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Holistic Guidance - Pink Flamingos
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment
Starring: Nancy Crystal, Divine, Pat Lefaiver, David Lochary, Edith Massey
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NC-17
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780648982
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0780648986
Label: New Line Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-09-07
Running Time: 108
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
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Filmmaker John Waters exploded into infamy with this darkly comic classic in which cross-dresser Divine stars as Babs Johnson a criminal in hiding from the FBI in a trailer outside of Baltimore Maryland. Accompanying Babs are her mother (Edith Massey) a dim-witted woman who is obsessed with eggs; her son Crackers (Danny Mills); and Cotton (Mary Vivian Pierce) Babs's "travelling companion" and Crackers' co-conspirator in unwholesome play.Running Time: 108 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â COMEDY UPC:Â 794043751622
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Summary: Babs Johnson: "... Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!"
Comment: It took me a week after I received "Pink Flamingos" from Netflix to watch it. I was very well aware of its reputation and especially of the last scene and I was literally afraid to see it. At last, I made up my mind, took all my courage and watched the impossibly obscene, terribly disgusting, outrageous to a limit, shocking to a nausea, but at the same time extremely funny criminal cult comedy. The film that was made on the shoe-string budget by the self-proclaimed king of bad and nasty taste, native Baltimorian, Mr. John Waters, in 1972, still has not become outdated and would shock you like no other. If you only imagine something disgusting, mean and dirty, rest assured - Waters uses it in the film, his debut feature, and has a lot of fun with it. He does not care a bit how shocking the characters on the screen are and what moronic things they do to each but somehow, the film maintains light,playful, and comical feel about it. If someone had told me before I saw "Pink Flamingos" that the graphic scenes of exhibitionism and incest could be hysterically funny, I'd suggest they should seek a medical help but these scenes and many others ARE funny maybe because the first time writer/director and his friends performers did not take any of what was happening on screen seriously, did not try to make any sense, did not rebel or make a statement or try to prove something. All they wanted to do - to shock the viewers and to make them laugh. They achieved their goals. I would not urge everyone to seek out and to watch "Pink Flamingos" but its unique niche in cinema makes it one of its kind event. If you decide to watch it, do it on empty stomach - as much as I tried not to look at the screen during the infamous final scene, it is still hard to ...well, swallow.
2.5-3.0 /5
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Summary: Sorry, not funny
Comment: I love Divine and John Waters, but this film went too far. I can't deal with rape, animal abuse, or coprophagous acts on the screen.
Rebecca Kyle, August 2008
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Summary: Poor Chicken
Comment: I love John Waters, but I REALLY didn't appreciate the chicken scene. Animal cruelty isn't art in my opinion.
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Summary: An Excercise in Extremely Poor Taste. Face Down Pushups, In Fact.
Comment: Another online source observes that this movie is involved with "taking on and demolishing just about every known middle-class value. . ." It certainly takes them on, but does little to offer anything substantive in exchange. This movie was lauded in a recent documentary I watched, so I put it in my Netflix queue. The movie sold itself under the tagline, "An exercise in poor taste." That turned out to be a very restrained characterization.
I'd have given it one star were it not for the occasional inanely humorous moments. Divine is certainly a larger than life personality. I was also interested in the performance of the late Cookie Mueller who was featured in a Nan Goldin book I had a chance to peruse several months ago. And, what the hell, it is - for whatever it's worth - a cult classic, one of those "places" movie buffs probably ought to go just to say they did. This is the backside of the silver screen, the prolapsed rectum of famous films.
And should you find the tedious storyline, awful camera work, threesome with a chicken, the famous "singing [butt]hole and the incestuous fellatio pushing you away from the screen, don't give up. The last moments are the best. I never knew it could be so hard to watch Divine eat real dog feces. This movie is scatologically orgiastic.
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Summary: the funniest scene in the movies
Comment: I rented this a while back after reading about for years and it is a mind-blowing movie. All the other reviewers here have said all that can be said,both pro and con,by now;but I want to say that the scene of Divine
parading down the sidewalk to the tune "The Girl Can't Help It" for me ranks in the top ten (and may be #1) as the funniest movie scene ever.
I laughed 'til I cried the first time I saw it.
I love John Waters' movies and especially his choice of songs-there's nothing better than that old rock'n'roll.
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