jamesmac-580-896332 I always heard this film was not available on DVD yet I just found it here in Germany. What's that about? So I finally got to see it and I loved it. It was fun, fun, fun. As I read the reviews here most of the posters get the fun in this "über" costume drama. However the few posters who don't get the film and dislike it, miss all the nuance in the film. These people make me think of Oscar Wilde's quote, "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." This film is a delightful romp. Costumes are great, The dialog is simple and the lighting is fine. I am not sure what the poster who criticized the lighting wanted. I think he may have watched "Dances with Wolves" too many times. The same goes for those who have a problem with Taylor's Italian. He character doesn't speak fluent Italian. Any better language skills in her character would ruin the fun. I wish, I could understand what that bird was saying. The sound is bad on my DVD. I loved those Easter Island stone heads in the back ground. I think, like John Waters we should value our friends on their reaction to this film. Any one that can't see the fun in this film must be a real moron. I work in the opera business so this film is very easy for me understand.

noorym I LOVE LOVE LOVE "Boom"!It is so over the top that every time I see it I literally howl with amazement. Elizabeth Taylor's costumes are eye-popping. Granted, Burton is too old to really be taken seriously, but then the whole film is such a whoop! that you can't take it seriously anyway. I would highly suggest seeing this film if you are a lover of overdone melodrama and just plain ridiculous fun. BOOM! The whole scene where Taylor serves a hideous fish to Noel Coward is incredible. I also thought that the set was incredible to look at. It's stark yet lavish at the same time. Why don't I know anyone like these characters? BOOM!I say.

Putzberger That's right . . . BOOM! This movie had such a loathsome reputation that I had to watch it, and I must say, it didn't disappoint. Ghastly as it is, "Boom!" is a great cautionary tale. Lesson 1: fame takes its toll. Poor Liz Taylor was only in her mid-30s at this point, and still more voluptuous than fat. But decades of stardom had warped her personality, and a long career of "erotic vagrancy" had rendered her an overexposed self-parody. Therefore, she is tragically convincing in "Boom!" as a shrewish, washed-up old hag. Her performance is shrill, monochromatic and dreadful, but her persona was so close to her character that any acting is gratuitous. Lesson 2: homosexuals, even brilliant ones, wind up in exile. To watch Noel Coward, as a character idiotically named "the Witch of Capri," being toted up the beach on the shoulders of a beefy manservant is to watch the tragic end of a stellar career. It's an image that resonates with Oscar Wilde's sad decline from a widely acclaimed wit to a sick, broke ex-convict, Truman Capote's deterioration from literary genius to silly talk-show guest, or even Coward's downward journey from Shaftesbury and Broadway to the Vegas strip, and this lousy cameo. Lesson 3: at some point you have to stop trading in on your name and give up. Tennessee Williams wrote a handful of classic plays, and dozens of dreadful ones. "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," which is the basis for "Boom!", must have been his tenth failed attempt to retell the story of "Streetcar Named Desire:" a young stud stirs the passions of a vulnerable woman (subtext: gay man) with dire results. And Lesson 4: a rich voice and a regal bearing doth not an actor make. Richard Burton is ugly and pompous here, all the moreso for appearing oblivious to the fact that he's far too old for the role of a sexy, dangerous young poet. Coward seems more his peer than his potential corrupter: when Coward propositions Burton by inviting him back to his island, you think he's suggesting they catch the Early Bird Special at Denny's. In fairness, it's hard not to be ridiculous in a film that asks you to say "Boom!" every few minutes, apropos of absolutely nothing. But Burton, one of the most mannered actors in history, says "Boom!" with the smirking self-satisfaction he brings to every role. "Boom," "I have a talent for disaster" or "that wasn't very nice, Martha," it's all the same. It's all Burton, and it's all horrible.

patherto I have an awful pan-and-scan videotape of "Boom!", and I want to see it in all its widescreen glory. So I voted "1" and hope you will too. Together, we can pull this movie down into the pits of cinematic dross, and hope that someone will see an opportunity for BIG MONEY in releasing "Boom!" in its Director's Cut Extended Version. The movie is one of my howling favorites…you just look at the people involved, the director, the actors, the cameraman, and you say to yourself, "Yep, I guess you can fool some of the people for a lot of time." Producers considering the DVD release of "Boom!" should note that, everywhere it's been shown, there have been sellout crowds in the theaters. But it hasn't been up to Frostbite Falls yet.