So yesterday we drove downtown, found the parking garage, rode down the elevator, then up the escalator to the Cobb Plaza Cinema 12 with full dining menu and two wine bars. Very classy. Luxury amenities everywhere. The theater we were in had big leather chairs with room to hold food and drink. They rock! No seriously, the seats rock. Back and forth. And so big that Dave and I could have sat together in the same seat. But we didn't.
The only problem was...what to see? Before you scoff, it was a choice between The Dictator (too much,) Chernobyl Diaries (too heavy) and what we saw...Dark Shadows. We thought, at the least, it would be visually elaborate what with the pairing once again of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. And it was. But also ridiculous...from start to finish.
I read that Burton and Depp promised the fans of the original American Gothic TV soap opera that ran from 1966 to 1971, that they would not trash the memory. They clearly broke the promise.
This was one long, weird, expensive joke.
Some memorable lines.....
Are you stoned or something?
They tried stoning me, my dear. It didn't work.
Depp - on seeing TV for the first time and ripping it from the wall: Reveal yourself tiny songstress.
And my favorite line in the movie:
How soon will the horses be ready? We don't have horses...we have a Chevy.
Don't get me wrong, we had fun. And, no, we didn't stop at any wine bars or buy a bucket of beer while watching the movie. But all that's available.
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