{"id":373,"date":"2006-08-10T14:11:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/plan-9-from-outer-space\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T21:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T01:15:58","slug":"plan-9-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/plan-9-from-outer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"If all bad movies could be this bad: Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2b50<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>Rating: 0.5 out of 5.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n

Glorious! A masterpiece! Three cheers for Edward D. Wood, Jr.: writer, director, editor, and genuine auteur! Don’t let the no-stars rating fool you; this was so<\/em> much more fun than some of our other no-stars, recently including The Wind in the Willows<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If only all bad movies<\/a> were this bad<\/a>. Seriously, it’s impossible to consciously make a cult film by expensively camping it up (as Tim Burton tried with Mars Attacks<\/em>) or playing it straight (read Esquire<\/em> nail exactly how<\/a> Snakes on a Plane<\/em> is misconceived). And I don’t mean to dump on Tim Burton; not coincidentally his eponymous Ed Wood<\/em> is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I think one of Burton’s best. I do, however, mean to dump on Snakes on a Plane<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glorious! A masterpiece! Three cheers for Edward D. Wood, Jr.: writer, director, editor, and genuine auteur! Don’t let the no-stars rating fool you; this was so much more fun than some of our other no-stars, recently including The Wind in the Willows. If only all bad movies were this bad. Seriously, it’s impossible to consciously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[1754,985],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-0-stars","category-movies","tag-ed-wood","tag-tim-burton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/plan-9-from-outer-space-feature.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-61","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":747,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/sweeney-todd-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street\/","url_meta":{"origin":373,"position":0},"title":"Oi t’ink Tim Burton’s up to summat in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"April 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of a conversation about movies with this blogger is no doubt aware that I like musicals about as much as I like biopics. 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