I plan to completely avoid reviews until after I've seen the film for myself on the 11th. Though as I've said before, I always avoid the reviews when there's a film I want to see. I much prefer to make up my own mind and then read the reviews to see if I agree, disagree, or sometimes even think a reviewer was completely delusional to write what they did - and that goes for films I've liked but the reviewer tore to shreds as well as vice versa.
Truthfully, though, I often wonder if the only point to film reviews is so the critics themselves can see their own opinions in print because quite often reviews have no effect whatsoever on box office. I mean, Adam Sandler's films are routinely panned by nearly all critics, yet Sandler has a thriving film career that's review-proof with no end in sight. And then there are the Twilight films, where some critics seem like they're in competition to write the most scathing reviews imaginable, yet to say each one of the films has been a huge success would be an understatement. And let's not forget many of the reviews for Depp's The Tourist - yet ultimately the producers of that film laughed all the way to the bank...
14 days 6 hours 57 minutes 32 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!