Mommie Dearest, Work Bitch!

[Blueboy369]

Hello Boys,
Today let us pay homage to the fiercest bitch ever captured on film! Ms.Faye Dunaway as Mommie Dearest. What's your favorite line from the movie?

 

[Ninja108]

I remember that movie... she was one scary bitch!

 

[Absolut]

I've never seen it...

 

[okstatecowboy]

I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at the dirt!


mikey

 

[saebuffyboy]

it must be said.

"don't fuck with me fellas"

 

[Croynan]

I've never seen it...

Don't worry you haven't missed anything of value and or importance. The film was so bad it nearly ended Ms. Dunaway's career. It took her years to recover from being associated with the disaster. The reviews were scathing about the film itself and Ms. Dunaway's performance in particular.

Of course given the source of the subject matter - one Joan Crawford - the film would probably have never been made if the Hollywood Moguls - i. e. the heads of the film studios (commonly known as Hollywood) and the numerous stars in the industry had not kept their mouths shut about her excessive drinking, her lousy personality and worst of all the fact that she was committing child abuse.

Given the details that have since surfaced since her death, she probably would have had legal problems a plenty over her conduct as a "mother? (adopted children, yet) " from both legal and social agency authorities. Further more if they had spoken out, her name probably would have become box office poison but this was the one thing Hollywood did not want to see. After all, her basically class B films were bringing in a lot of money, and as else where $$$$ talks​

One has to wonder what leads homosexuals into seeking such false icons to circle around and glorify way beyond their talent, fame, achievements and said given life style, such as it was and or is. (might as well slam the present as well as the past. this way you get two for the price of one.)

the line for chastising me for my anti homosexual icon remarks forms to the >>>>>>>

a small village idiot i may be, but there are limits to the falsities and or fables one can put up with about one such individual.

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eM. ​

 

[XLeatherX]

"Mommie Dearest was the first comedy about child abuse!"-John Waters

I know the movie isn't supposed to be funny but some parts of it are and of course the "NO WIRE HANGERS!!!!!" part cracks me up as does the "I'm not one of your fans!" line.

 

[josher]

See, here's the thing. I've always believed that the writer and director intended it to be a camp comedy. (Watch the scene when she comes down the staircase. It's right out of Hello Dolly!) Most people don't agree with me though. All I know is the first time I saw it, I laughed so hard tears came from my eyes.

 

[Littleathquakes]

"Mommie Dearest was the first comedy about child abuse!"-John Waters

I know the movie isn't supposed to be funny but some parts of it are and of course the "NO WIRE HANGERS!!!!!" part cracks me up as does the "I'm not one of your fans!" line.

OMG I have ALWAYS thought it was supposed to be a funny movie. My co-workers were talking about it one time, and I chimed in about how funny it was, and everyone looked at me like I was the biggest a-hole in the room.

 

[LatinoSTAR]

TINA!......Get me the Ax!

 

[HexualCirce]

I'm. Not. One. Of. Your. FAAAAANS!!!!!!!!!

 

[ahotjock71]

"Barbara, please....please Barbara!"

and

"Chris-tin-a!....Christ-opher....DAMNIT!"

(right before - "Carol-Ann, I ASKED you to keep the children OUT of the garden today!"


SSSSSOooooooooo many one liners from that movie!

 

[Stryfe]

I love watching this movie in front of my boyfriend's friend who is a big Joan Crawford nut.

Joan Crawford: Christina, you haven't touched your lunch.
Christina Crawford: It's raw.
Joan Crawford: It's rare, not raw.
Christina Crawford: But it's got all this red juice when you push on it.
Joan Crawford: Then don't push on it. Darling, rare meat is good for you. The doctor said so. Christina, meat loses its vitamins if it's overcooked.
Christina Crawford: But I've had my vitamins this morning. Pills.
Joan Crawford: [to Carol-Ann] She negotiates everything like a goddamn Hollywood agent. Christina, eat your lunch. You are not getting up from this table until you have finished that meat.

 

[DryIce]

One of my favorite movies of all time. I never get tired of watching it. The best was seeing a screening of it at the Gay & Lesbian Center here in L.A. with a bunch of screaming queens, all of whom knew every line of the movie.

I think this was one of Faye Dunaway's most extraordinary performances ever and that she has been unfairly maligned for it. She is so compelling as Joan Crawford that when I see an actual Joan Crawford movie, I have to readjust to how she actually looked because Dunaway's astounding performance is so seared into my mind.

One of the things I love about the movie is that is plays like scenes from all of Joan Crawford's most famous movies all strung together. The conflict between Joan and Christina recalls the mother-daughter strife in "Mildred Pierce." The showdown with the PepsiCo board members pays homage to Crawford's big showdown with the old west town where she is a barkeep in "Johnny Guitar." The infamous "bring me the ax" scene recalls Crawford's performance in "Strait-Jacket," even down to how Dunaway is framed as she is swinging the ax in the rose garden. At the end, when she is lying in bed during her dying days, it reminds me of Crawford's death scene as Bette Davis's invalid sister in "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane."

There are so many classic lines in that movie, it's hard to pick just one, especially since Dunaway breathes larger than life iconoclasm into the most benign statements. If I had to single out one, it would be, "Don't fuck with me, fellas! This aint my first time at the rodeo!"

 

[lolalola70]

Who do you think you're talking to? ....MISSY!


Clean up thisss MESSS!!!

 

[Diodorus]

it must be said.

"don't fuck with me fellas"

Yeah that one ,,when she was talking to the Pepsi Board of Directors, I think/

thanks saebuffyboy..

 

[rimrod]

Why did you adopt me?!!!!!!!!!