Title: HAIRSPRAY (1988) Post by: Allhallowsday on May 05, 2021, 12:42:00 AM HAIRSPRAY (1988) - Watched all of it tonight on TCM. I haven't looked at it in decades. I do listen to the soundtrack - which are all old forgotten records that JOHN WATERS dusted off and had all these people dance to... the original movie is NOT the Broadway musical (which I saw and enjoyed!) but the same story. And it is NOT that JOHN REVOLTS YA freak show movie. The original has a great soundtrack... Ridiculous constructs like a comic book and what a joyous message of acceptance! The movie is a box of candy.
Title: Re: HAIRSPRAY (1988) Post by: RCMerchant on May 05, 2021, 01:39:55 AM Can't say I am a big John Waters fan. Intentional camp never worked for me.
Title: Re: HAIRSPRAY (1988) Post by: pennywise37 on May 05, 2021, 06:00:04 PM i love the film i even met him in (1995) he was a nice guy i think one of the funniest things he ever said about hairspray was he accidently made a family film he didn't know how that happened and that it was never going to happen again
Title: Re: HAIRSPRAY (1988) Post by: Allhallowsday on May 05, 2021, 10:34:47 PM It's a fantasy, kitschy, but nostalgic and fond and politically correct. Unlike his previous films, this film is naive. One of the funniest bits was JOHN WATERS as the "psychiatrist".
Title: Re: HAIRSPRAY (1988) Post by: pennywise37 on May 05, 2021, 10:42:59 PM yeah but that's okay i love the music and the dancing too the 60's is my favorite era for music and has been even as a kid
Title: Re: HAIRSPRAY (1988) Post by: lester1/2jr on December 13, 2022, 02:07:29 AM had forgotten about this 80's classic
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