Boxing Helena

this is one of the funniest/campiest/silliest movies I have ever seen. Just screams for a John Waters commentary track. Bill Paxton as a bad-boy rocker in leather pants. Art Garfunkel as Art Garfunkel. Boobs a-plenty. A number of embarassing sex scenes. Loads and loads of Julian Sands whining. And in the end... *SPOILERS* it was all a dream!! LOL

Ha, I saw this at a sleepover in high school with a kid who later came out as gay. Not sure how I didn't realize it at the time, since after the movie we sat in his bedroom listening to his Madonna and William Orbit albums.

Ha, I saw this at a sleepover in high school with a kid who later came out as gay an ILXor. Not sure how I didn't realize it at the time, since after the movie we sat in his bedroom listening to his Madonna and William Orbit albums.

I saw (this) Lynch's other movie "Surveillance" and it was just as ridiculous, right down to its own stupid twist.

xp You got me, it was Lex.

this movie is one of the goofiest things I've ever watched

Bill Paxton as a bad-boy rocker in leather pants.

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I have never seen this movie, there was something very off-putting about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusApBvbxuM

Paxton does two things in this movie: 1) has hilarious fake sex while wearing a shag "rocker" wig, 2) looks anguished/tortured

unfortunately GIS turns up nothing for Paxton, but it does return gems like this

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQAHDY1h7EKNE_Qp-tMmY_K-rEQfOqWd4mCYJCy1UyQUYp73B0&t=1&usg=__hRj2Z31HbCbGygYnyN8Id0NaWvI=

most disappointing thing about this movie is that Helena is never actually put into a box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eshk1tId4eE&feature=related

I think Crating Helena would be an even more off-putting name

This second clip features Paxton's band in full-on Devo mode, btw. Dude has music in his blood!

I'm pretty sure Kim Basinger had to pay millions in damages when she backed out of this. Good call, Kim.

Just double-checked: eight million, but it was overturned on appeal.

did I mention that there's a sex scene set to Enigma's "Sadeness"

And you dismiss The Room for looking "terrible"?

In a rare moment of comity, the audience and my group were in hysterics through most of this -- I mean, like, pointing at the screen and laughing.

http://www.jabootu.com/images/bhpaxton.jpg
"you mean I DON'T get to do any sex scenes with Kim Basinger?!"

Does anyone else get the title stuck in their head to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda" or is that just me?

you'll come a-boxin' helena with me

i already regret that

it is too late for regret

http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/38/30/11383028_gal.jpg

"check it out, bitches"

http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/38/30/11383056_gal.jpg

"if you're gonna make fun of my wig, it's OVER between us!"

did I mention that there's a sex scene set to Enigma's "Sadeness"

In every cable soft X movie ever...

2026 update: this film predates the look and feel of AI-generated "content" by three decades. Also everyone has amazing hair, especially Art Garfunkel. Did papa Lynch ever express an opinion on it?

I forgot this movie existed. In one of those occurrences that feels a lot stranger to me now than it did at the time, my sister's boyfriend's mom lent me the VHS (which she owned?!) when I was like 16. I don't remember a whole lot about the movie itself. I may not have even watched the whole thing.

I always intended to watch this, but honestly can't remember if I did. I do remember it getting some of the most savage reviews imaginable.

Quick check of Wikipedia: Janet Maslin and Gene Siskel defended the film.

Damn! I don't even remember S&E reviewing it, and I watched them religiously at the time.

Oh! Turns out they never reviewed on the show, but Gene selected it as a Video Pick of the Week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHd4ASCcWeU

Honestly it's pretty amazing, can recommend

For a guy who did relatively few films, Art Garfunkel's filmography is pretty adventurous: this, Carnal Knowledge, Catch-22, Bad Timing.

Julian Sands in the nude vibing to "Sadeness (Part 1)."

Diary of Laura Palmer is a masterpiece and I read it decades after seeing this piece of garbage movie, it was startling

For a guy who did relatively few films, Art Garfunkel's filmography is pretty adventurous

Not forgetting his reunion with Paul in Woody Tobias Jr.'s 2009, Jupiter and Beyond

my feeling is Art Garfunkel saw doing films as a chance to get laid.