The films of Johnny Depp, rated from 'good' to 'WTF is this total shit?'
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- 15 Apr 2022
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Johnny Depp is a versatile, talented actor, which makes his film choices and frequent crap performances all the more baffling. Here’s what to add to your watchlist and what to avoid:
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Johnny’s best film, a funny, exciting, moving bit of gothic retro. Gone are the days of having his scenes all cut from Platoon or being teenage Freddy Krueger fodder in Nightmare on Elm Street. Yes, Johnny can’t go wrong now.
Ed Wood (1994)
Depp takes a chance on this quirky tale of the strange director of Plan 9 from Outer Space. The critical acclaim pours in. He really does have a knack for picking good projects, huh?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Exhausting remake of the 1971 film which is only marginally less traumatising for a child to watch than Come and See. Tim Burton ODs on the CGI as usual, and Johnny is tiresomely wacky, as if you hadn’t had quite enough of that sort of thing from Gene Wilder.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Fun blockbuster, and only film bores who hate everything except Chinatown and Tarkovsky’s Stalker can’t enjoy it for what it is. However that Keith Richards impression starts to get on your tits after a while. Hopefully Johnny won’t do that sort of thing again.
From Hell (2001)
What the f**k is that accent? Even if you can ignore Depp’s strangulated cockney wittering, the film doesn’t get better. Alan Moore’s ideas about conspiracies and freemasonry don’t really feature and it’s more bog standard Ripper fare. You may as well just watch one of those bollocks History Channel shows with a title like Was Queen Victoria the Real Jack the Ripper?
Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Not very good, and raises the question, why is Johnny Depp in this? Normally it’s left to James Corden to do the voices for crap animated films. However it was probably an easy pay cheque, so maybe a good decision on the off-chance he ended up in a terrifyingly expensive libel case. Read More…
