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Created: 05/21 01:00 pm
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Glitter [the movie]
Okay so those of us who know the movie are aware that it came out a few years ago with Mariah Carey as the starring actress and a guy named Max Beesley (whom I never saw again afterward) as a co star.
I didn't think the movie was HORRIBLE, I thought it was okay, but I was reading on the internet that it was by far the WORST movie ever! do you agree?
Here's a review I found on the internet:
The screenplay, presumably written in crayon, would make Joe Eszhertas weep. The rags to riches story starts out with Billie (Mariah) being given up to social services after her chain smoking, lounge singing junkie of a mother falls asleep with a lit Camel and burns the house down. After a tearful farewell, Billie is hauled off to an orphanage where she makes friends with two other little scamps. The story picks up about 10 years later where Billie is now a dancer with big dreams of being a singer. The only other people in her life are her two friends from the orphanage which immediately raises the question: how much sympathy can we muster from someone so limited in their social skills that they can only make two friends over the course of a decade? The rest of the chips predictably fall into place and the movie ends 90 painful minutes later with Billie achieving fame and being reunited with her mother. Throughout the story, Billie finds love, loses love, and has trouble adjusting to the music industry. On the whole, it's about as exiting as an infomercial for steak knives.
All the clichés are present, from her two kooky and kerraazy friends to the fawning publicity agent to the faceless record company goons who try to control her career. But the oddest thing is that there's never any real challenge or adversity that Mariah has to face. It's strange, but everything that she achieves is essentially given to her with very little work on her part. Someone else spots her at a club, someone else produces her album, someone else gets the album picked up by a major label, someone else guides her through the video-making process. Aren't rags to riches stories supposed to be about perseverance in the face of adversity? Here, there's no Horatio Alger inventiveness, no sense of divine providence, no idea of karma, nothing. Just Mariah getting everything handed to her on a silver platter. The amount of emotion that the movie generates could be placed in the eye of a needle, still leaving room for a few strands of thread.
If you want to watch the movie it's on youtube.
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