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Summary: Wonderful movie!
Review: I finally saw this movie after being prodded to several times by my mom. A few minutes into the movie and I was hooked! Not only does Edward (Depp) make you laugh, but once the movie ended I was sobbing out loud. My friend's brother heard me from upstairs I was crying so hard. Watch this movie for yourself, it's wonderful, and you won't regret it!
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Summary: Go Jonny Depp!
Review: This movie is a great movie! I think most parts are appropite for all ages. There's some parts that may not be, so I suggest if you have a young child to watch it with them. Or you could watch it first and see if you think it's ok for them to see. There is some blood and violence but besides that its a very good movie. When I first saw it it was one of my favorite movies. In the opening there's an old lady telling a story to her (was it grand daughter?) - and the story was acully about her and Edward Scissor Hands. The makeup he wears looks so odd and also the hands already look odd. And the reason why he's alone and has no real hands is because his creator died right before he could finish him. This movie is very sad but it's a great movie.Nori
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Summary: Terrible, Horrible, Unbearable
Review: I never had the chance to see it as a kid, and I ended up buying the DVD because it was so cheap and because my wife had told me it was a cool movie. I thought it must be interesting. I was wrong. If you are dumb enough to accept a concept like "Edward was left unfinished, that is why he has scissors for hands", you might enjoy this movie. It's a classic rip off from the Frankenstein story, with a dumb guy with scissor hands who is dumb enough to still cut his face and objects after quite some time. Then you have to go along with a very lame love story between Edward and a girl. In short, the movie is full of stuff you won't care to watch. If you like breaking stuff, get this DVD and break it so no one else has to go through this terrible experience!
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Summary: "And I'd give up forever to touch you..."
Review: "...'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now." --"Iris", from the City of Angels soundtrack In Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton delivers a devastating slam against a conformist, superficial society, and even as we might snicker at the vacuous, gabbing neighbors, this movie forces us to ask some difficult questions about ourselves. "Don't ever let anyone tell you that you have a handicap," one of those neighbors tells Edward towards the beginning of the movie. In the end, however, the acceptance turns out to be all show and no substance. How often do we give lip service to tolerance, but hold bigotry in our hearts? Only one character, Kim, succeeds in (literally) embracing difference. The world of "suburbia" is just as devoid of life as the "desert of the real" seen in The Matrix. It may be painted in bright colors, but in the end, it is still a desert. Although all the characters in this movie are caricatures, it's a great irony (and masterstroke on the part of Mr. Burton) that the most unusual-looking character is in fact the most real in a different sense. It is poor, confused Edward with whom the viewer can truly make a connection. Marooned among empty shells of people, this artificially-constructed boy seems at times to be the only one who genuinely has *soul*. Johnny Depp does a mindblowing job of bringing Edward to life, perhaps even injecting something of himself into the shy, awkward artist, if his rather nervous conduct in the "Sound Bites" section is any indication. The greatest part of his acting is nonverbal, far beyond the few words he softly speaks. For instance, it was clear to me that Mr. Depp had studied the movements and facial expressions of virtuoso artists who are in their element. In the scene where Edward begins giving haircuts, he reminded me of a soulful concert pianist, in how his surprisingly gentle movements were each charged with emotion. Another interesting nonverbal aspect--and one that may even cause the viewer to misinterpret Edward for a moment, just as the neighbors do, is the way he nervously twitches the blades of his "hands" at times. Although it can appear threatening, once you look in his eyes it's clear he's simply fidgeting in the same way as one might tap their fingers on the table. But to me (besides the touching scene where embraces Kim), one of the most poignant moments was when Edward flinched away from the Avon lady's touch, when one would *think* that of the two characters, he was the least threatened. In the end, Edward seems to have had the correct measure of the situation. It is tragic that his exposure to "what we call reality" resulted in such great pain to Edward and Kim. Although the court psychiatrist comments that Edward's grasp on reality is tenuous, I came away thinking that only Edward and Kim were in touch with the substance behind the illusion everyone else confused for "real". "And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am." --"Iris"
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Summary: My Favorite Contemporary Movie of All Time!!
Review: This movie makes my sob & swoon every time i see it. Tim Burton has brilliantly presented the story of a man who was so sensitive, kind, & naive that it is unimaginable. A must see for any Tim Burton, Edward Gorey, or Johnny Depp *SWOON* (he's my favorite actor!!!)fan. Now all i can hope is that someday my own Edward Scissorhands will come & take me away. Ahhhh. P.S. Johnny Depp looks his BEST in this!!
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Summary: Deeply Moving
Review: While everyone feels like a misfit at some point or another, lonelyness is one of the deepest, most tragic emotions for anyone to suffer. However, this movie is one of the few that truly captures the pain and poignance of what it is to be by oneself. Another such is "Being There". But this movie is so powerful on so many levels that I consider it a true masterpiece. From lamenting the hypocrasy and fickle nature of people to displaying the fact that it only takes one or two evil people to ruin that which is good, this covers a spectrum of life lessons and tragedies. It can be interpreted so many ways, and Burton's surreal reality heightens the incredible plot. Anyone who has never seen it desperately should.
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Summary: Snowy Greatness
Review: this movie is great! i consider this movie one of the best i've seen =) The love in this movie is unique and the humor is good. THe only thing i wasn't too well on was the ending/beginning! she should haf went back to the castle one day and pay him a visit =(
i truly recommend you watching this. In this movie, Johnny expresses his cuteness in the outside instead of the outside.. which i find really great
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Summary: Edward Scissorhands is great!
Review: I loved this movie. It was excellent. I had to buy it, because it was so good. If you have not seen this movie you should see it ASAP.
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Summary: The most symbolic movie ever made...
Review: I have a friend who is convinced that 'Edward Scissorhands' is a metaphor about the way the media treats celebrities. My mother says that Edward represents anyone who can be considered "different". A lot of people think that the point of the movie is to display the way people will love something one second and hate it the next. I had a teacher once who told me it was about what it's liked to be loved for the things you do but hated as a person. My six-year-old cousin thinks it's about how sad it would be to have scissors for hands.
I honestly have no idea what Tim Burton's masterpiece of a movie is "really" about. It seems to me that it is very open to interpretation, as there is no real basis to say that any of these ideas are just plain wrong (Can you really say that my cousin's observation that it would be sad to have scissors for hands is way off base?); however none of them really feels right to me.
Here is what I have to say about Edward Scissorhands: This movie makes me sob; I mean I just bawl my eyes out every time I watch it. Only God knows why, but for some reason there is nothing sadder than a monstrous looking loner who is misunderstood and taken advantage of. I know it sounds like a specific description, but the idea is just so universally poignant that details and all it has been done numerous times (the most notable being Gaston Leroux's ' The Phantom of the Opera' and of course 'Beauty and The Beast').
Then there's the whole other story of Johnny Depp's performance. There are a lot of actors who are considered "good actors" but we never really think about what their limitations are because we only see them in roles that they can play well (which, of course, would be the reason they're playing them). I am fairly confident that not a lot of actors could have successfully played the part of Edward, so when you consider how successfully Depp did play it that says something. One of the interesting things about the movie is that its title character has what seems like two lines in the whole thing, which made Depp's job of doing a decent job even harder - he never has a weak moment, not once.
I do not know what Edward Scissorhands is a metaphor for; however, I do know that this movie successfully makes people feel, whatever it is that they feel when watching it, more than any other movie I know of. It is surprising but telling that a movie that seems so strange could succeed in making so many different people care about the same thing: the fate of a lonely misfit who somehow comes across as far less fictional than it seems that such an obviously imagined creature should. Therefore provoking the question: exactly how much of this "fantasy movie" is truly fiction?
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Summary: hmm.
Review: I love this movie. Tim Burton's imagination is just marvelous. The plot is imaginative, the acting fabulous, everything about this movie is just good. It is a must see.
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