Tim Burton's Dark Shadows - Part 2

[DarthSkywalker]

Thanks for the link.

 

[flickchick85]

Nice featurette. I really do think this looks like a good time at the theater. I should definitely be able to squeeze this in between Avengers viewings.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Some clips from the film...

''People don't throw balls anymore...''

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''A Vampire!''

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''Why have you done this to me...?''

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''Look into my eyes!''

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''Welcome home Barnabas Collins''

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[DarthSkywalker]

It looks so, so good.

 

[marvelrobbins]

Can we finally agree that the trailers have indeed overplayed the comedic aspects of film and downplayed the serious and horror elements elements.Tim Burton and other
people with the film were not lying when they said this wasn't just a comedy.

This looks like from clips a return to classic Burton and could be his best film since Sleepy Hollow.And those who said Dark Shadows had a sleepy hollow vibe were right.And It
defently seems like Johnny depp wasn't lying when he said his performance as Barnabas would honor Jonathan frid.Seeing scenes in context makes this look better.

 

[CConn]

Yup, the tone seemed to be pitch perfect with the show. Even the manner in which they bicker is very reminiscent of the show.

Where their is comedy...it's logical, and done with a certain amount of macabre deadpan.

 

[Majik1387]

Love all the preview scenes.

 

[Marx]

It doesn't look so comedic from those preview clips...and that's a good thing.

 

[dark_b]

the clips look like the trailers. of course the trailers showed more jokes. but it looks the same to me.

i am watching this movie.

 

[mongoose-mania]

My goodness, the cinematography in these clips is BEAUTIFUL. This movie is going to be gorgeous.

 

[Sawyer]

I'm loving everything that I'm seeing, but I have a strong feeling that the mixed messages that WB has been putting out there will come back to bite the movie in the ass.

 

[Marx]

The Dark Shadows tv show was a little campy from time to time but it was not a comedy.

 

[The Shape]

Gotta say, I was on the fence about this one but the clips sold me.

 

[Marx]

The clips definitely made me feel better about this.

 

[The Shape]

My goodness, the cinematography in these clips is BEAUTIFUL. This movie is going to be gorgeous.

And I agree completely. That's what got me the most excited.

 

[CConn]

Depp seems like he's phenomenal as Barbabus. If you close you eyes, you'd swear it was Frid talking.

 

[The Shape]

Depp seems like he's phenomenal as Barbabus. If you close you eyes, you'd swear it was Frid talking.

Yup, great vocal expression and commanding presence.

 

[DACrowe]

The Dark Shadows tv show was a little campy from time to time but it was not a comedy.

Yep. Clips are better, but it still looks like a comedy. Just one that is a little more dead pan and a little less farce. I'll see it though and try to watch the movie on its own terms without comparing it to the show.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

In anticipation, I went and watched alot of episodes from the old TV show... and frankly, I thought it was awful.

I give things alot of leeway, and I often like bad things, but this was just bad.

I'm glad Tim Burton is doing his own things with this. It looks amazing.

 

[DACrowe]

I've used similar examples before, but if you are a grown adult and never heard of, say, Spider-Man and then read the first 30 Stan Lee/Ditko issues without any previous exposure to the character or comics, you may think they're pretty awful too.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Oh I know... at 22, I had never even heard of the show until Tim Burton decided to make a film of it.

So the show just isn't for me, but then I enjoy alot of things from the past. Things that people would consider bad.

Regardless this movie is it's own beast so i'm not too fussed with the source material.

 

[CConn]

I started watching the show for the first time a few months ago (I'm 23), and I really didn't think it was too bad. The mood, sets, actors, etc. were all quite good.

If anything, my complaint would be that it's VERY slow moving plot wise, and it quite obviously had a very low budget. But that's about it.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

I don't follow this thread super-closely, so maybe some people have been specific about this and I just haven't seen it, but I'm a little confused about something: I know a lot of people are hoping and assuming that this will be a sort of return to form for Burton, old-school Burton, vintage Burton, if you will. I don't really get that. Burton's first two movies were Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice, movies that were comedies first and foremost. Absurd, gonzo, comedies. Beetlejuice had a horror element and a macabre tone that Pee-wee didn't, and Dark Shadows probably will have that too, because that black comedy runs through most of his movies. But if Dark Shadows is more along the lines of Sleepy Hollow, then that means it's a horror movie with some comedy in it. which isn't really vintage Burton. Seems to me that Dark Shadows will be more like old-school Burton if it's the winking, camp comedy that's being advertised.

 

[flickchick85]

I don't follow this thread super-closely, so maybe some people have been specific about this and I just haven't seen it, but I'm a little confused about something: I know a lot of people are hoping and assuming that this will be a sort of return to form for Burton, old-school Burton, vintage Burton, if you will. I don't really get that. Burton's first two movies were Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice, movies that were comedies first and foremost. Absurd, gonzo, comedies. Beetlejuice had a horror element and a macabre tone that Pee-wee didn't, and Dark Shadows probably will have that too, because that black comedy runs through most of his movies. But if Dark Shadows is more along the lines of Sleepy Hollow, then that means it's a horror movie with some comedy in it. which isn't really vintage Burton. Seems to me that Dark Shadows will be more like old-school Burton if it's the winking, camp comedy that's being advertised.

I'm not sure I understand your question. I'm one of those who has said it reminds me of old-school Burton based on the trailer, and in saying that, I was referring largely to Beetlejuice, which, yes, means comedy. And I considered that a good thing. There are others who are hoping it's more like Sleepy Hollow, which would also be fine with me. But I'm pretty sure most people who were talking about "old-school Burton" when the trailer came out were more specifically referring to Beetlejuice and its camp/comedic tone. The debate was simply whether or not that was appropriate for Dark Shadows.

 

[Majik1387]

The tones pretty much look like a mix of Beetlejuice's and Sleepy Hollow's to me. The former for the comedic tones, but the latter for the darker moments.