What's Your Favorite John Waters Moment?

"Hi, My name is Forrest Gump"
"That's a damn shame." Cecil B. Demented showed the love of cinematic anarchy before "Inglorious Bastards". Its a classic.

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"Penny Pingleton, you are permanently punished!"

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Hooray for the love for Cecil B. Demented. I always thought it was pretty damn underrated.

No Budget!

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Serial Mom remains the one I return to most often. Kathleen Turner is just so damn good. There are soooo many great moments in the movie, but the prank call to Dottie Hinkle in the beginning is a standout moment.

I think even if he stops with the movie making he'll continue with visual art making and other creative pursuits. I really enjoyed a recent exhibit he had in NYC.

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Wow I hope John Waters doesn't retire, I think he is one of the true inovaders when it comes to writing and directing, there's so many moments that comes to mind, if you ever want to truely shock your friends put on one of his films, which is hard to do this day in age, with that said I do own most of Mr. Water's films (still waiting for any of his films on blu ray---but I digress) and the one that i've watched the most and the one that I love and can quote the most has to be Serial Mom! I love this film, I mean besides the wonderful script and great acting from this great cast, when I first saw the film I was 12 and I actually thought it was a true story until after the 3rd viewing lol! My favorite part of the film and I guess my favorite moment would be the scene at the begining of the film when Beverly Sutfin a.k.a. Serial Mom prank calls Dottie Hinkle and barrades her with exploitive phrases, at which I laughed til' I cried when I first seen--love it! His body of work is genius with other titles such as A DIrty Shame, Pecker, Cecil B. Demented, Cry Baby, Hairspray, Polyester, and Pink Flamingo's. Til this day it's hard for me to re-watch PF which in it self I think help makes it a cult classic, some of his other films like Desperate Living and Female Trouble as well as a slew of his earlier films are hard (at least for me) to watch over and over once was enough for me, which goes to show that still til' tis day he is still ahead of his time, I hope he never retires!!!

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I have to go old school Waters and choose from Female Trouble and a half-scarred face Divine looking in the mirror for the first time, "Pretty? Pretty?"

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There is no filmmaker over the years that I have loved (or been influenced by) more than John Waters, yet having said that, I have absolutely no complaints with him hanging up the director's hat and sticking to talk show appearances, documentary talking head cameos and his writings and artworks from now on. His last few films (Cecil B. Demented and A Dirty Shame, in particular) have been awkward, leaden and massively unfunny and he shines much more these days when he's not trying to churn out a "shocking" new movie. If you have yet to see his filmed monologue DVD from a couple of years back (This Filthy World), it's hysterically funny and engaging.

Favorite Waters moment? Well, apart from pretty much every frame of Female Trouble, its gotta be the incredible double-header flashback sequence in the middle of Desperate Living. The 10 or so minutes wherein Buffy St. Jacques tells the story of how she wound up in Mortville (the wild party where she smothers the acid-trippin' babysitter in the bowl of dog food and then strangles her screeching husband in the power window of the car while fleeing the scene) followed by Mole McHenry's insane lady-wrestling-career-gone-sour flashback (stiletto in eyeball, anyone?) is one of the most berserk and deliriously-sublime sequences in all of modern cinema.

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Has this guy made any really funny movies in the past 20 years? Oohh, he's so daring....

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" mr. wineberger Dawn Davenport is eating a meatball sandwich right
here in class...AND she's been passing notes"
Dawn Davenport "I WAS NOT EATING"
Concetta "I gotta knife here in my pocketbook and I'm gonna cut you
up after class"
PRICELESS!!!!

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My favorite scene has to be the "chase" sequence in Cecil B Demented, with the action fans ready to kick family friendly tail, and the adult film fans moving like night of the living dead zombies, ready to swarm the soccer moms. Brilliant.

But favorite movie, out of the ones I've seen, probably Serial Mom.

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I find myself quoting Edith Massey as the queen of Mortville in Desperate Living: GET IT GET IT GET IT (I don't know if it's pathological or a deep-seated desire for a love slave in black leather)

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