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#76

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Posted: 3/16/12 at 10:21am

LOL

I want them to play all the famous couples in a single movie now.

Anthony and Cleopatra
Scarlett and Rhett
Ricky and Lucy
Shields and Yarnell

EDIT: By the way I love the glimpses of Helena in her baritone barfly voice and bouffant red wig, paying homage to Grayson Hall. I always loved that boozy psychiatrist on the TV show.

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Updated On: 3/16/12 at 10:21 AM

#77

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Posted: 3/16/12 at 10:26am

Oh God... Scarlett and Rhett.

This looks dreadful.

Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!

#78

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Posted: 3/16/12 at 10:27am

I tend to like Tim Burton's comedies more than his fantasies. He could have easily made this an original piece like way back in the 80's and 90's when he use to (Anyone Remember Beetlejuice? Edward Scissorhands?)Burton is relying on the built in fan base to help carry his films nowadays. Look at the films he has done over the pat ten years. Willy Wonka. Alice in Wonderland.SWEENEY TODD.Planet of the Apes.Two personal favorites of mine are MARS ATTACKS and SLEEPY HOLLOW.All based on someone else's idea. Burton could have done a comedy very similar to DARK SHADOWS but he didn't. Burton,like George Lucas has sold out. Maybe a couple of flops would do him some good.

'There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently' -Robert Evans-

#79

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Posted: 3/16/12 at 8:03pm

This is like Alice in Wonderland but at least there the books are in the public domain (and everyone knows them). Why bother? Burton has talent to spare--why is he just stroking his bone over these lazy movies? I don't buy for one minute that he was a fan, or remembered anything except for that it was about a vampire. I know I sound like a comic book fanboy complaining about some comic book superhero movie but--at least maybe it will cause people to check out the series.

#80

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Posted: 3/16/12 at 9:28pm

I have always felt that Burton is style over substance, Yes, his movies look great and the design ingenius, however really crappy story telling skills. Thought Big Fish a major disappointment. Could have been GREAT but somehow came across shallow.

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#81

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Posted: 3/16/12 at 10:01pm

I miss when Burton had a Gilliam streak, though more whimsical, of real contraptions and set pieces over the CGI. It had more life, originality, and substance to it. That and as mentioned before, original ideas. I think the Tim Burton of 20 years ago doing this project had more promise. Looking at the trailer, I don't even think Johnny Depp signed up for this.

#82

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Posted: 3/17/12 at 2:00pm

Oh dear God when is this director going to mix things up, already?? Do a Dogme film...something! This is the same stuff he's been doing since the late eighties fer Chrissakes!

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#83

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Posted: 3/17/12 at 3:12pm

A Tim Burton production meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzLRP8e4vE

#84

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Posted: 3/17/12 at 10:27pm

This looks very much like MARS ATTACKS! where every character was cartoonish and wacky and the audience was absolutely screaming for a solid straight man to show up.

Oh, and spoofing 70's kitsch is soooo nineties. This man appears to be second only to George Lucas when it comes to living in a bubble.

#85

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Posted: 3/18/12 at 2:51pm

Why set it in 1972?? Disco wasn't even around in '72...

#86

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Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:19pm

LMAO...I can hear all the die-hard DARK SHADOWS fans shrieking right now: "What have they done!!! What have they done!!!"

This film is very much in the same vein as Betty Thomas' 1995 take on THE BRADY BUNCH. It's a satire all the way. DS fans were expecting a grand, opulent, dramatic serious film. The joke is most definitely on them.

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Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:26pm

Not only was disco NOT around in 1972 but Barry White's "You're My First, My Last, My Everything" was released in 1974! This film looks like a big ol' hot stinkin' mess.

#88

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Posted: 3/19/12 at 5:06pm

Kitschy spoofs rarely get the period right. I hate watching anything that spoofs the 80s because it's usually just an exercise in lazy research skills. Remember the Pong sequence in The Wedding Singer on Broadway? Pong was 70s. MID-70s.

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#89

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Posted: 3/19/12 at 5:55pm

Songs in the trailer does not mean it is in the movie. I just saw the trailer to SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN and they used the music to TRON in it. I would be surprised if Daft Punk has a song in Snow White.

It could very well be a mess but then again so was SHOWGIRLS and I loved that movie. I have friends who hated MARS ATTACKS and I loved it. I am not taking this movie too seriously.I will more than likely see it but my expectations are not high at all. I just hope it is fun.

'There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently' -Robert Evans-

#90

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Posted: 4/22/12 at 4:23pm

It doesn't really bother me either way, but it's sort of debatable when Disco actually started.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco

This scene from Klute in 1971 is kind of disco-ish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSCZRe16vus

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

#91

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Posted: 4/22/12 at 6:13pm

For what it's worth. Who knew that "Don't Rock the Boat" was a disco song?

http://www.discomusic.com/101-more/12972_0_7_0_C/

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Updated On: 4/22/12 at 06:13 PM

#92

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Posted: 4/22/12 at 10:16pm

Dark Shadows and Mad Men

#93

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Posted: 4/22/12 at 10:33pm

Given she lives in a house straight out of The Addams Family and she is practically a stand-in for Matthew Weiner, it wouldn't surprise me if Sally Draper becomes a fan of The Dark Shadows program.

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