Up next in my year long tribute to Depp’s acting career is a review of his first movie role post-Jump Street. This time out Depp teamed up with a fellow outsider, director John Waters to make Cry-Baby a campy, musical send up 1950s juvenile delinquent films like Rebel Without a…
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Private Resort (1985)
The second film in my year of watching Johnny Depp films is the 1985 comedy Private Resort that features Johnny and Rob Morrow as two horn dog teenagers (early 20s?) that spend a weekend at posh resort trying to nail anything that moves. (Wow, I think I just slipped into…
Welcome to a Year of Living Depp-erously.
So despite having both a website Andy’s Anachronisms since 1999 and a personal journal over at LiveJournal since 2003, I felt the overwhelming urge to join the masses and start my own blog in 2013. What prompted this awakening you ask? Well, besided the fact that I have owned the SooGuy.com domain…
Platoon (1986)
Just a little disclaimer for anyone stumbling upon this review via a search engine. This is the third in a series of reviews discussing Johnny Depp’s acting career. If you’re looking for straight up review of the movie Platoon, you’re probably better off looking elsewhere. Written and directed by Oliver Stone,…
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Before Johnny Depp became the Johnny Depp we’ve come to know and love for his unique characters that fall outside society’s norms, he played the clean-cut, prep/jock, boy next door Glen Lantz in the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street. His role in this movie consists of being the…