Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows" looks like a hoot.

[trof]

Johhny Depp is always a hoot.

[OriginalGeek]

1. I know I'm going to see it

And I never even watched the original. I've heard about it but never saw more than a short clip.

The previews look funny to me.

[The empressof all]

2. For those of us who remember and love the original

It looks like heresy to me. Dark Shadows was dark and shadowie....Not all bright and cartoonie. Looks wrong to me....and it's not suppose to be overtly comedic.

I have a bad bad feeling about it based on the commercial I saw.

[trof]

3. It's nothing like the soap opera.

I watched several of those episodes back when.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. My thoughts, too.

Though I did read a AICN review that said the trailers were much campier than the actual film, and that it is closer in tone to the series.

I certainly hope that is the case -- the Depp/Burton team is wearing on my nerves these days.

[CBGLuthier]

7. I sure hope so too

total agreement

[area51]

11. +1 n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. My mother told me years ago that it was unintentionally funny, and that's

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what made it camp. "I wonder who is at the door?" (Doorbell finally rings.)

I don't see how this movie could capitalize on that, although I love Johnny enough to maybe give it a whirl.

[HopeHoops]

5. Link?

[trof]

8. google

Or duckduckgo.com

[CBGLuthier]

6. In a few more years they will be making a spoof version of Roots

Can anyone remember the last time a movie was made from a tv show that was not a spoof?

[Orrex]

9. SWAT, Star Trek, The Fugitive, Mission Impossible, Miami Vice, The X Files, Serenity

That's about it off the top of my head.

[CBGLuthier]

10. except for the first two most of those were some time ago

and as for the last two I am talking more the revival shows as opposed to the same cast.

So SWAT and Star Trek would be the most recent.

Oh and I do not consider any of those films with the word Mission in them to be anything other than the Tom Cruise spy show. They are not even close to what the real thing was.

[Orrex]

14. Well, you asked if anyone could remember the last non-spoof

And the answer is yes.

I can't help it if you decided to redefine the parameters after I responded!

[HappyMe]

12. I want to see it too.

Looks funny. I also want to see The Dictator.

[LynneSin]

15. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp seem to make the same movie over and over again

Burton finds book or play or movie that has a kooky lead male role and a bunch of interesting characters where Helena Bonham Carter plays one of the crazier women in the movie.

I guess it started with Edward Scissorhands although that was before Burton was dating HBC. But then there was "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Alice in Wonderland", and "Sweeney Todd"








I think only "Sleepy Hollow" was Depp allowed to be Depp.

I think Depp is a very talented actor but he needs to get out of these kooky charcacters he's been playing and show us why he's such a talent

[bluesbassman]

16. I think Johnny just likes wearing pancake makeup.