I know "What's Love Got to Do With It" is an excellent movie. It's lead actors Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne were nominated for Best Actor Oscars. But It's risking becoming the best black camp classic, like, ever, like more than Mahogany.
Why you ask?
1)The frequency that it's on pay or basic cable, I don't think, since it premiered on Cable in 1994, it has even been off cable for more than 8 days at a time. Some days it's on 3 times in if you haven't gotten your quotient of Ike beating the shit out of Anna Mae...err Tina.
2) It has arguably, the longest list of quotable lines in any big budget movie since All About Eve. Like, it took 43 years and Tina Turner's hell and back life story to get such classic lines as....
"What Did you expect, Carnegie Fuckin Hall"
"Leave me alone IKE"
"Lorraine Lorraine, bring yo crazy muthafuckin ass back, what am I gonna do with all these kids"
"Sing the song like I told ya Ann"
"I wrote the Song Ike, I know the words"
Or my all time favorites
"Num Yo reng gey kyo"
"Eat The Cake Anna Mae"
"Chuuch House Jin House"
Lest us not forget the classic dance montages....from the Apollo (with an incorrect reference to Martha & The Vandellas on the Marqee, they weren't even Martha & The Vandellas until 1962). To Shindig (won't YOU bend over and let me see you shake a TAILFEATHAH!). To rolling on the river at the Palladium! Better, I say , than the choreography in West Side Story!
Ok, I run the risk of quoting the whole movie. But that's the problem. The more you watch it, the more you warp it, and you end up with something fanciful and goofy like Valley of The Dolls or Mommie Dearest.
So, we need to give What's Love got to do With It a break. Buy it on DVD, and watch it ON OCCASION! Not as default entertainment for saturday afternoon.
Let's give it a vacation
To quote a song from the movie
"Darhlin' It's gonna work out fine"
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