DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
Members' Mausoleum => Calendar Events / Announcements Archive => Calendar Events / Announcements '24 I => Calendar Events / Announcements '05 I => Topic started by: Connie on March 22, 2005, 12:57:31 PM
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The review doesn't say a hell of a lot, but does say the best part of the release is the interview with David Selby. :o (Maybe a slight exaggeration?) lol
Anyway it lists the price at $29.95. That can't be right, can it?
http://www.zap2it.com/index/dvd/reviews/1,1146,25149,FF.html
;D
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Hi Connie i didn't know anything about a DVD review thing at all. But i think usually
thats the price sometimes of these DVD's How are you???
Love Anne :-*
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it lists the price at $29.95. That can't be right, can it?
MPI lists it for $59.98. The stated $29.98 is a typo, like J.J. Upatkin. ;)
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Another review can be found here http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/darkshadows17.php
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From DVD Verdict review:
It's the last gasp of the exhausting eight-month Quentin-centric 1897 plot line
Last gasp? :P
My favorite in this set occurs during episode 863, when Pansy visits Tate and a window shade goes crashing onto the floor as she enters. It distracts the hell out of both of them.
Oh it does not.
Hi Connie
Hi Annie [wavey]
How are you???
Don't ask. :-
love
CLC :-*
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Well, chacun a son goo. I don't agree that Magda's accent was "terrible" (though it was sometimes terrifying), it was larger than life, just like the character herself (the concept of theatricality appears to be lost upon today's audiences). I also do not agree that Leviathans was as boring as Liza with a Z or whatever that pathetic woman said.
I don't think Judge Cullum was paying much attention while watching these shows. Evan's spell to drive Petofi out of Quentin's body failed, and the Leviathans were from Earth's own Underworld, not from an alien planet. But then, what can you say about someone who finds a minor blooper to be the most exciting moment of the set???
Damn, I wish *I* could find someone to send me DS DVDs for free...
G.
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(didn't really, fully understand Midnite's quoting policy, so I won't quote), but, I didn't recognize the names Assoc. Producer George DiCenzo nor tech. director JJ Upatkin...??
Patti
PS....thanks Connie :-*
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or whatever that pathetic woman said.
Yep, when I read that interview, I was thinking "this is a FAN of the show?" Most of her comments regarding the show were negative. And, yeah, the reviewer sounded mostly clueless too.
~Penny Dreadful~
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Hi Patti,
George Dicenzo is one of my favorite DS production people. I believe he's the one who once described Grayson as a "gutsy broad" that he loved a lot. I think he might have gone into acting after DS went off the air... gods, I'm probably conflating two or three different stories here... I'd love to see that interview, and they are now getting into episodes that I run at least a couple times per year, so I just may invest in the new set. (I've already been pondering getting the Tom Jennings storyline, and in my dreams I would love to own all of the Cassandra Collins story--I DIG Cassandra!)
J. J. Lupatkin worked fairly steadily throughout the series, I believe, but I am not sure just what he did. Would be fascinating to see an interview with him.
G.
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Thank you, thank you darling :-* :-*
Patti
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Thanks to our Gothick (or, go thick).
I went to imdb, and sure enough: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225191/
Patti
Uncredited in House of Dark Shadows as a deputy AND Asst. to Producer.
Now...someone tickle my memory; right under that listing is "A Darkness at Blaisedon" and I know I've heard that title on here....
Thanks again Gothick!!
Patti
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Some of those DVD reviews I've read on the Internet come off mean-spirited and unenlightened, with much space wasted on maligning the actors and snickering at the loyal fanbase of DS. I put on my gloves when a review of DVD #12 accused Grayson Hall of "cardboard chewing" and looking skeletal, and Don Briscoe of being "the worst actor ever on television". Yes, both Grayson and Don had bad days, but I never saw bites taken out of the scenery, and I can write a laundry list of TV actors "worse" than anyone who appeared on DS. Some of these cynical "judges" (as they call themselves) need to spend a moonlit night in the crypt with a hungry werewolf.
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Now...someone tickle my memory; right under that listing is "A Darkness at Blaisedon" and I know I've heard that title on here....
It's the title of a 1969 Dan Curtis TV Movie about a Haunted House.
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Luciaphil's review of "A Darkness at Blaisedon" is on the Idle Thoughts II board.
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To play devil's advocate, this is probably not an easy show to review. It's not like most other TV shows; it's got a serialized format; and let's be honest here, most viewers who are not fans have a lot of things they need to get past. I'm not just talking about the shoddy production values and the manic Teleprompter readers either.
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Well, I really wonder why they even bother to review beyond one or two volumes of DS on these sites. It's pretty obvious that only a diehard fan would be interested in something that is volume SEVENTEEN of a 1960s soap opera.
If you asked me to write reviews of the DVD releases of "Cheers," "Seinfeld," or "Angel," believe me, the results would NOT be pretty.
G.
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Looks like DVD verdict is going back and reviewing some of the earlier sets.
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/darkshadows2.php
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/darkshadows3.php
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Wow. Finally somebody *gets* it:
Grayson Hall was the bridge between Hollywood and Broadway, where all the actors on the show came from. She was part of the allure of Dark Shadows, and it's her presence that really kicks up Dark Shadows: DVD Collection Three a couple of notches.
I hope Darren sees this part:
These are great sets that are important to collectors of the show. MPI is a hero in my book for keeping the Dark Shadows torch burning brightly when no networks seem to be airing reruns. I've heard rumblings that the first batch of non-vampire episodes are going to see a release once MPI completes this run of the show. Now if only the movie adaptations of House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows could find their way onto DVD (uncut and with special features, please). Or is that too much to hope for? But in a world where a vampire can become a romantic leading man on a daytime soap opera, anything's possible.
Thanks for posting the link, Luciaphil.
G.
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How nice to read something so respectful for a change. However, I have to object to the "one long episode of 'The Twilight Zone'" comment.
I love DS.....I really do. But comparing it to TZ is absurd. DS was an original series, but based upon many derivative sources. TZ was unlike anything that had ever come before it.