Burton and Depp keep on Burtoning and Depping in...Dark Shadows!

If Big Fish hadn't finished Spaulding the fudderwacken would have.

(sorry couldn't resist, hate myself)

this looks fun!

^ gets it

for a horrifying instant I thought you guys were still talking about the fudderwacken

grr Burton's Alice in Wonderland just makes me ANGRY

I got over the Depp/Bonham-Carter/Burton triangle a long time ago (I think the last thing I saw was Willy Wonka), but this looks positively awesome. Will see!

I hear Burton was going to remake Charlie's Angels with dead corpse ladies that shoot tiger claws from their anuses when they laugh but then he decided instead to save the world by Destroying Alice in Wonderland and leaving the charming spot it once occupied in the collective mind with a substance fouler than any the universe has ever knowed

that trailer sucked, all the jokes had a real HAHAHA RAP LYRICS BUT LIKE ALL STODGY AND PROPER ENGLISH AND SHIT THANKS FOR THE EMAIL FORWARD DAD vibe to 'em

thanks to how I have my web browser sized, I am going to be haunted by the phrase "DAD vibe" for the rest of the day

just DAD vibin to DJP's dad over here nbd

this will probably be cheesy and awful but I'm inclined to give it a chance since the source material really wasn't that great (unlike Burton's other depp abominations, charlie and the chocolate factory and alice in wonderland) to begin with.

as for mirror, mirror: I think taht will be good. I like Tarsem. It's certainly more promising than the other Snow White movie which would have me believe that Kristin Stewart is prettier than Charlize Theron.

Man...if Mirror, Mirror looks good to you, it's probably long past time for your cataract checkup.

when did you guys start hating fun so much

get bent, hating fun since 1976

they actually did the character from the past being bemused by television joke

Man...if Mirror, Mirror looks good to you, it's probably long past time for your cataract checkup.

I have a 5 1/2 year old so it looks good in that context (ie: movie I can take him to and not want to cut my head off)

they actually did the character from the past being bemused by television joke

what is this, some encino man shit? unfrozen caveman lawyer? but with vampires?

i dunno, maybe it'll be good and just has a lousy trailer. wouldn't be the first time. but like i said, the "dude from the past cannot comprehend our modern doodads" humor is plaaaaaaayed and seemed really stale to me.

at least the good thing about it being set in the '70s is there won't be any iphone joeks.

i agree with all the criticisms here but i still think j dog looks kinda hilarious

I saw and enjoyed Ultraviolet in the theaters, I have no real basis to object to anything resembling this movie

which will be worse, this or The Lone Ranger?

You guys took his version of AIW way too seriously, if has destroyed the original story for you.

On the one hand, I agree with you
On the other hand, did you not actually watch the fudderwacken

on the one hand stfu

xpost

I don't think I take it *too seriously*

But honestly how do you take a children's story that has been successfully adapted many times including a version that featured Carol goddamn Channing, and then turn into a stultifying heroin goth navelgaze

with a bloody FUDDERWACKEN

... was that a continuation of the rhetorical question or an answer

lol I'm tired

you shut up too :)

it's an answer, clearly

Carol goddamn Channing was great in that adaptation btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MLwPW86Rs

^^^OTM

def one of the better adaptations

this looks fun! stupid, silly, but potentially entertaining, and i do love johnny depp, so sign me up. i'm kind of a burton apologist, though. i find even his worst films sort of "diverting" or at least generically "watchable". i'm a sucker for elaborate production design, gothic atmosphere, eye candy in general, and at the very least, he knows how to keep things moving colorfully along.

through a distended poop chute

I would be more inclined to watch this if it starred Depp and Carol Channing.

the comic timing on this looks really sharp. thats most of the battle there. "dude from the past cannot comprehend our modern doodads" humor still works for me tbh. i'm much cooler with stale 70s pop culture jokes than i am with the fucking fudderwaken. and pfeiffer, hbc and green all look like they're havin some fun. peace

man see u

Most times, I'd rather watch stupid fun than some serious brooding bs.

Also, the 1972 date made me think of "Dracula AD 1972"

shit this movie looks pretty fun

xxpost I was not besmirching Carol in that AIW adaptation, it's near and dear to my heart!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs

Between that and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-UMlJhgQbY

Carol Channing scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

I loved her, but she was def weird as a kid growing up in the 80's

from best to worst:

Beetlejuice
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Big Fish
Mars Attacks
Batman Returns
Sleepy Hollow
Batman
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Sweeney Todd
Planet of the Apes

obviously you can kind of imagine how I'd describe his overall career trajectory.
i'm not much of a burton fan, but surprisingly it's really only the last five on that list that i pointedly never want to see again. i kind of liked big fish.

I'd put Sweeney in top 10 but otherwise I pretty much agree

i'd switch alice and apes around, and put batman returns a few spots higher

i dunno alice had the worst shit of his career but also some nice stuff in it. apes was just bad bad bad bad.

I'm too afraid to even see Apes.