It certainly may not be to everyone’s taste.
But it’s hardly a candidate for universal disdain. I found it to be a very powerful and moving flick, and I can still close my eyes and picture the black body bag being zipped over Joe Gideon’s face.
“It’s showtime, folks!”
I’d like to ask the OP: how familiar are you with Broadway?
Did you get, for example, that the Kate Jagger character, played by Ann Reinking, was pretty much Ann Reinking? That Leland Palmer’s Audrey character was Gwen Verdon?
I’m thinking that it might help the appreciation of this film - a lot - if the viewer was familiar with Fosse and some of the then-famous Broadway faces.
Speaking of images that stay with you forever – the opening number, On Broadway, is one of the best pieces of dance on film evah!
That’s pretty early, considering how often it’s used today.
IIRC Fosse said the musical scenes with Gideon in the hospital were inspired by Fosse’s hallucinations when he was in the hospital for his heart attack.
What really made that closing incredible was the most sardonic and darkest of dark humor punch line, the soundtrack being Ethel Merman singing “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” My jaw dropped at the juxtaposition.
That’s so cute. Even if it’s the worst movie to ever win an Oscar, it’s not even close to the bottom of the barrel. Try watching The Swarm sometime. Or or Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner, Gymkata, The Apple, Cool as Ice or Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. Or my personal pick for Worst Movie Ever, Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? Heironymous and The Apple are musicals, by the way, and Breakin’ 2 has a lot of dancing, so they’d be a good comparison to All that Jazz.
Near the end of The Swarm, the scientists attempt to destroy the killer bees by… wait for it… burning Houston to the ground. Even though bees can fly.
The movie also contains the greatest credit I’ve ever seen: “The African killer bee portrayed in this film bears absolutely no relationship to the industrious, hard-working, American honey bee to which we are indebted for pollinating vital crops that feed our nation.”
With all due respect, YellowTail, I believe you’ve come to the wrong forum to decry this movie. It is so filled with inside theatre >wink wink nudge nudgeiness< and the performances are great that, whatever faults it possesses, it more than makes up for in candidness and style. It is pure Fosse and that is good and that is sometimes not so good. The film is uneven, but the worst film ever – hardly.
C’mon, man – the guy from Jaws as Broadway’s top troubled song-and-dance man. That’s GOLD, baby, GOLD, I tell ya. 
But all kidding aside, I too fail to see what the heck’s so abominable about it. It’s a just fine, if not spectacular or historic, Bob Fosse showpiece.
It’s not even Roy Scheider’s worst movie, let alone worst ever.
You might want to open your eyes just a smidgen there. Having watched the film less than 24 hours ago, I can tell you without hesitation that the body of Joe Gideon is not in a black body bag at the end of the film.
His body is in a soft vinyl body bag, which is just slightly translucent so that his facial and upper torso features ( seen upside down in the frame, the top of his head is at the bottom of our frame, his chest is cut at the top of frame ) are seen slightly diffused.
There is no way it can be mistaken for a black body bag. It is not black.
You are wrong.
I’ve seen Manos…and it’s not as bad as Bubble. Not that Bubble is the worst movie ever made either*, just the last horrible movie I’ve seen.
*That would be this one.
Sheesh. Typing blind again.
HEY!! Fingers rocked!! Don’t be dissin’ my man Harvey Keitel . . .
Just saw The Jazz Singer myself. Utter shite. Crap cinematography and that Jolson couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
Someone revived a month-old thread to nitpick the color of a bodybag?
How about Kraftwerk’s track in that movie?
I don’t like the vast majority of musicals, but even I liked All That Jazz.
Bubble and Fingers are bad movies? :dubious:
Is my memory faulty or didn’t they release two versions of All That Jazz? One was R rated and the other one had some sex scenes cut?
BRILLIANT! You get Turner on the phone, I’ll order chinese… We’ll have this thing rolling by sunup!
Marley23, Kingdom of the Spiders isn’t that good, but I was surprised by how chilling the slowly zooming out matte painting ending was. I also liked the theme song.