That was an excellent one.

Let's be realistic.

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

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

As a horror comedy, this movie is one of the best! However, it's not amazing. First off, I really like the concept of this film. I, also, like how incredibly weird it is. All the actors were well-selected. There is one, major flaw I have with the film: Pointless nudity. It seems to be the filmmakers excuse to make the film have the PG-13 rating on the MPAA. It would have been a fantastic film if it wasn't for the pointless nudity. In the end, Death Becomes Her is a fun, wacky horror film, and I recommend you watch it with an open mind.

Do people really want to live forever? This idea for shows and movies have been used numerous times going back to Twilight zone episodes "Escape clause" and "Long live Walter Jamison". In both those episodes, the main character finds out that they eventually get tired of living when they know it will be eternal. That doesn't happen in "Death becomes her" with the two leads Madelyn (Meryl Streep) and Helen (Goldie Hawn), but the concern of getting tired of living if alive forever is brought up by Earnest (Bruce Willis) when the eternal potion is offered to him. He doesn't look at eternal life as a miracle, even though he yells that line after discovering Madelyn's secret. We get a creepy twist; your body, if you don't take the proper care of, will start to rot after taking the potion even when they're moving and talking just like they're alive. Basically, they're still alive while the body is technically now a dead corpse, and will continue to rot and decay just like any dead corpse. Therefore, the end scene with Madelyn and Helen is not easy to look at for sensitive squeamish eyes. But you'll only rot after taking the potion if you do something to your body that would've normally killed you before taking it. That explains why Isabel (the rich potion dealer) still looks great many years later, but Madelyn and Helen don't (due to Madelyn breaking her neck after getting pushed down the stairs and Helen getting shot).Early on, in a Broadway theater, people are streaming out mid show badmouthing the show big time. I sort of see why, the show was like a combo of a bad imitation of classic showgirl dancing, disco sounding music thrown in for some reason, and Madelyn singing in a flat unenthusiastic voice. I didn't see any real dancing talent and according to one of the badmouthers walking out, the story was a cheap ripoff from something better. I would've walked out with them. After the show (with Earnest being the one applauding), Helen introduces fiancé Earnest to Mad to see if he'll pass the Madelyn test. He does NOT, to say the least. Earnest immediately leaves Helen and marries Mad, leaving Helen clutching her fists so tight that there's blood. I kinda liked that. I also sort of liked the part where Helen gained like 100 pounds (very convincing fat suit, like the fat suit Gweneth Paltrow wore in "Shallow Hal"). Helen basically gave up on life spending her time stuffing herself with tons of junk food including eating entire cans of frosting on their own, rewatching scenes in Mad's movies where she's getting killed and wishing it were real. She's then put in an asylum. Next scene years later, we learn that right after leaving the asylum, Helen took the potion. There should've been a scene showing Helen taking the potion showing us seeing the special effects of her suddenly losing all that weight and looking much younger again. Present time (1992), Mad is tired of hubby Earnest (now noticeably older and worn down looking) drinking, indulging in self pity, and never being able to please her anymore (he's become flaccid). That's why Mad cheats on Earnest with some young guy. Then she catches the young guy with a young girl, and Mad freaks out driving all crazy dodging cars. I saw that situation as a "what goes around, comes around" deal, since Mad previously stole a man away from someone herself, and was now cheating on one man to be with another. Then Mad meets a sort of effeminate French man at her health spa after getting jealous of the young beauty who's working on her. He gives Mad a card for a "very select group". We then get the great potion scene at the fancy secluded palace of Isabell, the young beauty (looking very sexy with what she wears) who's really elderly but has taken the potion. I saw the sign of Isabel really being older than she looked with her revealing having served Greta Garbo. The reference to her having known Garbo may've gone over some people's heads. I just knew it from Isabella's "I vant to be alone" comment, since I've seen and own Garbo's "Grand hotel". About the cost of the potion, there's a sight on this movie where people were debating the cost of the potion since we don't get a good look at the check Mad wrote to Isabell. One million dollars was people's best guess, that's why mainly celebrities were the ones at the Palace (we see Elvis in a scene there, and that was also a good play on the whole "is Elvis really dead?" theme (and the "I saw Elvis in a mall" theme)). After Mad takes the potion, we see the first of many special effects when we see Mad's body suddenly getting younger. It's next where the first gruesome effects take place where Mad and Helen have horrible incidents, getting pushed down the stairs and getting shot with a double barrel shot gun, but are still alive and have very graphic visual "injuries" from it. A lot of the films remainder is centered around that. And that's why in my opinion that part of the film was not as good. Then is the scene of Mad and Helen trying to get Earnest to take the potion and Earnest's visit with Isabell (who again looks very sexy coming out of that pool). Too many scenes in the last part of the movie of Mad and Helen starting to decay, and them relying on Earnest to patch them up. The scene in the hospital with the doctor creeped me out too when he had a heart attack after seeing that Mad was dead but also still alive, too much for him to handle, I guess.

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.This film was intended to be a sequel to the "Tales From the Script" television show, and although the TFTC name is not attached, you still get a strong sense of the humor we have come to expect. David Koepp and Martin Donovan (who last worked together on "Apartment Zero") had intended to write a few short films, like an anthology, but this story just grew... and Robert Zemeckis added his own brand of humor, with the dark side of Hollywood bubbling to the surface.Along with Zemeckis comes some of his associates. That includes Dean Cundey, the cinematographer who started on low budget horror, then made John Carpenter's work look great, before moving on to the high-profile films of Zemeckis. And also producer Steve Starkey, who came up from the "Star Wars" films. Zemeckis is sort of the lesser-celebrated member of a triumvirate with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, but perhaps he should in many ways be more celebrated... his range and aesthetic are impressive.There is no denying Robert Zemeckis is really a master of genre. He takes what could be a niche and makes it mainstream. "Back to the Future" is loved by all, not just science fiction nerds. And "Death Becomes Her" could have been horror, but with Zemeckis at the helm it was more mainstream, and is now classified as "fantasy / comedy" -- not even horror at all, despite the themes! Although Meryl Streep was great (as always), she has said that it "was like being at the dentist" having to work in such a way to accommodate the special effects. She vowed never to work in such a film again, and for the most part I think she has stayed true to this vow. Which brings up an interesting divide between the actors of Streep's level (constant Oscar nominees) and those who appear in genre films again and again. Maybe Oscar acting is not better, but merely employs a different skill set? Speaking of Oscars, "Death Becomes Her" won the Academy Award for Visual Effects. That is so well-deserved. Anyone who watches this film should be impressed by what they were able to do. Why is it that today (2016) we spend millions of dollars to make things look like animation, but already in 1992 they had perfected a way of making it look like heads were falling off and holes were being blown through people? We are regressing! Scream Factory comes through with a Collector's Edition blu-ray. Although the features on the disc are a bit scant for a collector's edition, they were able to put together a series of interviews to make a retrospective. Streep and Goldie Hawn did not participate (not surprisingly), but Zemeckis did, which is really quite a coup. And David Koepp! And legendary cinematographer Dean Cundey, who had come with Zemeckis from "Back to Future"! Fans of the film who want to know a bit more about what went into this picture are strongly encouraged to pick it up.

In 1978, in Broadway, the decadent and narcissist actress Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) is performing Songbird, based on Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Then she receives her rival Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn), who is an aspiring writer, and her fiancé Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis), who is a plastic surgeon, in her dressing-room. Soon Menville calls off his commitment with Helen and marries Madeline. Seven years later, Helen is obese in a psychiatric hospital and obsessed in seeking revenge on Madeline. In 1992, the marriage of Madeline and Menville is finished and he is no longer a surgeon but an alcoholic caretaker. Out of the blue, they are invited to a party where Helen will release her novel Forever Young and Madeline goes to a beauty shop. The owner gives a business card of the specialist in rejuvenation Lisle Von Rhuman (Isabella Rossellini) to her. When the envious Madeline sees Helen thin in a perfect shape, she decides to seek out Lisle and buys a potion to become young again. Further, she advises that Madeline must take care of her body. Meanwhile Helen seduces Menville and they plot a scheme to kill Madeline. When Madeline comes home, she has an argument Menville and he pushes her from the staircase. She breaks her neck but becomes a living dead. When Helen arrives at Menville's house expecting that Madeline is dead, she is murdered by Madeline. But she also becomes a living dead and they conclude they need Menville to help them to maintain their bodies. But Menville wants to leave them. "Death Becomes Her" is an American black comedy with excellent special effects even after twenty-three years after the release and great cast. The trash storyline is strange and original and the black humor may not be pleasant for everyone. But there are funny and witty quotes and situations and this film has not aged. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Morte Lhe Cai Bem" ("Death Fits Well to Her")