Critically Evaluate the last movie you saw.

**mjmacky** · 05-14-2012, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by manker

I don't get the

thing.
Truth posted above.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insult
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-long
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enmity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preserve
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honor

**manker** · 05-14-2012, 12:19 AM

Doesn't help.

Perhaps it would if I hadn't seen the film

**mjmacky** · 05-14-2012, 12:33 AM

Originally Posted by manker

Doesn't help.

Perhaps it would if I hadn't seen the film

I haven't seen the film, but I have a feeling it would detract from the interpretation. You and your linear imagination.

**megabyteme** · 05-14-2012, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by mjmacky

Originally Posted by manker

I don't get the

thing.
Truth posted above.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insult
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-long
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enmity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preserve
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honor

Best. Explanation. Evar.

**mjmacky** · 05-14-2012, 01:22 AM

Originally Posted by megabyteme

Originally Posted by mjmacky

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insult
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-long
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enmity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preserve
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honor

Best. Explanation. Evar.

This plus my insinuation of linearity, I think I have turned to pure evil.

**Artemis** · 05-14-2012, 01:43 AM

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**Snee** · 05-14-2012, 05:23 PM

Dark Shadows

Johnny Depp as nobleman turned vampire, released after 200 years stuck in a coffin, sets out to restore his family to its former glory, and on the way there he struggles to fit into the modern world, as well as tangles with the witch who turned him vampire and put him in the grave.

I liked it.

That said, myself and everyone I watched it with agreed that while it was all right, it won't fit into anyone's top ten movies ever, ever.

I liked Depp's haughty-mentalist-meets-Jack-Sparrow performance as Barnabus Collins, as well those of other actors as several supporting characters, notably Chloë Grace Moretz as difficult teen Carolyn, Eva Green as the villain(ess) and Helena Bonham Carter as drunkard psychologist Dr Hoffman. They were all, on the surface, interesting characters. The problem was that they never really went anywhere, with regards to personal development. Now, I'm not saying people have to grow and develop just because things happen to them, and don't usually subscribe to the notion of that a round character is always better, but it was all a bit flat. The main problem, I believe, was that it all became a bit repetitive, as Barnabus kept the anachronisms coming, whilst Carolyn sneered.

I haven't watched the original show, so can't really compare it to that, but what it resembled most, to me, was something along the lines of an extended episode of the Addams Family, up until the ending. Which is to say that things happened, and they were occasionally funny, as well as dark, but they didn't leave that much of an impression. That is, it started going that way after the dust had settled from the initial arrival of the governess Maggie/Victoria and the release of Barnabus.

Another issue was that it's a bit uneven and random. There were things that were wholly unexpected and that I thought were Deus Ex Machinas, that fizzled out to nothing, as well as things so predictable I could see them coming miles away (the final few frames before the end credits were one of those).

All that said, I did enjoy it, and if you like the looks of the trailer at all, you should watch it. But do note that if you have seen the trailer, there won't be much by way of surprises.

**Artemis** · 05-14-2012, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by Snee

All that said, I did enjoy it, and if you like the looks of the trailer at all, you should watch it. But do note that if you have seen the trailer, there won't be much by way of surprises.

I have learned over the last couple of years to not watch Hollywood trailers, they are basically mini-films, taking the highlights of the movie and also the key plot lines and turning them into a 3 to 4 minute extended trailers.
A trailer used to be a teaser, 30-60 seconds long, disjointed in both imagery and plot, to pique the interest, a driving soundtrack (not the films ) and reediting of the footage for the trailer/teaser were part of the fun. Now even that art has gone, a trailer is a lazy compact version of the film and in some cases the film is no longer a surprise after seeing the trailer.
For the image overloaded,facebook generation this maybe perfectly acceptable in their little idiot cocoons, but it is something that I find greatly irritating. Such is the state of advertising these days, your goods must be fully on view......