evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (10/04/85)
In the NY Daily News, on Oct. 3, there was a review of Madonna's new/old
movie, A Certain Sacrifice. Allow me to excerpt (without permission) from
Jay Maeder's review:
"Small wonder that rising starlet Madonna has been doing her best to
deep-six "ACS," the much fanfared basement art film in which she co-starred
back in her scuffling days. " [He goes on to say that it has just been
released on vid-tape for $59.95!]
"...This is in fact, the worst single picture one is likely to see
anywhere. This is a film of such monumental awfulness as to redefine
existing standards. This is hard to believe."
[It] is billed as a 'macabre, provocative R&R musical in the underground
post-punk tradition of such as Liquid Sky..."
Oh, cut the crap."
And he goes on to generalize the scenes into their niches. He says that
the male lead raking leaves in the backyard is the sole illustration of
the Middle Class Horror he whines about.
"The picture is a sophomoric exercise in unrelieved meaningless."
"His story means nothing. His title means nothing. His characters stand
for nothing. His setup is empty and his denouement is pointless. His film
doesn't have a brain in its head. His film is junk."
"...wretched lighting, crummy sound, glaringly inept editing, and an
extraordinarily irritating score [of] dreadful songs chiefly composed and
performed by Pattnosh [the male lead]."
And finally, "It is said that Lewicki [the producer] used to be in the
Industrial furnace Business. He should get back into it. God knows he's
got something that deserves to be burned."
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With that, I offer Madonna's A Certain Sacrifice (pun intended) for our list
of Worst Movies ever. You can't possibly justify the fact that it has
some redeeming value since she is in it. She has no redeeming value.
--Evan Marcus
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