@ Ea - Welcome my dear! It would be an insult to ask if you would like a shave so I won't even mention the "s" word. 
As much as I love Sleepy Hollow...the story of Sweeney Todd is much more compelling and Johnny's peformance is no less pleasant to watch even though he's not playing a squeamish detective.
I actually saw a clip of the 2005 Broadway Revivial of a "Little Priest" on YouTube, and I was actually suprised how much they played it with humour. But I think on film, having a full blown grimy London, people trying to survive and trying to pick a living in such a dire area, and it basically being a take of a man who has been locked up for 15 for something he didn't do.... having so much humour wouldn't quite work. In a way, when I first heard the 2005 soundtrack, I wished they had added a bit more humour, but thinking about it, it would lessen the impact of the ending, and we'd all be too wrapped up in the jolly-ness of it, we'd forget that it really is a dark drama and not a comedy.
The opening was AWESOME! You're right it was like CATCF. I've neve seen Ed Wood but I saw the opening credits, and that was good enough to rivial ST. A camera winding through graveyards and past tombs and dead trees with fog all around. TB is very creative when it comes to his opening titles. And the organ music playing over the WB sign... that had me hooked before the film even started.
@ PD - It is basically a story of human tragedy. Edward Scissorhands was also tragic but in a bittersweet way, this was... tragic but in fitting way, if that makes sense.
@ Ea - Sleepy Hollow was just fun! It was like you said a playground. "Let's take a horror story, have an unsual hero, add a bit of the supernatural... pretty girl....errmm" ... "and blood?" ... "Oh, yeah baby!"....
It's terrible in a way. I got the soundtrack today and I'm sad.  I can tell next time I watch it, I'm going to cry. Johnny singing his part of the "Johanna" song, he sings it so sweetly and with such feeling, it makes the words (especially about not seeing her again) so much more sad. *huggles Sweeney*
Apparently, all the blood in the film was coloured orange, because in the film process they would be saturating the films colour anyway, so it wouldn't matter.... the crew all wore plastic bin sacks when scenes involving flying blood were being filmed. 
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