why did they remake Hairspray?

[cookiepuss]

no. seriously. WHY?


how do you remake a john waters movie? WHY remake a john waters movie? that's kinda like remaking a tim burton movie. I mean thier style is so distinct that they sort of define thier own genre. so it's kinda pointless to regurgetate that on screen with a steeming pile of movie vomit.


I don't get it.

there are obviously no original plot lines left in hollywood. it's all been done before.:(

[QueenAdrock]

This just in, I hate musicals.

They should never remake any of them, just so there will be less of them in this world. :p

[abcdefz]

More important: Why did they MAKE Hairspray?

[abcdefz]

Question #3: Why do they make hairspray? :confused:

[YoungRemy]

Its more of a filmed version of the Broadway Musical more than it is a remake of the Waters original...

which itself is confusing becasue the Broadway musical was an interpretation of the Waters original...

Just like The Producers... if you see the second version, it is almost staged exactly as the Broadway Musical was...

but the 2005 Producers was directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, who directed and choreographed the Broadway Musical..

this Hairspray version will be directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman, who had nothing to do with the stage version, but did bring us such hits as
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)

Bringing Down the House (2003)

A Walk to Remember (2002)

The Wedding Planner (2001)

[mikizee]

Which John Waters is this? There's the australian John Waters, then some other international guy named the same.

[beastiegirrl101]

what's even creepier is that John Travolta plays the mother....

[skra75]

I never liked that movie, I always found it irritating. And I'll sit thorugh John waters stuff just fine usually.

[cookiepuss]

Which John Waters is this? There's the australian John Waters, then some other international guy named the same.

the weird one with the pencil thin mustache who also directed Cry Baby.


yeah see I didn't like the original Hairspray much either...which is kinda why I don't understand remaking it. it's it's own distinct thing. just leave it alone.

[YoungRemy]

I still think Pecker is the most mainstream , most accessible, Waters film and my favorite of his up to this point...

oh and they are going to make a stage version of Cry Baby, it will probably go to Broadway on the heels of the success of Hairspray

[abcdefz]

^

Pecker is the only one of his movies I've watched all the way through.

Actually, there was one other one with lots of fat yelling and horrible atrocious -- well, not "acting" exactly -- signifying and mean spiritedness and shitty direction and composition and general poverty of imagination, but that's about all I remember thank God.

[YoungRemy]

^

Pecker is the only one of his movies I've watched all the way through.

Actually, there was one other one with lots of fat yelling and horrible atrocious -- well, not "acting" exactly -- signifying and mean spiritedness and shitty direction and composition and general poverty of imagination, but that's about all I remember thank God.

if its the same one that traumatized me a child, it might be Pink Flamingos with Divine...

the taglines read

An exercise in poor taste.

The filthiest people alive! Their loves, their hates and their unquenchable thirst for notoriety!

[beastieangel01]

I like Cry Baby

[Loppfessor]

More important: Why did they MAKE Hairspray?

Amen brother.....shit as if one wasn't bad enough

[SugarInTheRaw]

no. seriously. WHY?

there are obviously no original plot lines left in hollywood. it's all been done before.:(

Well...

I don't get it.

Obviously, you do!

[Dorothy Wood]

I don't know, but it looks pretty embarassing. I like the original movie, it's not my favorite, but it was cool when it came out because I'd never seen anything like it.

I also really like the rarely-mentioned Polyester. it's nuts, but not as nuts as some others. me and cort tried to watch Pink Flamingos once in college, but couldn't get through it, the chicken fucking was too much. I think I fell asleep during Pecker. I watched Cecil B. Demented and pretty much hated it. Cry Baby is alright.

[abcdefz]

Amen brother.....shit as if one wasn't bad enough

(y)

[abcdefz]

if its the same one that traumatized me a child, it might be Pink Flamingos with Divine...

the taglines read


An exercise in poor taste.

The filthiest people alive! Their loves, their hates and their unquenchable thirst for notoriety!




Yeah, I dunno. Long story, but... this guy I worked with used to have entirely too much weed, so I'd go over and smoke with him and he'd always have some movie he wanted to show me or some music he wanted me to listen to or whatever. I did pick up some good stuff from him (My Bloody Valentine, particularly), but this John Waters movie was one where I finally just said, "Okay, you need to shut that off now." It was so awful it was unbearable.

[Randetica]

so 'hair' and 'hairspray' are two different musicals?

wtf is going on in musicals? i probably dont want to hear the answer

[abcdefz]

so 'hair' and 'hairspray' are two different musicals?




Yep. God knows, you'd never want to see the cast of Hairspray nude. :eek:

[Randetica]

Yep. God knows, you'd never want to see the cast of Hairspray nude. :eek:

hah what do you know about this topic :mad:

[abcdefz]

...you want to see Divine, Rikki Lake (sp?), Sonny Bono, or John Travolta naked?

Case closed.

[Randetica]

i dont know half of these people

but the answer is yresh

[abcdefz]

i dont know half of these people

but the answer is yresh


No, you don't.

Divine
(http://files.blog-city.com/files/aa/34354/p/f/divine.gif)


Sonny Bono
(http://alhazan.com/gallery/albums/career/sonny_bono_450.jpg)


Rikki Lake
(http://www.fast-rewind.com/hairspray4.jpg)



Travolta (http://www.sbiff.org/blog/uploaded_images/travolta-731782.jpg) steppin'.

[Randetica]

oh THIS travolta you mean

isnt sunny bono dead?

and wth are you doing in a hair thread? :mad:

[abcdefz]

oh THIS travolta you mean

isnt sunny bono dead?

and wth are you doing in a hair thread? :mad:



1) Yes

2) Yes

3) WHAT, YOU'RE A HAIRIST!? (n)

[Randetica]

no. just a baldophob :(

[abcdefz]

You're not this lady (http://www.mercurynews.com/malecall/ci_6119928), are you?

[Randetica]

You're not this lady (http://www.mercurynews.com/malecall/ci_6119928), are you?

only when im on my period