What an amazing ride this movie is. It's one of the rare films where I can't think of a single thing I'd change.

Combines the clunky earnestness of an Ed Wood script with a supremely 90s visual style and a slew of of-the-moment celebrity cameos to make something that's always a distinct vibe even when its sometimes a bit of a drag (no pun intended, sorry Ed Wood).

I can see why this wasn't well received at the time – the story feels padded to feature length and it's probably both too silly and too experimental for a mainstream audience – but that's a shame because it's trying something different and it absolutely succeeds at creating a cohesive work of art and a compelling distillation of late 90s aesthetics, even though it never really feels like the Ed Wood film it's trying to be.

Seeing this in a late-night festival slot would be an experience I'm sure I'd remember fondly for years to come.

We're ringing in the new year in classic nom fashion with a Billy Zane silent film experiment penned by Ed Wood and shot and scored like a 90's Beck/Beastie Boys video. Favorite part was when Tippi Hedren appears and they just go right for the Birds reference with both hands grasping.

this is about as good as adapting an unproduced ed wood screenplay to film can be. you can tell the people who made this were genuine fans of wood's work, the decision to make this film without dialogue does feel like playing with the inherent broad comedy that does underly every wood film in some for or another, and it really captures his sensibility & shows a los angeles where literally every character is exactly as how wood would have characterized. i will say at certain points the movie does get lost into itself & kinda hard to follow.

fun roles by so many people, my favs were dana gould, karen black, john ritter, that guy kramer tried to sell mr seinfeld's raincoats to in the seinfeld episode, and vampira herself maila nurmi. also, FANTASTIC soundtrack

this is the — oh god I’m so sorry — Billy Zaniest movie ever. an off kilter attempt to replicate Ed Wood bad that spirals into a weird different bad pretty quickly. it’s goofy in a fun way but only for fans of A: Billy Zane, aka Human Beings and B: terrible pastiche movies.

Billy Zane at his zaniest. The first half-hour is delightfully disorienting, but Ed Wood's unproduced script obviously went unproduced for a reason. It's tough to sustain this kind of goofy physical comedy and paper-thin plot at feature-length. The star quality occasionally brings it roaring back to life though, especially that iconic death scene for Tippi Hedren.

47/100

Wow. This is amazing. First I was reminded of Repo Man, but it went entirely in it's own direction and you wouldn't think Billy Zane would be fun to watch, but HE IS! This is a must-see film for anybody looking for something 'quite different' to watch. Movies don't have to be all the same, and this proves it. It makes me really wonder if Ed Wood really was a genius who just never got anything off the ground, and couldn't get anybody to believe in him. I highly recommend this movie. If you're expecting a 'bad' Ed Wood movie, you'll be disappointed, this is fun in a completely different way. Naysayers hate this film because they want to 'hate it' to enjoy it, which is definitely not the case.

I feel fully seduced right now?

Ed Wood is either high art or complete trash, and depending on who you are there doesn't seem to be any in between. "Worst Director of All Time" is a pretty hefty mantle he bore with style. Thankfully the huge roster of incredible actors who absolutely shine in this dialogue free, broadly slapstick, comedy film about a deeply unhinged thief who's lost his loot all seem to view him as the genius I think he might have been. I, of course, am known to have terrible taste and low brow sensibilities, so who's to say really?

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Combines the clunky earnestness of an Ed Wood script with a supremely 90s visual style and a slew of of-the-moment celebrity cameos to make something that's always a distinct vibe even when its sometimes a bit of a drag (no pun intended, sorry Ed Wood).

I can see why this wasn't well received at the time – the story feels padded to feature length and it's probably both too silly and too experimental for a mainstream audience – but that's a shame because it's trying something different and it absolutely succeeds at creating a cohesive work of art and a compelling distillation of late 90s aesthetics, even though it never really feels like the Ed Wood film it's trying to be.

Seeing this in a late-night festival slot would be an experience I'm sure I'd remember fondly for years to come.

A live action Popeye cartoon, meets The Sims, meets every actor you’d think could possibly be in a movie like this, plus a few you wouldn’t.

Remember when Frank Langella won an oscar for his role in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" and everyone got into Wood's terrible movies? Yeah, me neither - but it generated enough interest for Billy Zane to dig up one of Ed's old scripts and a couple hundred has-been actors and make this mess of a movie. Still, it's better than anything Wood ever did.

I feel fully seduced right now?

this is about as good as adapting an unproduced ed wood screenplay to film can be. you can tell the people who made this were genuine fans of wood's work, the decision to make this film without dialogue does feel like playing with the inherent broad comedy that does underly every wood film in some for or another, and it really captures his sensibility & shows a los angeles where literally every character is exactly as how wood would have characterized. i will say at certain points the movie does get lost into itself & kinda hard to follow.

fun roles by so many people, my favs were dana gould, karen black, john ritter, that guy kramer tried to sell mr seinfeld's raincoats to in the seinfeld episode, and vampira herself maila nurmi. also, FANTASTIC soundtrack

Esta película: por motivos personales voy a tener el mejor elenco femenino de la historia del cine. Habría sido más positiva si toda la escena de Tippi no hubiese sido un homenaje a Hitchcock pero no pasa nada.

This was a terrible Ed Wood tribute film. I haven't seen much Ed Wood, but I feel like bad dialogue adds to the charm. This had no dialogue whatsoever, so the charm was limited. It had a lot of bad physical comedy, so that was a thing. I don't know. I have enough trouble sitting down to watch good classic silent movies, so watching one that's bad for the sake of bad wasn't ideal.

Lo intenté, lo prometo.

Pero tiene la foto, el guión y diseño sonoro de una ficción I de la ENAC. Si bien el desarrollo del argumento no está mal, su origen es simple y sencillamente ridículo: un funeral con pléyades sospechosos de robarse una maleta con $15000 es la columna vertebral sin embargo, ¿a qué carajos fue el ladrón al funeral del empleado de banco en primer lugar? ¿A pagar sus respetos al tipo que mató? Es decir, ya sabe que lo están buscando, ¿por qué se expone? ¿Y porqué el que sepamos que lo están buscando y tiene un archivo en la policía se vuelve completamente inconsecuente?

Ed Wood pasó a la historia como el peor director de la historia. Incomprensible que alguien haya decidido filmar un guión el tipo nunca realizó.

A la galería de estrellas que desfilan por la pantalla no los culpo: se han de haber divertido mogollón.

Billy fuckin' Zane, man

This is an experiment in filmmaking (recreating an Ed Wood style film in 1998) and a tribute to Ed Wood (based off of an un-filmed silent script he wrote). It succeeds at neither.