Dark Shadows (Tim Burton)

[Grouchy]

exaggerating the awfulness of Wood's films for comic effect.

I know talking out of your ass is sort of your M.O., but you really have never seen Wood's films, right?

[baby doll]

I know talking out of your ass is sort of your M.O., but you really have never seen Wood's films, right?

I've seen Plan 9 From Outer Space and it's not as comically inept as Burton makes it out to be. Mostly, it's just pretty dull.

[D_Davis]

As much as I can't stand his films now, the guy gave us Pee Wee's Big Adventure, one of the all time great films. Nothing can take that away.

[EyesWideOpen]

Tim Burton rankings: (the first 9 I think are great to really good films, 10-12 I think are merely ok to good.

1. Big Fish
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Ed Wood
4. Corpse Bride
5. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
6. Sleepy Hollow
7. Beetlejuice
8. Alice in Wonderland
9. Dark Shadows
10. Frankenweenie
11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
12. Planet of the Apes

One's I don't care for
13. Mars Attacks
14. Batman
15. Sweeney Todd
16. Batman Returns

[Ezee E]

Burton gets his visually appealing team together, and pairs it with his most boring, lifeless (har) movie yet. Depp is simply on cruise control, almost behaving as a caricature of himself, which makes the scene in which a girl asks him if he's stoned, a little perfect.

I was on a roll with movies this year.

[Grouchy]

I've seen Plan 9 From Outer Space and it's not as comically inept as Burton makes it out to be. Mostly, it's just pretty dull.

I figured so.

[megladon8]

What a mixed bag.

Inspired performances from Depp and Green, but the writing is just horrid. 90% of the jokes fell flat, particularly with Jackie Earl Haley whose entire role was comic relief, but was never funny.

And...a werewolf? What the hell??

[Grouchy]

And...a werewolf? What the hell??

Not to defend it, but I think it's so random it's obviously a reference to the TV series.

[number8]

Not to defend it, but I think it's so random it's obviously a reference to the TV series.

Not really. She's not a werewolf on the show. That's the movie's invention.

[Grouchy]

Not really. She's not a werewolf on the show. That's the movie's invention.

Well then it's just stupid.

[EyesWideOpen]

All this Burton talk made me want to rewatch all his movies.

[Mal]

Starts out ok, but then its like they just threw money at us with the visuals because they knew the script was crap. Loved Eva Green in this but otherwise... better off dead.

[Spun Lepton]

This is the Fruit Striped Gum of movies. It begins wonderfully, the first half hour is brilliantly insane, almost a return to form for Tim Burton. It's all just disjointed scenes and subplots swirling around an eighteenth century vampire in a "groovy," hyperstylized 1970s New England. It works really well. Until it doesn't. The movie takes a sudden nose dive and ceases to be enjoyable or even technically impressive, as if everybody stopped caring all at once. Suddenly, the script is boring, Burton stopped trying to direct, and the actors, particularly the dreadful although especially beautiful Bella Heathcote, seem really bored.

I really wanted to like this, and I was. Too bad in the end, it's pretty wretched.

This is pretty much on-the-nose.

[Sven]

My opinion echoes the popular attitude. Good, good, funny, cute, blech, boring, is this still on. The structure of this thing is terrible, and Burton's coverage has gotten much blander.

[Winston*]

When the film cuts back to the blonde love interest for the weird dramatic ending, I'd forgotten she was in it. What a tonally confused movie.

Agree that Eva Green was great though.

[number8]

The structure of this thing is terrible, and Burton's coverage has gotten much blander.

I'm convinced that at this point, Burton likes the pre-production process more than shooting and releasing the movies.

[EvilShoe]

One of Burton's worst. Disjointed as fuck, with way too many subplots and trite fish out of the water jokes.

Eva Green is incredibly hot, though.