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20120511
Sup? I've been posting a lot lately, haven't I? Anyway today I went to watch movie with some of my friends. We originally planned to watch The Avengers..since practically everyone talks about it and praises it so much and I get curious about the film. Alas, due to its popularity, the only seats left are either those of right in front of the screen or the ones on the sides, which also are conveniently placed right in front of the screen too. Since we (or at least some of us) have experienced the wonderful time when we chose such places, we denied. Thus, we went and watch Dark Shadows instead. Dark Shadows is a Tim Burton film based on a 1970s TV gothic-horror drama series with the same title. However, this 2012 adaptation isn't quite horror and they added comedy into this movie as well. -- For those who don't know what Dark Shadows is about (not much spoiler...I suppose?): It's about a witch, who out of her tragedy unrequited love of a man called Barnabas Collins, killed his parents, placed a curse on the man which renders everyone he romantically loves to leap to their death, and finally, condemned him to be a vampire. She then led the townspeople to confine him in a coffin and bury him. Barnabas, who was released accidentally two centuries later (1972), was confused of his changed environment and decided to pay a visit to his old home to find his somehow dysfunctional descendants. And thus, he decided to help restoring the Collins family back to their glory like the old days. The witch, of course, was not pleased. And let the story begin.. -- I'm not good at summarising, but I hope the paragraph above will help. I love the casting. Really. Johnny Depp? Helena Bonham Carter? And Chloe Grace Moretz? I laughed when I discovered their names during the opening credits. I was really sure this movie is going to kick ass. They did act amazingly. In addition, the witch, who was played by Eva Green, was excellent. I loved her act. So amazingly wicked and evil, yet so desperate for Barnabas' heart. I'm in love with the whole atmosphere, so gothic and dark. The setting, the Collins' home was grand. Typical Tim Burton, I suppose. Johnny Depp's lines were wonderful. His cheesy ancient pickup lines especially, was superb, I giggled too much during this. (But you got to admit, if someone used one of those archaic pick-up lines on you, you'd melt, no joke.) By the way, Johnny Depp looked so young in his first scene as Barnabas (during his adulthood, of course) that I thought he was some JohnnyDepp-lookalike. Overall I love all of this. Yet, there is a major disappointment in the storyline. I mean, yeah, I did enjoy seeing the obsolete Barnabas trying to catch up with the trail of time. And some of the humours as well. But I'm still disappointed. I honestly muttered "What the fuck, that's all?" during the finale. It was so absurd and vacant. And what exactly happened? It was as if it's a quick sweep under the rug to wrap everything up. Really? Man, that's the only down point I could think of. -- Anyhow, I've got end term finals coming up in less than 20 days and as usual, I have yet to prepare. I think I might start to read some...stuffs. I guess that's all for today. I'm sleepy. No doodle, I guess. I might add one tomorrow? Labels: films |