper climax of the story, in fact the entire oogie subplot feels kinda unnecessary aside from giving a reason why santa claus doesn't just do something to stop jack and to provide a villain for a movie that doesn't necessarily need one because the main villain is actually Jack's own hubris. The song is great though and second only to Be Prepared as the GOAT villain song so I guess it was worth it for that.

>>150100190
MySpace-era emo kids loved it

>>150104346
I think they got so caught up in trying to push the medium that they lost sight of the beauty in imperfection. They've undeniably advanced the artform by leaps and bounds over the last couple decades, but I really wouldn't mind if they took a step back and started incorporating some of the older techniques to get things to look a little less polished.

Not Laika specifically, but I personally first started noticing it with Corpse Bride. The character expressions were SUPER nuanced, and there were moments where you could see Victor with an almost imperceptible eyebrow raise complete with subtle muscle tightening in the forehead while he struggles with his plight internally. I'd get caught up in it, but then realize this this was stop motion. All I could think was about how many heads they had to create for those little moments like that. The medium obviously went a lot further from there.

>>150105287
and considering that the merch has never stopped selling and you can still see teens wearing jack skellington hoodies, every generation of kids thereafter have also loved it.

>>150100190
Millennials love goth/tim burton esthetic.

>>150103935
It's okay, anon. You can just say Laika.

>>150107237
It’s not just Laika, though. As mentioned, the first time I noticed it starting was in Corpse Bride

>>150106122
A lot of them love the aesthetic, not the movie. They might have not even watched it.
Still, the fact that he's such a recognizable character for people who haven't watched the movie speaks volumes of its legacy.

>>150108498
It's a classic at this point. Some may not have seen it, but the vast majority probably have. Holiday classics tend to stay in rotation for a long time. Kids today have still seen Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer even 60 years later.

>>150100190
It's just an excellent movie all around.