Marc Z
Listen, Anthony Quinn is always good-even in this "B" movie. Bo Derek is still among the world's most beautiful women to ever grace the screen, This one is cute and romantic but not great, to say the least. The script and dialogue are weak. The Direction by the late John Derek is uninteresting. The movie reminded me of how much I loved watching Bo Derek, but quite, frankly, she was never as good when she was teamed with her late husband. Her career never was what it could have been. She is likable in this. Derek longs for a continued sexual encounter with her dead husband, who tries to coordinate it from the ghostly world. Silly, yes...
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
05/22/23
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I don't like the Razzies much, but I have to agree with them for once. Ghosts Can't Do It won worst picture, worst director, worst actress and worst supporting actor for the artist who debuted here, Donald Trump. Trump and co-star Leo Damian were also nominated for worst new star, but that went to Sofia Coppola. In retrospect, that seems rather mean. Actually, it seems a lot mean because I've watched untold movies some would consider bad and this movie is without a doubt the very worst film I've ever seen.
Somehow, John Derek decided to make a movie worse than Bolero and Tarzan the Ape Man and I didn't think he had it in him. But oh wow — he did.
Katie (Derek) and Scott (Anthony Quinn) are thirty years apart in age but have a fulfilling, sex-filled relationship. Unfortunately, he has a heart attack and learns that they can never horizontally dance again, so instead of looking into alternate therapy or a second opinion, he kills himself.
Julie Newmar plays his guardian angel, who is so bad at her job that she allows him to return to Eartha and come up with a plan where Katie will kill Fausto (Damian) and he'll possess the body. This comes after she's traveled the world and tried to find the perfect sex partner, all while running her husband's business and wheeling and dealing against Trump, who plays himself.
The end of this? Fausto accidentally drowns and Scott is unable to possess Fausto's dead body, yet when Katie revives him with CPR, Scott can possess him. Huh? I just watched this movie only to watch it change the rules in the end after hours of Anthony Quinn violently pissing all over his acting legacy in a performance that defines and goes beyond bad.
I mean, let's look at the dialogue in this and imagine it in Trump's bombastic tone and Bo's stilted voice:
Donald Trump: Be assured, Mrs. Scott, that in this room there are knives sharp enough to cut you to the bone and hearts cold enough to eat yours as hors-d'oeuvres.
Katie O'Dare Scott: You're too pretty to be bad!
Donald Trump: You noticed.
Also, if Katie's last name is Scott, her dead husband's name is Scott Scott?
The credits for this have this line: And Yes, That Really Was Donald Trump.
Are we to doubt that that is the man himself? Is it an android?
Also, one more time, this movie's happy ending is an innocent man dying so that Bo Derek can keep on banging a man thirty years older than her who has spent most of the movie in a tube lit like a swimming pool bellowing dialogue while she refers to him as "Great man."
Rated 0.5/5 Stars •
Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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John and Bo Derek call Ghosts Can't Do It a comedy? This movie is painfully unfunny for starters. All John Derek did was basically make a movie about his and Bo's personal lives together when old man time starts catching up with the male lead of the film (Anthony Quinn). When Quinn's character dies, his spirit is seen (which is an awful optic that makes this film look like the camera was being film through a wiggled pantyhose) and gives advice to Bo Derek's character. Especially in regards to find a younger man to kill so he can posses that man's body and he and Bo can continue their relationship. If this was any other movie, the duo would look like the antagonists but we need to be sympathetic towards their characters? No thank you. This film has so much lazy writing, bad acting, and so much more. One of the worst movies I have ever seen. Zero out of five stars!
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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This Bo Derek vehicle is truly one of the worst movies ever made. It must be seen to be believed, and yet I would never wish a film like this on my worst enemy. The dialogue is horrible, the acting is awkward, and the subject matter (and obvious connections to the director’s personal life) couldn’t be creepier.
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05/22/18
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GHOSTS CAN'T DO IT is DOA- Dead On Arrival. This film is sleazy junk that is completely boring and lifeless- quite a feat for a film filmed in exotic locations full of beautiful people. It really looks hideous and on top of that, it is appallingly acted, atrociously written, dreadfully edited, and idiotically directed. Most of the shots in this film look like someone blew hot air on the lens and created a smudge on the film. There are hardly any redeeming points; I guess it's far from the most offensive movie, I've seen, it's not an unpleasant film and it is sex positive. But that is like trying to find good points about an F grade essay; and on top of that, the odious and eye-gouging sight of Donald Trump is featured in this movie. He earned a Worst Supporting Actor Razzie for his appearance in this pathetic piece of shit- well deserved, considering the fact that he looks like cancer and acts like a meth addict who just got very, very high.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/16/23
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Ms. Derek's beautiful body against beautiful blue oceans is the only facet of this movie that doesn't make one cringe from the incompetence.
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01/17/23
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