Horrible 80s garbage that I just watched with regret: The 'Burbs. (If you’re going to say this was good, are you going off nostalgia or have you seen it recently?!)
Before I say some uncharitable things, I think Carrie Fisher was a great actress up to and including Return of the Jedi. She was really pretty, and her spunky style was a big part of what made the Original Trilogy a success.
(K, niceness over… Though the above was sincere.)
But… it was already well known at least pretty soon after the OT was done that she was heavily into drugs and general hard living, and she does seem to have a cocaine glaze on her eyes in some OT scenes.
When she was doing press stuff for The Dumbfuckery Awakes (sorry, terrible terrible movie) in 2015, many people–scratch that everyone made mention that Carrie Fisher looked terrible terrible for her age. And some SJWs pissed and moaned about how there was a double standard for men and women (not really) and it was misogyny to say that she looked liked warmed-over death and blah blah. But really, she looked horrendous and also seemed quite odd, mentally. And then, soon after, to everyone’s shock but really to no one’s surprise, she actually died. (And, being nice again for a moment, I think it would be hellish to have a heart attack on an international flight and have no where to go and then basically die on the plane–and be revived, only to die in the hospital. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. 
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But how she looked and seemed in 2015 would have been less surprising had people remembered how she looked and seemed in The 'Burbs in 1989. I had never seen this movie and hadn’t known what Fisher looked like until she floated up like a bloated corpse, suddenly, on the sea of Star Wars fame. I was thinking, “Oh cool, how nice to see Carrie Fisher back in her hot, talented days. I hope this movie is good!”
It was not to be, in any dimension.
When the movie was released, she was barely into her 32nd year, but she looks 40, easily. And she was sleepwalking through the whole thing and adding absolutely nothing to it, perhaps taking away from what little there was in the first place. She seems genuinely fucked up.
Yes, I know that she was bipolar and was probably self-medicating and all that. It’s genuinely tragic. And I am being a dick writing about it in this way, but I mean, I was really shocked seeing the movie and I had an ah-hah moment about how she seemed in 2015 and how people, collectively, were unaware of just how early she got messed up. So I just thought I’d share that.
Thoughts?
