I’m not a big Johnny Depp fan. Until his turn as Captain Jack in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies if there was a choice between watching a Depp movie or cleaning house, I’d almost always choose the house cleaning. Edward Sicissor Hands, Benny and Joon, Cry Baby, Fear and Loathing, you couldn’t get me to sit still to watch them. I saw him as Captain Jack in the first Pirates movie and I thought he was perfectly cast for the part though.

I couldn’t imagine anyone else playing the scattered pirate and he really played it well. It was a fairly believable act and one that has kind of made me a fan, but I still like to pick and choose which depp movies I watch. I also thought that casting him as the eccentric chocolateer in the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was good simply for the reason that he’s one of a few actors capable of pulling off the eccentricity of the roll of Wonka (though, Gene Wilder is still the one true Wonka).

I liked both of these rolls for Depp and I feel that they kind of brought him out of his shell a little bit. True, he’s always tended to play the odd character in his movies (you don’t see him in too many bruce willis type action movies) and when I saw the trailers for the Sweeny Todd movie thats coming out, it looked right up his alley. I did visit the official Sweeney Todd movie site to see more of the trailer and find out more about the film and I”m intrigued by it.

Its coming out this Christmas (though its obviously not a Christmas feel good movie) and while I may not go see it in the theater (I can’t even remember the last thing I saw IN a theater) I will probably catch it when it comes out on DVD. Depp’s character is consumed with the act of revenge for a life lost when a wealthy englishman sends him away forever and takes his wife and child as his own. Alan Rickman is at his best as the object of Todd’s revenge in this movie and Helena Bonham Carter looks to be good as Depp’s sidekick in this flick as well.

While I don’t know if its enough to get me to become a true fan of Depp, I did visit Sweeney Todd on MySpace to see if I could find out any more about the movie.

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