So this was a thing, once

#1

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 8:58pm

ME WANT!!!!!!!

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#2

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 9:04pm

She put on a lot of weight FOR THAT ROLE!.... Never lost it.

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#3

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 9:09pm

You imply it is no longer a thing. It's very much a thing at my house.

#4

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 10:28pm

They should've put her upside down.

#5

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 10:34pm

Poor Shelley. She always tried to make out like she was the next grand dame of acting and then she would go and do schlock like this.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#6

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 10:38pm

That reminds me of this thing.....
Check out this thing...

#7

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 10:38pm

Did anyone see NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE? Little seen Paul Mazursky film that also has Ellen Greene in I think her movie debut.

Anyways, Winters is a knockout in that movie.

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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#8

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 10:47pm

If you want to see more of Shelley's god-awful acting, watch I Am A Camera. I wish Julie Harris (one of the greatest actresses of all time) would have slapped her black and blue.

Shelley was only good at loud mouth roles. She didn't have the acting ability to play nuance.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#9

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 11:03pm

Shelly Winters was effin' BRILLIANT in POSEIDON ADVENTURE! The suburban Florida audience with whom I saw it the first time burst into applause three times during the sequence where she rescues the preacher and then applauded her name in the end credits! (No, applauding in movie theaters was NOT a thing back then!)

Yes, the movie is schlock, but it's honest schlock that doesn't pretend to be anything else. And it starred some other fine actors, including Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine and Red Buttons.

#10

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 11:26pm

Yeah Shelley Winters is crazy like a fox. She took a huge payday, totally played against type and scored an academy award nomination.

Not only was Poseidon Adventure the top grossing film of the year, it's one of the top ten biggest films of all time if you adjust for ticket price inflation.

#11

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 11:52pm

If by "Top 10" you mean ranked 76th, you're right

#12

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 11:53pm

But she was the best Myrtle ever in The Great Gatsby.

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#13

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/8/13 at 11:56pm

And it was not the top grossing film of the year

#14

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 12:04am

No, you're right. It was released on Christmas of 1972 and dominated box office of 1973. It was the top grossing film of THAT year.

I won't get into the "all-time" chart- I shouldn't have brought it up as there are as many ways to look at the "adjusted" numbers as tears shed when Shelley hands off those swimming medals.

#15

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 12:15am

LOL. Nope, not tops in '73 either; it would come in 4th

Updated On: 6/9/13 at 12:15 AM

#16

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 10:09am

Master Bates cut it out. You're just nit picking at this point and coming off as really obnoxious. The movie is a bonafide cult classic due to it's immense popularity which began pretty much as soon as the film was released.

If you don't care for it, that's cool but what you are doing is just childish.

#17

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 10:36am

Sorry if my love of cinema and facts bother you. If I were really nitpicking I would point out that "nit picking" is one word, "it's" should not have an apostrophe, and "which" should be "that".

#18

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:07am

Gee, PJ, thanks for that SPOILER ALERT.

Check Shirley out in Night of the Hunter and Place in the Sun to see her in her prime. Both classic films with great performances by all.

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#19

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:47am

Yes, Shelley was terrible in the Poseidon Adventure. The Academy thought so too when they nominated her for an Oscar for it. She won the Golden Globe for that performance, too.

Such a shame.

EDIT: By the way, that doll is fab.

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Updated On: 6/9/13 at 11:47 AM

#20

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:56am

Masterbates, I think your devotion to "the facts" is admirable but when it comes to film box office reports, superfluous. It has reminded me, however, why you never ever ever quote them- someone will always dispute them.

#21

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 12:18pm

I wasn't trying to prove you wrong or be an ass, I was just interested to see how much it made, again being a cinephile. Do you have a site that supports your theory, though? I can see how the all-time adjusted for inflation list might differ but by that much?

Updated On: 6/9/13 at 12:18 PM

#22

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 1:05pm

I wasn't trying to prove you wrong or be an ass..

And yet, you are just not trying hard enough because you've failed on both counts.

Feel free to proofread that.

Updated On: 6/9/13 at 01:05 PM

#23

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 1:35pm

Look at you getting all the letters in the right order and all. Such a big boy!

#24

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 4:31pm

Compared to you, yes I am.

Updated On: 6/9/13 at 04:31 PM

#25

So this was a thing, once

Posted: 6/9/13 at 4:51pm

I could care less about the statistics. It's my all-time favorite disaster film and one of my all-time favorite films, period. I adore every second of it and I still think it holds up extremely well.

I want that doll SO BAD.

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