Perhaps the worst film I ever saw

You can't hate it -- it's the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda and the tension with Zelda's sister over how she and Scott were raising their child (Scottie)-- according to a lot of biographers, the story this movie was based on was very true to what happened in real life to the author and his wonderfully talented wife. Reality programming before the Osbournes.

I just saw it on TCM, and liked it for the first time ever (haven't seen it since I was a nipper). I used to tolerate it, but now that I've grown up, lived and loved and lost and stuff it's okay. Overblown visuals in some of the saturated color in the interiors maybe, but that was the nature of the beast, 1954. The location exteriors are heartbreaking.

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I bought this film in Walmart with 2 others for a dollar. So I paid 33 cents for it. And it's not worth it. This is my 3rd night trying to finish it. As story, there is still no tension, nothing to resolve. As a portrayal of "tragic" figures, I was never drawn in enough to care. As an historical document of early post-war Fance and of early stars, including the unbelievably young Roger Moore, it is fascinating. But nothing more. I assume there will be a terrible auto crash and everyone will be sad and live ever after. Anyway. it is perhaps the worst moveie I've ever seen, too! Wes.

Hey Teresa Leandro, "TLTISP" is not a masterpiece, granted. IMHO not even a "good" picture. But there are tons of worst movies out there. Haven't you seen "Battlefield Earth", "Crossroads", "Norbit", "American Pie", "Hulk", "The Love Guru", etc?

At least in this movie you could enjoy the beauty and acting skills from Liz Taylor, Donna Reed, and even the "not so young" Eva Gabor.

The worst ever??? You don't watch many films, do you? ;-)

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Ridiculous, overblown comments. The worst film you've ever seen? Really?

"The Last Time I Saw Paris" is far from the top of my list of favorite movies, but it's certainly not at the bottom. Elizabeth Taylor is, as always, stunning and alluring, and delivers a solid acting performance. Van Johnson's character suffers from too many scenes where he is instructed to mope and be distraught -- certainly the film revolves around the tragedy which befalls this couple, but Johnson's constant weary attitude saps energy from the film, rather than soliciting empathy from his anguish.

Overall however, it's a decent film that shows a great deal of early 1950's Paris, with a solid story and bittersweet ending that, to it's credit, really is quite gripping. In fact, the final half-hour of this film is tremendous, enough so that it lifts the rest of the movie up significantly.

7.0 out of 10.

Glad to see I'm not the only one either. Although the stars are all very pretty and quite talented, and color is richly used as metaphor, the characters are universally abhorrent, the plot is haphazardly developed without any apparent regard for structure or understanding of time lapse, and the role reversal of the two leads, with Liz as the husband and Van as the wife, is off-putting and the epitome of contrivance. Any viewer with even a modicum of morality should feel compelled to cheer Liz's demise, and should laugh with delight at the resulting sad spectacle that becomes of the "family." Preposterous, ludicrous, pathetic, but nicely appointed and very satisfying to those with low standards and moderate intelligence.