Dark Shadows!! Yay!!
Well, we loved it -- of course! And we will be seeing it again because we couldn't see it in IMAX yesterday and we really want to go back and see it in IMAX. (Luckily, we are armed to the teeth with gift cards, pre-paid passes, etc., etc. for AMC theaters! Whew.)
I don't really know how someone who is unfamiliar with the Dark Shadows TV show will react to this movie. It seemed like a fun story, regardless of the Dark Shadows elements, but I can't be impartial. However, if you ARE a fan of Dark Shadows -- as my stalwart cousin and I are -- then I think you are really going to appreciate this movie.
You know, it is not some sort of side-splitting laugh-a-thon. There were many moments that were funny. But mostly what this movie does is capture what was so belovedly corny and perhaps a bit campy and "self-serious" about the original version. I don't know how they did that, but they did. Michelle Pfeiffer was fucking phenomenal. It was like she walked straight out of the original cast. That weird, almost wooden, self-conscious aura that those original actors had in that show. But she also transcended it.
Eva Green was -- I don't know what. Stupefyingly watchable? God's gift to lip gloss? Evil?? All three, perhaps???
And Helena Bonham Carter is her usual, utterly insane self. She is so fucking hilarious. I don't know how she does it. You know, in the early days, she and her breasts were cast in those never-endingly straight-laced types of serious-acting roles. I absolutely never cared for her. But now that she does all these Tim Burton films, she is able to be so fucking brilliant. She chews up the fucking screen (but in the best possible way). I just love her.
I'm not sure what to say, yet, about Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. Maybe I am still trying to process it. I don't know how he manages to get so totally inside a character and become it with so much compassion, you know? Sustain it, even though the character might be ridiculous. Obviously, there are elements to this character that are just inherently silly and ridiculous, and as usual, he nailed those. But there is this other element going on that I haven't processed yet. But I will because we're going to go see it again in IMAX!!
Rest assured, I will regale you with my full-fledged opinion then!! Okay! Go see it, gang -- before everybody ruins it by telling you all about it!!
I don't really know how someone who is unfamiliar with the Dark Shadows TV show will react to this movie. It seemed like a fun story, regardless of the Dark Shadows elements, but I can't be impartial. However, if you ARE a fan of Dark Shadows -- as my stalwart cousin and I are -- then I think you are really going to appreciate this movie.
You know, it is not some sort of side-splitting laugh-a-thon. There were many moments that were funny. But mostly what this movie does is capture what was so belovedly corny and perhaps a bit campy and "self-serious" about the original version. I don't know how they did that, but they did. Michelle Pfeiffer was fucking phenomenal. It was like she walked straight out of the original cast. That weird, almost wooden, self-conscious aura that those original actors had in that show. But she also transcended it.
Eva Green was -- I don't know what. Stupefyingly watchable? God's gift to lip gloss? Evil?? All three, perhaps???
And Helena Bonham Carter is her usual, utterly insane self. She is so fucking hilarious. I don't know how she does it. You know, in the early days, she and her breasts were cast in those never-endingly straight-laced types of serious-acting roles. I absolutely never cared for her. But now that she does all these Tim Burton films, she is able to be so fucking brilliant. She chews up the fucking screen (but in the best possible way). I just love her.
I'm not sure what to say, yet, about Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. Maybe I am still trying to process it. I don't know how he manages to get so totally inside a character and become it with so much compassion, you know? Sustain it, even though the character might be ridiculous. Obviously, there are elements to this character that are just inherently silly and ridiculous, and as usual, he nailed those. But there is this other element going on that I haven't processed yet. But I will because we're going to go see it again in IMAX!!
Rest assured, I will regale you with my full-fledged opinion then!! Okay! Go see it, gang -- before everybody ruins it by telling you all about it!!
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