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iHaunt wrote:Well, if it is going to be a remake then I won't go see it period!

Neither shall I!

By the way, do you all watch this movie either in the run up to or on Halloween? I sure do!

"Go ahead... make my millennium."

It's definitely on my 'to watch' list of movies!

Jack Skellington wrote:

iHaunt wrote:Well, if it is going to be a remake then I won't go see it period!

Neither shall I!

By the way, do you all watch this movie either in the run up to or on Halloween? I sure do!

"Go ahead... make my millennium."

Yes, some horror movies on Halloween!

Great film! I watch it every year.
I love Tim Burton's style.

Lillith wrote:Great film! I watch it every year.
I love Tim Burton's style.

Yes Tim Burton has an awesome style. This film, Batman & Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissor Hands etc. I love the darkness to his movies.

Burton is absolutely a master at creating the perfect atmosphere in his movies. I like the darkness too. I loved what he did with Sleepy Hollow. Wish it looked like that around Halloween where I live!

I've enjoyed some of Tim Burton's work, but I am not a totally committed fan of his. His eccentricities have come to seem mannered to me at times, and I deplored what he did to Sweeney Todd, one of my all-time favorite musicals. I also wish Johnny Depp, one of my very favorite actors, would step away from Burton more often than he does. The two of them together just egg on each other's eccentriticies.

As for Beetlejuice, I think my husband enjoyed it years ago more than I did. I like Nightmare before Christmas, Batman, and Sleepy Hollow.

As one of the original Dark Shadows fans, I really, really hope that the new Dark Shadows movie is going to be good.

Pumpkin56 wrote:Burton is absolutely a master at creating the perfect atmosphere in his movies. I like the darkness too. I loved what he did with Sleepy Hollow. Wish it looked like that around Halloween where I live!

Yes the Sleepy Hollow set was awesome! I would love to live somewhere like that all year round!

Murf, I have never seen the Dark Shadows TV series, but I know what it's about & have heard about how good it was. I think Burton will do a great job! Michelle Pfeiffer in it too. She's still hot!

I agree, Michelle Pfeiffer is one of those women whom age apparently doesn't touch.

I was around 13 when I watched Dark Shadows on TV. Part of the appeal of that series was just the shock of seeing a Gothic soap opera, during an era when daytime TV was filled with conventional soaps about hospitals and law offices (no overt love-making on American TV back then). The production values were not especially good, but they really hit on a creative idea when they introduced the character of Barnabas Collins. He wasn't even supposed to remain on the series; he was hired for a story arc. But the character caught on and more or less took over the show. The actor who played him (Johnathan Frid) wasn't particularly young or handsome, but he was well-trained (had a Shakespearean background), and he started out conventionally scary. Then he became conflicted as you got to know him better. He wanted to become human again. As far as I know, he was the very first instance of a conflicted vampire, which has become pretty standard in the years since in vampire tales. He never entirely lost his scary edge, but he was somehow sympathetic as well. A very interesting depiction, and ground-breaking.

I love Johnny Depp, so I hope he does a good job with this role. So much will depend on how it is written and directed.

Murfreesboro wrote:I've enjoyed some of Tim Burton's work, but I am not a totally committed fan of his. His eccentricities have come to seem mannered to me at times, and I deplored what he did to Sweeney Todd, one of my all-time favorite musicals. .

I agree. The movies of his that I like, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, the Batman movies, I really love. The films that I felt to be missteps, Sweeney Todd, The Planet of the Apes, were simply horrid. I'll say Sweeney Todd was better than his Planet of the Apes, but both were disappointing to me. Particularly when he cut pretty much the entire chorus from Sweeney Todd. And in Planet of the Apes, when he used iconic film lines in changed ways they were robbed of the power they carried in the original.