Ed Wood (1994)

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Ed Wood (1994)
Topic Started: Jul 21 2008, 09:05 AM (346 Views)
Laughing Gravy	Jul 21 2008, 09:05 AM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,062 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	A really rotten movie writer/director/transvestite makes a series of bad movies with a broken-down, drug-addled, one-foot-in-the-grave Bela Lugosi. This is the only Tim Burton movie I like; it's practically perfect, with only a dumb scene that depicts an imaginary meeting between Ed Wood and Orson Wells marring it. Johnny Depp is Wood, and he shows the necessary level of enthusiasm; Martin Landau's Lugosi netted him an Oscar, and he's terrific, although treated much of the time as comic relief. By reports, Lugosi didn't really sprout obscene invectives every time somebody mentioned the name of Boris Karloff. George "The Animal" Steele was born to play Tor Johnson, folks. We watched this film a week after subjecting ourselves to Glen or Glenda, so the FNF gang could really appreciate the daffiness of both movies. I love movies about the making of movies when they're done right, and this is one of the best. Kudos to the unforgettable score, too.



Rogmeister	Jul 21 2008, 09:15 AM Post #2
Charter Member Posts: 3,743 Group: Members Member #12 Joined: September 3, 2005	I remember loving this movie, too (I haven't seen it in awhile). I got a good friend to go see it (can't remember if he saw it in a theater or if he rented it) but he hated it because it was a black and white movie.



Ignatz Ratzkywatzky	Jul 21 2008, 02:06 PM Post #3
Charter Member Posts: 749 Group: Members Member #28 Joined: September 5, 2005	Laughing Gravy Jul 21 2008, 09:05 AM This is the only Tim Burton movie I like. Ed Wood is easily Burton's best. Most of the filmmaker's work is great to look at, but the scripts are lacking. However, I believe that there are two other Burton films that fall in the "very good" range--Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Sweeney Todd (2007).
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AndyFish	Jul 27 2008, 04:46 AM Post #4
Movie Watcha Foist Class Posts: 201 Group: Members Member #224 Joined: June 11, 2007	One of my favorite movies! I've always thought the Welles scene was Wood hallucinating, but the movie is so good I can get past it. I agree with your sentiment on Pee Wee's Big Adventure-- which is a kids show on acid-- WOOD is Burton's best film. Sweeney Todd I may have to give another try. I thought it was way too gorey. When I lived in New York I saw the Broadway version a couple of times due to friend visits and I always liked it, but the film was too dark for me (which I thought was impossible). Andy
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panzer the great & terrible	Jul 27 2008, 07:55 AM Post #5
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,325 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Haven't any of you seen Beetlejuice? Jeez.
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KanSmiley	Jul 27 2008, 08:59 AM Post #6
Charter Member Posts: 1,223 Group: Members Member #10 Joined: September 3, 2005	panzer the great & terrible Jul 27 2008, 10:55 AM Haven't any of you seen Beetlejuice? Jeez. Mrs Smiley and I saw BEETLEJUICE in a theater. I didn't like it while she loved it. We discussed it several times and when it came out on video she insisted I buy it. (I think the only film she has wanted.) I watched it again, several months after I saw it in the theater, and really enjoyed it. Don't ask me what changed my mind...I don't know. Perhaps I wasn't in the mood for that type of film earlier but I would say second to ED WOOD it is now my favorite Tim Burton film. Kan
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Laughing Gravy	Jul 27 2008, 09:06 AM Post #7
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,062 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	panzer the great & terrible Jul 27 2008, 08:55 AM Haven't any of you seen Beetlejuice? Jeez. Hated it, except for the calypso musical number.



Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Jul 27 2008, 09:34 AM Post #8
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,166 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	Although Ed Wood is my favorite Burton film, I also like Beetlejuice AND The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.
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Laughing Gravy	Jul 27 2008, 09:44 AM Post #9
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,062 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	By the way, this week as a follow-up to last week's Ed Wood, we watched the "Home? I HAFF no home!" sequence with Bela from Bride of the Monster. The gang thanked me for not scheduling the entire picture. I guess I liked the first Peewee Herman picture and Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd were okay, but it'll be a long time 'til I get a hankering to see 'em again.



Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Jul 27 2008, 09:57 AM Post #10
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,166 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	I forgot to add Peewee starring James Brolin. Paging Mr. Herman.
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panzer the great & terrible	Feb 23 2009, 10:05 AM Post #11
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,325 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	I sorta like Tim B, but I've never seen a movie worse than Planet of the Apes. If somebody would please explain the ending, I'd be grateful. 15 years ago somebody gave me a little book of poems and drawings by Burton, and the poems were illiterate crap. Some people shouldn't write.
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The Batman	Feb 23 2009, 12:42 PM Post #12
Charter Member Posts: 5,570 Group: Members Member #17 Joined: September 4, 2005	OK, everybody knows that Tim Burton's second-best movie (after ED WOOD) is BATMAN. A clearly underrated classic. SLEEPY HOLLOW and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS are the next best. Both BEETLEJUICE and PLANET OF THE APES are crapola.



Laughing Gravy	Feb 23 2009, 01:00 PM Post #13
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,062 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	I don't know that. I thought BATMAN was crap. I kinda like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS though.



The Batman	Feb 23 2009, 01:14 PM Post #14
Charter Member Posts: 5,570 Group: Members Member #17 Joined: September 4, 2005	Laughing Gravy Feb 23 2009, 01:00 PM I don't know that. Well, now ya do, LG. Yer welcome.



Laughing Gravy	Feb 23 2009, 02:28 PM Post #15
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,062 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	I thought all four of those first Batman movies were wretched and surprisingly stupid. The fourth one - the reviled one with Mr. Freeze - was the only one I enjoyed at all, because it was the stupidest of all of 'em, and wallowed in its own idiocy. The others took their stupidity seriously, a fatal flaw.


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