Lust in the Dust
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Movie Reviews of Lust in the Dust
Movie Review: Lust in the Dust
Summary: 4 Stars
It was really diffenent but i liked it my husband talked me into buying it. He loved it and has been looking for you.Movie Review: A love triangle you won't beleive
Summary: 4 Stars
Tab Hunter, Divine, Lainie Kazan what more do you need to convince you to watch this movie? and its a western.Movie Review: You people got a strange sense of humor
Summary: 3 Stars
With a nod to western classic Duel in the Sun and opening like Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood in Two Mules for Sister Sara, serape wrapped Man With No Name Tab Hunter meets stranded femme Divine in the wild west in Paul Bartel's LUST IN THE DUST. It promises something special indeed until it forsakes its satiric ambitions somewhere in the middle of act one and settles down to chew its way through an unspectacular plot.
By the time this odd couple make it to the small town of Chile Verde and become entwined in the search for a hidden cache of gold, LUST has turned into an edgeless comedy, the tedium relieved only when Divine and Lainie Kazan (Marguerita Ventura) sing or spat, or when Hard Case Williams (veteran actor Geoffrey Lewis) squints and spouts intimidating Bible quotes. Unfortunately, producer Tab Hunter hired actor Tab Hunter to play lead Abel Wood. Hunter is simply too laid-back to be thrown into the middle of a parody.
LUST IN THE DUST had many of the ingredients to be a first-class spoof, worthy to be filed along with movies like Blazing Saddles and Paint Your Wagon. Although it has its moments, in the ends it's simply a silly and inconsequential western parody.
Movie Review: "I've had carnal knowledge of 215 women and 2 goats."
Summary: 3 Stars
On the road to Chili Verde Divine hooks up with Tab Hunter, once there they learn of the legend of the gold. Guns fights, cat fights and sexual hijinks follow but it's all too tame. The first 15 minutes are fine with Divine swimming bottomless then wearing out four rapists, but soon the focus of the film drifts away from the campy stuff and goes more about the story of the lost gold. Who cares about the gold?! I want to see Divine half-naked and singing and eating pie underwater and maybe biting a midget on the foot, not searching for gold.
I respect Paul Bartel, but I think John Waters would have been better for this movie. Yea, I know he turned down the job but that doesn't change the fact he probably would have made a better film. At least it would have been cruder and campier and that's what we want right?
Also Gina Gallego didn't have a big enough role.
Movie Review: The film has its moments, but is not very funny overall
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm sorry to be the naysayer here, but I feel like someone should warn the general populace who might buy this movie thinking it might be another "Hairspray." It isn't. I'm sorry to say this, but what this film needed was John Waters. While it has its funny moments, overall it isn't really funny enough to be engaging. It seems like Paul Bartel wasn't sure whether he wanted the film to be campy or an ordinary comedy, and he doesn't straddle this fence well. The script just frequently falls flat.
Divine is still a presence on screen, and so this dvd is worth having for her true fans. That is the reason I bought this. But there is no way that I will play this dvd as often as, say, Hairspray, Female Trouble, Polyester, or Pink Flamingos.