#ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains 1982

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"I think every citizen should be given an electric guitar on her sixteenth birthday."

I liked the part with the skunks.

A good concept for a movie, let down a little by sloppy execution. A really great soundtrack throughout, but a disappointing repetition of original tracks for the on-screen bands to perform.

Diane Lane was fantastic as the lead, but the other girls in the band didn't really get anything to do. Still, it was fun to see a young punk Laura Dern playing bass. 

The story was straightforward rise-and-fall stuff, but the pacing was a complete mess; Some things sped past way too quickly, and it was never clear how much time had passed between any two scenes. The bit with them watching an interview with her aunt on television was surprisingly touching, and a definite highlight of the movie.

Unfortunately, I feel like the feminist aspects of the story were somewhat undermined by the multitude of lingering, voyeuristic shots of teenage girl's bodies, and by the framing of the other band's older frontman (Ray Winstone) as a potential love interest for sixteen year old Lane. 

I was glad she didn't end up going with him after The Stains' five minutes of fame ended, but then the movie finished on a perplexing montage of their future success, having apparently changed their image and sold out. Considering the anti-commercialisation theme of the climax, I'm really not sure what I was supposed to take away from that ending.

Not exactly what I'd hoped, but still a pretty good movie.

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Promotional still of the "skunks" from the 1982 movie Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains. Featuring the (then) very young Diane Lane, Laura Dern and Ray Winstone as punk rockers.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)

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currently watching Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982) for the first time since the 80s, another cool thing Night Flight exposed me to back then

[marypickfords]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (Lou Adler, 1982)

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Diane Lane / Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)

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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, 1982

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Laura Dern in Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)

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Diane Lane - Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982)

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ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains (1982)

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i was tagged by the wonderful maddie @leonardcohenofficial to post the posters from my favorite new-to-me watches of the year!! (in purely aesthetic order)

rope - alfred hitchcock (1948) sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950) deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970) i’m not there - todd haynes (2007) brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970) carol - todd haynes (2015) ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982) what’s up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972) the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)

i'll tag @frogeye-pierce @thebuffalospringfeild @iwrotemrtambourineman and @juliebarnes!!!!

i only made it through half my goal of 100 new-to-me movies this year (life was. crazy) but the 52 i did watch will be under the cut!

edge of the city - martin ritt (1957)

the grand budapest hotel - wes anderson (2014)

licorice pizza - paul thomas anderson (2021)

dazed and confused - richard linklater (1993)

brewster mccloud - robert altman (1970)

the tragedy of macbeth - joel coen (2021)

my own private idaho - gus van sant (1991)

my beautiful laundrette - stephen frears (1985)

dead reckoning - john cromwell (1947)

keep off my grass! - shelley berman (1975)

raising arizona - joel & ethan coen (1987)

top hat - mark sandrich (1935)

the man who fell to earth - nicolas roeg (1976)

chicago - rob marshall (2002)

the blues brothers - john landis (1980)

little miss sunshine - jonathon dayton & valerie faris (2006)

sunset boulevard - billy wilder (1950)

i'm not there - todd haynes (2007)

love & mercy - bill pohlad (2014)

walk hard - jake kasdan (2007)

mysterious skin - gregg akari (2004)

whip it - drew barrymore (2009)

sophie scholl: die letzten tage - marc rothemund (2005)

when harry met sally - rob reiner (1989)

the watermelon woman - cheryl dunye (1996)

shiva baby - emma seligman (2020)

juno - jason bateman (2007)

carol - todd haynes (2015)

what's up doc? - peter bogdanovich (1972)

the philadelphia story - george cukor (1946)

die fälscher - stefan ruzowitzky (2007)

but i'm a cheerleader - jamie babbit (1999)

the twilight saga: eclipse - david slade (2010) <- THIS WAS NOT MY CHOICE but it was technically new to me. i want to emphasize my friend forced me to watch this with her

velvet goldmine - todd haynes (1998)

magical mystery tour - bernard knowles & the beatles (1967)

the shape of water - guillermo del toro (2017)

all that heaven allows - douglas sirk (1955)

i was a male war bride - howard hawks (1949)

the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds - paul newman (1972)

ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains - lou adler (1982)

the breakfast club - john hughes (1985)

airplane! - jerry & david zucker & jim abrahams (1980)

maleficent - robert stromberg (2014) <- twilight friend pick lmfao

chi-raq - spike lee (2015)

a league of their own - penny marshall (1992)

rope - alfred hitchcock (1948)

pearl - ti west (2022)

get out - jordan peele (2017)

one cut of the dead - shinichiro ueda (2017)

deep end - jerzy skolimowski (1970)

the hours and times - christopher munch (1991) <- random number generator decided my gay john lennon fate with this one :/

glass onion - rian johnson (2022)

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ok movie may rankingsssss its quite frankly soooo fucking long so i put it under a read more :) MWAH

31. moonage daydream 2022 um so when todd haynes basically said that reagan being in power was david bowies fault in velvet goldmine i get what he was saying when i watched the second half of this. it was so annoying listening to bowie talk about how he was like crazyyyy back then now hes normal (annoying and not in a fun way) boo

30. ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous stains 1982. ok this was actually a flop i wanted to like it so bad but i did not. boo

29. the daytrippers 1996. this was such a movie my indie snob cousin loves. it kind of felt like a long ass seinfeld episode. sorry women. the gay reveal was not. fun. it was 90s straight people trying to do a twist :/

28. muppet treasure island 1996 was ok. it was no the great muppet caper ..

27. spontaneous 2020 i did cry because of this movie i thought it was just gonna be a silly heheh good bad movie but i did cry. and they played forth of july sufjan stevens :(

all the movies after here i would rewatch and i liked :) i had a good movie may !!

26. descendants 2 2017 was not as good as descendants 1 or 3 to me now .. but thats ok they literally had chillin like a villain and the letterkenny guy

25. descendants 3 2019. hmmm i wanna keep her by descendants 2 just so theyre not lonely in this list. the plot was like ok mal having to do her morality thing again thats ok. evie was soooooo izzy lightwood and her loser ass march band boyfriend was sooo simon :)

24. murder on the orient express 1974 was better than death on the nile 1978 and there was a character with my name :) but i think i do not care as much about agatha christie mysteries as i thought i would. thats ok :)

23. arrival 2016 is prob one of the first times i knew about the specific field of the protag and it made me so mad because i spent the whole movie like. she would not fucking do that. she would not say that. come on. and of course the u.s. propaganda was like a frontal migraine but i guess it was good

22. the handmaiden 2016. why didnt anyone tell me about. you know. the plot of the movie. great lesbian sex but what the hell wasall that. 

21. donnie darko 2001 was like ok what . fine ok whatever

20. emma 1996 holy shit i watched a lot of 1996 movies this month. ummmmm ewan was there and it was literally emma. what more do you want me to say. it was good ish :P

19. dungeons & dragons: honor among thieves 2023 was so long no movie should be longer than 2 hours but it did feel like playing d&d with my buddies and sophia lillis was there :')

18. i know what you did last summer 1997. its like none of you even care that kevin williamson who wrote this AND scream 1996 is literally a gay ass homosexual man. and my friend.

17. red army 2014. i feel like this should be its own other thing because it was just a movie i would watch at 15 to learn as much about hockey as humanly possible. and not for fun for like mental illness reasons. anyway hockey :)

16. crip camp: a disability revolution 2020 is like red army 2014 like. informative and interesting documentary ! not able to rank it with fiction films i dont think so dont take its spot too seriously.

15. poison 1991. dont worry about it im just studying todd haynes and this movie was not as good as other movies i watched this month but actually its the best movie ever after velvet goldmine. or not its not in my top 3 todd movies of all time but thats ok it still set up many of the things he talks about in his later films esp the connection between the horror section and safe 1995 :)

14. the secret world of arrietty 2010. i didnt watch this until this year bc it was released just after when i would sit down and watch a new little ghibli movie. i wanted to rewatch totoro more than watch new ones.but it WAS the borrowers sooo fun :)

13. monty python and the holy grail 1975. they made lancelot soooooooo ugly which was like a joke in itself to me because lancelot would never look like that. but umm yeah my dad loves this movie and so many little jokes i thought were just family jokes were actually from this movie hehehe

12. the great muppet caper 1981 literally had peter falk in it and they knew they were in a silly movie and they kept saying kermit and fozzie were twins it was so silly and fun :)

11. seven up! 1964. british people getting studied is literally so real and true. i cant wait to continue in the series and see how these kids change.. 

10. some like it hot 1959. I NEED TO WATCH MORE MARILYN MONROE MOVIES ASAP BTW THIS MOVIE ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9. this is spinal tap 1984. ummm yeah this was good. very good even. and christopher guest from my movies was there doing a horrible accent it was awesome :)

8. dottie gets spanked 1993. okok this is my todd haynes auteur studies and it is such a short film that foreshadows his future work i love you forever and ever my best friend todd haynes :D!!!!!!!!!!

7. videodrome 1983 had crazyyyyyyyyyyyy special effects i enjoyed the blowing up bodies and the tvs trying to kill you and the toronto..

6. big eden 2000 i wish they didnt have that whole plot with his high school bestie that was annoying and not whimsy but everything else and i mean EVERYTHING else was sooooo good and beautiful and i love you movie

5. elvira's haunted hills 2001 YIPPEE ELVIRA!!!!!!! RIFF RAFF WAS THERE!!! she talked like she was still a 2000s california girl but in 1850s europe it was awesome

4. rye lane 2023 was sooooo good and love is real and i need to go to england or i will die . woah that was an anglophile ass sentence but its true.

3. stardust 2007 YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO basically thats it. it was a movie that loves whimsy and the power of love. beth please watch it i mean it you would love it soooooo much 

2. the watermelon woman 1996 i love you lesbians i love you movies i love you movie lesbians. everyone should watch it its soooo good

1. velvet goldmine 1998 my best friend forever of course no one could be better <33

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🎬 1982 and 1964!

sure there's a lot of iconic movies from 1982 but i have to say ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains. as for 1964 the umbrellas of cherbourg!

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Character Analysis: 2012 Season 5: Karai

Ok, so this version of Karai compared to her Rise version is;

1 is alive

2 is a teenager

Also fun fact: Karai's makeup design is inspired by Corinne Burns, the leading female character of the 1982 cult film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains.

I like this version of Karai! She’s a cool, tough, and plays a big part of the series. In this universe she’s Splinter’s biological daughter, but was raised as Shredder’s child. While she isn’t in every season (she was was in the background/non speaking roles in seasons of 3 and 4) her character growth is the clearest to see.

From the fandom wiki she’s described as rebellious, intelligent, arrogant. She’s also sarcastic, and strategical. Which she definitely is. She have in interest in the Kraang, worried that they were going to hurt people. She stop Tigerclaw from killing the blind restaurant owner. But she also steals and try’s to have control over situations.

In season 1 she fights with Leo and when fighting she talking bad about Shredder and hates his vendetta. She think of Leo as a friend, and even thought she doesn’t like her dad, she still saves him when the turtles try to attacks him. In season 2 in the first half of the season she temporarily took control of the clan and makes robot foot soldiers. In the second half of season 2 she learn the truth about her family and while she has doughts and conflicting feelings she ends up leaving the Foot and going the Hamato’s. when Karai after learning the truth she try to get revenge on her old father. Going to Shredder’s hideout she was trapped in a cage and end up falling into the mutant tank, transforming into a mutant White Horned Viper.

In season 3, when she turn into a snake she hid and was worried about losing her humanity and hurting her family. She was also brainwashed by the worms and torture by her old father. After she is heals, she runs away. In season 4 when she comes back, she leaves the Foot completely and even teams up with Leo and Shinigami and the trio burn down the purple dragons hideout and took down Shredder’s robots factory. In the end of the show she and Shinigami take over the Foot and make it more honorable.

As a White Horned Viper, her powers are:

Enchanted strength

Enchanted endurance

Enchanted agility

Stealth

Venomous bit

Venom spitting

Swimming

Shape shifting

Retractable fangs

Spear like tail

Mouth in the back of head

Snake hands

Snake communication/control

Skin shedding

As for her family, Karai has different views for each. With Leo she and him are the closest, since their the eldest. They sword fight, care a lot about each other and the two are protective of each otner. With Mikey, while the two different intact that much, Mikey does seem to really love his big sister. While Raph and Donnie, sadly there wasn’t any interaction with them. With Splinter when she first hated him, but after the realization of him being her biological dad, she seem to loosen up and got to know him. While the two didn’t have many interactions, the two seem to really care about each other and Splinter was protective of her.

For mental and physical, she got tortured by her old father, she had brainwashing worms put inside her head, had her old father kidnapped her and try to kill her. Mentally the transformation would have cause great distress, the abuse she face, and the new information about her family.

While I love Karai, I do think she should have more moments in the later seasons. To give her and insight about her mutantion, give more info of what her life in the Foot clan was like. What are her hobbies? She can ride a motorcycle, she lived in Japan, and she eels to like punk music. But it would be nice to see her more as a teenager, and less as a tool.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (Lou Adler, 1982)