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Current Talk '24 I / Re: (**NEW Photos In The April Vanity Fair! Reply #2376**) Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Production
« on: March 03, 2012, 10:09:18 PM »the responses are resoundingly, overpoweringly negative. what i have found most disturbing, heartbreaking even, about this film is how much "fans" want NOT to like it. HATE it in fact. it's taken on a life of it's own. it's an unstoppable lynch mob. it's scary and gross.
EVERYTHING is subjected to the same relentless nitpicking. first it was the pallor. then it was fingernails. for a few days it was sunglasses. now it's these new images.
Quite sadly though, as I've said before, this isn't a new phenomenon in fandom. We saw it to practically the same degree with the '91 Series and to a lesser degree with the '04 pilot. And probably the only reasons that it was to a lesser degree with the pilot was because with the pilot it was announced in late December '03 and by mid-May '04 we knew it wasn't going forward. But with the '91 Series it was announced in January '90 and didn't debut until January '91, so there was a full year of seemingly endless and often outrageously irrational complaints as actors were cast and photos trickled out. And though there were complimentary remarks being made as well, they were quite often drowned out by the complaints and the criticisms of the people who found things to compliment.
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what the hell do these people want? a line for line rehash of the original?
It's funny that you ask that because it's quite often the people who profess that they don't want to see a complete rehash who then complain the loudest about the least little things that get changed. There's really no possible way to win with them.
68 days 6 hours 50 minutes 42 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!