How can these guys go on-and-on about being childhood fans of the original, and then make a film like this? None of it makes sense. I can understand adding a little humor to the storyline, but that is the most-used description we have heard from all of the stars -- funny, funny, funny. Have any of them used descriptors like "scarey?" "suspensful?" "romantic?" "terrifying?"
Back in April I posted this reply after Eva Green first described the film as a "black comedy":
Well, IF it is a black comedy, it's a scary and bloody black comedy that's also a relationship story with touches of the poetic.
It was based on many of the descriptions we'd gotten of the film up to that point. And one thing that we shouldn't forget is that by definition a "black comedy" is a type of drama, not a comedy per se.
I also laugh a lot when watching the show and that's part of the reason I love it so much, it's so much fun to watch!
Yes. I find it hard to imagine that someone couldn't laugh at some of the mocking and insulting and jibing inherent in the dialogue as well as the outright absurdity in some of the situations. But that in no way means that one can't also take what's happening seriously.
Not going to read the trailer description myself as I don't want my impression colored by some one else.
The person who posted doesn't really even describe the trailer. From what I read it's mostly impression and flashes. (Though I do have to say that I love the line he/she says Barnabas utters when he's first released.) And as you say, everyone's taste in humor is different, and humor can also be subjective, so what one person sees as humorous may not even strike someone else as funny.
Something to possibly keep in mind, though, is that we may never see that trailer. In the posts that I read from him/her, he/she didn't say if he/she was asked questions about the trailer after viewing it, but one would presume that considering that he/she saw the trailer while taking part in a marketing survey, questions like what you thought about the trailer and would it make you want to see the film would be asked. I mean, why else include it? And if the trailer doesn't get a good response, it may never even be used in the marketing campaign for the film.
And there's also something else to possibly keep in mind, and that's that the trailer that person saw may not be the only DS trailer that's part of the marketing survey. It may actually show two or more different DS trailers at random to see which gets the best response. For a time back in the '90s Entertainment Weekly used to send a friend and I e-mail requests to take marketing surveys. (Ah, for the good ole days when EW used to mail some subscribers VHS tapes of trailers and screener copies of new TV shows.) And I remember from that experience that we didn't always see the same versions of trailers. I know I definitely saw trailers as parts of those surveys that I never saw again. But then, I wasn't in every theater at every showing of every film, so it's hard to know which trailers never saw the light of day apart from the surveys and which I simply never happened to be in the right place at the right time to see again...
88 days 8 hours 49 minutes 22 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!