Another masterpiece by Ed Wood

Rating: 1/10 (24 June 2012)

It's mildly tempting to give this absurdest, incoherent, pretender-to-mythic-significance of a film the brutal review it fully deserves. The mythic material that serves as a major part of the foundation for this movie is treated with ignorance and contempt. This is one of the worst movies ever. But my experience on this site is that the cotton-candy-brained typical audience member viewing films these days would barely or never understand any references providing meaningful evaluation. Very sadly, that's about 95% of average viewers.
Spoiler-- It's a statistical fact that less than 3% of American are unique subscribers to Newsweek, Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, or similar publications, based on Pew data seven years ago. We have become a nation of anti-intellectuals, with no capacities for critical thinking at all; actually, according to Richard Hofstadter's great book, we always have been. Even today's college graduates frequently know very little about the arts and sciences; we are a culture in rapid decline.
This film's "success" is based on the premise that Hollywood can regularly count on national stupidity, represented recently by Tea Partiers--individuals consistently clueless regarding 17th-century America and its Boston tea.
Apologies to the masterful Tim Burton for the "summary." "Ed Wood" will always be a classic worth seeing over and over.