New Moon Movie - Your Thoughts?

wdwannabe · Post by **wdwannabe** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 11:17 am

I liked Dark Shadows...... The only thing, they took it off the air before they showed the ending, did Barnabus get the stake? Or is he still alive? (btw, I saw this in reruns many moons ago)

Cool, Johnny Deep as Barnabas, could be a good thing. He was creepy as Willy Wonka.....

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 11:20 am

Mousekedude wrote: I mean, come on! A half-dead, blood-sucking, moody bad boy is what a teenage girl should aspire to have for a boyfriend?! Oh, yeah...

It's one of those relationship that literally SUCKS!!!!

Couldn't help that bad pun.

SWHorn · Post by **SWHorn** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 12:53 pm

Did anyone see it who read (and liked) the books? I thought the first film was okay for what it is.

I haven't seen New Moon yet, because I want to avoid the teenage crowds as much as possible (and I don't have a babysitter

).

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 12:59 pm

You have a babysitter. Make that woman standing next to you watch the baby!! Show her who's boss!

You may want to buy a really comfy couch first!

SWHorn · Post by **SWHorn** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 1:13 pm

Haha. But, I am the woman standing in the picture.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 1:19 pm

OH BOY!!! I now will try the amazing "feet" of removing both of my feet out of my mouth at the same time. Don't worry anyone, I'VE HAD TO DO THIS BEFORE!!

mia culpa!!

Sorry mam!!! I mean young lady! I mean...I'll stop now!!

SWHorn · Post by **SWHorn** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 1:24 pm

Hahaha. Good times. And don't worry, I don't mind. It's not a womanly name. And most girls don't like football like I do. So, you're off the hook.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 1:27 pm

Thank you!!!! ;+>

PS My DW LOVES football. She's a big GATOR fan!!

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 2:02 pm

She got you good, Jacca5660!!!! As Brer Rabbit would say, "I never said it was your laughing place, it's mine and I'm laughin'!" And I'm laughin'...

wdwannabe wrote:I liked Dark Shadows...... The only thing, they took it off the air before they showed the ending, did Barnabus get the stake? Or is he still alive? (btw, I saw this in reruns many moons ago)

The show ended off with a happy ending for the Collins family and Barnabas did not get staked.

elizabethswann · Post by **elizabethswann** » Nov Tue 24, 2009 3:48 pm

Dark Shadows? Is this a decent enough book for me to check out? I have so many books to read and I keep slacking on it..

agingerbugg · Post by **agingerbugg** » Nov Fri 27, 2009 8:40 am

Dark Shadows was a soap in the sixties. Great show, really campy. There is a pilot for a new series that WB has been sitting on since 2004. I hope the movie is a little tongue-in-cheek, and being Tim Burton, it very well could be. I don't know if I like the idea of Depp playing Barnabas though, I could see someone like Sir Anthony Hopkins doing a good Barnabas.

I named my parent's dog Barnabas Collins.

As for the topic at hand, I can't say what I thought of New Moon on here, but I will say it is crap. I have seen better acting and dialogue on daytime TV.

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » Nov Fri 27, 2009 10:08 am

To quote Dennis Miller "I don't want to go off on a rant here....." (and, Jacca, I'm going to borrow the soap box) but I saw a segment on the news last week about this movie and middle aged women were going gaga over the two young men in the movie. One of which is seventeen. 17! Now, let's flip the scenario...... if there were a movie with two young ladies in it and one was seventeen and middle aged men were on TV telling the reporter how hot she was, there would be some questions about those men and how disgusting and perverted they are. Apparently it's OK for women to do this.....but I digress.....

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Nov Fri 27, 2009 10:27 am

I knew Florida Panthers where a protected species. I didn't realize that Cougars where protected also!

Josh Q · Post by **Josh Q** » Nov Mon 30, 2009 4:46 pm

I went to the movies this weekend and was like WHAT THE!?! New Moon has only been out for a few weeks and there are already posters up for Eclipse the next Twilight Movie. *shakes head* "sigh"

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Nov Mon 30, 2009 7:01 pm

agingerbugg wrote:I don't know if I like the idea of Depp playing Barnabas though, I could see someone like Sir Anthony Hopkins doing a good Barnabas.

I can't say Hopkins would be good in the role - he's far too old! I agree the original was campy - hey, it did it's best for being a 1960's day-time soap! I don't think they could do better today with the same budget. One thing that impressed me about the original: none of the soundtrack was borrowed out of a studio library - Robert Cobert composed all of the music for the original series specifically for the show. Given the hours and hours of cues recorded, Dark Shadows probably has more hours of original soundtrack music than most other TV series to date.

As for the movie - I could see Tim Burton doing it - he loves that era as source material. I can see Depp playing Barnabas - he's done Captain Jack, Sweeney Todd, and Willy Wonka - I think he's diverse enough to do Barnabas Collins.

BTW NBC did a revival series some years back starring Ben Cross, Joanna Going, and Adrian Paul. It only lasted for one year.

Now back to the rants (and raves, if any?) for New Moon...