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Current Talk '13 I / Re: '90 Series Question
« on: June 17, 2013, 02:34:16 PM »
I agree that Pfeiffer was the best part of the Burton/Depp film. I have no interest in seeing the film itself ever again but I would enjoy seeing a reel of Pfeiffer and HBC's outtake scenes, if such were ever released (seems unlikely).
I thought Jean Simmons was utterly wasted in the 1990 redaction. She's a gifted actress and there could have been some wonderful moments for her, but with DC calling the shots, it became all about how much gore, fanging, and carnage they could get away with in each episode. DC would have loved the current era of HBO and other network serial killer dramas with all the loving slo-mo close-ups of manglings, stabbings, dismemberments, gougings etc.
Just my two drachmae.
G.
I thought Jean Simmons was utterly wasted in the 1990 redaction. She's a gifted actress and there could have been some wonderful moments for her, but with DC calling the shots, it became all about how much gore, fanging, and carnage they could get away with in each episode. DC would have loved the current era of HBO and other network serial killer dramas with all the loving slo-mo close-ups of manglings, stabbings, dismemberments, gougings etc.
Just my two drachmae.
G.