Is Joy Luck Club the worst movie ever?

If you think the Joy Luck Club is the worst movie ever then you clearly haven't seen many movies

Just wait until you watch The Room or something REALLY bad

"Puke-Inducing, overly-sentimental, overly-dramatic SLOP" That is the "funniest best 3 sentences "ever typed to describe this movie. Now I have to watch this movie.

Don't even get me started on the woman who drowned her own baby because her husband was mean to her.

If every woman in the world killed their children because their husbands were mean to them, there would be no children left.

And miraculously, she left china, moved to America, and had another child.

WTF??!!!!!

As a trans Asian with best quality heart, I loved it!

Actually no it’s not. From what I’ve read, the worst movie is “Showgirls.” I haven’t seen it yet, but will eventually view it to make my own assessment.

Showgirls was at least campy and entertaining.

P.S., have you ever met a chinese girl with an immigrant parent, who named their daughter WAVERLY?

Give me a fucking break.

It's like a chinese author tried to make her character "classy" by giving her a "posh" white name.

Ugh. Amy Trann.. or Tann... or whatever the fuck her name is. She's a total hack.

Maybe she thought Waverly was a white cracker name. She’s right, I guess….

Not even close. Try watching Chronicles of Riddick or Ultraviolet or Color of NIght, or that claptrap Woman in the Window, and then we'll talk.

R8 is posting from Peking.

It was a good movie, I saw it in the theater & really liked it. Have you seen Gigli? Now that’s a turkey.

I found the 2 baby girls! But you can tell them mother dead!

Rofl, R11!

One of the many WTF moments in this stupid movie.

And these are the same guys who think "Brokeback Mountain" is an Oscar-worthy masterpiece? Pul-eeeeze!

Maybe you should try watching "American Masters: Amy Tan, Unintended Memoir" on PBS. You might learn something.

R6 and R7 if you’d bothered to read the book, you’d know that the character Waverly was named after the street her family home was located. Joy Luck Club was partly based on Amy’s mother’s past history in China, which Amy had found out as a young adult. Amy did travel to China later to meet her half-siblings that her mother had left behind in China.

Why the sudden attack on Amy Tan, wtf did she ever do to you? Not saying she’s a great writer but The Joy Luck Club is a great book and way better than the movie adaptation. Amy Tan is also no hack, she’s not had the best past few years. One of my older friends knows her. Apparently Amy suffers from crippling depression and have for many years. Interesting person, she spent her teen years in Switzerland after both her brother and father died from brain cancer.

I met her at a book signing. She was very nice.

Amy’s brother and father both died within a span of a year. Apparently her mother then went bonkers and just moved her remaining two kids to Switzerland after the deaths. The reason for Amy’s limited output in recent years is because of severe depression.

Russell Wong was so sexy in JLC

Russell Wong was gorgeous and I actually thought it was a very good movie. I was disappointed that none of the actresses were nominated for Academy Awards as Tsai Chen and Ming Na, in particular, gave excellent performances.

I loved it. I haven't seen it in many years but I remember renting it and being gripped by the story. I cried so many times during the film I had to compose myself.

Op, you crazee. No sum ting wong in movie. Me love it long time.

Loved the book and the movie. Wow, sorry to hear about Amy Tan. I was wondering why she hadn’t written anything in awhile.

R3, I don't see your point. The death of the child was ostensibly accidental, since the mother was severely depressed. I don't see why the character could not go on to have another child. In fact, the stories of the mothers, while grim, seemed much more convincing than the stories of the daughters.

R14 Since R6 said this in the depopulation thread:

[quote] Fucking CHINKS ruin everything.

We can maybe guess why he's bitching so hard about Amy Tan.

I read the book, which I enjoyed, and saw the film. As we all know, films based on books are rarely as good as their source material. I thought the film was well done overall although I would have included some scenes that appeared left out. Some great acting from the women involved as already mentioned.

You’ve obviously never heard of Beverly Hills Ninja.

Joy Luck a club was one of the few frauey novels I genuinely liked. I usually loathe the genre. I saw the film ages ago and recall enjoying it.

If we must pick on overrated works by female authors, let's pile on Elizabeth George. Unfairly lauded anglophile with very little actual understanding of U.K. culture.

R21 Amy’s mother was mentally ill and manipulative. She messed up Amy’s conception of what a mother was like, to the point that Amy chose not to have kids because she was afraid of being the same way as a mother. As she got older she still carried conflicted feelings about just how much she was affected by it. Writing the book was her way of reconciling those conflicting feelings. The book really is about not so much relationship between mother and child, but the bond. The bond is stronger than relationship because relationship can be fraught with negatives. She loved her mother but her mother was so manipulative and crazy that it’s a credit to Amy and her brother that they both turned out to be well-adjusted adults. Amy has made peace but then her depression worsened in the last 15 or so years.

Crap film. Unwatchable. The novel does not hold up either.

You all should watch the Amy Tan doc - “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir” - on Netflix. Both heartbreaking and uplifting.

I liked the movie but loved the score by Rachel Portman.

You're a dog fart, OP.

I mean, there no accounting for personal taste (some people love Dane Cook), but the book and the movie were lauded by critics. So objectively, OP, the premise of your thread is wrong. I mean, there must be better candidates anyway foe worst movie ever.

It isn’t that bad. It is watchable. The best part is when that one Chinese lady drowns her own baby to get even with her dickhead husband.

[quote]It was puke-inducing

And yet, my puke was not induced.

I loved the movie - it's like the Asian "Steel Magnolias". In addition to the "first quality heart" line, I liked the speech the mother gives the daughter living with the cheap asshole husband that you don't ask people to respect you, you demand it. And you leave if you don't get it

American Masters

Who the fuck is obsessed with middle brow movie 30 years later? Did they cancel shuffleboard at your facility today, OP?

OP, you obviously never saw "The Stupids." After 20 minutes, I bolted the theater, ready to barf.

Not as long as "Bram Stoker's Dracula "walks the earth.

In the book, I believe the mother aborts the baby, because the father is a monster. I don’t know why they had to make it a drowning scene.

[quote]Not as long as "Bram Stoker's Dracula "walks the earth.

That movie is a camp classic!

The ironic thing is, audiences would flip their shit over an abortion, but see accidently drowning your baby because your husband is an abusive asshole as an honest mistake/temporary lapse in judgement - and I'm not even joking!

A saccharine mother-lode of sap. I genuinely felt sick watching it. You could get diabetes.

I love this movie.

[quote] Is Joy Luck Club the worst movie ever?

Yes.

[quote] I loved the movie - it's like the Asian "Steel Magnolias".

Exactly why it sucks.

[quote] I haven't seen it in many years but I remember renting it and being gripped by the story. I cried so many times during the film I had to compose myself.

Watch it again.

The movie definitely doesn't "hold up," it's so stereotypical, ridiculously and overly dramatic, and just pure CRAP. [quote]

Have you never seen WINDOWS (1980)?

My best friend summed up the movie this way:

"[bold]I[/bold] had to be Fifth Wife to Warlord back in China... and yet [bold]you[/bold] complain to me about... neurosis?!"