Rosemary's Baby!

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 3:48pm

Don't you just LOVE this movie!

I do and I love how it's a bit of a glimpse into NY at this time!

The Acting is WONDERFUL.

The Saw this movie before I even knew that Ruth Gordon won the Academy Award, and when I found out, I was like "I Knew It"! She was so good!

Mia Farrow should have been nominated too! She really gets into the character and you do feel for her and when everyone else is against her, you feel that! Best thing I've ever seen her in!

The two lead men are great too :)!

Heck, I even like the lady who was Laura-Lousie!

[broadway86]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 3:53pm

Another one of my all-time favorites. Creepy stuff. Ruth Gordon is excellent in this, but Mia Farrow also deserved an Oscar nomination.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 4:36pm

I love the movie, but I still wish they would have shown the baby. The end of the sequel (book), it is such a cop out.

Posted: 2/8/06 at 5:57pm

I like how they don't show the baby. I've got a way f*cked up imagination, so everytime I see it, I get all freaked out. I imagine this ten armed, green, one eyed freak thing. With horns.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 6:04pm

I was upset about that when I first saw it. But perhaps it's a good thing because I'm sure what they were able to create at that time would look really funny now and perhaps make the film campy.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 7:29pm

The scarey thing about this movie is..the baby was born on my birthday..my siblings always liked to point that out to me.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 7:34pm

You know, I've always felt that ROSEMARY'S BABY needed an exclamation point (!)

[grizzabella]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 7:41pm

This was probably one of the first spooky movies I ever saw and I can still remember it. Ruth Gordon did a tremendous job and I recall being totally creeped out by her. Possibly Mia Farrows best work. One of these days, I have to find it on DVD or something and take another look.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 7:54pm

BOOK SEQUEL SPOILER

At the end of the sequel you find out that Rosemary dreamed this whole thing, so she never gave birth to Satan's child. Again, such a cop out.

[Glebb]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 8:10pm

"Did you drink your herbal?"

[loudasthehelliwant]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 8:32pm

Ugh, that is a copout.

Great movie, though.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 8:35pm

I think the rape scene with her and satan is the freakiest thing I have ever seen on film. Do you know that the woman that played Rosemary (forgot her name) and Frank Sinatra got divorced over this movie, because Frank did not want her to do it but she did it anyway?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 9:16pm

I love the book and I love the movie.

And Glebb--don't cha just LOVE Lara-Louise?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 9:17pm

"The scarey thing about this movie is..the baby was born on my birthday..my siblings always liked to point that out to me."

Really?

SH*T.

Why does that not surprise me.

Updated On: 2/8/06 at 09:17 PM

[Lamc16]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 9:30pm

This is a great film. Gordon was amazing. She cracks me up everytime! Robert Evans talks about producing this film in the documentary "The Kid Stays in the Picture" but in more detail in his book of the same title...

Mia Farrow was married to Frank Sinatra when she started to work on "Rosemary." It was one of her first films. Frank was working on a film called "The Detective" during the same time. Sinatra, ever-controlling and covetous of his women didn't want Farrow working on the film any longer. She, being naive and little girl-like thought she should listen to her husband and leave the project. She cried to Evans saying 'I love Frank. I don't want to upset my husband,' blah, blah, blah. Evans, being the super-smart producer that he would like us to believe he was, took Farrow to see a rough cut of the film. He abated her tears with promises of an Oscar nomination--promises no actress could ignore. Not only did Farrow divorce Sinatra shortly there after, she got cocky and insisted they open "Rosemary's Baby" the same weekend as Frank's film, "The Detective," because she was sure it would blow it out of the water, which it did. She was not nominated for an Oscar for the film.

[PJ]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 9:35pm

One of my all-time favorites!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 9:44pm

Thanks, Undi.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 10:40pm

This quote seems appropriate (given the birthday scenario...)

Minnie Castevet: Now! That's what I call the long arm of coincidence!

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 10:42pm

Thanks everyone!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 10:58pm

Glad you brought it up!

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:12pm

This is a very creepy movie. There were many points of anxiety in it, such as the rape scene with Satan, and the pursuing scene towards the end of the movie, and the ever so dark ending. I agree that they really should've shown the baby, but, ah well.

The lullaby at the beggining and end is sung by Mia Farrow. Did anyne else know that? She sounds pretty decent, and sets the creepy mood of the film.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:13pm

Interesting about the lullaby. I don't think I knew that.

Updated On: 2/8/06 at 11:13 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:16pm

I've seen this film about a dozen times, and they don't show the baby. However, I could swear that the first time I saw it, there was a brief quick flash of it. I remember seing the yellow eyes on the face. I never saw it again after that.

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:21pm

Jane2: I also recall seeing that flash when I saw it too. It gives me chills thinking about it now.

Another interesting fact: The apartment building in the film is also the Dakota building, where John Lennon was shot.

Here's a link with a few more interesting facts and rumors:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/trivia

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:27pm

Oh, good Piazza-I'm not the only one and I wasn't imagining it. that brief flash was the most frightening moment in the film for me.