John Waters denounces Canadian Manson film - Leslie, My Name Is Evil Discussion

[–] ganubis 14 years ago

Last I read Waters had no intention of seeing it...and I envy him for that decision. I watched it tonight and it was aimless, pretentious (in the way that bad mainstream music videos are), and managed to endlessly reiterate the same two messages for its entirety. Don't waste your time.

"the roman empire never died, it just turned into the catholic church"

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[–] sonipa 14 years ago

One of the guys on the jury in this movie looks like John Waters. That's funny he doesn't like it haha - I thought he was in it!

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[–] OldHorny 14 years ago

Haha I was so sure it was him, that's why I came to check this board. :D

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[–] SlasherFreak 13 years ago

Hahaha yeah there is a guy in the jury that looks like him. Also, while watching this film I couldn't help to think that this would had been a good film to be directed by him.

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[–] Jakealope 14 years ago

Jeez, he made Pink Flamingos, I guess that gives him the moral highground

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[–] WizardsMug 14 years ago

he's friends with leslie van houten that's why he got so upset about the film. which i think is kinda sad. he should give it a try imho

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[–] brendanchenowith 13 years ago

He made those movies years before he met Van Houten, and has since regretted it because of the conflict of interest. I think he has a great heart in that he would renounce something because of its alleged mockery against a friend.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

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[–] ElectricKoolaidAcid 13 years ago

Good, I'm glad to know that. While his films always focused on satirical cult comedy, they were made intentionally that way (and very well, may I add; Polyester is still one of my top 10 favorite films of all times). This movie was just plain bad, in a pretentious yet stupid way; not even funny (if that's what they were aiming for) or even with an ounce of believability attached to it.

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[–] presslyparrish 13 years ago

Fine, maybe so. I deleted my comment in light of that.

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[–] donco3000 13 years ago

You need to research Leslie Van Houten. Your argument is coming from the direction of ignorance and hate.

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[–] presslyparrish 13 years ago

Ok, so upon researching my argument, I realized I agree with it. I do not think he hould have denounced the film because it was about Leslie. She was in fact a murderer. Maybe she didn't stab Labianca initially, she still finished it off.

She also said she wanted to prove she was a good soldier, be like the others, so she had the ability to think before her actions, no?

I feel no remorse for her, i'm glad the death penalty was overturned, noone derserves that. But she deserves whatever is said about her, it was a public crime and that comes with public outcry and public hatred. It's life.

Parrish P.

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[–] donco3000 13 years ago

Fair enough.

If you look into John Waters a bit, you will find that he has been visiting LVH for many years and has a personal friendship with her. You will also find that she has more than served her time for the offence and is very remorseful (far worse criminals have served far less time for similar offences... she has been in prison for over 40 years now for a crime perpetrated as a teenager under the influence of a madman).

She has done everything she can in the way of rehabilitation (there are no more programs she can attend in her prison to prove herself to the parole board... she has in fact been allowed to live outside of prison and no problems arose.

I cannot speak for John Waters but I can understand his feelings towards this tawdry film and I can only wish that I had as good a friend; one that would stand up for me if they felt I was being horribly wronged.

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[–] presslyparrish 13 years ago

Yes, I guess I can understand his position, I was just thrown off by the idea of it at first though, considering who the woman is. But maybe that was a tad rash.

Parrish P.

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[–] dirtbunny199 12 years ago

They should never have overturned the death penalty - that bitch should've fried years ago for what she did. For john waters, a pervert/sleaze bag/freak show of a man to denounce anything is the pot calling the kettle black. That woman is a murderer & will die in jail - no parole board will ever set her free no matter how many whiny letters that freak waters submits to the huffington post.

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