I have a feeling Boom! was supposed to be symbolic, but whatever the message was went right over my head. All I got out of the movie was that it was enormously boring, tried to be deep when it really came across as strange, and banked on the eye candy of the two costars, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, to get people to watch it.
Liz plays a bored, spoiled, wealthy woman who spend the entire movie telling everyone and the audience that she's dying. She sits around in her palace getting massages and coming on to Richard Burton-the latter is absolutely a necessity, but she doesn't seem any happier while she's with him or getting pampered by her servants. Also, the famously smoldering couple has very little chemistry in this movie, so if you're looking for steamy love scenes, you won't find them here.
If you need any other reason to skip it, it was based off a Tennessee Williams play. So you know it's going to be weird.
Liz plays a bored, spoiled, wealthy woman who spend the entire movie telling everyone and the audience that she's dying. She sits around in her palace getting massages and coming on to Richard Burton-the latter is absolutely a necessity, but she doesn't seem any happier while she's with him or getting pampered by her servants. Also, the famously smoldering couple has very little chemistry in this movie, so if you're looking for steamy love scenes, you won't find them here.
If you need any other reason to skip it, it was based off a Tennessee Williams play. So you know it's going to be weird.