This is Tim Burton's last truly great movie. A year later, he went on to make Mars Attacks!, and completely sold out to the Hollywood/cgi shit. Here, we have a movie about a guy with no talent, yet even more passion than Tommy Wiseau. Ed Wood was a man with enough charm to get these preposterous films made, and he's an inspiration to all low-budget filmmakers.
Johnny Depp nails it, Martin Landau is wonderful (RIP), so is Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones as Criswell, and George "The Animal" Steele (also RIP) as Tor Johnson!
It's funny. I've never really taken pleasure in an Ed Wood movie, and I honestly can't stand Tim Burton's films, but combining the 2 is somehow a very different story. I'd say this is one of the top 5 best films of the 90's, as well as one of the very few I'd rate a 10/10. Proof Tim Burton could have avoided being a failure and a joke if he had really wanted to.
Movies were his passion. Women were his inspiration. Angora sweaters were his weakness.
Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life. Despite a lack of critical or commercial success, Ed and his friends manage to create an oddly endearing series of extremely low-budget films.
Johnny Depp nails it, Martin Landau is wonderful (RIP), so is Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones as Criswell, and George "The Animal" Steele (also RIP) as Tor Johnson!