Favorite Rotten Movies — Page 3

The Fan has some of the strangest moments captured on film during the 80s. Bacall's first rehearsal with gushing gypsies, when she begs them to be patient (!) because the musical theater is terra nova for her. The show itself, including that "Hearts, Not Diamonds" number (with a chorus chanting "A remarkable woman IS!"), is a sort of cheeseball version of LADY IN THE DARK mixed with outtakes from ALL THAT JAZZ. Bacall wears satin pajamas in something like a jail cell. Whats startling is how it points up Bacall's limitations, and it came out just as she opened in WOMAN OF THE YEAR on b'way. (OT: my favorite Bacall musical moment recorded, "God damn it! I AM! The Wo-MAN! OF! The! YEEEEEEAR!")

The whole show-within-a-movie was filmed in the old Entermedia, down on the lower East Side, and bears no resemblence to a broadway house. Her final confrontation with pouty Bien, when she bravely talks him down, ascends to camp heaven.

I think I know way too much about this movie.

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Updated On: 1/12/04 at 07:21 PM

THE CARDINAL w/Tom Tyron before he wrote dirty books.

It was a bad movie at the time but perhaps improved with age especially since Criterion has distributed it on DVD.

HURRY SUNDOWN with Jane Fonda, directed by Otto Premminger. (I still can't believe he was sleepy with GYPSY.)
A modern story of the true South. ugh!

Bulldog

I love The Cardinal too! I certainly wouldn't rank it in this category.

Plan 9 definitely gets my #1 bad movie vote. Its hilarious to watch.

Anyone ever see Scanners? It was awful. Heads explode - literally! This list is cracking me up!! Blasts from the past. I'll be hitting the library/video store this weekend to look for some of these winners.

Orion- Bay City Rollers -ROFLMAO!!

The FAN's awful musical number brings to mind TORCH SONG and the equally jaw-dropping "Two-Faced Woman"!

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I didn't make it clear that THE CARDINAL was a favorite of mine, too. I saw the film about 5 times. It was generally panned when it opened which I intended to convey. The score was indeed haunting Auggie. It was written my Jerome Moross who:

"...wrote music for a variety of different media, but seemed most at home composing ballets. He dabbled in Broadway show music (notably 1954's The Golden Apple) and in classical forms, and, between 1948 and 1969, he wrote a series of motion picture scores...

Moross also wrote the score for THE BIG COUNTRY, that terrific Western.

Bulldog

Updated On: 1/13/04 at 09:47 PM

Does anyone know the name of the television movie where Linda Purl and Shaun Cassidy played mentally challended people in love? That ended his career as an "actor" pretty quickly.

And "Lace"- "Which of you bitches is my mother?"

I want Phoebe Cates to attend the get together and say that to someone.

My best friend (like an American Rupert Evert) read me chapters from a book called SCREENING ROOM- it was very rude and very funny. We only read the chapter on SOUND OF MUSIC but I want to read more of it.

Have people forgotten SHOWGIRLS so soon?

"I'm not a STRIPPAH, I'm a DANCE-AH!"

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The Cardinal may have been panned by critics when it first came out but I never thought of it as a bad movie in the same sense as some of the others we've listed here. Of course, the fact that as a child I thought Montgomery Clift was the most handsome man in the world probably taints my opinion of any movie in which he starred.

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Orion, I think you are confusing THE CARDINAL with I CONFESS. Tom Tyron was in THE CARDINAL, Clift in I CONFESS.

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Mrs B - Shaun Cassidy and Linda Purl were in "Like Normal People"

I wish someone knew the name of the 70s movie I described with the psycho girl in the attic that removes her wig wearing a white nightgown. I think she turned out to be a man in drag. I really want to see that again.

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Maybe it was Namo. I'm sure he'd like to get in a few stabs.

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lassy, that was the other thing about The Fan that I found unbelievable. A young good looking guy becomes infatuated with her, an old, nicotine stained, gravely voiced diva witch.

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Thanks to Sueleen and Mister Matt for the assist on the name of the movie!