- TITLE | Shampoo
- RELEASE | March 1975
- DIRECTOR | Hal Ashby
- STARRING | Goldie Hawn, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
- TAGLINE | "Your hairdresser does it better..."
What. The. Hell.
So this hairdresser with really bad hair and a horrible sense of style, just starts sleeping with everyone and their mother...literally. There's also a random campaign dinner, a stereotypical 60s house party, and awkward sex on the floor with the refrigerator door open.
The Swoon Factor |
Emily's Thoughts - Nope. Hard pass. No swooning. I think maybe there was supposed to be swooning. But. Just. No.
Watson's Thoughts - This was one of the least sexy movies about sex that I have ever seen...and I watched that 365 Days monstrosity on Netflix
The Feels Factor |
Emily's Thoughts - Oh, there were feels. Feels that Warren Beatty is gross. Strong negative feels about his belt choices. And even stronger feels about Lester, the older rich guy, and how he gets the girl in the end. AND the strongest feels about the skeezy hairdresser sleeping with a child and getting caught without shame by her mother (his other lover).
Watson's Thoughts - The main feeling I got from this one was confusion. Why did Warren Beatty sleep with his married lover's daughter while waiting for said lover? Why did he wear a shirt that made him look like a pirate?
The Skeez Factor |
Emily's Thoughts - This movie is based on skeez. Perhaps I'm missing something not actually having lived through the 60s, but that doesn't really change the skeez factor of a man standing in a room with all of his lovers at one time...and the man he stole them all from.
Watson's Thoughts - All the skeez. I needed a diagram to figure out who all was sleeping with whom. And ALL the women in the movie were sleeping with George. And then there was a random campaign dinner with a SUPER white dude singing Native American chants with zero explanation whatsoever.
**Imdb.com's "trivia" section on the movie is horrifying in of itself.
The Re-Watchability Factor |
Emily's Thoughts - A very easy no. No. No. No. Unless maybe I'm drinking and just want to laugh at George's pirate shirt that is supposed to be sexy.
Aubrey's Thoughts - While I admit that we might be missing some cultural commentary this movie is making since we did not live through this time period, the only possible reason to give this a rewatch would be to do severely drunk Mystery Science Theatre.
Does this movie receive the Total Weirdos stamp of approval?
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