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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Dom Cruise said:
Really? I don't remember that one getting a good reception at all, although the trailer did have a few funny moments.
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I will preface my comments by pointing out that I had never seen nor have any fondness for the original tv series.

Dark Shadows works, in my opinion, because it goes back to Burton's roots of blending the mundane with the fantastical. The characters all live in the real world. They're all normal people*. The only real fantastic elements are Depp and Green's characters, and even both of them are played pretty straight. Dark Shadows is essentially Burton doing what Burton does best, but without any of the excesses of his modern films. Its not a modern classic, but its also not another Dumbo or Alice in Wonderland trainwreck.

Also I want to fuck Eva Green.


*a notable exception being Helena Bonham Carter, who is retarded, per usual.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
Dark Shadows works, in my opinion, because it goes back to Burton's roots of blending the mundane with the fantastical. The characters all live in the real world. They're all normal people*. The only real fantastic elements are Depp and Green's characters, and even both of them are played pretty straight. Dark Shadows is essentially Burton doing what Burton does best, but without any of the excesses of his modern films. Its not a modern classic, but its also not another Dumbo or Alice in Wonderland trainwreck.
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I haven't seen it since it was in theaters, but I just remember it not being particularly interesting, and heavily reliant on the fish out of water element. I didn't hate it, but i don't think I was all that impressed. I think my initial response to it was that it was "tolerable". I don't remember it having much of a story beyond Barnabas Collins coming back to life in the '60s, either. I'm sure I liked it more than Alice in Wonderland, but was it really anywhere near the level of his early films?

I still find the fact that there's an enduring fanbase for the 60s soap opera, but not the Tim Burton blockbuster to be funny.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
I will preface my comments by pointing out that I had never seen nor have any fondness for the original tv series.

Dark Shadows works, in my opinion, because it goes back to Burton's roots of blending the mundane with the fantastical. The characters all live in the real world. They're all normal people*. The only real fantastic elements are Depp and Green's characters, and even both of them are played pretty straight. Dark Shadows is essentially Burton doing what Burton does best, but without any of the excesses of his modern films. Its not a modern classic, but its also not another Dumbo or Alice in Wonderland trainwreck.

Also I want to fuck Eva Green.


*a notable exception being Helena Bonham Carter, who is retarded, per usual.
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I know very little and have never seen the original TV series either, but from what I understand the TV series played it straight while the movie is a comedy, which a lot of TV to movie adaptions do.

But it does seem like an odd fit for something gothic and spooky to not play straight.

To be fair contrasting a gothic vampire guy with the 1970s is pretty funny, maybe I should watch it one day.
 
Dom Cruise said:
But Big Eyes just isn't that interesting.
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Someone in a Tree said:
Yeah, I saw Big Eyes and it was a profoundly disappointing experience
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It's not great but it's Burton doing something different like so many people told him to.
Both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland are worse and yet, they were hits (AiW made over $1 billion, Burton's most successful movie and it might be his worst).
If people are going to reward him for making cash grab remakes and adaptations then that's what he's going to do.
 
Idiotron said:
It's not great but it's Burton doing something different like so many people told him to.
Both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland are worse and yet, they were hits (AiW made over $1 billion, Burton's most successful movie and it might be his worst).
If people are going to reward him for making cash grab remakes and adaptations then that's what he's going to do.
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After The Force Awakens, people wanted something different than a retread of Empire Strikes Back for the next movie.
Just cause people want "something different" doesn't mean they don't expect a certain amount of quality and will just enjoy anything, merely cause it's "different".
 
This new format has potential.
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Comicsgeist said:
Isn't that the point though? There's not a lot of humor to be mined from reasonable criteria, scrambling around for a rape-gun-dystopia movie however...
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Each criteria was way too specific. For one thing, rape is not going to be shown on a movie cover for obvious reasons as these things were displayed in video stores. It should have been "displayed/mentioned on the back."

For a game like this, you want the categories to be broad for the intersections to even be possible and use a bit of common sense.

i.e. "Kill or death in title" is perfect. Painted cover is perfect. "Clown holding a banana cream pie in one hand and a knife in the other" is too specific for the randomization to work.

You know... in case any of you here want to play this game with your own collections (and you know who you are...)

Hm. Now I kind of want to create my own scavenger hunt criteria...
 
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