discussion Better camp classic film: Mommie Dearest or Showgirls?

[Hector]

Two movies generally deemed as awful but also films that are so bad, they're BRILLIANT. Which is the better movie?

 

 

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I (amongst several other gay men) LOVE both of these movies so much, they're both unintentionally hilarious.  Which is the better movie of these two? 

Edited July 29, 2023 by Hector

[popmusicisdead]

Showgirls is a cute girl but Mommie Dearest is high art 

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2023 by popmusicisdead

[PMKARDASHIAN]

2 of my favorite films. It’s impossible to choose. 
Visually, Showgirls is a spectacle, but MD introduced me to Joan Crawford (which has turned into almost a decade long interest/hobby) 

 

MD is more quotable and memeable but SGs dialogue writing is camp turned all the way up. 
 

Ugh I can’t choose 

[Raptus]

Mommie Dearest still generates tons od memes.  Showgirls is just bad and no one uses it since the 90s ended

Edited July 29, 2023 by Raptus

[mokitsu]

Both are excellent but Showgirls gets my vote for being much more transgressive, and I think Mommie Dearest suffers a bit from cramming so many decades in a movie

[conatus]

Showgirls. Mommie Dearest kind of loses steam for me once Christina grows up.

[Click Clack]

mommie dearest

[fridayteenage]

mommie dearest deserved to be the actress winner, not just runner-up, with NY critics and National society of Film Critics.