Hmmm... Rented this movie on DVD. Funny, but I think I enjoyed it more this time than I did the first, despite the fact that the big screen has such a far superior sound and projection system. For a movie like this, those aesthetics would seem paramount. Or perhaps not. Perhaps seeing it a smaller room, lights out, no boisterous crowds, with just a (relatively) little screen works all the better for driving the chills into the forgotten depths of the spine. Or maybe I was just in a more suitable mood.

Whatever the case, it was just really awesome. You just sit back, let the mind relax, and become slack jawed by the sheer visual beauty of Tim Burton's vision, swept away by Danny Elfman's haunting score, amused by Johny Depp's wacked out portrayal, bewitched by Christina Ricci's mystical presence, and all the while, the mind is being charmed and horrified into a trance-like state of cinematic bliss. And those dream/memory sequences.... To quote Keanu as Neo, "Woah!" (All the while, the intellectual center is attempting to grapple with possible Freudian implications.)

By the time the end credits rolled up, my mind was in an utter daze.

And now, in a totally off-topic-to-this-entry statement, Bitscape will proceed into the second portion of this two-for-the-price-of-one (thanks to the Blockbuster random coupon dispenser) double header. Craaaazy.