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Calendar Events / Announcements '12 I / Happy Birthday to Nancy!
« on: June 13, 2012, 06:33:35 PM »
Happy Birthday

Nancy!

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Current Talk '12 I / Re: dark shadows comic
« on: June 11, 2012, 07:29:01 AM »
LOOKE300, check out this topic that's stickied to the top of the Calendar Events / Announcements board:

"Dark Shadows" Returns in October (in new comic form)

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ABC News In Memoriam 2012
A look at the notable people who died this year

JF is currently on page 15.

With thanks to Julia99

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Caption This! - Night of Dark Shadows / Re: Night of Dark Shadows
« on: June 05, 2012, 04:00:52 PM »
Sorry!  From Re: The Rules And How To Add Captures/Captions/Comments To This Board.--

Captions containing more than 2 lines of dialogue will be removed.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: June 05, 2012, 12:43:31 AM »
well, I was just in the drugstore buying a few sundries and I saw in the perfume and makeup department this huge maquette (or whatever it's called) for a new line from Cover Girl with the tag, "Don't spend your life living in somebody else's shadow."  And whether I'm hallucinating or not, the model featured on the ad looked a lot like Magtoria/Josette as portrayed by Miss Heathcote.

It made me giggle...

Cute story, Gothick.  The Cover Girl was probably Taylor Swift.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '12 I / Happy Birthday to Sandor!
« on: June 04, 2012, 03:57:58 PM »
Happy Birthday
Sandor!

           

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Encore screenings will be in movie theatres worldwide starting in June.  For US venues (many offering both versions-- with Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature or as Victor Frankenstein) and booking, see http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/61172/venues-amp-booking/us-venues.html

National Theatre Live Trailer

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Calendar Events / Announcements '12 I / Re: OT Mother
« on: May 31, 2012, 05:30:07 AM »
You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers, Teresa.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: May 30, 2012, 08:56:20 PM »
The fact that Laura just appears out of nowhere and saves the day is the most jarring and upsetting plot point.  (As an aside, has anyone really taken a look at her clothing?  Does it look like something from the 1960s?  Because it looks to be from a much earlier period imo.

It looks like a '60s empire waist floor-length
dress, no?

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: May 26, 2012, 03:37:33 AM »
I thought maybe it would be possible that she gave her original name to Willie or something, and then he simply forgot it. But this wouldn't make sense given how protective Liz is shown to be over the children in the movie. She would want to know the name of the person coming to watch over them.

And Liz asks Vicki some questions that weren't on the application.

Aren't flubs all part-and-parcel of DS?  Didn't they exist in every incarnation of it?  Without them, they wouldn't be DS.  Maybe Depp/Burton intended it and wanted to see if anyone caught on.  After all, Cameron, who wanted to make everything on Titanic to be historically perfect had smoke coming out of the fourth stack - he did that deliberately for Titanic buffs, since the fourth funnel was a dummy that served as storage for deck chairs.  And S.E. Hinton somehow got the publishers to retrain one "flub" in her reworked novel, Hawkes Harbor (the obvious original title must've been Collinsport), for us DS fans.

Sooo, are you saying that the palm trees in the 1991 DS were intentionally left in to drive you to distraction?  [wink2]  [winkb]  [winkg]

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: May 23, 2012, 03:20:25 PM »
 [pointing-up] She's no Penny Dreadful, but there's some good food for thought in her review.  Thanks, Sara Monster.

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Happy Birthday
coterie-mc!


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Calendar Events / Announcements '12 I / Happy Birthday to Heather!
« on: May 22, 2012, 05:45:45 PM »
Happy Birthday
Heather!


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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: May 21, 2012, 10:21:28 PM »
it was my impression that vicki was under angelique's spell when she took the leap.

didn't barnabas demand that ang release her from her spell before she died?

Yes, and that seemed to help build tension as we see Vicki walking toward the cliff, but she stops and turns when Barnabas calls to her, which makes me think she was not under a spell; maybe it ended once Angelique was gone?  And she talked about how they couldn't be together because she alone would age, and then went over the edge willingly and knowing that Barnabas would bite her.

Love this by usffan, though my take (which could change, lol) is that Josette takes over sometime after Vicki goes off the cliff, perhaps when Vicki dies:
they really made Josette a much more active driver of the outcome of this than I had picked up on.  Think back to what she says to Barnabas as they profess their love to one another in the beginning.  Again, I don't have the exact wording, but she says something like "Promise me we'll be together forever."  In fact, her last words to Barnabas were "Help me," which I found haunting since she repeats them to Victoria several times, and the last time Victoria speaks to Barnabas before going over Widow's Hill, I think we're meant to assume that Josette has already possessed her.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: May 20, 2012, 07:54:23 PM »
I, too, have mixed feelings about the scene, mixing drama with comedy, of Roger abandoning his son and family with no feeling of remorse.  It was truly moving, especially seeing little David standing with tears in the doorway watching him leave.  Added to the emotion was seeing Barnabas' reaction which was filled with equal pain and compassion for that child for whom he had become so attached.

At first, I thought we should have seen more interaction between David and Barnabas that would have created that emotional bond between them, but it hit me (duh) that the murder of Barnabas' parents, which drove him mad, already served that purpose.

It helped that while discussing the movie, Nicky pointed out that Roger fits in with Burton's recurring theme of the bad or distant father.  Taking that a step further, how often did Burton show the devastating impact of a father's death (Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood [with Bela Lugosi as the imperfect father figure])?  And while Barnabas didn't follow his first instinct to kill Roger, he gave him a choice, so it was Roger who ultimately left David without a father, leaving Barnabas essentially blameless.

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