Ed Wood

Pros: Interesting quirky characters. 
Cons: Mediocre acting.  Sluggish pacing.

I selected Ed Wood because NetFlix said I should.  I did not know anything about this film and did not remember reading about it previously.  However, the preview indicated that this was a Tim Burton film starring Johnny Depp, Sarah ...

Pros: Landau, and the entire cast, the screen play
Cons: nothing much, could not find it on DVD

It took me too long to see this movie. It has become one of my favorite flicks, and one of three by ...

Pros: Superb acting, brilliant writing
Cons: Bill Murray

since "Sunset Boulevard."

Tim Burton’s “Ed Wood” is character-driven, but also tells at least three overlapping major stories: that of “the worst film director of all time,” that of the heterosexual transvestite director finding a...

Pros: Terrific performances and script, Burton's best work
Cons: Hasn't made a movie this good since

Tim Burton is at his best (so far) with this biography of the legendarily bad filmmaker. From the terrific use of black and white to the startling performances, this is the best of Burton’s movies. He never darkens the film or subject matter for...

Pros: Excellent cast, settings, insight
Cons: None

Edward D. Wood, Jr. probably was one of the most interesting real-life characters in Hollywood. A low-budget filmmaker who defied the odds to produce and release a string of grade-Z sci-fi and exploitation films in the '50's and '60's. Besides the...

Pros: Burton's Direction, Script, Look, Cinematography, Music, & Cast notably Depp & Landau.
Cons: None.

Before the 1960s, the French New Wave, and the independent, guerilla spirit of 1970s American filmmaking, Hollywood still ruled cinema and there were very few auteurs at the time including Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles. Welles in the 1950s was ...

Pros: Pretty funny, great work by Depp and Landau, lighting, tone
Cons: Length/Pacing

Tim Burton is one of those famous directors that split a lot of peoples' hairs. Some say that he's just another Hot Topic-infused hack that does the same technique in each film but then there are the people who GO to Hot Topic and eat his crap up by the ...

Pros: Tim Burton's homage of Ed Wood is beautifully constructed.
Cons: Funniest Movie of the Year? Nope, it is more of a drama for Godsake

Directed by Tim Burton

Ed Wood - Johnny Depp

my rating: B

In “Ed Wood”, Tim Burton paid homage to one of the most passionate, misunderstood, and crappy director that ever emerged from Hollywood. Very hard to...

Pros: Martin Landau, Johnny Depp, great script, great photography
Cons: I dunno.

I've always been a huge fan of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney, Jr. I grew up with my grandparents, so I was exposed to them through my grandfather, and when you're exposed to classic horror all your life, most of the crap they make today gets ...

Pros: Acting, recreations, entirely watchable
Cons: Lacks focus, tone uneven

Briefly, this film is a sort-of tribute to the world’s worst filmmaker (and cross-dresser) Edward D. Wood Jr., and occasionally plays satirically. It mostly focuses on Wood’s relationships with women but particularly his association with aging, ...

Pros: Depp playing Wood so convincingly, surrounded by the best supporting casts ever assembled.
Cons: Nothing I can think of.

One of my favorite lines in the movie "Ed Wood" is spoken by his estranged girlfriend. Gazing contemptuously at his eclectic circle of friends, she says, "I see you've got the usual gang of misfits and drug addicts." That one line summarizes much of this ...

Pros: Loving look at an offbeat movie director
Cons: Definitely doesn't cater to the middle-of-the-road crowd

1994's "Ed Wood" (on Turner Classic Movies on May 2, 2004 at 2 a.m. EST) is easily the best film ever made about one of the worst filmmakers ever. Edward D. Wood, Jr. is renowned in movie cults for two astounding facts: (1) he was an enthusiastic ...

Pros: Very endearing. Great acting, direction, and cinematography.
Cons: Typical Hollywood.

For those of you who don’t know, Edward D. Wood, Jr. was an eccentric filmmaker from the fifties who, like Van Gogh, only achieved fame after his death, when he was crowned the worst director of all time in the early eighties. Before this ...

Pros: Great cast, acting (Especially from Landau), writing, direction, cinematography
Cons: A few slow spots, and the story is very weird.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?- Orson Welles (Vincent D’Onofrio) Ask for a poll of the greatest director of all time, and you will have a huge deadlock, as name after name is thrown into ...

Pros: Martin Landau! This may also be Burton's most well-rounded work.
Cons: No serious problems spring to mind.

So many Tim Burton movies have great ideas and beautiful visuals, but somehow go a little flat in the telling. For example, BIG FISH had some great things to look at, along with some fun performances...but in the end it was too pleased with itself to ...