UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

TheBlueHairedLawyer I've got Glitter on VHS collecting dust, and though I really can't bring myself to hate it since it has historical merit to me (New York with World Trade Center buildings pre-9/11), once you've seen it, once is all you need. It's a boring, shallow story with a boring, shallow lead actress who has, since Glitter's box-office bomb and reputation for being one of the worst films of all time, blamed it on everything and everyone but herself, including 9/11, which I find distasteful. Personally I feel like Glitter flopped because frankly Mariah Carey just isn't that great. Sure, she was amazing in the 2009 film 'Precious', but by the time 'Precious' came out, Carey had grown up a great deal. In 'Glitter', she comes across as full of herself and an airhead, and though it depends on the tastes of the individual viewer, I didn't think her songs were good. It's the type of music I liked when I was twelve years old, and the film is stuffed with it, and it just makes what could have been a heartfelt romance film come off as a bad publicity stunt for a washed-up singer. To be fair though, it's not that horrible that I'd call it "the worst", I enjoyed it when I was in elementary school, but it's just not as good as Carey apparently thinks. Somewhere along the way she must've been persuaded that 'Glitter' had a modern, original concept, but it really doesn't.

jadfoley I had to stop reading your "review" considering you began with one of the most naive-sounding comments (to those that know what they're talking about).Mariah *intentionally* wore the silver strip (and yes, in different locations) to overly promote aids awareness. Google your facts before commenting on something you think you know about. Still have a problem with the "silver strip"? (I can't capitalize the term aids without it being flagged by amazon for 'shouting' which I'm not sure how that has gone without being red flagged in itself)Literally, this one of the best campy movies ever made which is why it continues to re-run on hbo along with other media outlets. Do you see 'Gigli' anywhere (at all) on TV? No. Give it a chance. Many of my non-Mariah fans have even agreed it's worth the watch.Maybe I'll continue this review when I can stomach the rest of yours.

jessegehrig This movie, oh let me tell you, this movie, man like I just read about all the artists Mariah Carey collaborated with on the soundtrack for this movie and I'm thinking they screwed up,big time. What a waste of their time, seriously, Glitter? No way man, no way. I read Mariah was shopping the script around for three years before some crazy fool bought it, my first thought was somebody who had the power to say "no" to Mariah Carey obviously wasn't working hard enough, 3 years? 3 years? man,she should still be shopping this script, don't you all know its Mariah Carey? Can't you read that script? Its terrible, its a shameless self-indulgent hollow one hundred and four minutes that you can never get back, no way at all.

epppie That means it's probably a good movie. And it is. Yes, the story is a familiar one. That's true for EVERY movie. Yes the cinematography sucks. That's true for a lot of movies. Sure, this is no Hard Day's Night. But it's got one of the best singers of all time singing some nice material. That ALONE makes Glitter worth watching. If you don't understand that, what the hell do you understand about movies? Three quarters of making a good movie is just putting a great performer in front of the camera. If you do that, you already have a watchable film, and Glitter has that, for sure. Mariah Carey's acting is amateurish, but it is genuine and emotional, and that's enough to hold the film's center. Carey's costars are all good, putting in performances that go well beyond perfunctory. They take poor material, in terms of writing, and they breath life into it. In particular, Max Beesley is a fine actor, sortof the poor man's Ewan McGregor, and there is a good chemistry between him and Carey. The themes of this movie are serious and the performers, if not the writers and producers, are serious about them; trying to find yourself and yet not lose yourself in the artistic struggle.Glitter's sin is that it could have been a much better movie. The production values are cheap and not in a good way. Writing and direction deflect Glitter's focus at key points in the development of characters and of the story. Carey herself has put her finger on the problem: it was apparently decided to shoot for a younger audience, as in a 12 year old audience, and the result was half-baked. It's a shame and a disappointment, but Glitter is still a movie with considerable promise that delivers enough to be worth watching, worth having. The amount of hate this movie gets is just grotesque. I'm sorry, but there are lots and lots of worse movies.