Pink Flamingos
It's John Waters cult classic "Pink Flamingos" through the eyes of The Cinema Snob.
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O-ho-ho-ho-ho. This is simply rich.
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Do you watch Electric Dragon?
http://www.youtube.com/user/ElectricDragon505
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I have a feeling that there weren't any actual actors in this movie, but rather friends of the director, producer and crew. It's practically a Piece of Sheets.
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OH MY GOD MY LIFE HAS JUST BEEN MADE HAPPY FOREVER!
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I've heard of old people entering a second childhood, but never being put in a crib!
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Rule: 34
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Thanks Brad. That was one of your best!
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Ah yes, film school's favorite bad example.
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And still it's awesome
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Should I be worried that I was watching this review while eating a chocolate covered twisty doughnut?
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I'm stunned that this actually has a 5.9 on IMDB.
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You're stunned it has a 5.9? Then you'll be even more stunned to know it has 80% on rotten tomatoes.
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Ah, Roger Waters. The director I can never figure out.
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It's John Waters. Roger Waters was the bassist for Pink Floyd.
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And I've got to see Roger Waters Twice now!
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John Waters
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Roger Ebert gave Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead zero stars!?!? So Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer gets a higher rating does it then!?
I just read his review for RaGAD and it was practically unreadable, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING ROGER!?!? What I could decipher from his review (written in Pretentious Speak) was that he though that the movie's main fault was that as a movie, it lost the 'offstage' feeling of the play. NO DUH!!!!!! So, because a movie is a vastly different medium from plays, that's a reason to hate the movie!?!? Goddammit Roger!!
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Awesome, I've been waiting to see you do a review of this... "Classic"!? More like Classick, but whatever!
Well, this was hilarious loved the look on your face at the end! I'd gone with a Snickers bar or a Payday they're more iconic!
This film has given m a new business opportunity idea.
So are you going to do all the Midnight Movies? Eraser Head would be cewl to see reviewed!!!
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I would not qualify this as a movie even though it was but it should have been called "Hillbilly-Origins", "Trailer Trash", or "Shit eating egg people". God I hope that egg obsesses mother died in that trailer and got fried with her egg man. The stupidity of this movie angered me almost to the breaking point. Great Review as always by the way.
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Wow... Nice how you make it seem less than what it is by cutting out so much of the more disgusting things.
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I really need to stop eating while watching this show.
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Holy crap, the Singing Asshole Man is Tom Green!
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THIS is the snob video I've been waiting for!
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Ebert gave Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 0 stars? Inexcusable. The entire film is quiet subtle and clever scene after quiet subtle and clever scene.
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I've heard of this film and its place as a cult classic; I still can't watch the ending without feeling sick. I liked the satire at the start with 'Ebert didn't like that movie? Well I guess I have to not like it too'
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This movie sucks. It's just gross and stupid, and not funny. It's also shockingly poorly made, even for a $12,000 movie. Never got the appeal at all. And I can't listen to "Surfin' Bird" without wanting to puke anymore. Kudos for reviewing it, though.
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I can't stand that movie. Or any John Waters movies, except Cry Baby and that's only during the singing parts.
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I've gone through most of Waters' "classics" and this was always my least favorite, by far. I'd rank it below Violent Shit.
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Divine is a dude.
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Man I was wondering when you were going to get to this one. Bravo.
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Strange. During the trailer fire scene, I thought you would play the song during the trailer fire scene from Snatch. First thing that came to mind there. Color me disappointed.
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I watched Pink Flamingos in my film course several years ago.
I didnt understand the appeal then and I dont understand the appeal now.
However back then I was less confident in my opinions of film. I thought maybe there was some subtle brilliance in the movie that I was just missing, seeing as I was new to film school and so many film fanatics loved this movie.
Seeing you react to it basically the same way I did makes me feel more validated in my opinion that this movie is a peace of trash.
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The reason that John Waters made the film was to make a midnight movie that would basically gross out general audiences and/or offend hippies.
It seems he most definitely succeeded at that much. Granted, it is also my least favorite John Waters film but without it, we wouldn't have gotten some of the oddball classics he has delivered to movie audiences over the years.
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The actress playing Connie Marbles is a dead ringer for a 1960's version of Creedence Leonore Gielgud.
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Nothing really to say on this one other then, Brad your twice the man I am. I cant really get through any John Waters film. I'm not that big of a prude either, but its just out of all directors his movies make me feel really unclean. Like I really need to take a shower after watching parts of them.
Only other film to do that, that wasn't by John Water was Green Lantern. That one was not because I felt I picked up a layer of dirty oil from the film, it was just Green Lantern was so bad i literally felt like something mercilessly raped me!
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I don't know why, but Brad calling the guy in the black string thong Ace Ventura really made me laugh.
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FINALLY the snob made a review of a movie which is known by more than 10 people. Dont get me wrong: the best reviews are of those shitty unknown amateor slasher movies and funny porn. But I love somre varity, that's all. It's just that most of his reviews are slasher movies, which I love, but I also love crappy sci fi, blacksploitation and so on.
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Um...Cannibal Holocaust, Pieces, Dolemite, Caligula, Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom, Riki-Oh, Troll, Troll 2, Troll 3, the other Troll 3, Turkish Star Wars, Friday the 13th Part V, the Italian Stallion, Blood of Ghastly Horror, and Snuff are all fairly well known, at least in the same circles that are familiar with things like Pink Flamingos. So, yeah...maybe you should look through the archives now and then.
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I know your reviews are meant to be tongue in cheek, but this film (if you could call it that), is one of the most overrated "cult classics" of all-time. It's just John Waters' attempt to make a film so shocking that everyone would talk about it.
Maybe it hasn't aged well when considering the era in which the film was originally released, however, that should not negate the numerous flaws and nonsensical heap of massive shit that is "Pink Flamingos."
I hope that some day you review yet another overrated "cult classic" that I find to be pretentious garbage: "Eraserhead." Try to make sense out of that surrealist guttural mess.
To me, a true "cult classic" is "Repo Man" or "The Toxic Avenger." Now those are enjoyable films that have a charm, a plot line, comprehensible dialogue, whit, and likable and memorable characters.
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The Toxic Avenger had likable characters? Everyone in that film was either a psychopath, a murderer, or an asshole...aside from the blind chick. I actually had a harder time making it through Toxie than I did Flamingos.
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The most overrated cult classic 'Cannibal Ferox.' Much worse then PF (which I actually find funny, though it's not my favorite John Waters movie)
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Will there be a snob episode for gummo?
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God I hope so. Everything is better than Gummo. Seriously, the soundtrack was the best part of that piece of crap.
In other news, am I the only one to think Mrs. Marble was kinda hot?
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Probably not, Gummo was a '97 film, '95 is generally Brad's cutoff for snob films.
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Snob's cutoff point needs to be updated to 2005. This site will NEVER be complete until there's a review for "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon."
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Hey, ebert gave Wolf Creek zero stars as well!
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i have a book named "1001 movies you have to see before you die" and this movie is one of them
after seing the review:
why?, why do i need to see this movie before i die?
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How did Janine from The Real Ghostbusters end up in this?
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Best Snob Episode EWAR!!!!!!!
Now I#m going to eat steak the next 3 days if you excuse me
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Note to self: Never watch a Snob review after having Pancakes dipped in syrup for brunch. XP
god , I felt sick watching this. ><
this is pretty much /b/: The Movie.
no wonder Roger Ebert gave it a 0.
now if you'll excuse me , I'm off to throw up while taking a long cold shower to forget watching any of this shi...BLARRGH !
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how can you not fucking see the influence on other movies, despite this one being a piece of shit
and you can't fucking say "this guy is doing ace ventura" (something along this lines), if ace ventura was fucking made 20 years later
and you also can't fucking say "what is this now, american graffiti?", if american graffiti were fucking made a year later
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And you can't comment on anymore videos until you learn what satire and sarcasm means.
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Joke
noun \ˈjōk\
Definition of JOKE
1a : something said or done to provoke laughter; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist
1b : (1) the humorous or ridiculous element in something (2) : an instance of jesting : kidding
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sar·chasm ('sär-"ka-z&m) : noun, The giant chasm between what is said and the person who doesn't get it.
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I've always wanted to see what the hype was. Honestly... this is the crappiest (pardon the pun) movie I've ever seen. It's ridiculous and full of shock value. Which Shock Value does not equal to a good movie.
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Bravo for the Gummo reference, that being said Harmony Korine is 1000 times the better director than John Waters. At least he has some genuinely interesting ideas for most of his films
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Harmony Korine is a pretentious, moronic asshole who wishes he could lick the boots of John Waters. John Waters makes no bones about the fact that he makes straight-forward trash flicks, and at least his films actually have some semblance of personality and humor, and sometimes narratives that are compelling in their own way (see Desperate Living). Korine can't even handle that much, resorting to aimless, humorless retarded flailing and shrieking and calling it "art". Ideas? If by "ideas" you mean "successfully fooling arthouse cinema into thinking he's a genius" then I guess you would be correct.
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Successfully fooling arthouse cinema into thinking he's a genius...
Which director are we talking about? That sounds like both of them.
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" Searchin’ high, searchin’ low //
Searchin’ everywhere I know //
Askin’ the cops wherever I go //
Have you seen dignity? "
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wow i have to give you credit for watching movies like this it make me wonder sometimes as to what the director was trying to accomplished with it work
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Can anybody tell me what the trailer fire music reference is from? I know it in the back of my mind, but I just can't place it
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Extinction Rapist...er...I mean, Cannibal Holocaust
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Cannibal Holocaust.
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I think it's the end music from Cannibal Holocaust.
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Haha! I've always wondered if you'd review that movie. But I do prefer his two next films which are funnier: "Female trouble" and "desperate living". At least Waters admits "Pink flamingos" was made for shock value
"Gummo", I really don't know what I think about that movie. It's like several movies in one where some are decent and some are just plain dull.
About the bloopers in "pink", I suspect the shadow of the cameraman is John Waters since he is credited as the cinematographer. There is another scene earlier in the movie where Divine is walking down the street where she/he is given strange looks by people. I don't think those people were extras acting. You can tell it's shot from a driving car.
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What the hell is Obscurus Lupa doing in this movie?
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Todd In The Shadows only wishes Lupa loved him more than her own shit.
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I think you need a new title card artist
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So a movie starring Gary Oldman and Tim Roth ranks equal to a movie which features singing assholes,infantile egg fetishists and a shit eating transvestite?
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Well, if the Snob has to have the same opinions as Roger Ebert, then I guess you're going to have to like the Zookeeper and Green Lantern but hate Kick-Ass and Thor.
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Some times... when watching this show... i get this horrible feeling... Like when i watched this... some part of my head made me watch parts of the movie via Megavideo... I don't know if I'll be able to sleep to night... that was... horrible *cries*
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I actually own this movie. I thought it was hilarious and campy. I have lent it to friends who have told me that I have scarred them for life with it. Also that I am a horrible person for having done so.
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Oh god, please review Female Trouble next. So much good material in that one.
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Egglady made me rage.
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I watched this review last night, and literally had nightmares based on this movie. Thanks. ;P
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"what? this isn't shit it's a candy bar, that was shit grow up"
Classic, I don't get put off from eating either.
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You wanna see a movie Roger Ebert hates? Go watch Chaos. No not the Jason Statham movie, its actually a horror movie.
It's basically a direct ripoff of Last house on the Left with gorier rape and violence. And it's directed by this Ultimate Warrior looking psycho. Roger Ebert Actually wrote a letter to this guy telling him to go fuck himself.
Check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%282005_film%29
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This is not what I call an cult classic, it tried way to hard to be controversial.
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Ugh! WHY!
I have heard about this flick & put it on the never wanna see it list.
Then you show the scene at the end of the review that I really, really didn't wanna see.
My stomach.I feel like throwing up. Damn it.
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Years ago, my friends on the Funday Pawpet Show used to do something called "The Pink Flamingos Challenge." It involved them giving you something chocolate related (Candy, pudding, ect.), and then having you watch the dog scene.
It made me sick then, and it still makes me sick now.
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Careful, Snob. You keep reviewing bad movies and your jaw's likely to fall off. I call it: The Ebert Effect.
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first off you never go ass to mouth, and second awesome review but god damn!I need a shower
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This is the funniest movie I've heard of in a while
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'Zookeeper' gets 3 Stars but 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' gets 0 Stars? What the Hell??? I love how you make fun of those who worships what he (or movie critics in general) say by now hating a movie that you liked.
I'm not a movie person, but the only reviews I trust are a critic's good review and an audiences bad review. You have to be really good to get a critic to like your movie and you have to be really bad to get an audience to hate your movie.
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Dude, you should follow up with another John Waters classic,"Desperate Living".
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Hey Snob, you should follow up with another John Waters classic,"Desperate Living".
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Ebert doesn't like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
Fuck Ebert.
He holds it against the movie that he preferred a stage production he saw once. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman both give wonderful interpretations of the characters as the people in existential crises that they are. Richard Dreyfus, while over the top (which is somewhat what his character calls for, but personally I think he overplays it), is still very good. And whoever the hell plays Hamlet is magnificent. He comes off almost like the Joker - jovial and wacky one moment, darkly serious and threatening the next... he zig-zags between the two and comes out on top of all the other characters; playing them against themselves and each other like a maniacal puppet master.
It's not even a boring film! The dialogue is sharp and quick (when it's called for) and always a joy to listen to. I often just turn it on to listen to in the background... which is to say, it's so good, it's basically like MUSIC to me. The film is entertaining from start to finish and has one of my favorite endings ever.
Seriously, fuck that jaw-less fatass Ebert.
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I was a bit worried when I saw your latest review tackled one of the greatest movies of all time. Then I got to the bit about Ebert’s zero-star review and I decided everything was OK. The man responsible for writing the scripts to some of Russ Meyer’s trashiest films probably shouldn’t throw stones.
I forgot how many stretches of sluggishness there were in this movie, then again it was still early Waters. I guess that’s what you get when your last viewings of the film were little more than “edited highlights.” Mind you, it still wasn’t as slow as Multiple Maniacs. Or Mondo Trasho, which was basically ALL filler.
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I loved the Nancy Grace reference. I hate that woman.
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meh...... its still better than Pecker
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"Pink Flamingos" is one my most favorite films. You did a great job snobbing it.
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Ah, now I remember, the age before the internet! I'd almost forgotten how things were before so much moved on line. It looks like this director would just be another unknown person who uploaded a gross-out film onto Youtube in the current day. I think I can see how this could become a cult classic in a time where this sort of shit isn't uploaded en masse online by anyone and for anyone that wants to. It really must have been shocking in a time before there were 10 million other videos just like it.
But seriously, this looks absolutely disgusting. I never though I could see you review a movie so horrible it detracted from how funny you are Brad, but, there it is. This movie was hard to watch. -.-
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I love it that this is one of the most "mainstream" movies Brad has reviewed.
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what was the name of the tune when the trailer was on fire, iv heard it before but i cant remember where
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That was the theme of Cannibal Holocaust, a recent Snob review.
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wait a minute, weird people you can see watching jerry springer... it's first cinema snob whiteploitation movie!
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What about the chicken mutilation?
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"Ass-to-mouth after a chili cook-off"...I really need to stop eating while watching Snob reviews.
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or you could just get a stronger stomach?
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wow man! I'm so glad you did this one. I knew it only a matter of time
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I like what you did here. You should review Silent Night, Deadly Night/ Good Against Evil/ Kill Baby... Kill/ Night Train to Terror/ Don't Look in the Basement (A.K.A. The Forgotten)/ The Satanic Rites Of Dracula and Sisters of Death. I would just like to know your take on these movies
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I like what you did here. You should review Silent Night, Deadly Night / Good Against Evil / Kill Baby... Kill / Night Train to Terror / Don't Look in the Basement (A.K.A. The Forgotten) / The Satanic Rites Of Dracula and Sisters of Death. I would just like to know your take on these movies
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I'm pretty sure he did do Silent Night, Deadly Night already, as well as it's sequel.
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Man, I have this film, but haven't seen it yet. Guess I have to now, seeing how much gross and zany stuff I've missed out on. This review proves again that the Cannibal Holocaust theme can make any scene of burning structures haunting! Great going.
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I would have loved to see more of the Snob's reaction to the chicken rape scene. I know that was when I feel in love with the movie!
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Hey Snob been watching you ever sense you were on Youtube and I find your reviews funny as hell. But you don't like Gummo ? I'll disagree with you on that one but keep up the reviews.
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I really like your videos, i love the way you make fun of this low budget rare films, also like you do a Pink Flamingos review. You should review Zarkorr! The Invader.
(Sorry for my bag english, i'm Mexican)
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Well its a good thing that I dislike Ebert in every possible way, because I couldn't let him dictate my own tastes in his own ways that he could see fit.
What is really with, "a known critic hates the movie, then I have to hate it too" attitude ? To me that's only sheep thinking.
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Hey, awesome and disgusting as usual.
I wonder though: Have you ever heard of a movie called 'Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter'? It's the most awesomely terrible movie ever. Did I mention it's part musical?
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not so much as 'part musical' as it is 'has one musical scene in it' but it's great regardless. god communicating through ice cream is beautiful.
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Finally a review of a film that I showed at the Midnight Show. We showed it because it was so BAD.
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Really, Brad? Really? An entire Pink Flamingos review, and not one use of the word "eggsploitation"?
I expected better from you.
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This movie was..Stupid,WHY is THIS a Cut Classic? I just Dont Get Movies Like this,Or..Well Brad Does movies Like this all the time in here but This was a complete waste of Film.Some Natsi porn movie Or other Movies,that had been shown in here Has some kind of Plot
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OMG, please review Gummo, that would be so awesome hahhaha. I loved this review btw
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At about the 16 minute mark, "This movie's getting a little stupid."
... A little?
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12:30 id rather watch the Kiss X Sis OVA's
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No merit whatsoever. The movie, that is, not your review.
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Great review hilarious man, this film looks disturbing I feel bad that you had to review it lol I would puke after watching this OMG.
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This movie was huge for some reason. Even William S Burroughs gave John Waters the title pope of sleaze or puke. But after jackass this feels too much soft and boring pieces together.
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Wait, what happened to the woman's mother? Did she get burned up in the house too, or did she get out and was forgot about by everyone? I don't know why I care, but I gotta know
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John Waters admits that he was high when he wrote the script for this movie and it totally shows. I still feel it's a film that's worth checking out because you do get the feeling that people are having fun with this insanity.
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I love gummo, and hate John waters. Cept cry baby.
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I don't get the hate this movie's getting. It's amazingly awesome! You guys do realize that the Snob is just a character right? He's mocking people with high and mighty opinons. Now where are my wittle eggies!?
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when i was in 7th grade (catholic school) i convinced my mother to drive me 2hours up to denver so i could see this movie at a midnight showing. i probably should've warned her what was in it cuz after the movie she didn't talk to me for the whole weekend.
'pink flamingos' and 'gummo' are 2 of the movies that changed my life in middle school. i wish i could go back in time over a decade ago and warn myself these aren't the movies that i should show on a date. and here i thought every girl loved to watch real/fake animal violence. WHOOPS
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