Dark Shadows
My Sweet Baboo kept grumbling about the new Dark Shadows movie.
He doesn't particularly care for Johnny Depp playing Barnabus Collins.
We talked about how when we were little kids and watched it on TV.
He had moved away when his father was transferred to the Philippines, and when he came back, he didn't know how it ended.
(Hard to believe we went to the same elementary school, and though he came back to the states a year or two later- he didn't come back to our town until high school.)
There had been reruns throughout the years and he caught up.
I don't remember all that much.
Not the first time around.
Just Barnabus, Quentin, Angelique, Maggie Evans, Victoria Winters, Dr. Hoffman, the Collins, Willie Loomis, and all that Warlock, Frankenstein, Werewolf, Time Travel stuff that seemed like they threw in everything but the kitchen sink.
He reminds me, though.
Well, he kept grumbling and growling, but he said he would take me to see the movie if I wanted to go see it.
And of course I did!
But I kept reading all these bad reviews about it- one critic even said they would have rather watched Twilight! ouch!!!
So- I really didn't know what to expect.
It was raining when we went- which meant my Fibro and RA acted up big time.
I went in walking like Frankenstein- but luckily the theater has those seats where you can push up the arm rests- so I pushed them up and laid out with my legs up- don't worry, I didn't put my feet on the seats. That would be uncouth.
Then, I put up the other arm rest so I could lay on my Sweet Baboo.
And I prepared for the worst.
But the worst never happened.
It gave all the background history at first and it was great!
Then, The Moody Blues' Justin Hayward started singing Nights in White Satin and I was never so happy.
Especially with my Sweet Baboo next to me.
And I loved the movie!
It was Dark Shadows!
Albeit, a re imagining, but Dark Shadows nonetheless.
It was a soap opera.
With melodrama.
Treachery.
Crazy monster sex.
Ghosts.
It was great!!!
Sweet Baboo and my son still grumbled about it- but I just loved it.
And the heartwarming part was when the four original actors came to the 'Happening.'
The original Barnabus, Quentin, Angelique and Maggie Evans/Josette.
If they had played that music box song (Josette's theme) I would have cried.
I don't understand the bad press.
At least Sweet Baboo and my son would not rather see Twilight.
I think there's an underground conspiracy to undermine the movie's success.
But Johnny Depp fans, Tim Burton fans, and Dark Shadows fans should have no problem with it.
I can't wait until it comes out on DVD!!! :-)
Since the movie, Sweet Baboo, who owns that original Dark Shadows soundtrack album from the 70's, has sent me the opening theme song, Josette's theme, and Quentin's theme- Shadows of the Night.
He's so monsterly romantic.
I feel like Morticia Addams.
Or Lily Muster.
Or Josette.
:-)