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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:3
Rotten:7
Average Rating:4.1/10
Reviews for I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
The budgets of [Wood's] own efforts would have been splurged within the first minute of DIED's title credits
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.
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.
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.
Like all of the films Ed Wood directed, this new movie is a pure and simple dud.
hough the film is distinctive, its unique style wore thin after about 20 minutes, and as it progressed, watching became a chore.
What redeems the whole enterprise is the affection that paradoxically comes through from its director, who obviously has tender memories of Mr. Wood.
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.
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