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      <![CDATA[It wasn't ever thus, you guys--George, you can always content yourself with Ford and Fonda's YOUNG MR. LINCOLN.
        
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      <![CDATA[GJK, to be fair, the record for really strong movies about historical figures, ESPECIALLY TIMES A THOUSAND famous writers, is not particularly heartening. That said, the Vampire Hunter movie rubs me the wrong way, more because the director made Wanted which I loathed.<br>
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And the script for Dark Shadows was an absolute mess; people often say that about Burton-movie scripts and I don't agree, but that's definitely the case here.
        
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      <![CDATA[SLEEPY HOLLOW had some good action sequences, though, and Christina Ricci. Loved that movie, and I didn't like either BATMAN or his PLANET OF THE APES movie.
        
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      <![CDATA[The Depp performances are varied, sure, but he's essentially just picking new celebrities to subtly imitate, and new facial expressions to wear when breaking character to deliver one-liners...<br>
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Ok, I don't necessarily believe that 100%. But still.
        
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      <![CDATA[So I just watched Sweeney Todd again last night, and that is the crux of why I don't really get this "Burton and Depp exhausted their goodwill years ago" business. It's (to my eye) a gorgeous-looking movie; genuinely dark and respectful of its source material, far more serious than Burton's rep would suggest; and has a Depp performance that in no way resembles his work in Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... come to think of it, none those performances much resemble each other, so far as I can see.
        
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      <![CDATA[I will say that, if you have a higher tolerance for Burton and Depp's latter-day schtick (which has grown too self-indulgent to sustain a sensitive mood) and aesthetic (which looks like airbrushed ass) than I do--my review is pretty much about me exhausting my own personal level of tolerance for same--you will have, in the case of DARK SHADOWS, a bit of an out. Pinkerton's review in the Voice, which digs in rich detail at Seth Graeme-Smith's screenplay, points out that the schtick from whence the movie's lamest jokes come is recycled from his high-concept lit-historical-genre mashup novels, so there's *that*, anyway.
        
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