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big ed wood fan since the '50's!!! watched his films on tv a hundred times!!! have them all and his bio book too. wish they would have reinserted the deleted scenes back into the movie for this edition. i actually shed tears(quietly!!!)watching it with my girl at the time. i was also a huge bela fan, and saw all his films. landaus' performance was incredible!!! all the "stars" of the original "plan 9" were very well known to me , having grown up in the '50's my girl, though, she knew nothing about him or his movies, so she didn't get why i was having such a strong reaction. (she was much younger than me)
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Viewed when released in movie theaters. Very entertaining. Everyone in cast was great. Never see it shown on tv and wanted to view again. Holds up. Still a very good movie. Glad I purchased so can watch again.
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If you've seen "worst movie director of all time," Ed Wood's, "Glen or Glenda" (1953), "Bride of the Monster" (1955), or "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959), you'll doubtlessly agree with Wood's critics: Wood's movies are such calamities that they're now enjoyed as camp films! Fortunately & much to his credit, director Tim Burton used a great cast of character actors to make an insightful, sensitive motion picture about the over-ambitious, gender-ambiguous master of Hollywood flops, Edward D. Wood, Jr. (Johnny Depp). [Aside: when does Johnny Depp have time off set to sleep?] Depp is fast becoming my all time favorite actor. Some 50 plus years after his monstrosities were produced, why are we still watching Wood's films? is a question that "Ed Wood" strives to answer. Chronicling events of the 1950's through productions of the aforementioned, Tim Burton's biopic achieves what's unseeming: his audience empathizes with Ed Wood. Alternating between sensitive & humorous, Burton's masterpiece sides with Wood & Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau). The strangest caricatures crop up: Tor Johnson (George 'The Animal' Steele), a near hirsute; Bunny Breckinridge (Bill Murray) all but a transsexual; Vampira (Lisa Marie), an over-busty faux vampiress; Criswell (Jeffrey Jones) an infamous soothsayer & Orson Welles (Vincent D'Onofrio) who is besieged. In short, an atypical variety of avante garde 'fringe outcasts'. Regardless of how strange it seems, "Ed Wood" is a true classic that will be legendary. With it's wry humor & stirs of sympathy, the movie literally moves human emotions from one extreme to another. That's inevitable since the true story of Ed Wood's early 'career' is stranger than science fiction. Burton elected to profile Wood when he was making both under-funded disasters, "Glen or Glenda" (1953) & "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959). Martin Landau definitively earned an Oscar for Best Supporting actor for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi. His riveting characterization of Lugosi as Wood's friend, the star of his mishaps & a has-been, drug-addict stands among the best in film history. Johnny Depp delivers a riveting performance of Wood as a charismatic figure who inspired his socially exiled company of peers. Ironically, Burton's "Ed Wood" celebrates awful movie-making. Depp goes well beyond his Pirate Jack Sparrow character to convey Wood's transvestism, cross-dressed in women's pumps, tight skirts & angora sweaters. Thus, Depp achieves a gathering of audience empathy for Wood as the penultimate outsider. I'll save the ultimate irony for this film itself becoming one of the all time best loved~Read full review
Terrifically entertaining, loving hommage to old hollywood. Landau won the Oscar and he is wonderful.
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It has Johnny depp in it. It is about a real person. Johnny always does such a great job in these kind of movies.
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