Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Kevin DiBiase The Bad and the Beautiful may seem at first to be yet another Hollywood film about Hollywood, but that is far from the case. The movie is extremely well made. Kirk Douglas turns in a great performance as Johnathan Shields, a manipulative, broken man who unravels as the film progresses. The film's structure is also very unique, jumping back and forth between flashbacks and the present day as we hear 3 differing accounts of the type of person Shields is. The film is lit in quite a moody way, where the characters almost emit a soft glow and the borders of the screen fade into black. I found this to be very impressive and it helped to accentuate this dramatic tale. The music also stands out, especially compared to other films of the same time period (that weren't musicals). I think this does a great deal to elevate the movie from average to great.

Gavin O. I really liked the way the story was told in this movie - three vignettes that feature different characters, all of whose lives are affected by film producer Jonathan Shields. All three start off with these characters partnering with Shields to become successful in the film industry, and all of them end with Shields "ruining" their lives... that is, until they become more successful without Shields. The only person that actually does lose something of value is the writer Bartlow, whose wife is killed in an airplane crash that Shields indirectly causes. Still, he goes on to become a famous writer, so it isn't all bad news.The movie is a little dated today - the film industry was much simpler back then than it is nowadays - but "The Bad And The Beautiful" is still an entertaining look into the inner workings of Hollywood.

kijii This movie won five Oscars including that for Gloria Grahame as Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Also, Kirk Douglas, perhaps in his prime years, was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Johnathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) is a Hollywood producer who seem to be very unpopular with three of the people that had worked with him in the past. They all refuse his phone calls to make another movie with him. When his co-producer, Harry Pebbel (Walter Pidgeon), calls them into his office to beg them to work with Shields again, their experiences with him are presented as flashbacks. In the first flashback, Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan) is a want-to-be director who meets Shields at Shields' father's funeral. Both are broke and have to work together on bad B movies before they are able to strike out together to make the kind of movies that they want.In another flashback, Shields discovers Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner) when she is a depressed alcoholic who hate the memory of her father, but can't seem to get beyond it. After Shields shows her that he believes in her by giving her screen tests, promoting and coaching her, and supporting her when she relapses into an alcoholic binge before her acting debut, she becomes a success. In the third flashback, Lee Bartholw (Dick Powell) is a college professor—an academic novelist—from Richmond, Virginia. When Shields discovers one of Barthlow's novels; he asks him and his wife, Rosemary (Gloria Grahame), to come to Hollywood to 'help' turn his novel into a movie script. After the couple comes to Hollywood, they never return to Richmond. In each of the flashbacks, masterfully presented as separate stories, Shields is a very supportive mentor and friend. So, why do they all hate him so much? Because he is tough to work for and demands more than they can give? In this rags-to-riches-to-rags story, Shields is far from a perfect person. Some even see him as 'a user.' However, when the three principal characters recount their experiences about him, it is really had to convince the audience—much less the characters—that he is not basically a good-hearted person. This is an entertaining movie, often described as 'a hard-hitting expose of Hollywood's tough look at itself.' If it is, in Vincent Minnelli's hands, its bark is worse than its bite. And, its neat three-in–one structure is cleverly woven to make the movie's whole larger than the sum of its parts. However, this structure was not original, it had been used by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in A Letter to Three Wives (1949), also featuring Kirk Douglas.

gavin6942 In Hollywood, director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), movie star Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner), and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell) each refuse to speak by phone to Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) in Paris. Movie producer Harry Pebbel (Walter Pidgeon) gathers them in his office and explains that Shields was calling them because he has a new film idea and he wants the three of them for the project.I suppose Vincente Minnelli may be known for musicals, such as "Meet Me in St. Louis". Today (2016) he is probably better known for his marriage to Judy Garland and being the father of Liza Minnelli more than for his own work. A shame, especially given this one.Look at this cast: Douglas, Turner, Pidgeon... and the way they interact. The movie was big in its day, at least in part because it was a guessing game who the characters were based on. Now, we know for certain that "Cat Men" is obviously "Cat People"... but that does not make Douglas a version of Val Lewton...