The budgets of [Wood's] own efforts would have been splurged within the first minute of DIED's title credits
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11/14/07
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
30 %
Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 3 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 4.1/10
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Billy Zane
Screenwriter: Edward D. Wood
Reviews
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Nothing could be more lethal to a Wood script than actors who not only think they're hipper than what they're trying to do, but who also make sure that the audience knows it.
04/03/01
Wood's bargain-basement aesthetic is impossible to parody. That this mime show works better than it should is, in a sense, the ultimate dis.
04/03/01
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04/03/01
It's sad and misguided and boring. Pretending to make a pathetically amateurish movie isn't nearly as effective as accidentally making one because you don't know any better.
04/03/01
Top Critic
Like all of the films Ed Wood directed, this new movie is a pure and simple dud.
01/01/00
hough the film is distinctive, its unique style wore thin after about 20 minutes, and as it progressed, watching became a chore.
01/01/00
What redeems the whole enterprise is the affection that paradoxically comes through from its director, who obviously has tender memories of Mr. Wood.
01/01/00
I can recommend three more enjoyable alternatives: counting the number of hairs on the back of your forearm, practicing breaking a cinder block in half with your bare hand, or submitting to a colonoscopy.
01/01/00
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