Pink Flamingos: Original Soundtrack - Special 25th Anniversary Edition [Soundtrack]

pink flamingos: original soundtrack - special 25th anniversary edition [soundtrack]

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This is the movie that made John Waters famous, and quite possibly the film that made bad taste cool. Yes, Virginia, a large transvestite actually eats dog feces as a kind of dizzying denouement to this frequently illogical and intentionally disgusting movie, but by the time that happens, you're already numb ... and you've possibly laughed to the point of losing bladder control.

The plot revolves around two vile families laying claim to the title "The Filthiest People Alive." You've got pregnant women in pits, you've got grown men getting sexual satisfaction from chickens, you've got people licking furniture to perform trailer-park voodoo, and you've got classic lines like: "Oh my God! The couch ... it ... it rejected you!"

Waters, who went on to direct genuine pop-culture classics such as Hairspray and Serial Mom, made this celluloid sideshow with one aim--to make a name for himself. It worked. He does have a genuine eye for filmmaking (when the trailer burns down, you feel the white heat of Divine's pain and anger). On the other hand, you won't notice any disclaimers about stunt doubles and animals not being mistreated. There weren't, and they were. Welcome to the filthiest film in the world. --Grant Balfour

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Pink Flamingos: Original Soundtrack - Special 25th Anniversary Edition [Soundtrack]

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One of the greatest movies ever made!!!
HOW I WISH I HADN'T SEEN THIS!
Cotton! Cotton! Tell me about the egg man!
Amazon meltdown
Filth to Be Judged By

Pink Flamingos: Original Soundtrack - Special 25th Anniversary Edition
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005KPH
Release Date: 1997-04-22

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The Swag - Link Wray & His Ray Men
Intoxica - The Centurions
Jim Dandy - LaVern Baker
I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent - Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers
The Girl Can't Help It - Little Richard
Ooh! Look-A There, Ain't She Pretty - Bill Haley & His Comets
Chicken Grabber - Nite Hawks
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - The Tune Weavers
Pink Champagne - The Tyrones
Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
Riot In Cell Block #9 - The Robins
(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window - Patti Page

Customer Reviews:

One of the greatest movies ever made!!!.......2007-05-07

If you enjoy great movies, like Kane, Sound of Music, you're sure to enjoy this classic by Waters. A masterpiece of filth.

HOW I WISH I HADN'T SEEN THIS!.......2007-04-11

A WOMAN SCREAMING AS SHE'S BEING BRUTALLY RAPED WITH A LIVE CHICKEN BY A MANSONESQUE LUNATIC. HOW CAN ANYONE USE THE WORD "FUNNY" TO DESCRIBE THE TORTURE OF A POOR ANIMAL STRUGGLING IN VAIN TO FREE ITSELF BEFORE IT'S BEATEN TO DEATH? POLYESTER WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES. I DON'T THINK I CAN HANDLE WATCHING IT, OR ANYTHING ELSE BY WATERS AGAIN.

Cotton! Cotton! Tell me about the egg man!.......2007-04-11

Not my favorite of John H2o's films but has some great one liners; "Babs Johnson? Sounds like a monkey on a tire swing!" Cuddles and the eggman...classic!

Amazon meltdown.......2007-04-02

This page is clearly for the soundtrack CD but the reviews seem to be for the movie. I will comment on the CD. This is a great collection of songs that will get you moving. John Waters has an excellent ear for rock and pop songs. The sound quality is good, especially when you consider how old these recordings are. Whatever you may think of the movie the soundtrack is a lot of fun.

Filth to Be Judged By.......2007-03-27

"PINK FLAMINGOS"

Filth to Be Judged By

Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride

"Pink Flamingos"--what memories come to mind!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps one of the most infamous films of all times shows how trash can be regarded as film---and we love it. This is the movie by which all other trash movies are measured. John Waters' early film has become a classic of bad taste. "Pink Flamingos" is a must see movie and for those of you who have not seen it, run to get a copy--you may never be the same afterwards.
"Pink Flamingos" is the film that called attention to John Waters and his sense of warped talent and this is his hallmark. Divine is "the filthiest person alive' as she says of herself (sexual identification not important). She plays Babs Johnson who lives in a trailer in the area near Baltimore with Cracker, her perverted son and with Edie, the Egg Lady who happens to be Babs's mother. Mom lives in a playpen and eats volumes of eggs dressed in her underwear. Also in the group is Miss Cotton, a pal.
Raymond and Connie Marble work a black market adoption agency in their basement and they want Divine's title of the filthiest person alive so they declare war on her. Babs goes into hiding and the Marbles find her and begin the battle of filth.
I have often wondered if Waters used the film as a ruler to see how far he could go. It is so tasteless and rude that we wonder why it was made and then we find ourselves watching it over and over. It is little more than an exercise in bad taste and is not for the queasy or the faint of heart. It really is not a movie made for review or summary as it is the penultimate bad joke. It is about everything perverse and is a tribute to that. No review can come near describing the movie as it is not just a movie but an experience starring a very fat and ugly drag queen that eats dog poop for no reason whatsoever. But the movie is real, there is no pretense. It manages to make the most disgusting character in film appear to be endearing in a really sick way.
Some say it is nothing more than distasteful while I say it is a sign of the times and the direction in which America was going. This is the one that says "we did it all" and nothing s left to the imagination. Waters has pulled all the perversity of the world into one film. It is hard to decide whether to laugh or to groan but I must admit that there is something about "Pink Flamingos" that Makes me watch every so often. Bad taste or not, I love this movie--I suppose I am as tasteless as the people that made the film and I am damned proud of that.

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