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Stubob1983

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Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi steals this film and I cried when his character took his tragic turn.

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Posted sep 16, 2008 10:27 am pt

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Being a Wood-ite and an obsessive Depp-Burton fan, this is one of the few films I will watch again and again until I realise I should have a life. Some key details of Wood's life maybe off, but Johnny Depp and Martin Landau make a perfect onscreen...
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Being a Wood-ite and an obsessive Depp-Burton fan, this is one of the few films I will watch again and again until I realise I should have a life. Some key details of Wood's life maybe off, but Johnny Depp and Martin Landau make a perfect onscreen couple, and the numerous outbursts that Béla Lugosi (Landau) has onscreen are more than enough to make up for the, sometimes false facts, even though pretty much 98% is true, and it makes for better entertainment! One of only two Perfect films.

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Posted feb 10, 2008 7:37 pm pt

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I loved this film, I really did. It was funny, and you can't beat a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movie! He was really excellent in this movie, and you can really tell the dedication and devotion all of them put in this project. It just shines through...
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I loved this film, I really did. It was funny, and you can't beat a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movie! He was really excellent in this movie, and you can really tell the dedication and devotion all of them put in this project. It just shines through the screen.

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Posted feb 7, 2008 1:01 pm pt

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Love this movie!!!
I mean Johnny Depp and Juliet (Drusilla from Buffy) great combination right there buddy!

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Posted mar 22, 2007 7:30 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  A comedy of the ridiculous in which the ridiculous turns unexpectedly sublime.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  100
  One of those rare films that communicates the exquisite joy of the moviemaking process. [7 October 1994, Friday, p.B]

  by Gene Siskel | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  100
  Half-factual, half-fanciful and all funny, this labor of love is also unexpectedly touching. [28 September 1994, Life, p.5D]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  90
  In his finest, funniest, most poignant film to date, Tim Burton plays cinematic alchemist, turning drive-in schlock into movie gold.

  by John Hartl | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  88
  What Burton has made is a film which celebrates Wood more than it mocks him, and which celebrates, too, the zany spirit of 1950s exploitation films - in which a great title, a has-been star and a lurid ad campaign were enough to get bookings for some of the oddest films ever made.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  Making a movie about the life of Ed Wood certainly qualifies as an impossible dream, but Burton has pulled it off with wit, imagination and something amazingly close to grace.

  by Hal Hinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  Turns out to be a thoroughly entertaining if eccentric piece of business, wacky and amusing in a cheerfully preposterous way. [28 September 1994, Calendar, p.F-1]

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  78
  The strangest biographical film ever made is also one of the most charming, melancholy and quirkily humorous films of the year.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Burton has trouble sustaining the briskness of the first half. But the brilliance of many individual scenes, and the extraordinary performance by Landau, are more than enough to justify this goofy, tender ode to eccentricity. [7 October 1994, Daily Notebook, p.C1]

  by Edward Guthmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  If Ed Wood has a major failing, it's the lack of momentum. Wood's career had nowhere to go, and to some extent the film has the same problem. [23 September 1994, p.C34]

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  70
  Always engaging to watch and often dazzling in its imagination and technique, picture is also a bit distended, and lacking in weight at its center.

  by Staff [not credited] | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  70
  Delightful, off-the-wall, and ultimately moving.

  by Frank Lovece | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  70
  What we remember are the visions of genius and the total turkeys. Rarely do you get both in the same movie, but director Tim Burton pulls it off in this oddly affectionate bio-pic of Ed Wood.

  by Lucy Mohl | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  63
  The most interesting personality in Ed Wood is not the title character, but Bela Lugosi. So covered up with makeup that he's barely recognizable, Martin Landau gives a deeply-felt performance -- a eerie and stunning recreation of a man haunted by lost fame.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  60
  If, like the filmmakers, you're willing to settle for a myth that flatters your sensibilities and shortchanges the past, you're likely to find some agreeable kicks here.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »