The Worst "Worst Scene" Ever - '91 Best Actress Part II - Laura Dern & Bette Midler - Ep 76 - a podcast by MMO

***This second look at 1991’s Best Actress is gloriously full of spoilers for the terrible Bette Midler and Laura Dern movies at the center of this episode.***

LAURA DERN IN RAMBLING ROSE:
Laura Dern Bio/Filmography - 3:44
Rambling Rose Movie Specs/Plot Overview - 7:30
Worst Scenes - 12:30
(Including Maybe the Worst “Worst Scene” Ever?) - 16:34
Best Scene - 24:04

BETTE MIDLER IN FOR THE BOYS
Bette Midler Bio/Filmography - 30:59
For The Boys Movie Specs/Plot Overview - 36:19
Best Scenes - 46:14
Worst Scenes - 47:30

Perfecting Perfection AKA Our ReRanks:
The Best Actress Category - 53:42
The Films of 1991 - 56:46
Actresses and Movies of the Year - 1:01:17

RATE AND REVIEW US ON ITUNES/Social Media - 1:05:39

This is Part 2 of our 1991 Best Actress Oscar Retrospective covering Laura Dern’s Rambling Rose and Bette Midler’s For the Boys. The first part (ep 74) discussed Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs, and both Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Thelma & Louise. That episode went non-spoilers for those 2 great movies, and we do recommend you go back and listen to it and see those films.

This episode features spoilers for both shitty films Rambling Rose and For The Boys, and you’re welcome. These movies suck, and we do not recommend you watch them. So our guilt in going full spoilers here is assuaged by the sheer entertainment value you can draw from our rage against these movies. Enjoy.

So to begin part 2, we first cover Laura Dern’s crazed performance in the Robert Duvall / Diane Ladd depression era domestic drama Rambling Rose. We begin with a bio / filmography of Laura Dern’s unique and illustrious career, where her blockbuster performances are few and far between many eclectic choices in serious indie dramas like those of David Lynch as well as colossal award winning TV roles such as her Emmy win in Big Little Lies.

Rambling Rose commits cardinal sins, in both the screenwriting and filmmaking realms of the storytelling. However good Dern’s performance might be, it is overshadowed by the morally bankrupt scenes and the astonishingly callous male perspective thereof.

For the Boys is a hot mess. The film overshoots the mark of trying to be an epic performance piece spanning 3 wars and decades in the life of Bette Midler’s Dixie Leonard. Luckily, we give credit where it’s due, but there’s also some schlock. We’re amazed a film this bad could be nominated for Hollywood’s highest honors, despite the preceding bio / filmography / discography of one of our greatest treasures from the stage, screen, and billboard top 100 charts, Bette Midler.

We complete the retrospective with a thorough look at the year of 1991 in film with our segment of Perfecting Perfection. Both Mikes rerank the performances. Then we have fun reminiscing about all the notable films of 1991 before Mike No. 1 gives his top 5 Best Actresses, and Also Mike, his top 10 films. Also, I say Kurt Douglas when I mean Kurt Russell. Whoops.

There are plenty more retrospectives where this came from in our back catalog, as well as 6 Best Original Song halfisodes for all you Oscar junkies. We’ve also covered the heck out of last Oscar Season, Netflix, the entire MCU, and we’ve reviewed the big hits of 2018 and previewed next year’s award season with a host of episodes ranging from movie events to theatrical previews to hollywood news chats.

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