Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) feat. Amelia Emberwing

Horror Queers

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Oh crap oh crap oh crap! The swan ate our baby and the most smartest tapper needs to go to state! That's right, we're discussing Michael Patrick Jann's seminal dark comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) with IGN's streaming editor Amelia Emberwing. Think we can do it? Amer-I-CAN! Join us as we track the film’s journey from a script called Dairy Queens to a box office and commercial failure to a stone-cold cult classic beloved by (and offensive to) many. We’re laughing at eating disorders, mental disability and pedophilia. How did this get made? Plus: non-stop praise for this outstanding cast, discussing the on-set tensions between the writer and the director, debating the effectiveness (or lack thereof?) of the third act, and an It Takes Two tangent? Ding! Fries are up! Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners Peitzman, Louis. “Jesus Loves Winners”: How “Drop Dead Gorgeous” Found Cult Success As A Flop. Buzzfeed. Colucci, Emily. Digging Through The Trash Aesthetic. Filthy Dreams Colucci, Emily. Jesus Loves Winners: Satirizing The American Scam In “Drop Dead Gorgeous”. Filthy Dreams > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote > Amelia: @thatwitchmia Be sure to support the boys on Patreon! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning, afternoon or evening, and welcome to the bloody disgusting network.
0:10.6	The following show is just horrifying.
0:15.8	Beware.
0:20.4	The Sheriff, you're not cheating on your wife if you eat my lemon square.
0:33.4	Your lemon squares taste like ass.
0:37.4	Music Your lemon squares taste like ass.
0:45.4	And welcome back to horror queers.
0:48.5	We're talking, I owe my life to that deaf baby.
0:53.1	We're talking, as my mother says at Sunday dinner, come and get it.
0:58.7	And we're talking A-L-A-B-A-M-A.
1:00.2	And I'm Joe.
1:01.7	And I'm Trace.
1:03.9	And my roommate did Adam West.
1:06.2	She said he was so horny.
1:14.0	I was actually hoping you would pick that one because it just kills me every time because he's in the fucking movie.
1:17.4	It's, well, I mean, he signed off on that shit.
1:18.8	He had to have signed off on that shit.
1:24.2	But Joe, actually listeners are preamble to this because we will be quoting this movie a lot. And I already love Joe that your Minnesota accent is very much still a
1:27.9	Canadian with like a hint of Minnesota accent in whatever you just said. Yeah, I realize as I was
1:34.9	doing it, I'm like, oh, it just sounds like I'm saying A as a classic Canadianism. Oh, yeah.
1:40.8	I'm saying, A L, A. No, I can't do it. Fuck it. I'm going to be trying to do it.
1:46.1	We are talking drop dead gorgeous, everyone.
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