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A volatile, toxic potion of satire and nihilism, road movie and science fiction, violence and comedy, the unclassifiable sensibility of Alex Cox's Read more

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Still A Fun Watch, Even After All These Years
The film "Repo Man" is a bit dated, and yet it's still a fun watch. And I think that being a little dated makes it an even better film. Many films, especially from the 1970's to the mid 1980s have not stood the test of time. "Repo Man" does. From the punkish Otto (Emilio Estevez) to (Harry Dean Stanton) the film is as enjoyable [if not more] than when it was first released. I remember when I first watched the film, and thought how clever Nesmith was to include Otto's parents. When you see Otto's parents and their total devotion to the televangelist [very popular at the time] and being totally mesmerized by him that they send him all their money; you begin to understand that Otto's a hell of a lot more normal and sane than society would have us believe.
VERY anti-Christian
The movie has many none-too-subtle *VERY* anti-Christian elements, particularly in the typical Hollywierd portrayal of money grubbing "Christian" TV Evangelists and Christians themselves as stupid zombies; life as basically pointless.
"I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either."
Alex Cox sends up the Reagan era in a black comedy about car reposession. With a stellar soundtrack and lots of quotables, Cox is the precursor to the Coens and Tarantino. Cox sends up everything but the kitchen sink-suburban life, televangelism, nuclear fear, UFO conspiracies, commercialism, self help cults, and more I'm sure I missed here. Straight up lo-budget classic if you have a taste for irony and absurdity. ... Read more

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GIRLS TOWN -- Two VHS Duplication Speeds.
It's always amazed me how director Charles F. Haas managed to orchestrate the outstanding cast that he had for _Girls Town_. The amount of talent assembled for this low-budget classic is virtually unprecedented: Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Ray Anthony (Mamie's real life husband during filming), Paul Anka, Gloria Talbott, Elinor Donahue, Gigi Perreau and The Platters.
A Very Good Movie
This is a very good movie. In fact, it is extremely well done all around. The acting was very effective and convincing. I particularly liked the cinematography.Also, the script worked on many levels making it appealing to a wide audience. I found this film to be both entertaining and thought provoking.

Girls Town
I actually saw this movie for the first time a couple of weeks ago on American Movie Classics. I know it's a B movie, but I really liked it. I thought the acting was surprisingly "tight". I was also surprised to see Mel Torme acting in a film, as I had never seen this before.As with most films portraying teenagers, real teenagers are seldom used, so I can't really bash it for that.I liked the music as well, especially the opening song and Anka's touching rendition of Ave Maria.This is the kind of movie I would have enjoyed watching at a Saturday afternoon matinee. ... Read more

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In the darkness behind Jupiter there lurks a heretofore undiscovered planet, Planet X, boasting beings of superior intelligence.ThePlanet&nbspX-ers are forced to live underground because of the havoc wreaked onthe surface by Ghidra, the three-headed monster.Once discovered by our astronauts, including the ultra-hip Nick Adams (spouting such phrases as "That's right, baby!" with innocent conviction), the Planet X-ers propose that they transport Godzilla and Rodan from Earth to their planet to help rid them of the Ghidra menace. Only, as it turns out, they have a dastardly plan to use the bipedal behemoth and his flighty friend to conquer the Earth, harnessing their destructive force with "magnetic waves."And it almost works, but for the ingenuity... well, you get it.There can be no better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than watching monsters battle it out, while Nick Adams speaks in his accustomed English to others speaking dubbed English (really Japanese), like they all know what each other is saying.The DVD gives you a choice of cropped-screen or letterboxed in scrumptious Tohoscope, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround or Mono, and some more extras.It is also available in a boxed set with four of the better Godzillaflicks by director Inoshiro Honda. Read more

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Possibly the best G-movie ever
Firstly, in this movie, Godzilla and Rodan are shown attacking humans a lot towards the end. They don't do anything 'heroic' except fighting with King Ghidorah, but, King Ghidorah is a planet-killing space dragon, so when Godzilla and Rodan fight him, I think its more because they want to stay alive than because of any 'heroic' motives, and, as anyone who's seen a movie from this series (meaning, not the Heisei or Millenium series) will know, if either of them fought King Ghidorah alone they would probably be killed off very quickly.
!!!a classic film!
a pernsonl faveroite of mine, i like nick adams in here he did a great job doing this film the special effets were awsome mostly for the time the alien plot was also good the destruction in here was great and ghidrah was seen more than he was in the last film and the screen qulity was also very good [i have the widescreen edition] a very well made film my faveroite of the showa serise the victory dance was also funny!

Come on, folks!Admit it!This movie is horrible !(But you know what?I like it, too!)
No need to go into the plot.Just about every reviewer here has given their take on the fun mess.
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When American audiences first saw Mario Bava's 1963 horror trilogy, it wasn't the same film he had made in Italy. Finding it too terrifying for kids (imagine that!), AIP pictures trimmed it of violence and intensity, rescored it, and renamed it in order to cash in on the success of Read more

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Still Scares Me After All These Years
Well, my sweet ones, I can personally guarantee that this magnificent trilogy will frighten you every time you think of it for decades.How do I know?Because that's what it's done for me.
One of the scariest movies ever made
Most people know "Black Sabbath" from the American version released in 1964 by AIP.This, though, is the original Italian version ("I Tre Volti Della Paura"), with Italian dialogue, subtitled in English.Many of the actors were clearly speaking English as they are filmed, but overdubbed.At the time this was made, all Italian films were shot without production tracks and post-dubbed, though it is a little disconcerting that the Italian voice looping Karloff sounds nothing like him.
Bring on the lobby cards and poster cardboard/paper reproductions
Black Sabbath is one of Mario Bava's contribution to the Italian spookies of 60's horror movies. Fifty years on and it still gives the thrills and chills, as mysterious phonecalls spill the suspense with unrest, a ghoulish creature stalks the land and forbidden desires awake the selfishness of human nature in this "thrillogy" of gothic horror served by the great Boris Karloff.
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RED BARON WAS PLAYED WELL.
WELL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I GOT TO WATCH THIS MOVIE AGAIN AND I MUST SAY OF ALL THE THINGS I KNOW OF MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN HE WAS PLAYED WELL BY JOHN PHILLIP LAW.THE AIR STUNTS THAT WERE IN THE MOVIE WERE AWSOME SOME OF THE BEST I HAVE SEEN.ONLY FLAW IS THAT IT WAS NOT TELLING THE REAL STORY OF THE RED BARON AND ROY BROWN BUT AGAIN THAT'S HOLLYWOOD BACK IN THE 1970'S.

Believable Myth
What a strange, compelling little movie for anyone familiar with World War I air combat history.
The Flying Circus of Roger Corman
I saw this when it first arrived in the movies in 1971. It was generally ignored back then by audiences tired of the real war in Vietnam but time has marched on and the objections are not as sharp as they once were. It is beautifully filmed and most likely viewed as a "man's picture", with no roles for women other than background props .The musical score by Hugo Friedhofer is excellent and is available on CD if you know where to look. (However, not as great as Goldsmith's "Blue Max" music, which was probably one of the best tunes ever applied to a WW 1 air picture). Now many have spoken of historical problems but it should be said that good situations develop in this work. One of the best is when Don Stroud as Brown walks into the mess and drinks the sour wine that had been left on the table in protest due to his disagreement with toasting the Baron with the chivalry conscious Squadron Commander and Brown's claim that he would drink it when the next pilot is "blown to pieces" by the Baron. The Commander's friend, who had won the Victoria cross was that victim and it makes for effective storyline as Brown convinces the rest of the squadron to abandon the idea of chivalry in war. We also get to see Goering collecting Picasso paintings, a humorous interpretation by the Baron's squadron in painting their planes to obscure their design that led to the famous "Flying Circus" and Henry Fokker introduce the Baron to the Fokker Triplane like a typical car salesman with a sexy woman running her hands along the machine as if we are watching a commercial. Another is when the Allies under Brown attack the German airfield and think they finally have the upper hand but as luck would have it a whole truckload of spare parts arrive for the Baron just after the raid and they put the planes back together in a matter of hours and counterattack the British airfield! We see Von Richthofen as the aristocrat he really was, a young man who transfers hunting in peacetime on his massive estate to "hunting in the air". Also, the fatal flaw of that generation, intent on self destruction due to inability to deal with class change and a willingness to join his former comrades in death. It is a "romanticized" look at the World War 1 Air war. As usual, the allied planes are all SE 5's which makes for boring shots of planes going down continually and the Baron was probably ironically killed by a bullet fired from a trench soldier when he flew too close to the ground in avoiding Brown's pursuit. It should be transferred to DVD and polished so that people can appreciate the scenery that displays the beauty of nature during war to soldier's eyes that was Corman's probable intent. ... Read more

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David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Read more

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Good for renting but not for collection.
This movie glues you to your seat through out its play time; but only for the first time. Its not for repeated viewing.I bought this movie because i found it in the "top 100 hollywood movies" list. I don't thing i am going to watch it again for another year.The movie is good but its overrated. So rent it and enjoy it and get rid of the Blue Velvet. I also bought this movie because i heard lot about "the weiredest" Dennis hopper, but i think thats his normal state and does what he always do - GOES CRAZY.

Mysteries
Lynch fills out the world of Blue Velvet so lovingly, and with such care and imagination, and attention to detail (and to the odd, essential quirks of life), that, surreal as it is, this world seems wholly authentic to us. Because Lynch is not afraid to "dream' his movies, he fills his world with the kind of "abritrary' touches that make up real life. And his mise en scene here, far from being merely the backdrop to his "plot," is actually central to it (and even takes precedence over it). The one grows organically out of the other, in fact, for, as in all true myths (and in dreams also), the two are inseparable. Because in life, there is no plot, obviously (save that written by God, or Chance), only an endless, infinite and unimaginably intricate unfolding of scenes, acts, events, encounters, gestures, words, sounds, smells. In a word--phenomena, endlessly spilling out and colliding and spinning off and resounding with all the crazy random beauty of pollen in the wind. There may be patterns in such chaos, but if so, they are infinite, varied, and eternally overlapping, interacting. And so the patterns we choose to isolate are simply that: their meanings is merely the meaning we have chosen to impose upon the chaos. For Lynch, the mystery of the world is inseparable from the mystery of us--the mystery of perceiving, which is the greatest mystery of them all. Something is out there, Lynch seems to be saying, because something is making us perceive. It's up to us, then, to seek it out, and even if we know we can never hope to understand it, we can at least try. What else are we here for? The alternative is simply too dull, too dispiriting, to entertain--that's there's nothing out there, nothing hidden or inexplicable, and that what we think is all there is. (The insanity of solipcism is the only thing that's unthinkable in Lynch's world.)To Lynch, the options are plain--either we know it all, and the answers are just what we choose to invent, in which case there's no sense in asking questions at all. Or--we know nothing, and no answers are possible, so all there is for us to do is ask the most exciting, enchanting, impossibly impertinent questions we can dream up. To Lynch, the world is a strange world, not because we do not understand it, but because that's the way it is--it's nothing but strangeness, that's what makes it the world (such stuff as dreams are made of). Since, for Lynch, there is nothing stranger than "normality," so, by the same token, the strange is the only "normal" thing there is. And seeing as we have made the world thus, by perceiving it, interpreting and assembling it, piece by piece, with our own thoughts and senses, then we must be mysteries, too.
An astonishingly conventional film that isn't nearly as subversive as it thinks it is
Let it first be said that everyone who considers themselves a serious student of film should see "Blue Velvet" on principle alone-- this review is intended for people who have seen it, and thus contains SPOILERS.
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Nobody is not Trinity butbetter.
I am sure that if you are looking at this then you are a fan of the trinity movies.The Nobody character is based on Trinity but with much more refined.Terence Hill's Nobody has a certain directness and isa much fuller character.Henry Fonda's career in spaghetti westerns often gets overlooked and that is a real shame.If you compare this to his portrayal of Wyatt Earp then you can see that the love of the western never left him.This is much more the Fonda that one loves rather than the villian in "Once upon a Time in The West" (itself a great film).I love showing this to people that have never seen it. They usally like it and then I move on the the Trinity films.

My name is nobody
awesome, very funny, brings back memories of my dad from my childhood when we used to watch comedy/westerns. :)
My Name is Nobody
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out here3
oh... it's so hard to watch a David Lynch movie. Why? b/c it's so good and awful gut wrenching all the same. Willem Defoe is amazing, yet again, in another movie. And may the Lord with all His bounty give praise to the mother and her boyfriend. For those two are surely among the underpraised in at least my life and I as I look Your lives as well. Hype and Yipe and your own Hyenaes. As that mother made me wish for my own forthcoming I shall fornicate upon your's. I just don't like the sex in this movie. Every else is great. The Jack Nance part, the "can I use your head" part, the weeping beauty at the end, and all the Twin Peaks cameos you didn't want but have now seen.
not 5 stars for no option to turn off the sex
ell I heard this came out on DVD recently, and starting rem when this movie came out, back in my early 20's and what a dif time haha.
David Lynch's Best
Darkly Violent and Sadistically Sad the way true love really is. Over the top performances from Cage and Dern, but to me Diane Ladd stoled the film as that mean wicked witch of a mother. Brillant satire of The Wizard of Oz. ... Read more

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A Successful Xperiment
Although generally regarded as Hammer's first foray into the realm of science-fiction, two previous films THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE and SPACEWAYS had suggested with their overall ineptitude that genre films were perhaps something Hammer should steer clear of.But in re-making a BBC TV serial for the big screen Hammer had an ace up their sleeve and an audience ready made for the big screen adventures of Prof. Bernard Quatermass. Despite the terrible miscasting of Brian Donlevy as Quatermass, the film succeeds admirably. It still feels odd to watch a Hammer film in Black and White, but this adds to the documentary like quality that veteran director Val Guest was seeking (to aid this attempt at verisimilitude, we also have newspaper headlines and on a few occasions some hand-held camera work - very rare for 1955). With its dedication to actual scientific concepts and well written and researched source material by Nigel Kneale (a writer who is criminally under-rated) THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT retains a topical feel. In Quatermass' constant clashes with authority, Kneale threads in a number of critiques about modern society and its absurd predilection for red tape and bureaucracy. Despite these and other things, when reduced to its basic narrative, this film is an exploration of possession and feeds into the same paranoid fears that Don Siegel exposed so well with INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. Gothic elements abound also, with the eerie isolated location that opens the film and the idea of double or multiple identities. Sadly Kneale over-emphasises Britain's importance in the world and the idea of the United Kingdom being the first country to send manned rockets into space is rather quaint and somewhat amusing. Donlevy's boorish and arrogant Quatermass is balanced well with the genuinely moving and upsetting performance by Richard Wordsworth as the invaded astronaut Caroon. For pure atmosphere and tension this remains a high watermark for Hammer, only bettered perhaps by the sequel QUATERMASS 2.
"I Saw It Crawling Up The Wall!"
Seen today, it seems incredible that THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENTcould have ever been rated "X"--even in stodgy old England of 1955.But so it was, and it proved extremely popular, and when it was released in the United States as THE CREEPING UNKNOWN it proved more popular still.In fact, the film was so popular that it essentially created England's Hammer Studios, and for the next decade or so "Hammer Horror" would prove a formidable box office draw.
Get the DVD from Amazon.co.uk
The Quatermass Xperiment as it was titled for its cinema release, is very simply on of the British Film Industry's classic films. It was a trail blazer for the then fledgling Hammer Films, and because of its success, Hammer were able to go forward and make the incredible catalogue of films that they would eventually end up with.
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Not the Barbara I Remember!
In the 1968 NOTLD (if you havent seen the original please watch before you watch this version) the character of Barbara was a scared, stunned,stereotype of woman. The men were the strong protective ones, while she cowered and Meeped and covered her face. In this 1990 version, Barbara kicks undead bootatie like she was born into it. We think that Barbara (played by pat tallman) is mousy with her giant glasses, muted shoulder pad outfit and the 10 minutes of screaming in the beginning but soon with Bens (Tony Todds) presence of mind she changes into an assertive leader who becomes the lone voice of reason till the end of the movie. This version mimics the original, They even tried to cast people with the exeption of Barbara who looked the same. Bigger budget and color makes this a worthy remake, although to me the black and white one was much creepier. Tom Savini on the featurette explains that they tried to make everything look as real as possible anatomically, when they used dummies instead of stunt people we were not supposed to tell, and for the most part he got it right except for two instances
great remake, at least to me....
I thought this was a great remake, I think it was more exciting than the original, although the original is somewhat sacred to some folks, more or less.I thought they REALLY improved the opening scene!It was MUCH more exciting that way!And the entire movie was thrilling, or so I thought anyway.It did need some good old flesh-chomping scenes, tho.I still totally enjoyed it!! Definitely worth watching.

completely silly!
Who would give the green light to this?
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Desperate for work, troubled high school teacher Jim Norman (Tim Matheson) relocates his family to his rural hometown after procuring a much-needed job there. Once home he must relive and confront a childhood nightmare:the high school hoodlums who murdered his older brother in a tunnel ambush, and were killed themselves by an oncoming train, are slowly rising from the grave to finish the job by killing Norman.The ghostly hooligans, who appear as flesh and blood to students, start "transferring" into school when some of Norman's students mysteriously perish;however their phantom, fire-spitting car is invisible to all but their victims.Suspicion for the inexplicably rising student-body count soon falls squarely on Norman, who must find a way to protect his wife and son from danger, vanquish the supernatural hoods, and cast off the shackles of his past.It's a fairly straightforward plot with some obvious elements, but Matheson and his supporting cast (including wife Brooke Adams) create a suspenseful, fear-inducing atmosphere under the able direction of Tom McLoughlin from a screenplay adaptation by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. Read more

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Sometimes They Should Leave Well Enough Alone
I suppose there is no harm in ordering this two-movie set, since it seems to be the same price as the first movie alone, but it might be better not to bother, as the second movie kind of spoils the tighter plot line of the first. If I could I would give the first movie 4 stars (5 if you love the genre) and the second one star (zero if you like Stephen King).
Sometimes They Come Back...to polish the story.
Let not my review be biased because Vinnie Vincent (Vinnie "The Viper" Corey in the story) is HOT!!!!!!!!! I have found my love for 50s Greasers! But that aside, the movie had a simple, ghostly plot but had some careful planning and creepy scenes. Fun, funny, hip, and horrific. With little violence and no sexual content, this film has your basic ghostly feel. Creative with likeable, believable characters. Sorry Stephen King, but this movie did improve your version (found in "Night Shift").

Milford Hi
Stephen King's: Sometimes They Come Back is very emotional, yet funny at the same time.Given, the movie doesn't come near the quality of the short story.However, it definitely puts SK's story to life.The acting is very good.In fact, for SK's Constant Readers, this appears a good deal in other of his novels & stories.Hearts in Atlantis for one.* That train that appears a # of times in the movie, I wonder if that is: Charlie The Choo-Choo from The Dark Tower saga. ... Read more

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Sam Peckinpah weighs in on World War II--and from the German point of view. The result is as bleak, if not quite as bloody, as one expects, in part because the 1977 film was cut to ribbons by nervous studio executives. The assorted excerpts that remain don't constitute an exhilarating or even an especially thrilling battle epic. The war is grinding to a close, and veterans like James Coburn's Steiner are grimly aware that it's a lost cause. The battlefield is a death trap of sucking mud and barbed wire, and the German generals (viz., the martinet played by James Mason) seem to pose a bigger threat to the life and limbs of Steiner's men than the inexorable enemy. Not even Peckinpah's famous sensuous exuberance when shooting violence is much in evidence; the picture is a depressive, claustrophobically overcast experience. The bloody high (or low) point isn't a shooting; it's a wince-inducing de-penis-tration during oral sex. For a fun time with the men in (Nazi) uniform, try Read more

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What Is Leadership?
In a key scene in "Cross of Iron," Senior Sgt. Steiner charges alone into No-Man's Land during a Soviet frontal assault.
Great, gritty, grungy and real
Saw this one on televison. Having read the novel, I found a few things not in line but none the less I find this a superb piece of work. A far cry from the politically correct junk produced by hollywood today. Wish Hollywood would produce films like this again.
Boring, dull, pointless
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Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Buñuel enjoyed an ardent misanthropicduel in the '60s and '70s, but who won is anyone's call. Godard's Read more

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Excellent
I'm not going to say much about this, just check it out.Godard is always fascinating and even his failures (and this is not one) are more interesting and exciting than 90% of the movies out there.Though you wouldn't know it from some reviewers, Godard moved far beyond "Breathless" (great as it is) in his later films."Weekend" is one of his best and you should also check out "Tout Va Bien", "Masculin Feminin", "Forever Mozart" and "Notre Musique" to see Godard at his best.

Hilarious
I'm surprised by how few people wrote about the comedy of this piece.The movie makes fun of the philosophical ideas as much as it celebrates them.The near meaningless spouting of politics by the Hippies is just some guy getting into the groove, much like the drummer accompanying him.A character rambles about the beauty and power of Mozart, but it is impossible for the sonata to hold our attention for ten minutes.The pianist in the end just blames it on his poor playing.The tone is too sarchasitic and wacky for me to actually believe that Goddard meant this to be a serious presentation of ideas.Either Godard failed (Oh no, can it be so!) or the endless poetry and political ramblings are meant to funny.I think I'll go for the latter, because it makes the film much more enjoyable.

Molotov Cocktail Bar
The two really great scenes in this film - the tracking shot depicting the traffic jam and the Mozart pianist scene - seem more like echoes of the Anna Karina period of his work than the cynical, manipulative and quite frankly misogynistic works he made in the late 60's and early 70's.
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Director John Waters broke new boundaries of bad taste with this hilariously trashy tale of suburban misadventure. His favorite leading lady, transvestite Divine, plays Francine Fishpaw, a dissatisfied suburban housefrau who longs for a little romance in her life because her husband and children drive her crazy. Salvation arrives in the form of Tod Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), a drive-in owner who sweeps Francine off her feet (a mean task, given Divine's girth). But he's not all he's cracked up to be. Filmed in the miracle of Odorama, video viewers now have to imagine the scents (actually, odors) that came on the Odorama scratch-and-sniff card during the film's theatrical release. It won't be too hard. Read more

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John Waters fans, get over yourselves...
I get it that this is a cult movie for afficionados of John Waters.
Odorama is right
OK. This movie was just bad. So bad I had to get a thesaurus to adequately communicate the stench...a stench so foul I still have my windows open to clear the air (even though it's 14 degrees out tonight):
Transitional Camp Fest
John Waters was indie before it was cool.He took a bunch of his friends, shot a movie on a shoestring budget, and made some hilarious classics.They are so bad they're good (hence the campiness), and inspire future generations of film makers, actors, and artists to in fact, be all that they can be in the relm of mediocrity.Ha ha ha ...