Best movie starring Johnny Depp?

Answer 1

From what I've seen (I like Depp, but am not a huge fan), my #1 is Ed Wood.

Answer 2

Cry Baby and Ed Wood--its a tie

Cry Baby is fun and such a throwback to the teen movies of the 50's and 60's. And the songs are great too--I still sing them from time to time (downloaded from Limewire )

AND Johnny Depp in his underwear helps too ;o)

Answer 3

not just because they are recent, but I really enjoy him as Captain Jack Sparrow! One of the best cinematic performances ever!! Its a rare thing for a film like that to get nominations for Oscars, but johnny depp was nominated for Pirates, that should tell you how fabulous that character is!

Answer 4

Nightmare on Elm Street, Sleepy Hallow, From Hell, Platoon, Secret Window and both Pirates of the Caribbean

What can I say the guy is good.

Answer 5

Edward Scissorhands and What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Oh, and Benny & Joon.

Answer 6

The Man Who Cried

Answer 7

A Nightmare On Elm Street. It's a classic.

Answer 8

It amazing that no one else has mentioned this one, cause I think its his best any day. Also one of the craziest performances by Benicio Del Toro. I love this movie, its totally whacked out, psychedelic and absolutely psychotically funny.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1998) Directed by Terry Gilliam
Synopsis
“We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold.” It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels towards Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo. But what is ostensibly a cut-and-dried journalistic endeavor quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey and an excoriating dissection of the American way of life. Director Terry Gilliam and an all-star cast (headlined by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro) show no mercy in bringing Dr. Hunter S, Thompson’s legendary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage.
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=175

Memorable Quotes -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/quotes

Another one of my favorite Johnny Depp FIlms is-

DEAD MAN (1995) by Jim Jarmusch
DEAD MAN tracks a young man's Homeric odyssey through the nineteenth-century American West. Lost and badly wounded, William Blake (Johnny Depp) encounters an outcast Native American named "Nobody" (Gary Farmer). Contrary to Blake's nature, circumstances transform him into a hunted outlaw, a killer and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. The story leads the two men through situations that are in turn comical and violent, which ultimately change their unlikely union into friendship.

DEAD MAN is written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Night on Earth, Mystery Train, Stranger Than Paradise) , with an internationally renowned cast and a score composed by Neil Young.
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/films/mx/deadman/aboutm.htm

Dead Man is ultimately less a political treatise and more an allegorical cinematic poem in which, through a merging of the traditional iconography of the Western and the radical poetry of William Blake, Jarmusch succeeds in creating a filmic analogue of Blake's subversive poetic vision whilst writing his own personal Lament for the fate Innocence at the hands of Experience. The result is a film that, in spite of the vehemence of its language - in lines that are taken directly from Blake- and the violence of its images - derived from the Western genre itself- actually comes to function in a highly contemplative mode. By the deliberate use of the fade out as a form of visual punctuation- a device introduced early in the film and then used consistently throughout- the narration is broken up into what appear almost as a series of juxtaposed tableaux vivants related by a slow, hypnotic rhythm, which thus makes a viewing of the film into something akin to a spiritual meditation.

Such a viewing ultimately gives the lie to the epigraph by Henri Michaux, which introduces the film, "It's preferable not to travel with a dead man" for those who have made the journey with, and through, Dead Man will know that it offers a sublime poetic experience like few others in our jaded contemporary culture.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/14/dead_man.html

More info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man

Review-
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/0696/06286.html

Answer 9

Charlie & The chocolate Factory

Answer 10

Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Man's Chest or Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.
"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"