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Summary: Plan 9 is so bad that's it's good.
Review: If you loved the movie Ed Wood or love this genre then you must watch this film. It's not as bad as i was led to expect though.Tor Johnson is great as the police inspector and the amount of times the same scene changes between night and day is uncountable. Good fun though and alot better than Men In Black
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Summary: GET THE CORRECT VERSION OF THIS DVD!
Review: After reading many of the other Amazon.com reviews of the "Plan 9 From Outer Space" DVD, the consumer MUST be aware there are two different companies that are distributing this movie on DVD. The first is PASSPORT which, from all the other reviews seem to say, should be avoided. Apparently the company has their logo visible on screen the ENTIRE movie and featurette which follows. And they also don't even include a chapter index. The other company which distributes this movie is IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT. This is the version I have and THIS is the DVD to get of "Plan 9". (The cover of my version is the one Amazon.com has displayed in the picture above.) The picture quality is near perfect and the Dolby Digital Mono sound is excellent. And. . . .no annoying logo in the bottom corner of your screen. While the (seemingly) inferior PASSPORT version supposedly has a few interviews cobbled together from Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" press junket, the IMAGE version includes a 111 minute documentary which includes some of the stars of Plan 9 (including Vampira) as well as cult horror directors Sam Raimi and Joe Dante! It's two movies for the price of one! So unless you're a die-hard Johnny Depp fan and NEED to have a couple of clips of him speaking, the IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT DVD is the absolute one to purchase. I believe Amazon.com offers both so just beware. And if you're thinking of buying one from an on-line auction make sure you ask the person selling which version they have. I hope this helps.
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Summary: The Worst Film of all time? Yes! I mean no.....uh.....
Review: Is this the Worst Film of All Time? That's what you really want to know, is it? The answer is....it depends. If by "bad", you mean ludicrous special effects, non-existent continuity, wooden acting, and jaw-dropping dialogue ("Modern women. They've been that way down through the ages---especially in a mess like this!") then "Plan 9" certainly deserves the title of "Worst Film" more than any other movie made in the last century. If however, you mean a movie so boring, nauseating, or repellant that it becomes unwatchable, then "Plan 9" is not a bad film at all. ("Natural Born Killers" and "Caligula" better fit this category than Wood's gentle, albeit bizarre, films.) When it comes to sheer entertainment, "Plan 9" more than delivers if you're the type of person who likes to laugh at bad movies. There's always something on the screen that's at least amusing, and more often than not, hilarious. If watching airline pilots radioing the control tower with an ordinary telephone doesn't have you in stitches, Bela Lugosi's screen double (who doesn't look like him) will. There are many other films that are technically better made that I easily forget and don't want to see again. I never grow tired of watching this film, and it's always good for a hearty laugh. That's why I'm rating "Plan 9" 5 stars...because of the movie itself, not the weaknesses of the DVD release. This is the first DVD I've ever bought that didn't bother to print a chapter directory for the inside cover. And was it really necessary to display the logo in the lower right hand corner throughout the film? You can't make decent copies of DVDs, so it's unnecessary! Still, I liked the interview clips that they included, but if you want to learn more about Ed Wood's life, you might want to see a film like "Look Back In Angora" or read "The Nightmare of Ecstacy." I don't believe these disappointments are enough to not buy the DVD if you like the film, but if you think they are, don't hesitate to get the VHS tape. One last thing I'll comment on. It's a damn shame that Ed Wood didn't live to see the publication of "The Golden Turkeys" book by Michael Medved which proclaimed Wood the worst director of all time. Wood wouldn't have shrunk away in embarrassment, but would have been proud to baske in the spotlight for this dubious achievement, especially since many fans of his have since crawled out of the woodwork. But I'd like to think somewhere in heaven, Ed Wood is smiling because he's finally achieved cinema immortality...
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Summary: Preserved for posterity - an epic of incompetence
Review: No, "Plan 9" isn't the *worst* movie ever made; if it was, why would anyone want to SEE it, much less buy it? (Try on "Red Zone Cuba" and tell me it's better than this!) The charm of "Plan 9" is it's goofy, cheerful incompetence. Nowhere else will you see sheriffs (and their deputies) scratching their heads with their pistol barrels, or flying saucers that wobble so violently that their occupants must be jellied, or hear such inept dialogue ("There's one thing for certain, and that's that someone murdered the sheriff, and someone is responsible". And that's one of the *better* lines...) But the real reason to see this DVD is the "Flying Saucers Over Hollywood" - a gem in it's own right! The producers could EASILY have released this all on its own. A bargain - better pick this one up before they decide that it's too cheap, and split it into a 2 DVD set!
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Summary: The Worst But Not The Worst
Review: Plan nine is a great film in that it shows what the average joe is able to do. Ed Wood was a visionary and a dreamer, and you certainly can't be against the man for trying. It is the worst film made, but I enjoy it every time I watch it.
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Summary: The master at work- ed wood!
Review: By far the worst movie ever made! simply genius work by the best director of all time!
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Summary: DVD Version Could be a Disappointment
Review: The Passport Video version of this movie could be a disappointment to you, especially if you buy it for the advertised "Show #2 - The Ed Wood Story." Billed as a documentary, this "show" is just a collection of assorted brief interviews with Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Delores Fuller, Vampira, and others, clearly gathered about the time of the Ed Wood movie; it is _not_ a documentary in the sense of a narrative with continuity. Disappointing to me. Also in the disappointing department is packaging which has no inside printed information whatsoever--it's a generic case inside; also, as mentioned by others, the logo on screen throughout is a small nuisance (apparently Passport wanted to discourage others from copying this film for other uses); and, the picture quality--while not terrible--is certainly dark in places: I cannot see that you gain much in picture quality over the VHS versions at half the price. The above aside, the film is interesting and just as terrible/wonderful as its reputation. And, among the included interviews is one gem: Lugosi being interviewed upon being released from drug rehab, and declaring "I'm cured." Some of his best acting.
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Summary: Plan 9 Never Looked Better
Review: I'm not going to say anything about the movie PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Much has already been written. What I want to talk about is the dvd itself. It is the most stunning print of PLAN 9 I have ever seen. Yes, there are the ocassional speckles that many films have from this (and earlier) period - but the tonal range, sharpness, clarity of the audio - all are outstanding. It looks like the film was shot yesterday. As an added bonus - FLYING SAUCERS OVER HOLLYWOOD: THE PLAN 9 COMPANION - is offered complete on this dvd as well. This is a fascinating documentary on PLAN 9 and Wood, with many of Wood's associates and later film folk being interviewed.
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Summary: the legitimate version
Review: of the 2 dvd versions of this great cult classic,this is the one to get.image,the best dvd (in my opinion)manufacturers did this movie justice by not only putting the best possible print of plan 9 on this disc,but also included the wonderful documentary "flying saucers over hollywood,the plan 9 companion" and the original movie trailer--if you love this movie,get this dvd version,the best!
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Summary: A watermarked plan 9
Review: Unbelievably, this DVD has a watermark ("PIP") throughout the film! It's as though they taped it off the air! I returned it to Passport with a letter telling them to send me a pressing with the watermark removed, but have yet to receive a replacement disk (>6 months ago). I would advise waiting for another company to release Plan 9 and the remainder of the Wood collection. This is one instance where the DVD is inferior to the Laserdisk collection that was released a few years ago.
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