Pull The String!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2003)

Offbeat biography about the eccentric director Ed Wood, notable for giving us what is considered to be the worst film ever made, Plan 9 From Outer Space. If Johnny Depp doesn't win this Oscar, its time for someone else to start up an awards show. Brilliant performance by the kid. Burton too, just completely outdoes himself. So does Landau for that matter, he at least was recognized with an Oscar. But the film should have been showered with them. It's a masterpiece. Shot in black and white, its atmosphere nails postwar Hollywood, in the final days when movies still had no need for ratings. The irony is Ed Wood in his lifetime, never amounted to anything. His films were beyond horrible to the point of just being unwatchable. Subject matter that's just hard to even comprehend. I can't begin to describe the awfulness of them; it's worth renting one just for the history aspect. That said, in his own way he was a pioneer. Directors especially the likes of Tim Burton owe a little something to this guy and his work if only for expanding the boundaries of conventionality. And this film is tenderly handled to give some respect to a guy who never saw any in his lifetime. One of recent Hollywood's better achievements.