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For years I have heard the critics say what a bad movie Hair was, so I wasn't expecting it to be great, and it wasn't. But it was better than I expected. I bought it because I knew Cheryl Barnes gave an incredible performance of the song, "Easy To Be Hard." That song was the best part of the movie. She buried Three Dog Night's version of that song, and Three Dog Night is an amazing band. The worst part of the movie was leaving out the song, "Frank Mills." As far as I know, Frank Mills never made the charts, but I think it's a great song. I admit that in my youth, I listened to the sound track over and over, but I've never seen the play. Perhaps I wouldn't be as positive about the movie if I had. It is worth watching for the songs they do include, including "Donna, and yes, especially for "Easy To Be Hard."Read full review
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This musical classic comes to the big screen with Treat Williams in an early, yet excellent performance in his young acting career as Berger. Berger & his hippie friends meet up with rural boy, Claude Bokowski, on his way to New York to be processed into the Army and sent to Vietnam. Claude meets a girl and Berger and his friends give him a wild time before he leaves for the military. The ending is one that will not be soon forgotten. I shared this movie with my 13 year old son & he enjoyed it so much that when it became missing during a recent move, we replaced our VHS copy with a DVD copy found on ebay. If you like musicals, you'll love Hair!! If you have never seen this movie, see it now. If you already have seen it, see it again!!
The storyline is kind of sketchy, concentrating more on character development throughout the movie. Each of the characters basically did little more than hanging out talking/singing about life. It bears some powerful socio-political messages that would likely escape anyone who's not really paying close attention to what the songs are trying to convey. I really don't believe it's representative of the majority of those who lived the hippie lifestyle so much as it is a coming-of-age story centered around those who merely skirted that choice. It's still worth watching at least once if you were a teenager/20's during the late 60's/early 70's or you have an interest in that era. It's difficult to truly convey what that era was like. As the cliche goes: If you remember the 1960's, you weren't really there.Read full review
all time greatest A few verses from "Manchester, England" and a small portion of "Walking In Space" have been removed. The film omits the songs "The Bed", "Dead End", "Oh Great God of Power", "I Believe in Love", "Going Down", "Abie Baby," "Air," "My Conviction," "Frank Mills," and "What a Piece of Work is Man" from the musical. The latter five songs were originally recorded for the film, but were eventually cut, as they slowed the pace of the film. They can be found on the motion picture soundtrack album, although they were omitted on the 1990 reissue. While the songs "Don't Put It Down" and "Somebody To Love" are not specifically sung by characters in the movie, they are both used as background or instrumental music for scenes at the army base. There are several other differences from songs in the movie and as they appear on the soundtrack, mainly in omitted verses and different orchestrations. The plot is changed in the film. Many of the songs have been shortened, sped up, rearranged, or assigned to different characters to allow for the differences in plot. Opinions are mixed as to whether the film was an improvement over the stage show. In the original stage show, the character Claude Bukowski is a hippie who eventually joins the army and is sent to Vietnam. In the movie, the plot was changed so that Claude comes to New York City from Oklahoma after he is drafted and befriends a group of hippies before being sent to Army training camp. They introduce him to their psychedelically-inspired style of living, and eventually drive to Nevada to visit him at a training camp. In the play, Claude is from "dirty, mucky, polluted Flushing," in Queens, but wishes he was from "Manchester, England," which explained why he sang a song with that title. The song remains in the film, though with a joking introduction by Berger - "he just got off the boat" - to make it apply to Oklahoma native Claude. In the musical, Sheila Franklin is a hippie who falls in love with Berger, not Claude. Jeannie was "knocked up" by a speed freak, not by either Woof or Hud. Arguably, the most extreme change is Berger's death in the finale. In the original play it is Claude who dies in Vietnam.Read full review
I am neither Siskel or Ebert. Would I be rating a movie that is over 40 years old. I ordered the DVD because I did enjoy the movie way back then. The DVD arrived in a timely manner. The disc was in great condition. I still (after Althea passing years) enjoyed the movie. And it was a great value.
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