After reading stuff here and on the spoilers thread, I'll reserve my judgement until I see the film (oh, god, to spend seven bucks and that's for a matinee). As I posted in times past, I was skeptical that it would ever be made. First, they talked, talked, talked about making it and nothing every happened because Depp had to go off and make fourteen other movies first. Then they said that they got a screenwriter and what he came up with was rejected, and then they got others, and that was all rejected, and meanwhile Depp had to go off and make seventeen other movies first. Then they got a script, but - wait! - Depp was committed to nineteen other movies first. Finally, they booked a studio, but they had no other actors or actresses and Depp decided to make twenty-three other movies first. I said I wouldn't believe it would ever happen until I was finally sitting in a theater (after paying my seven dollars, and no way was I going to pay full price for an evening showing - people like me who work with disabled children and barely get minimum wage and have to decide "am I going to pay to keep the heat on this month, or have car insurance" don't get a lotta leeway in spending money).
Well, I guess I'm going to get the chance (if I can scrape together the seven bucks - for me, that's three days' worth of meals) in around two months. And now it's the debacle as to whether or not it's the vision of the original. Is it a horror film? A comedy? A horror-comedy? Maybe a documentary like The March of the Penquins? What is it? Is Michelle Pfeiffer too young looking to be the matron of Collinwood? Shouldn't she have a beehive? Or a shorter cut like Jean Simmons? Carolyn as a tween, rather than as a 20-something vixen? Victoria looking like she just stepped out of a convent school? Barnabas looking like an extra from Jerseylicious? Like all DS fans, I have my pre-set ideas about what the concept is all about. I like some of the ideas that have been mentioned before, such as Barnabas having to deal with 18th century concepts in a 20th century world. I stated before that I always had problems with DC's rapid allowance of Barnabas, after just a week-or-so, quickly adapting to 20th century life. Would Barnabas (at Willie's teaching) be able to know how to work a zipper or tie a pair of Thom McCann's? So some of the ideas are good and sound, even if they are presented in a comical manner. It would be funny and there's nothing wrong with that. If DC would've thought about logic and consistency, that would've been an added dimension to DS.
So I'll wait. I'll start robbing Peter to pay Paul now so I can see it. I'll eat lots of peanut butter to save on my grocery bill. Lot of good protein there. After that, I'll add my commentary to a new thread that will obviously be created once it comes out. That is, if I have strength enough after malnutrition. Depp and Burton, you'd better make this worth it. I'm cranky when I'm hungry.
Gerard