Boom! (1968)

This is probably like nails on a chalkboard to many people, but I love movies that go so far off the pretentious deep end that they come back around to being a curious mix of genuine art and unintended hilarity. Look at this all-star team: Starring Elizabeth Taylor and…

laird

Variety’s review of this noted that it might have word-of-mouth appeal for women who want to see Elizabeth Taylor’s wardrobe and honestly… yes.

Liz

Boom! is the anti-Gaslight (either version: the one from 1940 or the one from 1944). No one in this movie can convince the allegedly terminally ill Sissy Goforth (Liz Taylor, more magnificent than you can possibly imagine) of a damn thing — instead, she spends the great…

sakana1

Elizabeth Taylor screaming and pushing an X-ray machine over a cliff after calling it a "baby-buggy for a baby from mars" is peak cinema.

Bri

John Waters on the bluray commentary: "Let's just say this was not Roma."

Justin LaLiberty

no one: elizabeth taylor: out of my terrace!!

anestis

Every Elizabeth Taylor costume change is edited like a jump scare! I have no idea what happened in this! Could not tell you a single solitary thing!

david_bruner

No one: Literally not a single human being: Richard Burton: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man    Down to a sunless sea. Elizabeth Taylor: w…

Matt Raymond

I recently got to go back on Caliber 9 From Outer Space to talk about the magnificent force that is Elizabeth Taylor, specifically in Boom! and Identikit. It is always a blast to chat movies with Joe and Rob, but when the topic is Liz and her irrepressible amazingness —…

sakana1