Ed Wood (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Ed Wood (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Finally to be released on DVD!
Summary: 5 Stars
Touchstone has released the technical details on the director's cut for one of my favorite movies ever (that's right, "Director's Cut")! Here they are:- Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
- English Dolby Digital 5.1 Track
- Audio Commentary with Tim Burton, Martin Landau and Technical Crew
- Let's Shoot This! (Making Of) Documentary
- The Theremin (Film Score) Featurette
- Making Bela (Make-Up) Featurette
- When Carol Met Larry (Cross Dressing) Featurette
- Pie Plates Over Hollywood (Visual World of Ed Wood) Featurette
- Original Music Video Co-Directed By Tim Burton
- Original Theatrical Trailer
As I've already stated, this is probably one of my favorite films ever made and after a long wait, it's reassuring to see they're finally going to release Tim Burton's masterpiece on DVD. Why us folks in the states have had to wait so long is beyond me.
This movie is hilarious and inspiring and in fact inspired me to want to become a film-maker. The black and white is perfect for this film, Martin Landua and Johnny Depp give great performances, some scenes are just flat-out hilarious.
I encourage everybody to go out and grab this movie when it comes out (or do like me, and pre-order it). I've yet to meet a person who has watched this film and not like it!
Movie Review: Delightful, Hilarious, Poignant
Summary: 5 Stars
Easily one of Burton's very best movies and frequently overlooked because of its small scale. Depp has never been better, (which is saying something), as the relentlessly optimistic and talentless aspiring director who wants nothing more from life than the joy of making movies. His innocence and ineptitude are both touching and persuasive, gradually he builds his team of like-minded losers, dope-fiends, homosexuals, hucksters, and has-beens. Together they embark upon one crack-pot adventure after another, putting together staggeringly awful films with scotch tape, glue, rubber bands, and moxie.
The whole thing is just so much fun, and so endearing. Much has been said about Martin Landau's portrayal of Bella Lugosi and he deserves it, it's dazzling. He and Depp, (and the illusory nature of their friendship), epitomize the very essence of Hollywood, a place where demented dreams are coin of the realm and sanity is defined as the moment when two or more people share the same twisted delusion.
Many great supporting performances, especially Patricia Arquette who is infinitely more appealing than her sister. In lesser hands this would have been a mean-spirited movie. But Burton so clearly loves his characters, and sympathizes with them, that the audience does as well. A treat.
Movie Review: A Great Modern Actor and The Worst Movie Maker Ever-A Great Combo
Summary: 5 Stars
Ed Wood has been voted by his peers of movie producers and directors as the worst movie maker ever. Johnny Depp is arguably one of the best actors of our time. The combination of the two make for a terrific movie. Johnny Depp captures the dreamer, the inner turmoil, and the star-struck awe of Ed Wood and makes him sympathetic, lovable, and laughable. The supporting cast of characters depicts Woods' friends and movie cohorts to a T. In fact, it was Ed Woods bad movies that created some of our most endearing stereotypical characters and scenes. Vampira inspired a young woman to create a character called Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. And, of, course, there are the "amazing" (using the term very loosely) effects of the pie tin tied to the string for the flying saucer. Fantastic, funny, wonderful!! We also get to see how Ed Woods developed a friendship with the aging Bela Lugosi and cast him in what would be the movie giant's last role (with absolutely hilarious results, since Mr. Lugosi died before completing the film). The movie is great. Depp is great. The supporting cast is great. See this movie. Then go out and get "Plan 9 from Outer Space" for a true experience of bad and funny movie making (Ed Woods didn't mean for it to be funny, but he couldn't help it). Enjoy.Movie Review: A Class Act!
Summary: 5 Stars
Now that independent film has taken over, and studios are more willing to back them, I think Ed Wood was around at the wrong time. Or was he? Who cares? His simplicity is so endearing, as projected by Johnny Depp (one of our more unappreciated actors). I find that I put on "Plan 9" or "Bride of the Monster" for sheer entertainment more than most others. Tim Burton's very loving tribute to the misunderstood Ed becomes a loving dislay of hope, courage and confidence. Anyone who wants a dream may find it; maybe Tim's film is a guideline. This came out the same year as "Forrest Gump", which seemed to take over the Oscars, but this film has the distinction of winning 100% of it's nominations: only 2, the wonderful make-up, and Martin Landau's exceptional performance as Bela Lugosi. Depp is so much fun; Sarah Jessica Parker belies her later success ("Sex & the City") as the prudish wife.Bill Murray and Jeffrey Jones are customarily hammy, which is appropriate for the characters. Especially great is a small cameo from Vincent d'Onofrio as Orson Welles, Ed's all-time idol. This film is nothing but fun, and the black and white photography is totally appropriate. Lovers of Ed will appreciate this for what it is; Ed's been given a bad rap. Tim Burton's wonderful film will dispell that myth.Movie Review: "Vissions are worth figthing for..."
Summary: 5 Stars
Thusly, Orson Welles (possably the greatest director of all time) sends Edward D. Wood Jr. (possably the worst directer of all time) into the world to make his mark.
The fact that this exchange between the two film-makers probably never took place, is irrelevent. This is a story about blind enthusiasm, not talent, and it is told with unlimited talent by Tim Burton.
There is not much I can say about this film, that has not been said by my 5star colleagues. I would only like to stress that this is a story of the heart. Those who love it tend to be a bit more sentamental than those who do not.
What keeps me coming back to this film is the friendship that develops through the arc of the story between Bela Lugosi and Ed Wood. It's the heart and soul of the experience. Everything else that has been knitted together to form this movie is of the highest caliber and could not have been improved upon, but if you miss the emotional cruxt of this truly magnificent experience you probably won't return to it as so many of us have, so very often.
A movie that will only increase in prestige over the next fifty years, forget about intelligence, and embrace the niave, with Ed Wood!