Dark Shadows

I chose this particular movie because I watched it last night and thought that it'd be a good movie to do a blog on since it was so interesting and weird like most Tim Burton movies. Here is the trailer for the movie.

The movie is based on a man named Barnabas whose parents were killed, so Barnabas started to fool around with black magic and that junk. He started to fool around with a witch who fell in love with Barnabas. When Barnabas left the witch to be with his true love the witch decided to put her under a spell and have her jump off a cliff into rocks to die. Barnabas jumped down after her once his heart was broken, and that's when the witch turned him into a vampire. The witch ended up having the towns people bury him alive. Barnabas was buried for two centuries from 1752 to 1972. When Barnabas was alive he was a rich, powerful and successful man, but when he rose again all that he worked so hard for was gone with his family not having money anymore, so Barnabas's new mission was to regain all which he had lost. 

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have worked together in many movies such as Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, Alice In Wonderland, and now Dark Shadows. The movies that Tim Burton does are I would like to say dark type of movies, and the movies are quite strange, but you can always tell if it's a Tim Burton movie just by the way that the people look, and speak. Dark Shadows is quite similar to all the other movies Tim Burton has produced. Most of his movies have a love that usually involves some type of death that gets in the way.

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton movies.

This movie isn't very important to the culture of movies, and if you ask me it's one of the worst films that Tim Burton has produced, but Dark Shadows really show's how times can change through the centuries. The movies target audience would be the more of 25+ older males and females. The movie is really sexual which I found kind of awkward if you took your kids to see it.

This movies strengths were how it was produced well, had a great cast, good plot, and was interesting. The weaknesses that this movie had was that it was awkwardly sexual, kinda slow, and most people can't take vampire movies too seriously ever since the Twilights were made. The critics rated this movie 3 out of 5 stars which means it's an average movie that could be forgotten within a week, but they also had some mixed reviews some liked it and others didn't. Here's a link to see how the critics thought about this movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077368/criticreviews ; More reviews.

I enjoy most of Tim Burton's movies I have plenty at home, and I think when this movie comes out I'll buy it to add to my Tim Burton collection I already have. My friends and family would think the same way I thought about this movie which is that it was a decent movie with some good twists but not an award winner. I learned that the critics thought about the same about this movie as I did. 

Dr. Pepper's not for women.

If you've ever watched the Dr. Pepper commercial about how it has 10 manly calories, and how isn't for women. Maybe you thought like me by saying I bet that pissed some girls off. Some may find it really sexist to both male and females. It's sexist to women for the obvious reasons, but for men it could show how men need to be "macho-men" instead of looking "girly". 


In the ad Dr. Pepper starts it out by being in a action type film which stereo typically makes sense since most women don't like action films. None of the actors in the ad are familiar to me, but the ad is only 30 seconds long so it doesn't have the chance to really show too many people. Dr. Pepper has also gone above and beyond with their ten man'ments. http://blog.americansoda.co.uk/2011/09/dr-pepper-issue-the-ten-manments-broken-any-men/#.T7lG7utrN1U


The approach that Dr. Pepper is trying to give a hidden-fear. They use the hidden-fear technique because men do no want to be "unmanly" which I'm sure is working for Dr. Pepper.



This is the same thing that other soda companies are doing to make their diet soda more appealing to male consumer, but no other company has been more blunt about it the way Dr. Pepper has. The target audience that Dr. Pepper is trying to reach are obviously men, and it should not take a rocket scientist to figure that one out, but the commercial does include a stereotype that men have to "macho-men" like i previously stated.


There are many strengths and weaknesses that this ad has.Some of the strengths may include higher sales to men, also the ad is funny so Dr. Pepper can get quite a few likes on facebook which in turn will put their ad out more so more people can watch it. The weaknesses on the other hand far out weight the strengths. The weaknesses could include a bad reputation, less sales to women, people just stop drinking Dr. Pepper because they find it sexist. If someone were to ask me if I would consider this ad to be memorable? I would say hell yeah it is! This is a great ad, and people won't forget about for a long time. This ad most definitely worked. I myself have bought some of the Dr. Pepper ten just so I could be a "macho-man" like the guys in the commercial, and also Dr. Pepper reached their target audience. 


I learned that this is a great ad that worked in favor of Dr. Pepper no matter what some people may say about it. I think t


hat Dr. Peppers sales rose but don't quote me on that. Here's the commercial I have been talking about.