Mommie Dearest

[kafka]

It's the ultimate Great Bad Movie and it seems to come up in a lot of the threads like "movie lines you always use," "funniest movie quotes," and more.

So, don't be ashamed, you just *know* you want to celebrate all the glorious cheesiness and relive Faye Dunaway looking like this.

Besides, how can you resist "NO WIRE HANGERS"?

Talk about Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid and the immortal Joan Crawford here.

[dwanollah]

Kafka always knows where to find the boys AND the booze!

Yup, not sure what happened to the old Mommie Dearest thread.

Fucking love this movie. One of the best movie experiences ever was seeing this at the Arclight in Hollywood last year with a bunch of friend.

[iceblink]

"Don't fuck with me, fellas. This isn't my first time at the rodeo!"
I covet that huge shower of Joan's.

[Shanmac]

My sister, as she gets older, is turning into Mommie Dearest. She's always screaming at her poor husband about the proper way to clean things.

Is it sick and wrong that, when we were kids, my sister and I (and my mom) would hunker down on the couch with snacks and watch this repeatedly? It was our family favorite.

ETA: I totally get what she hated wire hangers. They ruin the shape of your clothes! I'll show myself out.

[dwanollah]

it's okay, Shanmac... I get all my parenting tips from Mommie Dearest.

[starskin]

iceblink said:

"Don't fuck with me, fellas. This isn't my first time at the rodeo!"

I'm waiting for the day when I can use this line.

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This movie is one of my top five campy favorites (others in top five: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Showgirls and Death of a Cheerleader).

The whole time Faye was on that horrible WB reality show The Starlet she was giving them acting tips and I would just think of this movie and be like "Yes, Faye, you should totally be the one to teach subtle acting."

[kafka]

One of these years, I'm going to go as Mommie Dearest on Halloween: thick black eyebrows painted on with kohl, a green face mask, red lips and some sort of 50s wig. And a wire hanger, of course!

I found this Wikipedia comment on the film to be rather interesting:

During Faye Dunaway's interview on Bravo's "Inside the Actors Studio", James Lipton saved the topic of "Mommie Dearest" for the end of the interview, being as how Dunaway credits the film for ruining her career. When he comments on her apperance in the film as Joan, Dunaway says that she and the make-up artist worked for hours trying to get the "Crawford look". Finally Faye says she discovered that Joan looked the way she did because of the way she purposely held her facial muscles, thus explaining why Joan looked different in her very early career. Faye says "It was chilling."

I wonder if the film really "ruined" Dunaway's career. It apparently got a bucketful of Raspberry awards for "Worst" everything!

BTW, Dwan, you might be interested to know that the movie apparently got re-released on DVD this summer in a special edition which includes a lengthy commentary by John Waters. I think I'm going to order it!

[dwanollah]

Ooooh! Yes!

And Mommie Dearest with the face cream and scary eye brows is my backup Halloween costume plan most years, too!

Jensational and I need to have a Movie Date.

I've had opportunity to use "Take out that BITCH of a bearing wall and put a window where there OUGHT to be one!" with our house construction.

[iceblink]

dwanollah said:

it's okay, Shanmac... I get all my parenting tips from Mommie Dearest.

Yeah, I know I'm supposed to find it awful that she strapped the kids down in bed, but in reality I always just think it looks like a great way to get some peace and quiet.
Don't worry; I have zero plans to reproduce or adopt.