Glen or Glenda
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Movie Reviews of Glen or Glenda
Movie Review: How Does One Rate Something Like This?
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm not sure why I watched this again recently. I was rewatching movies about Hollywood, getting through SUNSET BOULEVARD and Blake Edwards' S.O.B., I put in a few minutes of Tim Burton's ED WOOD before the heavy reality snuffed out the fun of it all....
Then I wondered: was GLEN OR GLENDA really that bad?
Yes. And more. Or worse, depending on how you measure these things.
If you know nothing about Ed Wood and his inept film career, you will be completely lost and mystified by how bad this movie is. Even if you understand Wood and his career, GLEN OR GLENDA is astonishingly bad in so many ways. You will see transvestites in the 1950s, along with Bela Lugosi, stock footage of stampeding buffalo, and Satan. Behind it all is a disjointed script justifying cross-dressing while inserting bizarre sequences where unidentified women tie each other up or rip their clothes off themselves. And then Satan shows up to do stuff.
Wow. It's bad. It's beyond bad, which is probably why it's survived. I don't think anyone could have TRIED to make a worse movie. Anyone who's studied psychology should have fun with this as well as those who enjoy really, really bad filmmaking.
"PULL THE STRING! PULL THE STRING!"
Movie Review: My what a lovely sweater...
Summary: 3 Stars
On the on hand from just a movie viewing standpoint? Horrible. Even being as old as it is, I am pretty sure than a teen back then with the crude home film making equipment available to them could have done as good - or better. And yet on the 5 star scale I still have to give it the 3. Why?
Well - it's honest. Yes it has some obscure scenes. Some poorly delivered lines. But it's still a brutally honest story at its core. It's a topic that would have been so controversial for its time that for many it is STILL a controversial and uncomfortable topic today. In that sense, it was pretty dang brave to make, even if some had exploitative reasons for making it - Ed Wood didn't, and it shows. Whatever those who supported him expected, he surely didn't deliver what they wanted and instead kept it as real as possible.
Still don't confuse my use of the words honest and real for coherent. It's not that. It's all over the place. It's partly some campy B movie (Bela Lugosi the scientist and his strings), part PSA / 50s school movie (the doctor in his office explaining to a cop just what it means to be a transvestite), and part some soap opera as it follows several men (though mainly Glen) in their attempts to be accepted for who they are.
Movie Review: Amazing.......Utterly Amazing....
Summary: 3 Stars
After experiencing "Plan 9 From Outer Space", I was interested in seeing more of Ed Wood's.....creations. PBS happened to be showing "Glen Or Glenda" one night. I decided to tune in. Long after the movie was over, I still sat there with my mouth hanging open, staring at the TV in utter amazement. This movie....this movie has to be seen to be believed. It is so stupifyingly bad that it's a real classic. It's like a prehistoric LSD trip in black & white. Especially the part when all of the people are at the apartment (along with the devil) tormenting Glen/Glenda. Some people slowly appear out of nowhere, others pop in instantaneously. This movie is so crudely surreal that it's almost frightening to watch. What the heck was Wood, or Daniel Davis, as he called himself, thinking when he made this?? Or, more precisely, what was he tripping on? This is one of those movies that is so bad that it must be seen by everyone. Amazing. On the flip side, Bela Lugosi managed to put in a half-way decent performance despite the material that he had to work with. 'Pull zee string...' indeed. Just like another reviewer said: Poor Bela.Movie Review: What the ----? Three stars for weirdness
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie's plot is pretty hard to follow, but the concept is so out there, and the images / film segments used to support it can only be described as bizarre, bordering on insane.
This movie was pretty damn boring. I couldn't even sit through it, and that's before the on-screen sex change operation (unedited). I wouldn't recommend buying this, unless you're REALLY into bad movies.
I saw this movie because I saw "Ed Wood" by Tim Burton. Now THERE is a good movie.
-- JJ Timmins
Movie Review: Worst Movie Ever Made
Summary: 2 Stars
In my opinion, this is the worst movie ever made. Plan 9 From Outer Space is like Lawrence Of Arabia compared to Glen or Glenda. I gave it 2 stars because Bela Lugosi's parts are funny. Starts with Bela in a laboratory making some ridiculous Ed Wood speech containing classic quotes as "MAN IS WRONG BECAUSE HE DOES RIGHT. RIGHT BECAUSE HE DOES WRONG! PULL DA STRINGS!" Then the film is all over the place with stock footage, Wood dressed in women clothes, etc. Some whiney voice saying "If the creator wanted us to fly, he'd given us wings." I don't get this movie. I think it might be Ed Wood trying to describe his subconscious on film? I dunno. If you can get through all 70 minutes of this you can get through anything. And those stupid newspaper headlines. There is nothing like this movie. Worth watching once.