Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Johnny Depp and Eva Green
I don’t know why but I’m finding it difficult to get
motivated to write about Dark Shadows. I
enjoyed it but the film had some issues.
It was exactly what I thought it would be, which is campy and
silly. It didn’t make me love Tim Burton
any less. Same goes for Johnny
Depp. The music was great, if you like
70s classics. Though I’m not convinced
all the songs used were released before 1972 (however I’m not nitpicky enough
to look that up). The look was very
Burton-esque, which I always dig. The
idea of sticking someone from the 18th century in the early 1970s is
a fun one with lots of potential. I just
can’t put my finger on why I’m so meh about it.
My friends and I walked out of the theater saying we enjoyed it so there’s
that.
I won’t spoil it for you but the main story is how the
Collins family is cursed, each in their own way. It’s almost like they forgot about cursing
Chloe Grace Moretz until the end of the movie and then just threw it in to
emphasize the point. It was
strange. But there were plenty of
fun
jabs at 70s culture and they really worked the camp angle, which I
enjoyed. I've never seen the television show but I know it was filled
with campy goodness. I'd like to think this did the show some justice
without being too on-the-nose.
The cast was fine, especially Eva Green who, well, how do
you encapsulate what she is? Uh...she
cannot be ignored. If that woman is in a
room or, even in the general vicinity of a room you know it. It was nice to see Michelle Pfeiffer though I
don’t enjoy seeing her in supporting roles. I feel like her character, the matriarch of the existing Collins family, should have had more to do. Helena Bonham Carter, the resident psychiatrist, was good as
usual but she, along with most of the rest of the cast, didn’t have much to
do. Mostly it was just Depp being weird
with his weird fingers and Eva Green stomping around threatening Depp.
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| They really did emphasize his hands throughout the movie. |
I feel like I could add a new measurement to this blog. It was better than Conan the Barbarian but it was no Avengers. Hmmm, I need to see The Avengers again.
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