MOMMIE D****ST!!!

Michael O'Regan · Post by **Michael O'Regan** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:59 am

I watched this yesterday for the first time and felt like I needed a shower afterwards!!

It's a terrible film.

westegg · Post by **westegg** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:57 am

What took you so long?

It was such a cable staple during the '80s; where to begin? For me the highlight was Crawford/Dunaway slapping the hell out of her snippy teen daughter.

salus · Post by **salus** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:24 am

I thought Dunaway looked soo much like Crawford!

Michael O'Regan · Post by **Michael O'Regan** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:52 am

westegg wrote:What took you so long?

Funnily enough, I actually projected it when it first came out as I was a projectionist in a theatre in Ireland at the time - but, I only ever got to actually watch small snatches at that time.

Even last night I missed the beginning - just came upon it while channel hopping.

But.....yeuuuuucccchhhh!!

westegg · Post by **westegg** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:16 am

For what it's worth, I think Dunaway always blamed this film for ruining her career.

Don't you feel guilty now?

Harlett O'Dowd · Post by **Harlett O'Dowd** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:45 am

No other film, not even Golden Dawn, gives me more pleasure.

That's not to say it's a good film. It's not.

But it is extremely entertaining: Crawford's life as a post-MGM Crawford movie, replete with the younger woman as the antagonist.

Who can resist a film that inspires something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGkjmUsIFR0

Michael O'Regan · Post by **Michael O'Regan** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 11:53 am

Who can resist a film that inspires something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGkjmUsIFR0

Hah, that's cool

silentkermy · Post by **silentkermy** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:39 pm

i love the film but i always viewed it as a comedy

but to be honest she looked just like crawford.

oddly its one of my most watched dvds (next to the ab fab series and red headed woman)

Frederica · Post by **Frederica** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:52 pm

silentkermy wrote:i love the film but i always viewed it as a comedy but to be honest she looked just like crawford.

oddly its one of my most watched dvds (next to the ab fab series and red headed woman)

I'm sensing a trend.

Jack Theakston · Post by **Jack Theakston** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:46 pm

Really? You guys think Dunaway really looked like Crawford in that film? Great impression, but hardly the same looks. Wrong eyebrows completely, Dunaway's cheekbones are too high, she has differently shaped eyes, too broad a nose, and Crawford's lips were really full as opposed to Dunaway's painted-on monstrosities.

I find both the film and the book total trash... completely surpassing bad, past "so-bad-it's-good," zooming by "bizarre" and simply back into "unwatchably bad." I still can't tell to this day whether or not the film is supposed to be serious or tongue-in-cheek.

silentstar5 · Post by **silentstar5** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:56 pm

There is a rumor that Joan Crawford is waiting just inside the pearly gates for Faye Dunaway to arrive. She is dressed in her Mildred Pierce fur coat and has been practicing her "Veda smack". Ouch!!!

Michael O'Regan · Post by **Michael O'Regan** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:33 pm

I find both the film and the book total trash.

Me too.