Glitter is one of my favorite cheesy films but imo it should have looked more like the 80's than it did it just felt like the director had barely cared about the aesthetic and said "screw it, we're setting it in 2001" also while the album is fantastic barely any of the songs sounded like they would had been in the 80's.

It was cursed from the start I fear

 

Not being released the week of 9/11

Better script, better director, better lead actress, better acting, better story

A much better script

The studio scrapping it

A better screenplay. 

17 minutes ago, Nightingale said:

A much better script

 

3 minutes ago, Hector said:

A better screenplay. 

 

A better script (the original one was much grittier) and director.

No one wanted to watch a cheesy romance after 9/11

 

The state of Mariah's mental health was not conducive to an healthy filmmaking process either. 

Nothing

If they used the original concept

A different release date obviously and have it just be a studio album and not be attached to a movie. 

Shelving it 

I unironically liked the Glitter movie. People honestly did too much against Mariah for that role.  

Edited April 3, 20251 yr by Onyxmage

3 hours ago, suburbannature said:

A better script (the original one was much grittier) and director.

No one wanted to watch a cheesy romance after 9/11

 

The state of Mariah's mental health was not conducive to an healthy filmmaking process either. 

 

3 hours ago, EJQL8 said:

If they used the original concept

Any more info on this?

- Better visual effects (the ones that appear when she's singing in the club and she meets her love interest are soooo bad, just because the movie is set in the 80s it doesn't mean that the production has to look like it too)

- Better script (It's too much of a cliché, it's a watered down A Star Is Born, it definitely needed a more interesting plot)

- Mariah needed to work more on her acting, I don't know how to explain it but in a lot of scenes it looks like she's acting, it doesn't feel authentic. The same goes for her love interest, he wasn't much better either.

 

Honestly the only great thing on it is how gorgeous she looked and the music. In the end it was a mediocre movie (a 6/10 for me) but I still think it's better than the tragedy everyone made it out to be.

An actress in the lead

42 minutes ago, HardBambi said:

An actress in the lead

what kind of actress?

 

31 minutes ago, RideOrDie said:

what kind of actress?

 

A movie actress, you're welcome 

 

 

Just joking but for real now Glitter was indeed bad, everything was bad including the music

 

And to answer this thread, that's how it could have been better.. if the music was good

Better CIA agents

Edited April 3, 20251 yr by uusagii

Mariah attacking Bin Laden with her bare hands, on National TV

5 hours ago, HardBambi said:

An actress in the lead

 

4 hours ago, RideOrDie said:

what kind of actress?

 

 

4 hours ago, HardBambi said:

A movie actress, you're welcome 

 

 

Just joking but for real now Glitter was indeed bad, everything was bad including the music

 

And to answer this thread, that's how it could have been better.. if the music was good