Glitter 2001 123movies

Watch: Glitter 2001 123movies, Full Movie Online – Billie Frank is a shy, young multiracial girl who is sent away by her alcoholic mother at a very early age. At an orphanage, she befriends Louise and Roxanne. Flash forward to 1983. Billie and her friends are spotted by a record producer, Timothy Walker, who wants them to sing backup for his latest pop-music discovery. But when super DJ Julian Dice hears Billie’s incredible voice, he makes a shady deal with Timothy to get her out of that dead-end situation. Soon, Billie and Dice are making hits inside the studio, and falling in love outside of it. Eventually, the pressure of her newfound celebrity puts too heavy a strain on Billie, forcing her to decide what it is she really wants from Dice, and what she wants for herself..
Plot: A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
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Ratings:

	2.4/10 Votes: 23,604
	6% | RottenTomatoes
	14/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 118 Popularity: 7.788 | TMDB

Reviews:

As bad as they say, and then some
In my perverse desire to see every film in the bottom 100, I thought I could not go far wrong with a rental of this classic POS. Mariah Carey’s first and so far only feature film is an example of how the combined MPAA and RIAA attempts to shovel garbage at us are starting to backfire. Sales of Mariah’s recordings, once one of the highlights of an otherwise dreary RIAA mainstream catalogue, have slumped. It’s all because of this film. Don’t let the blind Mariah fans fool you – it is just as bad as critics say, and deserving of its bottom 100 status.

Where to begin when pulling apart this cinematic abortion? For me, the first major problem was the cinematography. If the viewer is not clued in on the fact that Vondie Curtis-Hall has only directed television before this film as it starts, the flat, Days-Of-Our-Lives-style shots will soon make it clear enough. Directors who put one or two actors, three tops, in a 2.35:1 frame are a dime a dozen. On the other hand, directors who cannot even differentiate these actors’ spacing from the camera truly stand out, and not in a good way.

The story has been described as being syrupy enough to kill anyone who suffers from diabetes (or doesn’t), and I am not going to contest that. It’s a variation upon the classic rags to riches theme, specifically tailored towards Mariah. Mariah essentially plays herself in the guise of a young vocalist who starts singing backup for a considerably less talented vocalist. As she crosses the paths of more people, eventually said people twig to the fact that she can vocalise with the best of them. One DJ eventually picks her up, manages her through a record deal, and promises her that one day she *will* play in Madison Square Garden, or something along those lines.

This kind of story has been done before, with such real-life examples as the Jacksons providing source material for one excellent miniseries of the theme. The problem here is that we’ve heard this story a million times before. Another significant problem is that while Mariah has a voice many would kill for, there is absolutely nothing that stands out, even slightly about her material. As an old girlfriend of mine once said, the longer it takes the RIAA to twig to the fact that being female doesn’t mandate wanting to hear this formulaic ballad crap, the more business they are going to lose to independents who support bands like Opera IX. I think the fact that Mariah’s last album disappeared without trace in spite of having millions of dollars spent on its promotion proves her right.

Mariah’s story is also incredibly bland, to say the least. So her junkie mother gave her up when she was young. Oh boo hoo. It happens, and you’re probably better off for it, get over it already. The previously-mentioned Jacksons could run rings around the likes of Mariah Carey for sob stories, and their reluctance to deal with the media at large is a telling thing. So in the end, we are simply left with another example of the mainstream trying to seem alternative, and failing.

I gave Glitter a one out of ten. I don’t think I am being too harsh. I think it is so amazingly bad that it becomes comedic, at least on the first viewing. I suspect that repeated viewings will simply become boring.

Scary star vehicle
Even fans of bad movies will have a tough time with “Glitter”, which commits a number of gross sins while it is on your screen. Unlike the similarly-panned “Showgirls”, “Glitter” doesn’t go far enough over the top to be of any interest, and it takes itself way too seriously. “Showgirls” made me feel giddy while I was watching it. “Glitter” made me feel as if I had been poisoned.

What an unfortunate mis-step for star Mariah Carey, who gets sucked up into the vacuum of this movie like a dust bunny under the Hoover. It’s not that Mariah is terrible, exactly. She doesn’t seem like much of an actress, and she definitely doesn’t have much screen presence. But the real problem is that she doesn’t really do much except smile, sing, and look pretty. She simply exists. Perhaps since “Glitter” is touted as a semi-autobiographical film like “Purple Rain”, the producers thought being Mariah Carey would be enough to carry the film. Her role is shallow and one-dimensional, despite the fact that the script tries to give her some depth by piling on the age-old “wayward childhood” cliché. The problem is we’ve seen all of this so often that it’s very silly.

It only gets worse as the movie progresses. After Mariah’s character, Billie, grows up, she meets an obnoxious club DJ who, much to our horror, turns out to be the movie’s other main character. Carey and her costar, Max Beesley, have next to zero screen chemistry, but for some reasons she falls in love with him.

The director throws in a bunch of gimmicky techniques, like speeding up the film, as well as a hilariously awful cut that goes from Mariah’s face to fireworks exploding. There is also a laugh-out-loud moment where the actress who plays the young Billie Frank joins her mother onstage and when she opens her mouth to sing, it is Mariah Carey’s voice that comes out of her–pitched up until she sounds a little like Minnie Mouse. No wonder Mariah collapsed after this was released.

There are some absurd and awful moments in the film that have nothing to do with Mariah, most notably her two obnoxious friends who are directed as complete caricatures and seem to be intended for some sort of comic relief (there’s plenty of that in other places, all of it unintentional).

Beesley is supposed to be a big-time club DJ, yet he plays more like a kid at a high-school dance. The role is all wrong for him. For some inexplicable reason, the film is set in the early 80s, yet more often than not it looks suspiciously like the early 00’s (especially the furniture). The dialog is unmemorable and nobody has any real acting to do in this film, except for one or two “emotional” moments. The drama is uninvolving, and it doesn’t really spiral out of control until the conclusion of the movie, where it soars so far into the absurd that we finally get some good “bad movie” stuff (a big fight, a beating, a murder, a campy moment of triumph onstage). It’s too little, too late though.

The one thing that “Glitter” manages to carry off is a cliché but somewhat engaging scene where Billie finally meets up her long-lost mother. Unfortunately, it is the final scene of the movie, and the camera sails right up into the sky just when we get to the one moment in the film that works.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 22000000
Revenue 5271666
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Music, Romance
Director Vondie Curtis-Hall
Writer Cheryl L. West, Kate Lanier
Actors Mariah Carey, Eric Benét, Max Beesley
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS (8 channels), SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1, 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,972 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)