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captainsolo
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13-May-2012, 1:43 PM

Dark Shadows.

Terribly mindless, dull, boring, pointless, unresolved and genuinely uninteresting. Two hours of Burton's concept drawings would have been more interesting. Johnny Depp is great however, and the moments where he appears in Vincent Price's costume from The Tomb of Ligeia makes you wonder what a modern horror film with those sensibilities would be like.

And for a Burton film to look this uninteresting is saying something. To add to all that, it doesn't even work on a silly level of juxtaposition as in Dracula AD 1972.

Balless and somehow worse than the sleep inducing overlong Alice in Wonderland.

And why must they shove in Christopher Lee? He's in the movie for all of 5 seconds and his presence makes you wish they had simply made a film with him instead.