Movies I Cant Stand!

[hyedenny]

182 minutes of Judy Garland's annoying vibrato followed by 155 minutes of Barbra Streisand's face and schtick: I will either go insane or turn this crap OFF. How do gay guys enjoy this stuff?

[FredCDobbs]

Oh, isn?t she just gorgeous! I just love her hair style. I wonder who her hair dresser is?

 

[kriegerg69]

> {quote:title=hyedenny wrote:}{quote}

> 182 minutes of Judy Garland's annoying vibrato followed by 155 minutes of Barbra Streisand's face and schtick: I will either go insane or turn this crap OFF. How do gay guys enjoy this stuff?

 

I don't....I think Judy's version is extremely overrated. Way too many musical numbers (although Judy herself is a classic) which go on TOO long and detract from the story...and I've never been a particular fan of Babs.

 

For telling the story, I prefer the 1937 version with Janet Gaynor....to me, that IS A Star Is Born.

[hyedenny]

At last some great (er, wonderful) entertainment by Fred Dobbs!! (What are you doing after the show?)

[FredCDobbs]

This Garland version is the worst movie ever made.

[FredCDobbs]

> {quote:title=hyedenny wrote:}{quote}

> At last some great (er, wonderful) entertainment by Fred Dobbs!! (What are you doing after the show?)

 

Oh, I thought I'd go to a local hetro bar and try to pick up some dame uner 60.

[hyedenny]

Ugh, breeder.

[FredCDobbs]

I got lucky last week. I had a date with Anita Ekberg.

 

http://crimideia.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/anita-ekbergold1.jpg

[kriegerg69]

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}

> I got lucky last week. I had a date with Anita Ekberg.

>

> http://crimideia.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/anita-ekbergold1.jpg

 

"Oh, puh-LEEZ! That's because Anita was DESPERATE, Frederick!"

 

[hyedenny]

YIKES!!! She looks like my date:

 

Image: http://yesbuthowever.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/000AHELEN.jpg

[kriegerg69]

> {quote:title=hyedenny wrote:}{quote}

> YIKES!!! She looks like my date:

>

> Image: http://yesbuthowever.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/000AHELEN.jpg

 

Hyedenny, you poor thing you...

 

[FredCDobbs]

I?ve been trying to get a date with Elizabeth Taylor.

 

http://www.topnews.in/files/Elizabeth-Taylor.jpg

[hyedenny]

oh, youre simply divine.

[hyedenny]

She looks better than Monty does. Poor guy. He's my hero.

[kriegerg69]

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}

> Ive been trying to get a date with Elizabeth Taylor.

>

> http://www.topnews.in/files/Elizabeth-Taylor.jpg

 

[hyedenny]

Albert gets the last lick?

[kriegerg69]

> {quote:title=hyedenny wrote:}{quote}

> Albert gets the last lick?

 

I won't even go there...

 

[hyedenny]

...but ya are, Blanch - ya ARE there!

[FredCDobbs]

I don't understand why anyone would like this movie. Garland is old, ugly, fat, a sloppy dresser, with an idiotic hair style.

 

Why does TCM show this movie so much?

 

Why is it "essential"?

 

Why is it ever shown?

 

Her voice is ok for people who like that old-fashioned '50s music. So go play her CDs and keep the movie off the air. There is no need to see a fat, ugly, old sloppy Judy Garland.

[kriegerg69]

> {quote:title=hyedenny wrote:}{quote}

> ...but ya are, Blanch - ya ARE there!

 

[kriegerg69]

Judy was only in her 30's when she made it...hardly "old".

 

Personally, Fred....I much prefer one of Judy's last films, "I Could Go On Singing". Partially because it's very dramatic and doesn't overdo the music (and also seems to be reflective of her own life), and also because it's fun hearing Judy swear....the only time I can recall ever hearing her cuss on-screen (she says "God***n" in one scene).

[hyedenny]

But we're putting her in a thread where we're supposed to be talking about movies we cant stand. Sacrilege!! I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!! I think it shows genius on many levels.

[John_Boy]

I love both Funny Girl and A Star is Born. I don't like most of Streisand's A Star is Born (except Evergreen) though.

[ValentineXavier]

I call all versions A Star Is Bored.

[Ray Faiola]

Maybe you'd prefer Columbia's 1939 two-reeler - A STAR IS SHORN !