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03-18-2012, 08:08 PM
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I just saw the trailer. Genius! I simply can not wait to see this movie. Making it a 70s spoof just seems brillaint to me.
PS - Why do people rag on Burton using some of the same actors over again. When other Directors use a stable of actors they really like they don't always get put down for it. 
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03-18-2012, 08:27 PM
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I saw the trailer a few minutes ago and it seems like fun. I immediately thought the trailer reminded me of Beetlejuice, what with the modern family discovering Barnabas Collins. I've always liked Johnny Depp and I think I'll go see this movie in the theater when it comes out.
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03-18-2012, 09:27 PM
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When I first saw this trailer I started watching with the sound off, and for a few seconds I was thinking "Who is this actor they found who looks like Johnny Depp, only younger?" Of course it is Johnny Depp. Maybe it's the heavy makeup, or maybe he actually is a vampire, but he doesn't seem to have aged in the past 10-15 years.
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03-18-2012, 10:28 PM
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And for some reason, the trailer makes me think of all the clips I've seen of the various "Scary Movie" movies.
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03-18-2012, 10:46 PM
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03-20-2012, 04:43 PM
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This movie honestly looks painful. Predictable jokes about how lame the seventies were (cause those have never ever been done before ever) combined with Johnny Depp in pale makeup and a funny costume.......again. It looks like a damned Adam Sandler movie that's had the lighting turned down and the sets and costumes gothed up. The trailer alone makes me think that Planet of the Apes will be relegated to being Tim Burton's second worst movie. Maybe third worst. Burton sucked a lot of the good out of Sweeney Todd.
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03-20-2012, 07:47 PM
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03-21-2012, 09:58 AM
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Looks like this will be a love it/hate it - no middle ground movie. well at least the trailer is.
When does the movie come out? can't wait...
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03-21-2012, 12:18 PM
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03-21-2012, 12:19 PM
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03-21-2012, 12:27 PM
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Good Lord! I just watched the Dark Shadows bloopers linked to upthread. Having never seen this show in the '70s, I was gobsmacked at the people running amuck in the shots. Did they have to use one take or was this live?? Half the time the people don't even know what they're saying, and then you could hear the prompter!
I'm a high school drama teacher, and I would shoot my kids if they couldn't remember their lines better than that. It's just a whole parade of cringe-worthiness.
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03-21-2012, 01:23 PM
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limegreen - I like Burton's comic approach as seen in the trailer. There is NO reason to take this material seriously!
PS - accding to the wikipedia (for what that's worth) the show was filmed "live-to-tape format — with almost every scene done in one take".
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03-21-2012, 02:29 PM
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Limegreen - for a little more background - this was a daily soap - that's one 30-minute show every single weekday - and they ran for several years like that.
So yeah - most of the writing was done hastily, the actors had sometimes less than an hour with their lines before the scenes were shot, and there were no chances for pickups or re-takes - everything had to be done fast and shot out the door for airing. As much as I enjoyed watching the original - I stand firmly behind the inherent possibility of a funny adaptation (not saying it's going to be good, just that there's hope for it to be funny). Furthermore, even if it makes me a tasteless hack, I will admit that I enjoyed Burton's Sweeny Todd, and (get ready to swoon!) Hocus Pocus has always been one of my favorite movies. 
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03-21-2012, 05:20 PM
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for the woosh impaired: because he's in the DS movie and was in the 21JS TV show (and reportedly has a cameo in the movie)
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03-22-2012, 03:04 PM
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I lost a lot of respect for both Burton and Depp when I saw that trailer. They're really sinking to a new level of bad taste with this one. I can't help thinking you could replace Johnny Depp with Leslie Nielsen or Martin Lawrence with no loss of quality.
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03-23-2012, 08:38 PM
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[ETA: Damn. Dude's got a Ph.D!! And he's still ... rowr!] Last edited by Morgyn; 03-23-2012 at 08:39 PM.
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03-23-2012, 09:24 PM
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03-23-2012, 11:46 PM
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But David Selby...yowza.
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03-26-2012, 12:37 PM
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04-09-2012, 03:28 AM
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Looks kinda funny. I'm really looking forward to Depp in Lone Ranger. His Tonto is wicked.
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04-30-2012, 01:29 PM
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I loved the original Dark Shadows so much that I would literally run home from school to watch it. School dismissed at 3:15pm, the show started at 3:30, and I lived half a mile away. (I had a bicycle, but for some reason my parents didn't like me taking it to school.) Many of my friends did the same.
I only recently learned it was to be a movie and that Jonathan Frid has died. Has it come out yet?
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05-11-2012, 08:32 AM
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Bumping this as the film comes out - I saw it at midnight as emotional support for my fiance. MY GOD IT WAS AWFUL. SERIOUSLY. It was TEDIOUS, which is the worst thing I can possibly say about any movie. Be bad! Be furiously awfully bad! But do not bore me! Allow me to spoiler further remarks.
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05-11-2012, 08:59 AM
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Just saw this today. It's easily three times as funny as the movie appears to be.
Tim Burton's Secret Formula
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05-11-2012, 06:06 PM
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I saw it today - not bad, but the train scene at the beginning (under the opening credits) pulled me right out of the world they were creating, as it was supposed to be 1972, but the train was a modern Amtrak Downeaster train, with a locomotive that was introduced in the early 90's, the cars painted in a scheme and logo that didn't exist until the 2000's, and the other locomotive being a refurbished cab control unit that also didn't exist until around the turn of the century. I realize this was a product placement issue, but still...
And for as important a character as Victoria Winters is supposed to be, she didn't actually have much screen time.
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05-11-2012, 07:26 PM
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05-13-2012, 12:43 PM
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I came away from this spoof wondering what was the point of it? No horror, no suspense, no romance. Just one long tedious, tasteless parody. But who is laughing?
I don’t consider the original series camp. Dan Curtis was not sending up gothic romances and horror stories. He was adapting them to a daily serial. The audience was intended to take the melodrama seriously. What Burton and Depp spawned is camp, and not very good camp.
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05-13-2012, 01:07 PM
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We had nothing to do last night so decided to see it. Meh. Not enough comedy for a comedy. Not serious enough to be horror. Not angsty enough to be melodrama. Burton needed to step back and decide what kind of a movie it was before he started filming. The trailers were completely misleading. Made it look like a straight up comedy. For the most part everyone did a decent job with what they were given. Kickass girl annoyed me. Vicky was not written well enough to understand why she would fall for barnabas. I have never understood the appeal of Eva Green.
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05-13-2012, 02:20 PM
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I saw the film last night. I never watched the series.
I liked it a great deal. It certainly stuck with me more than The Avengers. Had a few creepy moments but mostly just plain fun. The only think I didn't like was Alice Cooper. It just didn't work. Mars Attacks was purposely camp and I thought it worked. Blue Velvet also had a lot of "camp" in it. Last edited by Zebra; 05-13-2012 at 02:22 PM.
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05-13-2012, 06:31 PM
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I just came home from seeing this and for what it's worth I really enjoyed it a lot! Tons of 70's references, all the plots I remember from the series, and it was fun looking for the cameos.
And, oh yeah, Johnny Depp. All in all, a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon with a friend. Great art? No. But a fun escape movie. Last edited by PapSett; 05-13-2012 at 06:32 PM.
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05-13-2012, 06:32 PM
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It was a fun movie and pretty enjoyable darkly light-hearted fair. I watched the original a little as a little kid with my older system but didn't really remember it. So no disappointment was possible.
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05-13-2012, 08:14 PM
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Not one of Burton's better efforts, but as usual Depp was amazing & the movie really was a lot of fun if you go in with low expectations.
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05-13-2012, 09:46 PM
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I wonder how appreciation of it correlates to whether or not one watched the series.
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05-15-2012, 06:21 AM
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Still might see it- it's a big enough film that we'll likely get it in English with subtitles.
Fun fact- once, in a writing class, our instructor decided to absolutely spoil us by getting us a real, live author who had just published his first book. He'd also done some TV writing. What TV? Seems there was this one soap he wrote for... Poor guy couldn't get the class back on the rails after we found that out.
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05-15-2012, 12:28 PM
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Well, hrmph. I thought it was good! Was it this generation's Casablanca? Of course not, but it was an entertaining Friday night in my book.
The sets, costumes, and way it was filmed were all nice- I don't want to say "beautiful," but definitely well done/pleasing to the eye/ all that jazz. I've got a fondness for how Burton lights his films- I have no idea what you'd call it, but I find the lighting in his films far more dynamic than the average movie. Depp's character was, per usual, really well done. Eva Green and, well, heck, a lot of them just were great. Sure, not the deepest, most evolved characters, but I think everyone played their parts well. FWIW, I've never seen the TV show (though I'm named for one of the characters!), but I went into the movie understanding that the whole premise is a bit campy and that the original show was ridiculous in its low budget silliness.
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