Ed Wood/Plan 9 from Outer Space
… but I’m definitely going to watch “Edward Scissorhands” and “Nightmare before Christmas”. I think my favourite Tim Burton films until now look like this:
1. Corpse Bride
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. Ed Wood
4. Big Fish
5. Sleepy Hollow
Sometimes I wonder why Tim Burton is not more acclaimed among critics: he has his unique and very personal style and is immensely popular both with artists (deviantArt kids, that is) and movie fans. But I have never seen a major critic say something good about him, or his films appear in any movie list (except for Ed Wood, of all of them.) It’s a shame, really. I think “Ed Wood” is a good example of a well done biopic that managed to portray the protagonist as a fascinating human. Of course, I immediately researched Ed Wood’s life and found how accurate everything in the movie is – after all, without having researched it, I would have thought that everything is fiction because it just sounds way too, too unbelievable. I mean, what the heck, angora pullovers? XD
Considering that the characters truly are weird and that there isn’t really a suspenseful storyline, let alone a ‘conclusion’, it’s not surprising that “Ed Wood” wasn’t a success at the box office. It definitely is a movie for Ed Wood fans – or people who potentially could become Ed Wood fans, like me. The thought that such a weird person with such an unusual life has existed is quite exciting for me, and it makes me want to know more about him and actually see these horrid movies.
Finally, I actually have nothing to say about Plan 9 except that I think it was a really good idea to watch it after Ed Wood – with all these little details that you can recognize in both films. I fully accept Ed Wood’s work as cult trash that is so incredibly bad that it becomes incredibly good – but I find myself unable to watch such films. (I did not like the first episode of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi after all, but now, I feel like you can see some influence from Plan 9 in it *hrr*)