I won't be seeing Dark Shadows in the theater.

I never saw the original Dark Shadows television show, but considering the fact that it was a soap opera, I was assuming Tim Burton's movie adaptation starring Johnny Depp would be primarily a drama.

When these four beautiful shots from the movie were released, they made me want to see the movie. Enough that I thought seeing the movie in the theater might actually be worth the insane cost of ticket prices. Don't these seem like images from a beautiful looking gothic drama?

I'm fascinated by the colors and composition of these pictures. The more I looked at these shots, the more I wanted to see the movie.

Then they released the first trailer. What the hell was that? The movie is a comedy? I might not have been so bothered either if it wasn't such stupid humor. I was incredibly disappointed, and I no longer had the urge to see Dark Shadows.

I was explaining this to someone, and I wanted to show them the beautiful pictures I saw. The ones I've now posted above. At the time, I couldn't find them though. Finally, I found the article I originally saw them in, but they weren't there. In their place was an update saying they were removed at the request of the movie studio. Those were the pictures that made me want to see the movie, and for whatever reason, the studio didn't want people seeing them? I didn't understand that at all. What they should have done is left those pictures up, but tried to keep people from seeing that terrible trailer.

I ended up finding the pictures still up on ScreenCrave. When I saw them again, all I could think was "I want to see the movie those shots are from, not the movie that the trailer is for," as if they were two different movies. I wish they were.

Dark Shadows came out today, but I won't be seeing it in the theater. I will check it out when it has been released on DVD, mostly to see Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloë Grace Moretz play mother and daughter.