Comingsoon.net has a great new banner of Barnabas with all his lady friends (except for his one true love, hmmm):

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=88603

I've lost track of how old Dakota Fanning is, but I tend to feel that she's already too old to play Carrie.  I do remember that years ago, she was in talks to be in another King work, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, but that never came to pass.  I think Chloe is a perfect choice.  Let Me In indicates that she can definitely do dark horror.  I guess as with most remakes (or reimaginings, if you'd rather call it that) I wonder how much need there is for it, but strangely, Carrie is one of the few King novels that I never ended up reading, so I don't even really know how faithful the movie was to the novel.

Did I miss something here? What is this age limit thing?

Sorry Janet, I was talking about the age constraints for the advance screenings of DS.  Apparently they wanted viewers to be under age 49 (probably to hit the target demographic).  Joe and others were turned away because they were too old.  We should be fine for the movie itself     Anyway, for me, the point was moot anyway because I live on the East Coast, but I was just remarking that even if I had a chance to go, I'd have to try to fudge my age 

Thanks MB for the tweet and the link to the new posters!  Liz with a shotgun just cracks me up, for some reason.  I love the others, too, especially getting to see the Josette representation of Bella. 

I had the weirdest dream last night, that DS was released and was nothing like any of us expected- it was very colorful and surreal, and I think it had muppets in it!  Or at least Barnabas taking the form of a frog or toad at one point (it wasn't Kermit, though- I want to be clear about that!).  But it was still very horror-filled.  The weird thing was, in the dream, I loved it!  When I woke up and remembered, I thought to myself, ugh, I don't think I'd actually love it if it looked like that!  LOL, so maybe at least for me, the actual film will be a relief in comparison 

I had a thought the other day-- I realized that if there is anything I am unhappy about regarding the trailers and TV spots I've seen, it's the music they're using.  Somehow, it's the music that seems a little too flip or something- the actual scenes, jokes and all, look fine to me.  Granted, at least Alice Cooper's No More Mr. Nice Guy will be in the film, though I guess it's going to feel more in context then.  And I think I heard somewhere (maybe here) that Bang a Gong is included in the film, as well.  Don't get me wrong- I love those songs!  But in the context of the film trailer they seem a little much or something.  But maybe with more of Elfman's score (especially if there are nods to Cobert's music) maybe the feel of the movie will start to feel more right to me.

Interestingly, after I started thinking this thought, I went to watch the DVD I rented this past weekend, Young Adult, that had an old trailer for Hugo with it.  I was struck by how *little* I liked the Hugo trailer in comparison with the film itself, and noticed that the trailer didn't have the final score music with it.  For me, the music was so important in conveying the sweet, warm tone of the film.  I guess I'm just very impressionable in how music shapes my feelings.  Hmm.

I'm actually loving the idea of Barnabas sort of skulking around in the background- hanging upside down, shoved into an armoire, etc.  I'm guessing that Johnny had a ball doing that. 

Alice Cooper has shared some pics of his costuming for DS, courtesy of the awesome Colleen Atwood.  They CGI'd his face to make him look like he did in the 70's- the link says it's similar to what they did in Tron, and (since I didn't see that one) I wonder if it's also the same they did for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  (Edit- I mean that he'll be CGI'd in the film, not the photos.  They show marker dots in the photos).  Anyway, interesting!

http://instagr.am/p/IkT167p606/

Quote from: jimbo on March 20, 2012, 07:48:28 PM

MB do you see the name of the actor and character on top of each picture? Is that what you are not seeing? they do enlarge greatly at Empire.

Really? I clicked on them and all I got was a bunch of product ads with even tinier versions of the posters.    I'll have to try again later.

MB, I think the problem was that the posters took a long time to load.  I got the product ads, too, but then after awhile the poster loaded.  The tiny versions of the posters were actually the "next" or "previous" images and not the main ones.  At any rate, thanks jimbo for providing an alternate link- those ads can sometimes be really annoying!

I guess my disconnect with some of the opinions I'm reading is when people say things like, "They (Tim and Johnny, and maybe Jim Pierson) said they were fans!  A fan would never make a film like this."  Well, that is a bit presumptuous and presupposes that all fans are of one mind.  I would never accuse someone of not being a fan if they didn't share my vision, but that's just me.  So I don't find it as easy to sympathize with these types of comments as it is to sympathize with folks who were hoping for something different and feel disappointed.

Again, I'm still feeling a little disheartened by the trailer, and hope that I like the movie more, but for what it's worth, I thought the 21 Jump Street trailer was atrocious, and it turned out to be a film I enjoyed tremendously.