OH boy was this not a good one. Elizabeth Taylor plays a Vegas showgirl, I guess she was a showgirl because there was ONE scene where she was dancing. It was hard to tell to tell because she only had a big huge close up so the audience could not tell she wasn't really dancing I guess. After work one night she stops in to a local Pizza place where she sees Warren Beatty playing the piano. The two hit it off. Considering they had zero on screen chemistry it's tough to understand why there were so enamored with each other.
They go back to her place and pretty much have some of the dullest dialogue you will ever see in a movie. The movie was first a play and it shows because the movie barely ever leaves Taylor's apartment! They lay there in bed together smoking and actually have a five minute discussion about cigarettes and smoking in bed. Like I said, ZERO chemistry.
Beatty has this dream of getting 5 thousand dollars together so he can finally leave Vegas! All this time Taylor has this older married man she has been seeing. FINALLY they leave Taylor's apartment and spend the day on a boat fishing. After the first 45 minutes in that apartment you get the feeling the film crew needed to get the hell out of there so they added the fishing scene. I am not even sure they were at sea, from the shot of Warren trying to reel in a flounder it looked like he was in front of a big blue screen.
When they get back to Taylor's apartment they are met by the older married fella that Taylor has been seeing. He apparently has his own key and walks in. It is quite awkward as they all just kind of stand there shocked. Warren has that one fish he caught still hanging by a line and dripping all over the place. Beatty leaves without the fish and the married fella stands there delivering some of the dullest dialogue ever spouted off in a movie. This has to be one of the most boring characters ever in a film. All of a sudden he needs to marry Taylor and she sort of becomes shocked and starts packing. She realizes she still has feelings for Warren and the married fella leaves. Truly one of the oddest scenes I have ever seen.
Warren almost gets his 5 grand to leave but then gambles it all away. We feel nothing for him because he is just such a badly written character. At one point Warren gets to the apartment late and blames it on a flat tire. Elizabeth then asks him which tire, see she loves details!! I don't want to spoil the ending but it just goes on and on.
Pass on this one.
They go back to her place and pretty much have some of the dullest dialogue you will ever see in a movie. The movie was first a play and it shows because the movie barely ever leaves Taylor's apartment! They lay there in bed together smoking and actually have a five minute discussion about cigarettes and smoking in bed. Like I said, ZERO chemistry.
Beatty has this dream of getting 5 thousand dollars together so he can finally leave Vegas! All this time Taylor has this older married man she has been seeing. FINALLY they leave Taylor's apartment and spend the day on a boat fishing. After the first 45 minutes in that apartment you get the feeling the film crew needed to get the hell out of there so they added the fishing scene. I am not even sure they were at sea, from the shot of Warren trying to reel in a flounder it looked like he was in front of a big blue screen.
When they get back to Taylor's apartment they are met by the older married fella that Taylor has been seeing. He apparently has his own key and walks in. It is quite awkward as they all just kind of stand there shocked. Warren has that one fish he caught still hanging by a line and dripping all over the place. Beatty leaves without the fish and the married fella stands there delivering some of the dullest dialogue ever spouted off in a movie. This has to be one of the most boring characters ever in a film. All of a sudden he needs to marry Taylor and she sort of becomes shocked and starts packing. She realizes she still has feelings for Warren and the married fella leaves. Truly one of the oddest scenes I have ever seen.
Warren almost gets his 5 grand to leave but then gambles it all away. We feel nothing for him because he is just such a badly written character. At one point Warren gets to the apartment late and blames it on a flat tire. Elizabeth then asks him which tire, see she loves details!! I don't want to spoil the ending but it just goes on and on.
Pass on this one.