And the writer/director of the film became Tomlin’s long-term girlfriend (and eventual wife). Meaning NO ONE involved in the production wanted to see Tomlin end up with Travolta.
I remember just about nothing from this movie, but the delivery of "vile fucking woman" plays in my head at least once a month since this review first came out.
This movie would could have probably redeemed itself if by the end it was revealed Travolta and Tomlin were just trying really hard to find a beard without saying such
After binge watching Cinema Snob episodes for the past 2 weeks I came across this forgotten atrocity and I think this is the funniest riffview yet. I almost peed on myself several times from laughing so hard.
It's telling that Tomlin has better chemistry and looks less bored in her scenes with Andra Akers than she does with Travolta. She actually smiles! I do have to say, though, that this film does effectively portray two lonely, self-absorbed people who have no ability to love.
I think Jane Wagner would have preferred to write a screenplay in which John Travolta‘s character was played by a woman. She was, after all, Lily Tomlin‘s partner at the time, and still is, and if you substitute a female character for John Travolta‘s character, suddenly the whole movie makes sense. I think that if this movie was made in a different time, Jane could’ve made a lesbian love story, but decades ago, it just wouldn’t fly.
This movie was written and directed by the then partner and now wife of Lilly Tomlin. Which is already weird. Also, regarding your joke of Tomlin looking like Travolta’s sister in this movie, I read an article regarding this movie and a pic of him and his actual sister accompanied it and.....yeah. Sigh.
When a gay man and a gay woman are forced to be romantic leads... Though TO BE FAIIIIIR Rock Hudson still managed to have decent chemistry with his co-stars.
Everything Travolta is saying at the beginning of this movie - why won't you admit you were worried about me and I love to think of of you tossing and turning, etc. - is extremely creepy. Especially when he's followed her home and then just showed up at her house. But, hell, it was the Golden Age of Stalking..... It's not a romance. It's Adoption with Benefits.
Actually, I finally got a good copy of the movie. He didn't follow her to the beach house - that's where he did the valet job for her so he'd been there before and she kept announcing that that's where she was going (ah, the 70's). Although I'm not sure how you fit a party big enough to need valet parking in that house. And what he's saying is still creepy
@@BulletTooth504 AND even though she doesn't appear to trust him at all, she takes one of them that night. So she's semi-suicidal? "If they work, great. If they kill me, that's okay too" And she lets him start living there because his friend died - but she only had HIS WORD on that. He could have been lying. In fact, besides a pic he shows her that could be anyone, she has no proof that this guy Greg really exists at all. This is how people get laws named after them.
Im sorry, but I shall have to respectfully disagree with this assessment. Id rather see Lily Thomlin trying to romance a corpse and a dog before Id watch any of the twilight movies again.
18:21 This is a FETISH of mine: I LOVE finding movie theaters in movies and what's playing and when. Jaws 2 came out in around June/ July of 1978 - so you know when this was being filmed. In the Led Zeppelin movie - The Song Remains the Same - their limo is driving down Broadway and The Stepford Wives is playing in one theatre !
That's an interesting fetish. It's does make me wonder, what are some of the other famous movies you've caught in other films? Please let me know Cheers from Canada
Sorry for being three years late, but the reason is the rights. Universal and Stigwood were so embarrassed by this movie that they wanted it to remain as obscure as possible, it wasn't given an official home media release in English speaking countries until 2021, several years after Stigwood died. It's also rumored that John Travolta had a hand in it, as it's apparently the only movie he regrets making.
Moment by moment, It is a very beautiful love movie, a forbidden love, I have seen it many many times and it always makes me cry, the music is beautiful and he really fell in love with it despite the age difference.
5:00 i had to pause the video i was laughing so hard. if i didn't know that lily tomlin's wife write this movie, i'd think shooting these scenes with john travolta is when she realized she was gay.
And if I may, when will we get a Rape Squad 2 review ? I would say it could have been part of the 10th anniversary bundle of sequels, but those were fine so I won't complain it wasn't in there.
BTW, this is on blu ray now...it's through Kino Lorber. I don't know what's funnier - that the commentary track seems to be all about this being some kind of milestone in female directors (one that never directed before or since?) or the reviews on Amazon acting like this is the best movie ever made.
Hey if you want another turkey from 1978 to review, check out IF EVER I SEE YOU AGAIN. This stinker featured Joseph Brooks and Shelley Hack as the romantic leads (!!!), Roberta Flack performed the title song and is on record saying she absolutely HATED it, and you could also do an entire episode on the super creepy backstory of Joseph Brooks. Seek it out and enjoy!
I wouldn't mind seeing an original vs remake reveiw of that one.
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"The title of the episode is right there." Points upward while the actual title is downward. Fail. I know this was before this was uploaded to YT, so I'm messing around.
The director was also her girlfriend at the time and now wife. I think that's why it's a "romantic drama" where you can't help but actively root for the two main characters to not be together.
Eh, I can't bring myself to be too weirded out that Lily and John look so similar in this. I've heard it's actually pretty normal for most folks to be attracted to people who look similar to them! ...Though it's more likely because EVERYONE in the 70s looks like the same person to me.
Fun fact: The writer and director of this film, Jane Wagner, was Lily Tomlin’s long-term girlfriend, and they eventually married the year this review was released. I’m now convinced she made this film to show Tomlin how miserable she would be as a heterosexual.
Watching this video and Snob's review of Endless Love back-to-back, and judging from the footage of the movies shown in both reviews, I think Moment By Moment looks like the worse film of the two. At least some fucked up stuff happens in Endless Love to keep it from being too boring. Moment By Moment somehow manages to not only be more boring, but even more cringe worthy.
10:31 He's got a FEVER, an d the only prescription is MORE COWBELL! 22:53 And I'm watching this show because you brought up this movie in your Endless Love review, which I watched after your Very Private Lesson Review. Do you have a playlist of these kinds of movies?
Google says nothing about it, but I suppose some things are hidden even from the One All-Seeing Eye. I have no memory of it, but I've been wrong before.
only true afficionados of cinema snob watch the vids in 360 quality. Wonder if Lily is the reason Travolta turned to the cult that must not be mentioned.
You know what movie this reminds me of? Ashton Kutcher in "Spread" (they glossed over how Travolta's character paid the rent in this movie)... I don't know if Cinema Snob wants to torture himself with reviewing "Spread" though.
