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Features • Anamorphic • NTSC In Theaters : 14 December, 1990 |
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Edward Scissorhands [Region 2] description Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer |
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| I know this movie is regarded as a great movie by the legions of sheep that blindly worship whatever Hollywood churns out. But to me, it's boring, depressing, and pointless. I've tried to watch it three times and have never been able to get through it without changing the channel or turning off the TV altogether.
The plot is a disaster. It reminds me of the kind of plot that junior high kids come up with in creative writing class; no climax and no idea how they are going to end the story. The movie revolves around a cheap Pinocchio-like cliche. You've got a miserable outcast-robot with scissors instead of hands. The only redeeming thing that he can do is cut bushes into insteresting shapes and carve ice-statues. Edward Scissorhands turns even more tragic when he falls in love with some girl. He's got a big heart but every attempt at affection turns into disaster because of his scissor like hands. As a viewer with a heart, you can't help but feel sorry for him, so the movie turns out to be a two hour long Pityfest. He accidently cuts people, he's insulted and rejected by everyone, and leads a depressing existence. He is so misunderstood that the police even go after him after he accidently cuts people with his razor sharp appendages. I think the highlight of this terrible excuse for a movie is when he prunes trees. That should tell you how pathetic it is. There's no happy ending. Every minute of the movie is sad and disastrous. |
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