The movie has an objective and it pursues that objective. It's not fair to criticize it for something the director never had any intention of doing. Burton is examining the phenomenon of drive and ambition combined with an utter lack of talent. Someone else could make a super-sad real biopic of Ed Wood's shitty…

If the movie had gone any longer it would have gotten into the super-depressing last 15 years or so of Wood's life

I mentioned that upthread—yes, this movie presents a much, much happier, sunny version of Ed Wood.

I used to read Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension regularly. Then he converted it to more of a blog, and the writer had some right-wing Republican views that I find extremely unpleasant, and the updates started getting more sporadic anyway. But it's still around. They have some great reviews of both crappy old movies…

Olivia de Havilland's last film. What a downer.

The real Ed Wood's story was much darker than this, of course. That bit about "monster nudie films" mentioned in the text at the end? Well, he wrote for a monster nudie film or two, then went to straight-up porn. Wrote pornographic novels as a sideline for his whole career. The alcoholism mentioned in that same…

Christina Ricci's breasts have never been put to better use. I know, that's shallow, an enlightened, modern man wouldn't deign to mention such things.

*neigh*

That's one of the best parts of "Ed Wood". Lugosi is confronted with the fake octopus with no engine that he's going to have to throw around, and he has his moment of clarity and talks about how he turned down the lead in "Frankenstein". What a bummer.

Yes, "Glen or Glenda". "PULL DA STRING!"

Hi there! I hate Margaret, I think she sucks, hope that her scenes will be few and far between. Am not in favor of her being punched.

The spelling "Wheet" is bugging me to an unreasonable degree.

Maybe Mrs. Chalky's dad ran up a debt with Chalky.

Bombed

I like Lennon when he's angry and loud

It's like people aren't getting that these characters are bad people

if someone characterizes a sex scene as "super rapey", that's probably a good indicator that it wasn't rape

I liked the reminder that hey, there was once a real Socialist Party in this country, and people voted for them. Gene Debs got 6% in 1912.

And that was a plot point, when that first dude was trying to sell Nucky land. It was also a common scam at the time, the whole "swampland in Florida" cliche.

I live in California, sir! Good things about California: 1. Not Florida. 2. Seriously, not Florida.