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#26

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 3/10/05 at 7:10pm

How can we have a worst movie ever discussion without acknowledging the wonder that is "Glitter" with Mariah Carey?
So bad I loved every minute.
Honorable mention goes to "Autumn in New York"...a disgrace.
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#28

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 3/10/05 at 8:21pm

I haven't seen many movies in the past 35 years, but I did see something on TV a while back that was so dreadful I couldn't pull away from it. It starred Lily Tomlin and John Travolta, who played a character named "Strip". There was a scene where Tomlin was talking to him on the phone and said, "Oh Strip, Strip, Strip" in such a deadpan manner that it was hysterically funny. It wasn't supposed to be!
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#29

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 3/10/05 at 9:39pm

Rath--you'll be very interested in the upcoming VC Andrews series. It features a teenage girl whose sister is a...(gasp!)...LESBIAN!

(So much for always using the same plot...)
#30

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 3/10/05 at 10:01pm

There are worse movies than "Flowers in the Attic." Roller Boogie, Can't Stop the Music, Xanadu, Airport 79, Lost Horizon, Grease 2, From Justin To Kelly, The Pirate Movie, Zapped and Endless Love, just to name a few. Man, I've seen alot of bad movies!
#31

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 3/10/05 at 11:59pm

i'm going to nominate:

nearly every movie made in the early to mid 90's
the remake of Godzilla
the Polar Express
Pokemon 2
and also- i haven't seen flowers in the attic since i was a kid, but i loved it then! i thought it was so scary. i should totally read the book though. or apparently, the series?
#33

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 9:44am


Hilarious Slate article about You Know What!
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#34

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:08am

Borstal, all of the girls were obsessed with VC Andrews in junior high (and, yes, at the time I also thought it was a work of genius)! The author also mentioned my other pre-teen favorite...Judy Blume's Forever. Who could forget Ralph the penis?

That was fun read...thanks for posting it.
#35

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:34am

Dolly, that Lily Tomlin/John Travolta classic was called "Moment by Moment." Talk about your sexual chemistry! Tomlin's lover wrote & directed it. My favorite line was when Lily (As the older lonely woman) wanted Travolta (as the hot young stud) to undress and she said "Strip, Strip!"
#36

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:42am

I think Flowers in the Attic is one of the camp classics. It is an awful lot of fun to watch. I mean Louise Fletcher gets the Faye Dunaway award. "I will give you food and shelter, but never love." The movie is a guilty pleasure of mine and I always thought the guy who played Chris was HOT!!!
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#37

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:48am

Didn't they cut all the incest???
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#39

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:50am

That looks incest-free, PJ. I like my VC with fam-on-fam action.
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Updated On: 12/7/07 at 10:50 AM

#41

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:01am

I'm a bit of a purist. If there's going to be incest, it has to be twins so I know they're related.
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#42

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:06am

Hee! Matt, Chris and Cathy weren't twins, though. The younger ones, Cory and Carrie, were. Carrie developed a giant head from lack of sunlight and being in the attic for too long!

Updated On: 12/7/07 at 11:06 AM

#45

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:20am

Chris: Look at you in your black dress. Your fancy jewels. Your pinched face. We're not afraid of you! We laugh at you! Do you hear that? We laugh!
#46

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:29am

blueroses - And that is why I heart you.

Windy - LOVE your avatar!
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#47

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 1:05pm

Borstal - yep all the incest was cut when it was made into a movie.

The books are trashy, gothic melodrama, but like the Slate article points out, they are so infinitely readable. The best are the first two written, Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind, and the final book in the series, the prequel Garden of Shadows.

When I was in 8th grade I decided I was going to write a musical version of Flowers in the Attic. It never went very far, alas..
#48

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 1:10pm

The only other book of hers I could get through other than the Dollanganger books was My Sweet Audrina, another psycho-sexual horror story.
#49

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 1:32pm

I remember thinking that Victoria Tennant was the worst actress I'd ever seen.
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#50

re: Worst Movie Ever: Flowers in the Attic

Posted: 12/7/07 at 1:36pm

I know I saw the movie, but all I can remember about it was how I wanted one of those silver powdered sugar shakers.
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