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Is HAIRSPRAY depleting the ozone layer, or just plain rockin' entertainment? Check the ShoWest Trailer And See!
Hey folks, Harry here... I was talking to a source over at New Line recently to see if I could get the low down on what was cooking over at that studio, and they seemed really convinced that HAIRSPRAY was all that and the massaged prostate spit.
Now - honestly, all I'd seen was strange bizarre and frightening stills of John Travolta as a my sized woman. It scared me. Like Battlefield Earth Travolta scared me. But I have to admit - musicals are not about stills, but motion - and this morning as I stared at the Yahoo released HAIRSPRAY ShoWest trailer - I couldn't help but think... Hey, this looks fun! What do you think?
Spray a little HAIRSPRAY in Your Eyeballs and Form an Opinion!
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John Waters hasn't done anything cool for years, and this wont be any better
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I like some of his films, Pecker, Serial Mom (awesome), Pink Flamingos(to a degree that you can like that movie), but as of recently, all his stuff has kind of been a let down. Even when I look back on his stuff, I'm not sure if it's done to be disquisting or for some reason other than to see weirdos doing weird shit. Some of it's funny a lot of it is just sick. Can't say I'd ever really recommend his films. I didn't really care for Hairspray the first time around. After watching the trailer, i'm throughly convinced that I will not be watching this film. Looks like it lost all of what it did have going for it. And travolta is no Divine, that's for sure
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does the framerate slow to a "pictures with sound" type speed once it shows Travolta?
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...travolta has more frames then most of computers can render in time.
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And I'm not sure what "massaged prostate spit," means either.
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I caught the stage production of this and felt that it was almost too good for the film version to screw up. John Waters has a cameo in this as a flasher, which is as it should be.
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c'mon!
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I am at such a loss to try and connect the dots of logic Hollywood is using here...they want a remake...of HAIRSRPAY ???!!!???
Aren't we about due for another version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers about now?
Or hey...Hollywood, there's this spunky little film about some sorta outer space stuff...heck it's been about 30 years since it was released...probably by now, no one would even notice. You'll have to contact a guy named George Lucas.
Boy I bet you cold make a killing on that one!
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He's cutting a rug and wearing a clown wig. There's my eleven bucks right there.
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GEEZ that was pure and utter crap!
musicals are awful period. they are not real movies. i would watch the descent on repeat all day long rather then watch that flaming turd one more time. -
Hollywood was a film adaptation of the multiple Tony Award winner that has revived a great portion of the theatregoing public without pandering to LCD, a great musical that is a very loose adaptation of the John Waters film. Don't think of this as a remake of the 80s film. This is another beast entirely.
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Because they know the audience can have some freakish reaction. I mean do you need any more proof to realize the dude's gay? But damn I didn't know Amanda Bynes was in this, she looks downright sexy in that schoolgirlish outfit. Yowza
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I dunno, there's just something about her voice that's a little... meh.
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It's a remake inasmuch as the Little Shop of Horrors musical was a remake of the Roger Corman movie.
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...because that worked so well for "The Producers". When is the "Spamalot" movie going in production? (and will they have David Hyde Pierce and Sara Ramirez?) Will the new DeLaurentiis film be based on Barbarella: the Musical? *** "Desperate Living II: This Time It's Personal". Halle Berry and Martin Lawrence in the all-black cast remake of "Serial Momma". "John Water's Pecker: On Ice!" *** Give Waters a break with that "all downhill since..." stuff, he's only done a couple of movies since Pecker and the whole point of "Cecil B. Demented" was that mainstream films have co-opted the sex and violence that were the mainstays of the old "underground cinema". Twenty five years ago Waters would have been directing half of Grindhouse. You may get tired and mellow out a little in your old age too, you know. It's known as grace and wisdom.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Fantastic.
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John Waters didnt direct this movie. He directed the original movie..Other people took the story from the original movie and made it into a musical..those same writers and a new director are turning that very successful and entertaining musical into a movie, with John Waters having a cameo in it. He had very little to do with the musical or the movie version of the musical, but its still going to be awesome because I dont see how they can possibly screw it up.
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I thought it was a direct remake...but now that I know that it is a film adaptation of the musical version of the original film, there are no comparisons, analogies or metaphors I could make that would be even remotely as funny and ridiculous as the thing itself!
From now on- HAIRSPRAY will be it's own metaphor for all film versions of musicals based on the original film!!
It could even become the term used!
So first we'd have to get a musical made of Star Wars- and then a film made of the musical...then we could say that Star Wars got HAIRSPRAYED!!
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Prostate spit. Ugh. What kind of fucked up brain keeps coming up with this repulsive juvenile crap.
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I hate windows media player. ugh. Yahoo videos don't play cause windows media player is out dated or something so I updated and it still won't work.
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I have a feeling the missus will drag me to this one. And I will say, but why don't we just watch the original, and she'll politely say, "Ok". And then I'll say, "No alright, we'll go see it." And then we'll both hate it and I'll say once again "I told you, just go see the stuff I say to.
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I never saw the Musical, so I don't know how it's done...but I hope they don't "de-Baltimorize" this version of Hairspray. The city is practically a character in the original film, and since Baltimore isn't exactly a "sexy Hollywood city", here's to hoping they at least keep it real. Bawlmer style!
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as Canada can be.
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right...which is not very much at all. But I mean in tone and character
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The opening song is "Good Morning Baltimore" and features the lyrics "Good morning Baltimore /
There's the flasher who lives next door /
There's the bum on his bar room stool /
They wish me luck on my way to school." -
http://tinyurl.com/2cc6ko
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You guys have to admit that you really have to be in need of serious culture to go to a musical. Went to see 5 of them, fell asleep 5 times (friends took me there...). Woke up with a cold because of the damn air conditionning. Fuck Broadway!
West side story was good. But Bernstein is dead. And the genre along with him. -
...it's the exact same as "Little Shop" in that manner, which is pretty much a classic film in anyone's book.
How about fucking "Chicago"? -
Grease, West Side Story, Moulin Rouge, Sound of Music, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Everything else is just annoying.
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Queen Latifah can't handle the vocals as written for the stage. That's quite obvious. Compare the OBC recording and this clip. No contest. She looks stiff, sounds stiff, and lost in trying to be Motormouth Maybelle. The snubbing of Harvey Fierstein for Travolta is as big of a disgrace as Julie Andrews getting snubbed for Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady". The civil rights march footage with everyone carrying signs scared me to death. It's not "Evita", it's fucking HAIRSPRAY. Let the stage play AS WRITTEN tell the story instead of sledgehammering us with a civil rights message. It's like putting a planned parenthood ad in Grease for Rizzo. Amanda Bynes looks perfect, as does Walken and Michelle Pfeiffer. Walken has to dance "Weapon of Choice" as the closing credits roll....
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This is so not going to be divine in any way. This will really suck big time. It looks so incredibly bland and dull, I can't even believe it's remotely based on the original (incredibly good) movie.
And Travolta in drag ... it would take a whole lifetime to list everything that is wrong and immoral about that concept. Ugh. -
...and ridiculed... But - Im gonna admit that I think this film looks like it's gonna be great - I think it looks spot on - Great casting, and very well shot, by the looks of things - Choreography looks good too... I think it's exciting to think that they have a winner on their hands with it...
So flame on nerds - But I think this film is gonna rock.
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Any Brit knows this as we have 2 primetime Saturday night casting shows for Joseph and Grease...anybody must like em-and not just cute as a button lil gayboys. Kisses!!!
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Movie event of the year...It looks like a solid film. The set set deceration is nice and the direction seems on the mark. We dont need another porly directed musical like The Producers but this film looks like it will deliver. It's a fun and upbeat show so I guess it will do big at the boxoffice.
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and i had high hopes for this trailer from the showest report...buy boy was i disappointed. these people seem to think that good musical == as many dance numbers as possible. /yawn
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I've seen most of the Waters films, and I'd say the personality was his, not the city's. But I've only been once, myself.
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THEY'RE ALL A BUNCH OF HOES, THAT'S WHY.
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I'm sorry. I got the goosebumps watching that trailer. And this might seem condescending and/or patronizing to those who are hating on the film, but I honestly, genuinely feel bad that you can't get that "goosebump" feeling that onlys great movie or stage musical (and sometimes great sex) can give. Cause it's just joy. Pure, pure joy made (goose) flesh. It may be because I'm gay, but man...then I'm so glad I'm gay.
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from this trailer? The Hairspray trailer? Really? who cares if you are gay, either way that trailer was awful
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I dunno, but its the nature of the beast. It's (IMO) a great song (the only truly great song in the score again IMO) and the quickly edited clips and the dancing...I was in sixty-second heaven...
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I bet you could write a helluva song about ingesting dog poopies.
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in that movie Justin
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There's a pretty funny story about that guy seeing the re-release of the movie and turning to the person next to him and saying "That's ME!"
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I don't know if i would admit to that
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Which is another embarrassment, considering the opening song is "Good Morning, Baltimore". How the city of Baltimore didn't get the exteriors there is a disgrace. It's like "Blues Brothers 2000" being filmed in Toronto. A hideous disgrace.
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I didn't think I was going to either, but that was a well put together trailer and I think if I wouldn't object to watching this if someone presented me with a free ticket. Although, John Travolta still scared me when they showed his closeup. Eeps!
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HA HA
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Nature of the business. If the US federal gov't would get its shit together, and pass a universal incentive package (and not leave it up to the states), we'd get back some of this runaway production.
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...And get them out of that terminal hissy fit they`ve been in since Dreamgirls quite rightly got booted out of the Oscars` top tiers. Damn shame that Chicago remains the only musical a hetero can get into, though...
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I love the vibe from this. Very much in the vein of Little Shop and The Blues Brothers, insomuch as it could be a fun musical romp.
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what is sexier than that wow! thats the only reason im going to see this movie
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...her voice isn't really suited to it. They should have changed it. Or her. One or the other.
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