I can think of several directors I don't want anywhere near a SK adaptation and Tim Burton is in the top 5, if not the main one. He's a talented guy...when he's doing his own thing. He doesn't have a great track record when it comes to adapting established properties. His Planet of the apes was a travesty, and don't get me started on what he did to Dark Shadows. I vowed never again to pay to watch a Johnny Depp film after that one (let him pay for his own divorce; leave my money alone).
That last line -- ouch! Do you want JD to lose one of his Scottish castles?! I work with a girl who thinks Depp is all that & a Nutty Buddy, she would not be pleased. The Burton PotApes a travesty? Apparently Steffen, You're a gentleman. It deserves much stronger language than that. Luckily I am not similarly fettered.
What a reeking heap of monkey dung that was! How do you get so many things wrong? I guess you do it by being too afraid of offending anyone you don't adhere to any real point of view. As Ebert said in his review, "
The 1968 "Planet of the Apes" was made before irony became an insurance policy." Dreck I tells ya, Dreck!
I'll be a little kinder to
Dark Shadows. I actually liked it. It had it's moments. It struck me, Depp was several years older here than Jonathan Frid was in 1966, but somehow lacked his maturity. But if you look at the film as an homage (oh, how I love using 'h' as a vowel) to the old series, one that cost 100 times more to produce than all 1000-something original episodes combined, it kind of works. The
"stoned" joke from the trailer was a nice hook to get those crazy kids in the door.