Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

"I shall make you love me."
"With what?  A spell?"
"With this!"
"Oh!"

Now that was ten times funnier than what was in the movie.

Oh, I don't know - I like the "I must admit they haven't aged a day."    Plus Barnabas probably does say "Oh" before he makes that remark. But I guess you would have preferred it had ended there. But I suppose it's all a matter of personal taste. 

127 days 19 hours 52 minutes 4 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!

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[Uncle Roger]

Very much enjoyed the deleted scenes. They brought some more depth to some of the characters who got shortchanged on screen time. I wish there had been something with Roger.

[Josette]

Very much enjoyed the deleted scenes. They brought some more depth to some of the characters who got shortchanged on screen time. I wish there had been something with Roger.

I thought it wasn't released yet.  How did you see deleted scenes?

[madscntst]

Hey Josette, there are deleted scenes online now    I posted about it yesterday or so, but it got buried on the page before this one on the thread.  Here is my post again with the link.

Comic Book Movie has posted 5 deleted scenes! ...

[IluvBarnabas]

I thought the movie had plenty of humor that I myself could appreciate, but not so much that the film itself can be really called a 'comedy'. But as you say MB, it's a matter of personal taste.

I think the word 'dramedy' would best describe the movie.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I think the word 'dramedy' would best describe the movie.

Definitely, IluvBarnabas. I don't know how anyone who has actually seen the film could describe it as a comedy - and I have no idea why Warner Brothers insists on still promoting it as such with their choice of review quotes on the DVD/Blu-ray packaging. But then, we're never likely to fully understand the marketing campaign. All I know for sure is that I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they came up with it because the debates must have been fascinating. 

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[Mysterious Benefactor]

Hmmm - while checking through the previous posts for original series' Ep #299, might I have discovered another inspiration for the film on our Games boards:

Setup:

'Miss' Hoffman knew she had been fully accepted at Collinwood when Roger asked her to look at his...

...troll collection.

Who knew the troll collection might have been Roger's:

 


And while I'm at it posting photos, I came across this one while I was looking for the Barnabas/trolls still:

And as we will recall, the Web site that posted the behind the scenes photos of the Beckenham Place Park shoot implied that the dogs played a part in the scenes being shot. But did we even see dogs chasing Maggie when she escaped from Windcliff?

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[David]

It looks like $1.5 million was just added to the overseas gross No idea where the money came from,

[Josette]

Hey Josette, there are deleted scenes online now    I posted about it yesterday or so, but it got buried on the page before this one on the thread.  Here is my post again with the link.

I might have been reading too fast to realize that's what that was!  Thank you for repeating the link; I'll have to check those out.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

For some reason my DVR didn't list who was going to be on ES.TV this morning, so just for the fun of it I recorded it. And what did it end up being but the show with Chloe Moretz and Bella Heathcoate. Who knows why it was on again so soon after only being repeated about a month ago? And it's interesting how the ep was pulled out of its week and shown on a Monday when the first two times it was on it was a Wednesday ep. But hey, the more they want to show their DS interviews the better so far as possibly getting people interested in buying the DVD/Blu-ray goes. 

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[KMR]

Very much enjoyed the deleted scenes. They brought some more depth to some of the characters who got shortchanged on screen time. I wish there had been something with Roger.

I agree. All of these scenes were wonderful. They show so much about the relationships between the characters, and since the big theme of the movie was that families are the only real wealth, it's strange these got left out. Especially the one with Barnabas and David (which contains the line stating that theme). The one with Vicki and Carolyn reminds me a lot of scenes with the two characters in the original series. I wouldn't be at all surprised, though, if the MPAA objected to the smoking in that scene and might have wanted to give the film an R rating because of that...

[David]

 

DS inspired me to make films in the past, and to write professionally, as I do now, so I'm tired of seeing it trashed in the media.
Box Office Mojo just declared Depp Shadows one of the summer's losers, while films that grossed LESS than DS, and cost the same, are being declared winners.

F THIS BS!

[dom]

I don't know how MOJO judges but perhaps expectations are coming into play here.

[David]

Expectations are ridiculous. Not every film produced can gross a billion dollars.
A lot of films today are being produced for way too much money.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Hmmm - strange article at Box Office Mojo. Why is that? Because back around April/May the same person who wrote it pointed out correctly that vampire films that don't include "Twilight" in their titles do not make the type of money that Depp/Burton's Alice in Wonderland ($334.2 million) or even Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ($206.5 million) did domestically, so it would be completely unrealistic for anyone to expect that DS would gross anything like what those films had grossed. Yet now he's suddenly jumped on the dump on DS bandwagon and he says that it's "inexcusable for these box office heavyweights to wind up with less than $240 million this time around." And he has to be speaking domestically because DS surpassed $240 million worldwide weeks ago. Not to mention that when he made his own forecast of what DS could take in domestically, it was something like half that amount - plus he even pointed out how opening in the shadow of The Avengers could easily affect the film's box office, which it most certainly did. So what he's saying now is something like a complete 180 of what he said only a few months ago. 

However, the facts that are right on Box Office Mojo for all to see speak for themselves because domestically DS is the 9th most successful vampire film 1978-present (which is the period their chart covers). And when one considers worldwide gross, it's the 6th most successful vampire film behind the first 4 Twilight Saga films and Van Helsing. And considering that Warner Brothers has insisted on promoting the film as a comedy, they can't be all that disappointed that domestically the film is the 7th most successful horror comedy 1980-present (which is the period for that chart) and the 3rd most successful with worldwide gross, behind only Ghostbusters and Scary Movie (and besting WB's own previous topper, Gremlins). But apparently we're just supposed to ignore all that in favor of some people's flip-flopping and unrealistic expectations.

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