Memorable, crazy movie

From my favorite movies..

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I will be completely honest, I wanted to watch this movie because Family Guy: Blue Harvest recommended it, and I already knew the leading actress gets naked in it, but I did hope for a good overall movie as well. Basically it is the fact-based story of Gia Carangi (Golden Globe winning Angelina Jolie), a beautiful dropout from Philadelphia who moved to New York to become a top fashion model. Eleven-year-old Gia (Mila Kunis) had a troubled childhood, with her Italian father Joe (Louis Giambalvo) and mother of Irish and Welsh ancestry, who had a violent and unstable marriage. At age seventeen, Gia was working at her father's diner, then she managed to brashly burst through the doors and catch the attention of powerful modelling agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Golden Globe winning Faye Dunaway). Gia's electrifying personality, attitude, potent sexuality and beauty help to rise quickly to the forefront of the modelling world, she soon finds her way onto the covers of top-selling American magazines. But Gia becomes persistently lonely, and after the death of Wilhelmina she experiments with mood-altering drugs, including cocaine. Gia becomes entangled in a passionate affair with makeup artist Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell), this begins when they pose naked and make love to each other after the shoot. After a while Linda becomes concerned about Gia's excessive drug use, she gives her an ultimatum, but Gia chooses drugs, Gia fails any reconciliation with Linda and her mother Kathleen (Mercedes Ruehl). Gia is driven to start abusing the use of heroin, although she does break her drug addiction habit after much effort, she has already contracted the HIV virus, most likely from a needle containing infected blood, this progresses to full blown AIDS. Gia spends the remainder of her life in hospital, until her death on November 18, 1986, at the age of twenty-six, she was one of the first famous women to die of the disease. Also starring Kylie Travis as Stephanie and Eric Michael Cole as T.J. At the time when she a rising star, Jolie is gorgeous, in and out of clothes, and gives a marvellous performance as the model who had great successful until it ended in her tragic downfall, you can tell the film is made for TV, it does look like a softcore porn movie with the sexual scenes, but it an interesting dark and provocative biographical drama. It was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television. Angelina Jolie was number 74 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, and she was number 1 on The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols. Worth watching!

I thought Angelina Jolie as Gia was absolutely brilliant! I never even heard of the real supermodel who was the first woman to die of AIDS. It does give you an insight of her life very well and like, she really did had a rough life. It was a shame that her parents didn't have a happy marriage and that she became a wild child because of that. Omg, Mila Kunis was absolutely cute as a wee young girl, I wonder if this was her first ever appearance on a movie? Anyways her life was so cut short, she honestly shouldn't have died so young at 26! That was such a waste of life with drugs, she should've kept away from being a supermodel and concentrated on what those people in the fashion industry are doing to their models! Its still going on today but it has to stop be stopped in my opinion. It would be better if there were proper fashion industries who concentrate on their models health and well-being. Its just a disgrace for those who don't care about their models but all they would care is money! Angelina Jolie and Elizabeth Mitchell's sex scenes were absolutely beautiful, it does show how much they really love each other! Including some others including the men having a gay kiss. It so makes you feel good, gay or straight! I would suggest people watching this because you would absolutely get hooked into it, even if its two hours long. Watch it folks!

The film feels flat from start to finish. Slow boring dragged out storyline. The film starts off with the tone that sleeping around and promiscuity are cool and this women, Gia was OK to do this!? Her behavior is condoned. Nice message! This film is basically another excuse for Hollywood to show soft porn. The lesbian scenes are just.. there to satisfy the male audiences bottomless pit of lust(or so the writer-producers seem to imply in so many films!)Why was this women even made out as a heroine, if this is a correct portrayal, then she was promiscuous, obnoxious, foul mouthed and selfish. Angelina plays that well ,per usual! Oh and great advertising for the smoking industry Angelina! I'm sure people who suffer from cancer will commend you-NOT! The whole film seems full of a bunch of vile shallow creatures. The story is actually empty and void of any soul. Angelina overacts everything. You can't really connect with her. Bits of her neediness seep through, that's the only characterization you get. The romance is bland with no chemistry Angelina Jolie couldn't carry the ' bad girl model attitude'real model . You simply have to look at Canadian supermodels Yasmeen Ghauri and UK's Naomi Campbell to see what real 'sexual power and model attitude' is about. The last 20 mins off the film are a bit interesting and give the film some depth and meaning. we can connect a bit more with gia, but it's a bit late on in the film! Best thing about the film is Eric Michael Cole's beautiful backside shot .Also, for being brave and considerate enough to show two hot guys kissing for once!

Well, I did not know Gia Carangi before I watch this movie. Now, I know her partial bio and how she looked like in reality. Choosing Angelina Jolie was a brilliant idea. she is so illustrious and glamorous that can well depict all the beauty and glamor Gia had. she might have even surpassed the true thing based on images I saw from the true Gia. Well, the movie depicts the viewpoint of several closest people to Gia: her mother, her girlfriend and colleague, her boyfriend and a later friend, and her photographer (or manager maybe). Clearly, everyone of these people want to emphasize their rule in Gia's life and show their own importance to some extent. For example, it is always Gia that asks for her girlfriend love and it is never the opposite. Her girlfriend is depicted as very wise , kind, forgiving, and willful opposite to Gia's insecure, addict, turbulent and immature personality in the relationship. In several occasions Gia begs for love or forgiveness from her girlfriend. Similarly, her mother portrays herself as a way that Gia begs her not to go home and leave her. She goes to her mother whenever in trouble. How accurate is that? We have seen the disaster of over- protective mothers as depicted by Darren Arnofsky in black swan. Given that Gia is dead and can not correct made up and inaccurate and biased stuff, I guess this is the best material the director had to make the movie.Still, there are some things that all these people tend to agree on which makes them true with high probability. Gia was a very active, energetic, and straightforward girl. Despite these traits, she was very fragile personally and strongly dependent on close friends. She needed a lot of attention and affection specially from her mother and girlfriend. This is shown through her emotional scenes when her mother or girlfriend want to leave her or when her manager is dying. She is addicted to heroine and gets infected by aids through a used needle. she died at 26. Her mother mentions that when she died and they tried to lift her to take for burial part of the flesh on her back sort of fell to the bed. That sounds terrible and even horrible. I have heard of crack victims dying like that but not aids victims. Some nice quotes from the movie. When the photographer takes several pictures of the three girls behind the chain he says "ok! lets stop photography and make some art now! lose the clothes, keep the chain!". This sentence is very nice. Two of the girls leave immediately. Gia's response is also amazing. pointing to the girl that later became her girlfriend she says "I will stay if she does!". Another, rather sad, quote is when she learns she is infected with aids. she tells her then friend and previous boyfriend "God has some nice plans for me, but not in this world". As another observation, she always seems to be short of money while she should be making a lot in the show business. she asks both her mother and girlfriend for money in the movie. the funniest is when her boyfriend visits and she is mad because she thinks someone stole her money. Then she offers her ex-boyfriend to have sex with him for money. This part reminded me of Tara Reid in The Big Lebowski when she tells Jeff Bridges "I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars" and then pointing to his servant she says "he can't watch though or he should pay a hundred". Another final point about this movie is Angelina's brazen poses in nude and flashing her breasts in several scenes. I guess Brad Pitt is not very proud of that but I should hail Angelina and say "good going girl! keep up all the good work!you are just so damn beautiful!". After all, the circle of drug addiction, depression, and disentangling of life is a trait of those actors, singers, models, etc that come to fame pretty soon and become globally popular at a young age. I guess Gia's story is more dramatic because it ended with her death at the young age of 26. Besides her pictures on magazine covers, her short life story will stay with us forever through this movie made in her memory.