In Praise Of Director JOHN WATERS....

[arwalden]

Poll question: In Praise Of Director JOHN WATERS....

POLL QUESTION: What's your favorite John Waters film?

DISCUSSION: Which are your favorite characters and lines from any of his movies? Do you own any copies on DVD or VHS?

-- Allen

[arwalden]

1. Are Tho-o-ose.... PUSSY willows?

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Pink Flamingos

But Dawn Davenport is one of the great characters in cinematic history.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Pink Flamingos. My favorite character: Edie the Egg Lady

"Babs! Babs! Where's my eggs?!"

[NNadir]

30. Classic.

Of course, I was a pothead when I last saw "Pink Flamingos." I don't know that I'd enjoy it as much in my days of sobriety.

[soothsayer]

3. I own Desperate Living and Pink Flamingoes and Female Trouble

I do love when Serial Mom is beating the juror to death telling her "No White Shoes After Labor Day!"

[arwalden]

6. That Juror Was Played By Patty Hearst...

... I'm impressed by John Waters' casting selections. Casting Pia Zadora as the beatnick chick in Hairspray was excellent too.

[troublemaker]

4. Desperate Living > Polyester > Hairspray

http://www.atomiccinema.com/dir_waters.htm

[terrya]

5. My favorite is "Hairspray"

Without a doubt. :-)

I own "Hairspray", "Serial Mom" and "Cecil B. Demented" on VHS.

[eek]

9. Watching Female Trouble is one of our beloved holiday traditions

We enjoy gathering 'round the TV to see Dawn freak out over not getting her cha cha heels, killing her mom with the xmas tree screaming "fu*ck xmas' then run off to get raped by , err, himself(?).


My other fave character is Gator (automotive in dus tree)


Desperate Living is so fab also. Note how Pee wee's playhouse liberally borrowed from that picture, presumably in homage.

Bits of DL also presage Serial Mom.

[jonnyblitz]

7. Female Trouble makes me gasp in horror every time!

"What are you LEZBEENS doing??" Edith Massey is so over the top in that one! :wow:

when Divine kicked down the xmas tree screaming 'FUCK YOU" because she didn't get her cha-cha heels...too much..

I have an old VHS copy of this one...

[ronnykmarshall]

24. "Mr Weinberg ...

Dawn Davenport is eating a meat ball sandwich right out in class and she been passing notes."

[swag]

8. I voted for "Desperate Living"

but really it's tied with "Female Trouble" in my black little heart.

Dawn Davenport, Aunt Ida, Gator, so many great characters and great lines, and I do need to get some work done today.

Pink Flamingoes
Polyester

are also in the pantheon, along with the very early short "The Diane Linkletter Story," which I've only seen once.

Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, etc., were all quite wonderful, but he hadn't yet hit his stride.

I tried to like his newer (post-Polyester) stuff, but most of it lacks the bite and fails to snap my bean, as it were.

[jonnyblitz]

10. I prefer this stuff with DIvine.

Cecil B. Demented just sucked horribly. I wasn't big on Pecker either although everybody I know just loved it.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. I never wear white shoes after Labor Day but Pecker is now my favorite

The manner in which Waters underscored elitism in that movie was masterful...brilliant. Pecker was the true intellect (and the Virgin Mary statue was a hoot!)

[terrya]

13. Any movie with "teabagging" is ok by me.

"Pecker" was quite good. I also liked the little girl with the sugar addiction. :-)

[arwalden]

26. I Had A Feeling That Would Be Your Choice

:-) :hi:

[Blue-Jay]

14. I wondered who else voted for "Pecker"

Good company...

[jonnyblitz]

15. I really need to watch that one again . I only saw it once

maybe my mind was elsewhere when i watched it because EVERYBODY I know loves that one even if they don't like his other more current stuff so much. I just love Divine and Edith Massey so much that I am partial to the older ones from the 70's. :P

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

28. Well I loved all of them but I really like the newer stuff like Pecker and

Cecil B Demented...Waters was on top of mackong the corporate takeover of entertainment LONG before anyone else

[Blue-Jay]

12. From one of the funniest Simpsons episode. EVER!

Homer: That John is the greatest guy in the world. We've gotta have him
and his wife over for drinks sometime.
Marge: Hmm, I don't think he's married, Homer.
Homer: Oh, a swinging bachelor, eh? Well, there's lots of foxy ladies
out there.
Marge: Homer, didn't John seem a little... festive to you?
Homer: Couldn't agree more. Happy as a clam.
Marge: He prefers the company of men!
Homer: Who doesn't?
Marge: Homer, listen carefully. John is a ho - mo...
Homer: Right.
Marge: ... sexual.
Homer: Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[jonnyblitz]

17. seemed FESTIVE? LMFAO

that is GREAT!!

[peekaloo]

19. I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals FLAMING!

[ghostsofgiants]

23. ...

Pure classic.

Pecker is the only Waters film I've seen, but I loved it.

[No2W2004]

16. His new movie is rated NC17

it's about an uptight woman who gets knocked in the head and then can't control her libedo. Features Selma Blair sporting size ZZZZZ breast.

[Working Class Hero]

18. I love Serial Mom

"No...please! Fashion has changed!"

[ronnykmarshall]

20. Female Trouble is my favorite

I have an old copy on VHS.

On DVD I have Hairspray, Pecker and Serial Mom.


Dawn Davenport is my favorite character.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. Impossible to say...

they are each so delicious in their own way, though I do admit I have a softspot for "Cecil B. DeMented" as a film whore. :)

I am blessed to be here in SF where John makes yearly pilgrimages to our local theatre in The Castro for evenings with him and his films. I have never had more fun! One of my favorites was "Female Trouble" with a live drag queen cha-cha heels contest.

I'm hoping he's going to do a Xmas show again this year.

[jonnyblitz]

22. that is a great theater!!

the floor opens and an organ player comes up from the floor then goes back down when he is finished. I used to live on Polk and O'Farrell in the early 90's and was stationed on Treasure Island plus Naval Supply Center, Oakland when in the navy. :hi:

[blindpig]

25. Flamingos!

Sure it was cheezy and so forth but damn what fun! Nothing like it at the time. Who could ever forget Crackers and his chicken or the trip to Eddies supermarket? I think John lost a little as he became more technically proficient.
John Waters is another example of the twisted genius that Baltimore spasmodically produces. I am always struck with queasy pride when I see my old neighborhood of Highland town/Eastern Ave. depicted in the early films. Knew some of the cast members or worked with their siblings, who were curiously concentrated at the Baltimore Zoo.

[ronnykmarshall]

29. Egg man didn't do it Babs, Egg man didn't do it!