The greatest movie ever!

As Good As It Gets

Absolutely brilliant

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

A rich and spoiled woman (Daryl Hannah)) is "zapped" with a ray from a flying saucer. Nobody believes her until she pops out of her clothes to over 50 feet tall. She lives in a big barn and sews her own clothes. (How very convenient.) Unlike "The Hulk" no purple stretchy underwear. It tries to be "campy" just like the 1950's film and somewhat succeeds. Nobody dies in this remake. Fake blue backdrop and jet-black studio skies. Daryl Hannah makes it into a woman's lib parody. When she grows to her full size she "attacks" her husband's lover, but only verbally. "You are better than this and smarter than all the men in town" (paraphrased) The sets (intentionally) look cheap like model-train miniature buildings. She stomps through town and everyone screams. She and her husband are picked up by the flying saucer, so nobody believes she is crazy anymore. Borrows from the original. Missiles are fired at her, she falls into the high-voltage electric wires, but does not die. Several silly things in the movie: Giant trucks deliver "Summer's Eve Deodorant for Women" and Revlon products. The doctor tries to give her a giant-sized hypo-tranquilizer. She suggests that her normal-sized man "can keep her happy"? He remarks: "What am I supposed to do? put on a "wet-suit" and bring a flashlight"? The love "gyrations" are poorly done and not provocative. Baldwin looks like he is drilling for oil! Daryl hitches a saucer-ride to the stars with two pretty giant alien "twins". Everyone is 50 ft. tall! They pick up three Earth-men, including her husband. They are still normal-sized at this time. They are all wearing yellow Capt. Kirk polo shirts, of course. It's a guilty-pleasure film due to pretty Ms. Hannah wearing practically nothing at times. Also minor nudity (cheeky). Cute but not that funny or scary. The drive-in she smashes is showing the old b/w 1950's version of the same movie. Yes, she did make a few better movies. "Splash" and "Roxanne" with Steve Martin, both come to mind. I rate it PG-13 (or a weak "R"). Minor violence, suggestive language, and brief nudity.

If you're going to be a young woman who is made 50 feet tall in an isolated incident with a UFO in the desert, you might as well be Darryl Hannah. She's tall to begin with but she'd look fine at any altitude. She's enough to make any normal man want to climb up her calf and bite and squeeze her but that normal man shouldn't take the fantasy too far. She does have a good deal of heft, after all, and you wouldn't want her to roll over in the middle of the night.Enough of Darryl Hannah's lustrous blond beauty and incomparable figure. The movie -- yes, the movie. First of all, I have to mention J. B. S. Haldane's observation that Darryl Hannah might do fine at five or six feet but not at fifty. It isn't that she'd always have her head in the clouds despite her feet being on the ground. And let's not have any cracks about "How's the weather up there?" What do you think this is, a gag? Haldane calculated that a human being was "just the right size." Because if he were bigger he'd weigh too much and the bones of his legs wouldn't support that weight. He'd collapse because his legs would break off. He -- or she, in this instance -- would wind up like Ozymandias in Shelley's poem, which I'll take the liberty of quoting here.I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said -- "two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ... near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." --Okay, okay. That's off topic. Don't bother saying it. You don't need to draw ME a picture. But the movie doesn't forget where it's going. It follows its compass straight towards women's lib. Hannah, a weak-willed rich lady, is put upon and brow beaten by everyone she comes in contact with except her shrink, Frances Fisher. The men are especially brutal, even her Dad. Her philandering husband, one of the Baldwin brothers, is suitably slimy but nobody really turns in a good performance. Hannah herself seems languid to the point of sleepiness. I didn't make it to the end but I imagine she gets even with all those patriarchal pigs. The director, Christopher Guest, shoots it straight but must have known, in his heart of hearts, that it was to laugh at. I hope so, for his sake, because, if taken seriously, the movie has all the dash and relevance of a recipe for plain spaghetti sauce.

I am no fan of the original 1958 movie. It was half hazard and clumsy at best. But this 1993 made for TV remake directed by Christopher Guest was funny on purpose. It has a great cast including William Windom as her scheming Father who is best known as Commadore Decker in the original Star Trek and Seth the cranky country doctor in Murder, She Wrote. He does a bang up job in this funny and well made remake. The effects are 100 times better then the original and if I had to make a choice, I'd watch this version over the old turkey any day of the week. This is the only classic when it comes to the fifty foot woman. Plus, there is a great twist at the end which I will not give away, you will have to see it for yourself. But I will say this, it gives motive to why the aliens made her grow in the first place, something the original never said. I give ATTACK OF THE 50 FT. WOMAN, 8 STARS.

When Kill Bill was released, the cult icon and movie goddess label was not only attached to the gorgeous Uma Thurman but also her equally beautiful co-star Daryl Hannah. Having been off the Hollywood radar for some years, Hannah suddenly had everyone remembering just why she made such a big splash with Tom Hanks way back in 1984. In between Daryl had made some interesting movies, some more memorable than others. But for every high profile movie like Wall Street there was a Crazy People, for every Roxanne, there was a Grump Old Man. But Daryl kept on and in the wilderness years she made a movie that shouts out to the viewer by the title alone. Attack of the 50ft Woman tells the story of Nancy Archer, a woman who is constantly chasing after her philandering husband. One night, after finding him once more at a motel, she drives off into the night on a deserted road. But then a UFO appears and hits her with a light. When she tells people of her experience, no-one believes her, least of all her cheating husband, who hopes she might now be declared legally insane, or her father, who only loves her because of her stake in the family business. But soon something strange happens to Nancy, as she gets more angry she starts to grow. Soon she is fifty foot tall, and while she is physically huge, her patience is thin, especially with her cheating husband, and her money grabbing father… Attack of the 50ft Woman is a comedy that is straight from the handbook of 1950s sci-fi movies, with back projection and dialogue that feels totally from that spaced out genre. The performance by Daryl as the ever growing Nancy is well played, her attractiveness is not just in looks, you really do fall for her charms, even if her dumb husband can't. That "dumb husband" played by Daniel Baldwin, does well in what is a one dimensional role, the guy is a creep and he's never going to learn his lesson. Meanwhile even Frances Fisher appears as the local shrink, while William Windom is all high and mighty as Nancy's father whose only interest in life is the interest he's making at the bank. This movie is probably forever left in the archives of forgotten video, or, like General Zod and his companions in Superman, left to be locked away forever and drift endlessly in space. Only the galaxy I found a copy in was a place called e Bay. And when I played it I found a movie that is worthy due to the lovely Daryl, and the concept of a woman rising above her bullying men and teaching them manners the hard way. Attack of the 50ft Woman deserves to be seen, rent it, buy it, or just record of the TV. But do watch it, because you don't want to make Hannah mad