Johnny Depp Movies

During the 1950s in America, an optimistic young man named Edward D. Wood Jr. (Johnny Depp) realizes how unsuccessfully he's doing in the theatre business and decides to turn to pictures. After befriending aging horror star Bela Lugosi (Landau), Ed tries to rid Bela of his depression by bringing him back to the silver screen. The Johnny Depp Movies then begin to focus on the period of which Ed makes his first few films: Glen or Glenda (1953), Bride of the Monster (1955) and Plan 9. During this period, Ed is struggling to find sponsors to fund his Johnny Depp Movies and dealing with his compulsive tranvestism while Bela sinks more and more into a fragile condition.

A unique re-telling of the Frankenstein story by director Tim Burton. Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment, a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp), of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's old abandoned castle. The scientist died before replacing the shy man's large shears with real hands. Peg brings Edward back to Suburbia to live with her family and then things get, please pardon the expression, out of hand."

Johnny Depp Movies review: "Eerily familiar": A tale of a life in crime: a kid in a family struggling to make ends meet; a youth getting involved in the ‘small end’ of organized crime. A man making his way up through the ranks, to become one of the kingpins. Getting mixed up in ‘hard’ drugs: having it all seems so much fun until it all comes crashing down. Shrewish mother; overbearing wife. Ray Liotta failing to age gracefully.

Amongst other Johnny Depp Movies is "Great film about bad films" - a review by em_fiction: Isn't it ironic that Edward D. Wood Jr. made some of the worst films of all time, most notably Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958), yet when Tim Burton recreates a biopic of him in a silly style not unlike his own, it becomes such a magnificent picture? And speaking of ironies, what about Martin Landau winning an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi, while Lugosi himself (quoting his IMDb biography) "never came within a mile of one"? Well, ironic shmironic, I'll just get on with the review.

Some other related Johnny Depp Movies are:

Pirates of the Caribbean (2003): Directed by Gore Verbinski with Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and Jonathan Pryce Complete title: Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998): Directed by Terry Gilliam with Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro Complete title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection. The original cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S. Thompson's psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo" journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences," and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a visionary filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of Thompson's ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the joke--an endless series of repetitive scenes involving rampant substance abuse and the hallucinogenic fallout of a road trip that's run crazily out of control. Johnny Depp plays Thompson's alter ego, "gonzo" journalist Raoul Duke, and Benicio Del Toro is his sidekick and so-called lawyer Dr. Gonzo. During the course of a trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, they ingest a veritable chemistry set of drugs, and Gilliam does his best to show us the hallucinatory state of their zonked-out minds. This allows for some dazzling imagery and the rampant humor of stumbling buffoons, and the mumbling performances of Depp and Del Toro wholeheartedly embrace the tripped-out, paranoid lunacy of Thompson's celebrated book. But over two hours of this insanity tends to grate on the nerves--like being the only sober guest at a party full of drunken idiots. So while Gilliam's film may achieve some modest cult status over the years, it's only because Fear and Loathing is best enjoyed by those who are just as stoned as the characters in the movie.

Other Johnny Depp Movies are:

Don Juan DeMarco (1995): Directed by Jeremy Leven with Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp. You might not get a thrill from the sight of Faye Dunaway and Marlon Brando throwing popcorn into each other's mouths, but that didn't stop this movie from gaining a new lease on life thanks to cable television and home video. It's a quirky romantic comedy about a mental patient (Johnny Depp) who claims to be Don Juan, the world's greatest lover, and he gets quite a few women to believe it's true. Brando plays the psychiatrist who tries to analyze his patient's apparent delusion, and Dunaway plays Brando's wife, who wants to inject some Don Juan-ish romance into their marital routine. Walking a fine line between precious comedy, wistful drama, and delicate fantasy, the movie gets a big dose of charm from its esteemed cast, with Depp delivering dialogue that would have sounded ludicrous from a lesser actor. This may not be a great movie, but it is guaranteed to put you in an amorous mood.

Benny & Joon (1993): Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik with Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson. An oddball love story about a fey loner named Sam (Johnny Depp), who falls in love with the mentally unbalanced Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), who lives in the care of her protective brother Benny (Aidan Quinn). This 1993 story is hard to swallow, with its message that love can conquer a brand of mental illness that manifests itself in pyromania: Joon has a bad habit of going a bit around the bend and setting fires, but Sam's tender care apparently has the cure for what ails her. Still, if you want proof that Depp has significant chops as a physical comedian, give this film a try: He does note-perfect renditions of slapstick routines made famous by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.