The other thing that worries me is the brightness of this movie vs the dark gothic themes from both the graphic novel and the OG movie. I mean the OG was beautiful to watch and haunting at times, but here it seems like there is too much light.
As for too much time focusing on the two, i think that they can't pull off what they did in the OG where the tragedy has occurred and over the course of the movie we see snippets of Eric and Shelly lives together as Eric is on his quest to set things right before he is reunited.
Also did anyone else get the impression that they are making so that Eric needs to go through all this because something is going to happen to her soul? There is a part of the trailer where they show her underwater that gives me that impression and and if that is true i am not really a fan of it, again my bias towards the OG is acting up because at the ending where her soul comes to him once all is said and done really hit me in the feels.