Roger Ebert is a genius

[Bat Boy]

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is on IFC right now.

The Carrie Nations rock, in a completely mediocre way.

[jpgray]

1. Isn't that a Russ Meyer film?

Ebert is hit and miss for me.

[Fenris]

2. Ebert wrote it

[jpgray]

3. Yeah, but didn't Meyer have his mammae-obsessed tentacles in there?

I could have sworn he directed the thing.

edit: Okay, yeah he did. Google is my friend. :silly:

[Bat Boy]

4. Meyer directed, Ebert wrote

Frickin' hysterical...

[DrWeird]

5. i haven't seen it.

I've been told that it's horrible. But is it horrible because of horrible writing? Or because of horrible production, acting, directing, editing, or a combination thereof?

[Bat Boy]

6. So horrible it's beautiful.

Every aspect of it is magnificently horrific.

[Spinzonner]

7. The Showgirls of its day

The really good ones - and the really bad ones - last.

[flamingyouth]

8. It's just about my favorite movie ever

"Find It," the opening song, is fucking brilliant. So many great lines, like, "This is my happening and it freaks me out!" "You're a groovy boy; I'd like to strap you on sometime" and "Hey, man, that's really getting it together!" added to the general campiness of it, well, this is one weird-ass film.

I saw this in a rep theater in high school, without having any idea what to expect. Now, I think it's been so overblown by people like myself that it's lost the allure it had for me back in the '80s.:D

[Bat Boy]

9. "You will drink the black sperm of my vengeance!"

I think...yes, I do believe I peed a little...

[flamingyouth]

12. Greatest, most obtuse movie threat ever

What were they thinking when they wrote that? Rather, what were they ON, and where can I get some of it? :shrug:

[Susang]

10. It's my happening and it FREAKS ME OUT!

Well, it is!

[flamingyouth]

11. And, really, how could it NOT be?

:shrug:

[kodi]

13. better than valley of the dolls.

i had this vision of bogey nights meets gilligan's island as i watched it.

[flamingyouth]

14. Your odd flamingyouth factoid of the night

Eve Meyer, Russ' wife, co-produced most of his films and even acted as herself in a film called (I think) "His Handyman" in the early '60s. Mostly she helped get his shit together. They separated in the '70s but remained close until she perished on March 27, 1977, in a collision between two 747s in Tenerife, Canary Islands. If memory serves, that stands as the worst air disaster in history.

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. Yup. Worst air disaster in history.

Well, for plane-board deaths, anyway.

[flamingyouth]

16. Thanks, Al, for the back-up!

I can always count on you to know your disasters!:hi: