Edward Scissorhands - Nostalgia Critic

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Tim Burton and Danny Elfman both called this their favorite of everything they’ve done

"Hold me." "I can't." This exchange always broke my heart as a child.

I still get choked up at the ending. The town rejected him, demonized him, chased him out... but he gives them a gift every year. The gift of snow. It's a gift they may or may not deserve, but he does it anyway because he is a pure and gentle soul.

Probably the saddest yet eeriest thing about the flashback where Edward's creator dies it that it was the last scene Vincent Price ever filmed.

The first collaboration between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, and it was great

This is one of my sister's favorite movies! And it's also one of my favorites as well. RIP, Vincent Price, 1911-1993. This was his final film role.

I love how NC has evolved. Back in 2010, my 18 year old self thought him yelling all the time was the funniest thing in the world, but he knew he couldn't just do that for the rest of his career. Now I love his thoughtful reviews, with the occasional screaming meltdown that made him famous. edit As someone mentioned, he didn't just "yell all the time," and he did give insightful reviews. But his meltdowns were what I was waiting for. At the time, I thought it was hilarious. I still do think it's pretty funny, when I watch his old reviews, but like I said, I love how he's evolved.

Whoever decided to cast Winona Ryder in Stranger Things is genius. Her being the mom in that show is almost a passing of the torch as she was great in movies such as Edward Scissorhands and other 80’s and 90’s flicks

This movie is one of the reasons why I love Johnny Depp. He doesn't need to say much to show so many emotions. And the romance is so pure in a way most films seem to shy away from. Tim Burton is a genius and this is one of his best.

If you're used to seeing Anthony Michael Hall as a nerd in various John Hughes movies, then it will come as a shock to see him as a bullying jock.

I loved this movie because this was Vincent Price’s final film role (BIG fan of his). This felt like the right film to bow out on. Fun fact: they had Price’s daughter in the film as a news woman. And “Nightmare Before Christmas” ALMOST became his last film; Burton managed to get Price out of retirement to play Santa Claus. He managed to do a recording, but Price’s health was taking a bad toll and even Henry Selick felt that iconic voice was a shell of its former self and never used. Sadly, some time after “Nightmare Before Christmas”, Price passed away. The recording is said to be lost, but there are people who believe Burton has it. If it’s true, I hope he releases it at some point.

No words can describe how great Edward Scissorhands is.

A Writing Fact: Tim Burton wrote Winona Ryder's character as a popular cheerleader who is pretty much the antithesis of Ms. Ryder. In 'Burton on Burton', the director laughs about how unusual it was to see Ryder in the girly outfit. "It was so funny," Burton recalls. "I used to laugh every day when I saw her walk on the set wearing this little cheerleader outfit and a Hayley Mills-type blonde wig. She looked like Bambi."

Imagine if Del Torro and Burton could keep their interests for 6 minutes

The “Ice Dance” song is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, both in and out of movies. Just something so heart wrenching yet hauntingly hopeful about it.

Honestly one of my favorite things about this movie that I'm genuinely surprised NC didn't bring up is Edward's dialouge with other characters or rather lack of dialouge. One of the reasons i think this movie and this character is so well remembered and loved is how much emotion Johnny Depp pulls off with very little words to work with. Like him and Kim don't have THAT many scenes together talking and yet you completely buy the fact that he's falling in love with her just by the emotions on his face. Same for when he gets angry. When he starts to snap he doesn't say anything or yell or scream but as NC said he takes it out on the hedges and his clothes. The way that i describe this movie best to people that haven't seen it is "it's like Frankenstein meets Beauty and the Beast." Everyone sees the comparison to Frankenstein in how the town accepts him just to hate him later on but i feel like the love story really is similar to that of Beauty and the Beast. The first time she sees him she's scared of him and runs away and even he's kinda nervous of her as well but over time they grow a inexplainable bond with one another. Hell you could even argue that Jim is Gaston cause he is the tough guy that gets the girl of his dreams. It really does fit. Just my two cents though

Edward Scissorhands is one of my all time favorite Johnny Depp films! Just as the character of Edward Scissorhands is one of my all time favorite Johnny Depp roles! his performance as the character was just marvelous!!!

As a reformed punk/goth kid Edward Scissorhands is always a go to film to during the holidays. My only critique is the point at 13:49 about the point that the neighborhood turns on Edward. I personally think that is great choice because as you said it’s not what you expect the turning point to be since you have all of these scenes before hand, that would be the more obvious places to put it, it constantly keeps you on your toes while watching the film since you don’t want something bad to happen to Edward. in terms for it not being relatable if you look at the film through the lens that many reviewers do as it being an allegory for people with disabilities and how they’re often treated, it tends to make a lot more sense. it’s not an uncommon story to hear within the disability community, particularly the autism community, (Burton has said in past interviews that he believes he has autism so it wouldn’t be a far-fetched to say It may have influenced the film) of falling into the wrong crowd, and doing things that get you in trouble because have spent your whole life being so isolated that you wanna fit in so bad that you miss a lot of red flags that most people would easily see. put that on top of the immense trust and loyalty, we give to people that we believe to be our friends it often makes us easy, pray and an easy Patsy these situations.

I love how this film is a reverse of the classic fairytale trope of the people learning to love a monster. Here, he starts off being loved by the people, and slowly grow to become afraid of him. Its a clever reverse of the formula we've seen so much