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Message: [QUOTE="Android 18, post: 189384, member: 166776"] Showgirls has really had a renaissance in the last 15 years, becoming possibly the definitive cult movie of the last 30 years, but despite the two being compared relentlessly as being part of the Holy Trinity of Camp (Showgirls/Mommie Dearest/Valley of the Dolls), Mommie Dearest has not had the critical reappraisal in the public eye that Showgirls has deservedly benefitted from. It deserves to be considered a very good movie, as while the absolute assassination of Joan Crawford by Faye Dunaway is hyper-dramatic, and debatable in its relation to reality, it [I]is [/I]a great depiction of the disorders that Crawford lived with and likely inflicted on those around her. It is a campy movie, but audiences in 1981 were not exactly aware of what narcissism in the home could really look like, and Faye Dunaway was undeservedly mocked for what is actually a master performance. [/QUOTE]

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