dvdjunkie32

Some movies are timeless while others are too much of a product of their generation. Most cringe worthly are the hairstyles of that era. Sometimes they are so bad that it's hard to ignore them and enjoy the movie.

Case in point, Hard Target starring Jean-Claude Van Damm. I remember loving this flick in the 90s for the big over the top action scenes and the whole Cajun country vibe. I watched Hard Target again this weekend. I found myself paying more attention to JVCD's horrendous haircut. A long curly hair mullet. A in your face mullet that even swings around slowly as this is a John Woo film. Back when mullets were considered sexy. lol It kept distracting me from the storyline.





Another mullet misery that is hard to watch is Brian Bosworth in Stone Cold. Just long and nasty. Funny that is another film with Lance Henriksen.


Anyone else have some examples?

sauce07

rexinnih

That is one thing that always gets me when watching The DaVinci Code, Tom Hank's hair.

Solid Snake

Didn't JCVD have a mullet in Timecop too?

Groucho

wishbone

Ash Ketchum

Any time anyone has long hair in a WWII combat setting, it throws me off.
Like Sean Penn in THIN RED LINE:



And how about when "ghetto" doctor Elvis administers to the poor...?

Did he spend all his meager earnings on hair spray?

Groucho

Whoa. I had no idea that Morgan Freeman once played my grandfather.

Solid Snake

What film is this?

sauce07

The abomination known as Dreamcatcher

Solid Snake

Didn't even know he was in that.

DVD Guy ATL

“We hired Barbara Stanwyck and here we get George Washington.”

- Buddy DeSylva, then production head of Paramount, on Barbara Stanwyck's hairstyle in Double Indemnity

Ash Ketchum

Hey, Stanwyck looks great there! I bet Mr. DeSylva wasn't complaining after he started counting up the boxoffice receipts. I bet he was asking for more movies with Stanwyck like that. (Hence, THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS, another b.o. hit for Paramount.)

naitram

OldBoy

of course, the one that could have been:

OldBoy

this Bruce Willis wig catastophe was only one among several that took me out of Surrogates:

Solid Snake

really? I thought his hair was fine in KA

OldBoy

Nic Cage's hair has never been fine.

hasslein

Just about everything from the 80's that isn't a period piece, The Fly is the first that comes to mind.

Solid Snake

Hahahaha....very true. Though Arnold's hair has been the same cut for a while unless it was Conan. His hairstyle has aged well.

Iron_Giant

This one wins the prize, whenever I watch the movie, that HairDue always disturbs me.

Iron_Giant

The 80's had the overall worse Hair than any other decade. I can't stand watching movies with those styles.

Mondo Kane

People forget (Or don't know) how many times Boris Karloff's hairstyle seemed to radically change for various movies of the 30's. Personal distracting favorites are The Invisible Ray (Afro!) and The Man With Nine Lives (Big resemblence to Jeremy Irons here!)

Daytripper

So true.

Danny Huston in HBO's "You Don't Know Jack" has to be way up there.

Daytripper

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