John Waters Collection (A Dirty Shame NC-17 Version / Desperate Living / Female Trouble / Hairspray / Pecker / Pink Flamingos / Polyester)

John Waters has been an inspiration, a guide in good (bad) taste and a personal hero since I was 13. 24 years later nothing has changed and this DVD box-set was a joy. It's like being shot in the head by your favourite member of the Manson Family or joining a sickening cult who relentlessly coerce you into getting a life.I'm biased of course. I think John Water's movies should be obligatory by law. However I do have some questions...like where the hell is Multiple Maniacs and why has Serial Mom been omitted from the list?What you DO get are classics like Pink Flamingos in which the protagonists struggle to prove themselves to be the filthiest people alive, while Desperate Living has the greatest Backwards Day scene ever filmed while hippies blasted on LSD shove babies into refrigerators. Also you get Female Trouble which is simply Divine's unquestionable masterpiece, while Pecker is just sublime and counts as the most loving tribute to a camera yet put on celluloid. All in all this cannot be missed but where the hell have Cry Baby and all the others got to?The most series overlook is Multiple Maniacs and I'm still stuck without David Lochary as Mr David. I only have my VHS copy and the tape is wearing out. Please release it on a shiny plastic disk before I do something drastic and saw off my own face.As Water's commented in Crackpot...much of what counted as showmanship in cinema is now dead. Thank god there is then a record of a man possessed of that vision who (unlike the infamous Jim Rose who once threatened to kill me when I compared his freak show with Water's visionary work) has an eye on the truly depraved. As always that's where the action is and there is no competing with it. A whole truckload of Quentin Tarantino's with their boring, tame, saleable zeitgeist crap have missed the bus. Perhaps you'll be on it with them heading to Retardsville instead of moving here?I bought this with a Date With John Waters on CD. Great double pick. Still I'm missing the armpit licking and Divine's blasphemous unholy vision.Water's really is The Pope Of Trash and this box-set will at least partially prove it. It makes me want to hit the banned-list and invite over a few nuns.2000 out of 10.

This rare (ie. expensive) set contains much, but not all, of John Waters' collective cinematic genius. Since its release many of his other films not included here are getting deluxe re-releases on blu ray (Multiple Maniacs, Female Trouble, Serial Mom). I've adored him ever since I saw a bootleg copy of Pink Flamingos on an ancient prototype Betamax machine in the late 70s. This and a porno called "It Happened in Hollywood" were the first 2 films I ever saw on videotape...and are about the only ones I can still remember.Everything I've read about Waters as a producer-director has confirmed that he is very fair and honest. How ironic that the one who has created the most wonderfully vile films in history is a rare example of a Hollywood luminary who is in no way connected to the Weinstein sex debacle. Apparently Waters never resorted to the casting couch. I guess he figured that being in one of his movies was punishment enough.Its like he once told an auditorium full of hardened criminals in a federal prison - "Next time don't murder someone - make a film about murder instead."

If you are a fan of John Water all these titles are already in your heavy play rotation at home. The nice addition isthe John Waters scrapbook. This was only available previously if one had purchased 3 various double feature dvd packs and sent in proof of purchase from each. Movies John shot as a child are featured along with many other historical features. I was a bid saddened that Cecil B. Demented or Serial Mom did not end up in this collection to really fill out the last few decades of John's work. I still wonder why Serial Mom was never given a quality DVD release. That being said, at least Desperate Living is included so as to freak the bejesus out of the folks who only will have seen Hairspray-The Musical prior to deciding to buy this box set.

Great John Waters Collection - though I personally would rather have had Crybaby instead of Pecker. Even though I bought mine used it included the Odor-rama card.For the record, this box set contains: A Dirty Shame (the NC-17 version), Desperate Living, Female Trouble, Hairspray, Pecker, Pink Flamingos, Polyester and a DVD John Waters Scrapbook.After watching the movies, I highly recommend watching them again with the commentaries. John's commentaries are great. Unlike a lot of directors he doesn't spend most the time talking about the technical aspects of the film. He relates amusing little stories about the film and related topics.

Been a fan since I saw Desperate Living and Pink Flamingos in college. I knew I was gonna be a fan when the guy taking the tickets asked each one if they knew about the films before they entered. This guy is the best. Now I'm gonna watch PF in 3D!

Finding this set at this price was awesome and I was very pleased to find the odor-Rama card still in the Polyester case. Considering it was used and released thirteen years ago, the condition of everything contained was excellent.

This is a must for any John Waters fan. I think I have seen Female Trouble at least a thousand times and still laugh as hard as I did the first time! Its a great movie - Divine and the Dreamlanders at their very best.

A marvelous edition, both in content and design! What a shame the odorama card is missing in this recent edition! Not five-star rated because of it.