What a dreadful movie!
Yep! That's about it.
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I thought it was funny! Especially the first half.
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I did not like it. I would give it a 5/10. It was not awful, but it was lacking.
If I told you cretins, your feeble brains would fail to comprehend it. - The Shredder
Dreadful is the perfect adjective.
Burton had a built-in audience; he should know that audience, he says he was a fan of the original soap. The original, shot on a shoestring and in a hurry, was unintentionally campy. Still, fans loved it. You'll fail every time if you try to be deliberately campy. This was just a mish-mash of styles that didn't add up to much—wasn't funny, wasn't scary, just wasn't...anything. Except Johnny Depp in kabuki makeup again. Not sure how Burton could've adapted it, but this miss was as good as a, uh, mile. Blerg.
i couldn't even make it into the second hour it was soooo flat and uninteresting ... aside from changing the story, it just is so blah it's painful ... very sad especially considering the waste of an effort by johnny depp..
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"Can you hear me??!!"
-- J. Depp as HST
When I heard about a new Dark Shadows movie, I got all excited. When I heard it was a Tim Burton movie, that burst my bubble. I tried to keep an open mind about it, Maybe he would do it justice like "Planet of the Apes". Then I saw the preview. And I was like " oh crap, he's ruined this movie." First, that "whiteface" makeup is really old and the whole cast looked like a bad Mortician got ahold of them. Second, I felt the whole story was a bunch of " one-liners" sliced together to make a movie.
When did someone try to stone Barnabas?, what was up with the Barnabas/Angelique sex scene? and why? Caroline was a Werewolf? Those "hints" we're way too subtle, and why did it look like a junkyard dog? Couldn't they have spent a little more on CGI? I mean really, the werewolf transformation from the 60's was 10 times better.
I found the script/story to be juvenile, like a Saturday morning cartoon or "Afternoon Special". I expected better from Johnny Depp.
Although, it did not turn out as bad as thought it would, I still felt it was an insult to fans of the original show and movies.
"Although, it did not turn out as bad as thought it would, I still felt it was an insult to fans of the original show and movies."
I mostly agree with your take on the movie. There were a few small fragments of the movie that were well done. That made the overall package of the movie even more irritating, disheartening, and insulting. Of the "well-done" fragments, I am mostly speaking of the opening 'Nights in White Satin' train sequence. The fact that this ONE item of salvageable shrapnel from an otherwise bomb of a movie made the "good part" seem that much more out of place. In fact, the expensive and polished look to the movie seemed almost like an afterthought that was put into place to serve as a distraction from the horrible writing, which terminally suffered from juvenile sight gags and fish-out-of-water jokes.
As I had said previously in other posts, had this simply been a Tim Burton conceived idea, sloppily thrown together as it was, it wouldn't be getting the criticism that is still is getting. The fact that, not only are they using all of the original names of the characters from the original series (as well as place names), Depp and Burton claimed to be huge fans of the original. The first red flag that I saw was when Michelle Pfeiffer was doing a press conference for the movie and was asked how close in tone the movie would be to the original. She had a noticeably disappointed look on her face and said that fans of the original would probably be disappointed. At least I respect her for being honest and not trying to bull$%it the public into thinking it was really a wonderful movie. When Depp was asked the same question about the film's tone, he was noticeably annoyed. If the makers went to such lengths to capture all of the names and quasi-look of the original, you ARE going to draw comparisons to the original. That is inevitable. The result was nothing whatsoever even close to the spirit of the original.
Instead of an "homage," this movie looked more like an incohesive mess of a business plan which attempted to heap together all of the elements that have made Burton and Depp money in the past. It played more like a two hour comedy sketch that also tried to be scary at the same time.
I still felt it was an insult to fans of the original show and movies."
I was never insulted. Please do not tell us what we are or what we should be insulted by. Do NOT assume we all feel the same way you do. share
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This movie is as boring as most of the crap that Burton, Depp, and Carter make. Everything they do looks the same, sounds the same, and plays the same.
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This is the most ridiculous statement ever. How exactly do they look and sound the same when they look different everytime and change their accents and their voices? Just because most of the things they do are dark and werird it doesn't mean it's the same you idiot. Your stupid opinion is what's irrelevant and not the fans' opinions.
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I agree it's very insulting
shareI agree with the OP. At first I thought it was kind of funny and then well it kept going on, and on and made absolutely no sense at all. I enjoyed the original Dark Shadows, it was campy but okay for it's time period. This movie could have been so much better but Tim seemed to become careless about tying things together in the second half of the movie. Also I personally think that Chloe is not a good actress. She's one of the few go to child stars but the few things that I've seen her in her acting is boring.
shareIt had its humor, Johnny Depp was funny, and Chloe Grace Moretz was awesome in her scenes. That's about all the positive comments I have about it, but that's more than I can say about a bunch of other movies I've watched.
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