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Summary: Don't see this is as a horror film
Review: Very, very good film indeed. The story opens up immediately and it has 'got' you till the end. The scenes are all very dark and misty and that adds to a good atmosphere throughout the whole film. It certainly has got some scary moments in it, but I think this film wasn't made to scare you. It's more like a 'thriller-James Bond' In some of the scenes, Johnny Depp is acting so dumb, you'll have to laugh about it and you'll lose some of the tense. BUT, despite that, a very good film you must see.
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Summary: A real masterpiece.
Review: This is without a doubt one of Tim Burton's best movies I've always loved his gothic vision he has such an imagination that it's incredible at what you are seeing I think that the witch was not made so scary because he had in mind a PG-13 movie not a R movie and also some other scenes. Sleepy Hollow won't dissapoint you it has great sets, great actors, a good story, incredible action scenes with the headless horseman, every single frame is like a painting so detailed so well done and the soundtrack by Danny Elfman who is known for working with Burton (Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Return, The Nightmare Before Christmas, etc.) I really hope more movies like this come and less like Mars Attacks something really nice would be a sequel to Beetlejuice imagine with the special effects that are available now wao! I hope Planet Of The Apes which I think will be his next project has that gothic look.
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Summary: The most beautiful horror ever.
Review: Sleepy Hollow is one of the most entertaining films in a long time. It is funny, scary, exciting and a visual masterpiece. The cast are all great especially Johnny Depp who is fantastic as the nervous detective, though one of the (unbilled)stars is slightly wasted - you'll know who I mean if you watch it. The most impressive thing about the film is its visual look. You can tell that every single frame was carefully planned and the special effects are fantastic. The executions/beheadings are gory but highly stylised (have you ever seen a head spin round twice before it falls off! ). Not the best Tim Burton film, but certainly a welcome return to his gothic sensabilities after the kitch of Mars Attacks. This is a lot of fun and well worth a look.
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Summary: absolutely beautiful
Review: this is the most beautiful film i have seen, and probably will see for a long time to come. each frame is worthy of being blown up and displayed in an art museum. the production design is simply amazing. who cares about the script; some films are made to aesthetically please. what a treat for the eye and the soul.
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Summary: Watch your head!
Review: Based on Washington Irving's novel, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", it tells a story about a man sent to investigate a series of unusual murders where the victims' heads were never found.I must warn you that the killings are graphic. You get to see the headless horeman's sword make contact with the victim's neck, followed by the head falling off. When the horseman picks up the head with his sword, you see the sword go through the severed head... In cartoons and other movies, the headless horseman is often associated with a jack-o-lantern (as if it's his head or something). In this movie, the horseman never once carried a jack-o-latern. There is a scene where we see the horseman carry a jack-o-lantern, but it turns out to be one of the villagers dressing up as the horseman to scare Johnny Depp... Speaking of Johnny Depp, he is great in this movie. He is very funny in some of the scenes he's in (e.g. everytime he inspects a dead body, blood would splatter on his face, etc.). This movie is filled with great acting, and great special effects! Tim Burton did a good job of getting Washington Irving's masterpiece into the big screen. This is one of the great movies where the film makers followed the novel as close as they can without changing it. In addition to Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (both great movies), this is one I strongly recommend!
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Summary: WELCOME TO THE HOLLOW
Review: In adapting Washington Irving's classic tale for the masses, famous eccentric Tim Burton decided to make an old-fashioned horror pic, lovingly recreating the style of the legendary Hammer Horror films... and it's fabulous! The story has been changed about quite a bit, most notably the changing of Ichabod Crane from a schoolteacher to an early forensics detective, dispatched to Sleepy Hollow by his superior (a brief but welcome cameo from Christopher Lee) to investigate a series of decapitations which the locals believe is the work of a ghost, a Headless Horseman. Tim Burton's film is visually mind-boggling, with a bleached look and wonderful settings, which effectively conjure up a dark past. As Crane, Johnny Depp is great fun, capturing the essence of the character perfectly. Christopher Walken excels as a wonderfully scary Horseman, and Christina Ricci as the love interest has her most glamorous role to date, and is as mysterious and alluring as she needs to be. As for the rest of the cast, a hodge-podge of Burton veterans and renowned British performers, they get to chew on the miraculous scenery on display and flesh out the background in fine style. If there are any faults, then the look, storyline (which is surprisingly good for a modern horror film), and cast more than make up for it. This is Tim Burton's world - and we should be grateful to spend a couple of hours in it.
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Summary: great art desing
Review: The plot of this film was I think nothing more than a 12 page script ,but the atmosphere of the movie was supirior to what I have seen before or a long time. The sets are very well made and new, the art desing was wonderful,. so hey watch this movie for the art not the plot.also the acting was very good, I am telling you it was only the script , it was too complex not well developed.
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Summary: COOL!
Review: I usually can't stand horror films,but I loved this! It was exciting,a little funny,suspenseful,and had a great look to it.It was very authentic and awspiring.It's definately a must see!
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Summary: The sun shines but once!
Review: Okie! I had more than high expectations for this movie and usually that ends up with me finding the movie bad. BUT! This was great! The whole movie is dark and filled with lurking fog which gives a certain unsafe feeling. Depp is the more or less a comic releif, butterfingering his way to find this awful murderer. Can't say much more than you should see this, either at the cinema or with a powerdul soundsystem at home. Anything less would not give satisfaction enough! The only thing not so good was the computer animations... could definetly have been better...
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Summary: MISSING ONLY DALI
Review: We live in an insatiably visual age, where even the staunchest traditonal forms of dramatic narrative, from Shakespeare to opera, are routinely subjected to experimental conceptualization. More wonder then why beloved fairy tales, from the Grimms to Washington Irving, so inviting of flamboyance, are so often relegated in film - the medium of limitless visual resources - to Disney animations. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, we should rejoice, has escaped the net (well, almost: an animation vesion of little merit does exist) in Tim Burton's mad extravaganza with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, shamefully underrepresented at the 72nd Academy Awards. This has everything - good acting, bad acting, suspense, tedium, anarchy, convention, Brontean romance, literary dialogue - all wrapped in exquisite visuals as evocative as Hallowe'en pumpkins or Christmas wrapping paper. Much has been changed from Irving's Sketchbook classic. Ichabod Crane in no longer the cantankerous schoolmaster; instead, he is a New York constable despatched, like Sherlock Holmes, to investigate a spate of headless murders. The writing, both in dialogue and character-building, is immaculate, and immaculately read by the actors. Which is not to say we are in the territory of David Mamet or Eric Roth. This, of course, is the most absurd fantasy, balanced between nightmare and nonsense. Depp has never been better as the hero-wimp. Ricci is occasionally so school-playish in her speeches as to curl a toe or two ... But it doesn't matter. The bravura joie of the whole, the feeling of cinema flexing and stretching narrative without copping out to the checkbook shortcut of ILM, distinguishes this production and everyone involved in it and guarantees it a DVD shelflife of a century. Could it be better? I asked myself on second (or was it third?) viewing. Maybe. If Salvador Dali were alive and shared a bottle or two of Cabernet with Tim Burton ... Maybe. But only just.
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