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Summary: Burton's Best
Review: Tim Burton's best(yet OOP) film casts Burton favorite Depp and the Mission Impossible great Landau(in his best performance). It makes Wood's already hilarious image and makes it funnier with the image of brilliance they portray him with. How can you get funnier then looking behind the scenes of already horribly funny flims? You can't. PLEASE GOD, RELEASE THIS ON DVD.
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Summary: Vastly Over-rated Movie
Review: This movie tends to drag in all areas. Johnny Depp is miscast as Ed Wood, and the film treats him like he was some sort of under-appricated film genius, when the man regretfully had no talent at all. The movie's only real noticeable exception is Martin Landau's performance as the dying Bela Lugosi, who made his last film apperance in one of Wood's movies. But other then that, this is a weak film effort from director Burton.
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Summary: burton's best
Review: Its a shame, really, that tim burton's gratest film did so poorly in theaters (its one of disney's top bottom money makers). the video is out of stock (luckly i have my copy) and sadly there are no plans whatsoever on releasing this film on dvd.this is a great film. its also johnny depp's best performance ever (in the title role). martin landau won an oscar for his performance as bela logousi, he even bet samuel l. jackson in pulp fiction. i'm only writing this review hoping someone will hear me out and release this film on dvd, a criterion collection edition would be great!
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Summary: A Burton classic...
Review: Ed Wood is perhaps the most misunderstood and just plain odd films of Tim's career. It is a comedic look at the life of the man who's become oficially known as the Worst Director Ever, Edward D. Wood jr. We follow Ed from the debut of his play "the Casual Company", which although touted for it's realistic costumes (he got them from army surplus, so the story goes) was a horrible bomb. Never being done in by debt, flopish movies or low morale, Ed's love for angora and womens' underwear saw him through many a hard days night. The Casual Company really set the tone for Ed's film career, as he wrote, produced and directed (like some sort of mutated Orson Welles, Ed's idol) several hollywood low-budget bombs. His "big break" comes when he meets an aging and heroin addicted Bela Lugosi who he becomes fast friends with. Through many trials and trbulations, Ed somehow finds a way to get his work finished, even by getting a baptist church to fund a film about grave robbing! Sure it meant having all his friends baptised in a swimming pool, but he -did- get it done. Johnny Depp plays Ed Wood to a T, once again transforming himself completly into the role. To watch Depp in Edward Scissorhands, then Ed Wood will really give you a feel for how great an actor he is. Lisa Marie plays the sultry latenight monster movie television show host Vampira, whom Ed pursues to be in his movies for some time before she finally relents (due to her being fired). Martin Landau's protrayal of an aging Lugosi is spellbinding, one of the best of his career. Perhaps it is poetic justice in some way, that Ed Wood is one of Burton's worst grossing films. I'm sure Ed would approve.
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Summary: Pure homage
Review: It would be embaressingly tempting to make a slapshot film out of the worst director ever lived. But tim Burton didn't settle for that. No, instead he made a touching and truely genious film about a man who had a real passion to make movies, although he had the knowledge of your granny. Of course, this is one of the funniest films of the last decade, but what makes it truely outstanding are the more serious aspects, such as the undeniable love to the movie industry. Ok, so a tribute-a-like comedy? 4 stars, max. But what makes me give it the whole pack? Tha acting. This film is what seems to be a sea full of fishes that simply are giving the best performances of the whole lives. I mean, just look at the stunning role that Martin Landau does as Bela Lugosi, or the the sheer realistically stunning enthusiasm Johnny Depp has managed to put up. And I swear I has to look twice to make sure it wasn't the rwal Orson Welles in the scene! So, what I want you to remember is, that this film is not only great fun, but also a true masterpiece about friendship, respect and love for movies. Everyone interseted in movies should see this film instead of all the sugared tirbutes about the great filmmakers, because even though Ed Wood didn't have the gifts, he had something that every director should always have; HEART.
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Summary: One of the funniest films ever made
Review: Ed Wood, Jr. was a man obsessed with making movies and wearing Angora sweaters. It's hard to believe that a black and white film made about a 1950's unsuccessful, cross-dressing filmmaker could be so enjoyable. Ed Wood (played masterfully by Johnny Depp) was passionate about filmmaking, but sadly lacked any talent in that area. Through sheer sweat, determination and lots of equally nutty friends, he got his films distributed in spite of their cheesy quality. Wood's swan song was to hire Bela Lagosi to star in one of his films... the last performance of Lagosi's career. Martin Landau won a much deserved best supporting actor Oscar for his flawless portrayal of Lagosi in this film. If your jaw is not hanging open during the film, it's because your doubled over, laughing your lungs out. The timing is right on cue and the acting superb. Knowing that the story is true makes it that much more funny. If you need a good laugh, this movie is just the key... and it's definitely watchable more than once.
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Summary: Great Film About a Very Bad Director
Review: Edward Wood, Jr. is widely considered to be the worst director ever to work in motion pictures. Anyone who has seen "Plan 9 from Outer Space"-regarded as the worst film ever made-or "Glen or Glenda?" will probably agree. It is, therefore, somewhat ironic that Ed Wood's life should make such a wonderful movie-much better, in fact, then he ever could have hoped to do. The story concerns Wood's struggles to get his three most famous movies made (the two listed above plus "Bride of the Monster.") Since he worked somewhere below "low budget," this was not always easy. At one point, he and his cast get baptized in a swimming pool, a prerequisite for getting money from a Baptist Church. Nothing was too much for Eddie, though, to get his pictures made. Ed Wood was also known for something other than being a terrible director: he loved to wear women's clothing. Wood was never happier than when wearing a blond wig, high heels and an angora sweater...oh, and a moustache, too. When asked if he was a homosexual, Wood happily replied, "No! I'm a transvestite!" That sense of irrepressible good cheer was Wood's most endearing feature. No matter what happened to him, good or bad, he always took it with a smile. This included his movies, as well. Ed never met a take he didn't like. The most unexpected things could occur in a scene and his response would be the same: "It's perfect!" As good as those aspects of the film are, though-and they are very good-they aren't what makes "Ed Wood" so special. Seemingly out of nowhere, the most touching part of the film is the friendship that develops between Wood and decrepit former horror film star, Bela Lugosi. Lugosi is a drug addict and hasn't worked in years, but to Wood he's still a star. Ed loves and reveres him. He gives him work in his movies and tries to take care of him as best he can. Their scenes together are what make this movie so good. Throughout his career, director Tim Burton has consistently made remarkable films on the oddest topics imaginable. From "Beetlejuice" to "Edward Scissorhands" and now "Ed Wood," Burton is a filmmaker who takes risks and consistently makes them pay off. Not only has he made a movie about the worst movie ever made, but he shot it in black and white! A definite gamble, but he makes it work. The acting is uniformly good. Johnny Depp is excellent as Wood, doing maybe his best work in film so far. As good as he is, though, he is overshadowed by Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi. Landau gives the performance of a lifetime, a haunting portrayal of this once great man. Landau's work alone is enough to recommend "Ed Wood." Throw in Vincent D'Onofrio's uncanny cameo as a young Orson Welles, and you end up with one of the best films of 1994.
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Summary: Ed Wood: Very Good!
Review: This black and white film by Tim Burton is based on the life (well, principally the 50s career) of Edward D. Wood Jr, the sci-fi B-movie purveyor often hailed as the worst director of all time. The movie isn't constrained by its roots in reality; Wood's real-life experiences (transvesitism, a friendship with the aging Bela Lugosi, and a desire to make some truly awful films) are so outlandish that they need no embellishment. But it still comes across as a Tim Burton film - the picture opens with a slow-motion camera crawl across B-movie country (misty swamps, underwater monsters, UFO sightings) with the credits inscribed on graveyard headstones... then Criswell (Jeffrey Jones) rises from his coffin to deliver an ominous introduction to the story. Johnny Depp is in effeminate mode here (a la Sleepy Hollow) but he plays Wood as an eternal optimist; so much so that it's hard to equate Wood's eventual demise with Depp's cheery portrayal. As for Martin Landau - well, I pretty much forgot it was him at all, he's so convincing as Bela Lugosi!
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: This is a great movie about the worst director of all time. Martin Landau won best supporting actor of 1994 for his portral of Bella Lagosi. I highly recomend this great biopic.
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Summary: Where is this fabulous film?
Review: I watched Ed Wood with my father last summer and we both enjoyed it thoroughly. It is one of those movies that is brilliant both conceptually and dramatically. Johnny Depp is always wonderful, and the sense of humor of the film was refreshingly sophisticated (much too rare in contemporary films.) We laughed so hard we cried. Don't you think Bela did a wonderful job improvising with the motorless octopus? I need to own a copy of Ed Wood! This is my appeal to the powers that be - PLEASE RE-RELEASE THIS FILM! Piper Silverthorne
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