To Wong Foo - vs. - Priscilla
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brainagechamp — 20 years ago(February 07, 2006 03:11 PM)
i think that Priscilla Queen of the desert was te better of the two.
there was more entertainment in priscilla. ifelt that the ending to to wong foo was very unbeleivable, i mean chi chi wasnt even put into the finals so how could she win. i think they maybe tried too hard with to wong foo to make it funny and have just enough of a story to pull it off, where as in priscilla the director and everyone did not expect it to be a hit so it was just a simple story line that was carried though out the film effectively.
i agree that the characters played by guy pearce and john leguizamo were similar. i felt that there were certain similarities between the characters played by patrick swayze and hugo weaving as they were the people who took charge of the trip and were the main characters but werent at the same time, you knew more about them than the others. -
Green_Tracksuit — 20 years ago(February 11, 2006 10:39 AM)
Priscilla was definetly better. It was funnierwithout trying so hard to be. I found To Wong Foo to be an American rip offand a bad one at that
And you can't beat Guy Pearce.
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ciffou — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 09:17 PM)
Patrick Swayze's character was Bernadette all the way, so demure and composed. I enjoyed both of them. I watched "To Wong foo" many years ago and I find that (oddly) its title in spanish was way better: "Kings or Queens". I had so much fun with that. I JUST watched Priscilla and I think it was good although it runs a little too long. It should have ended when they arrived to their destination, that final bit was a stretch and it didn't add that much.
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A_Llama_Drama — 19 years ago(May 01, 2006 01:11 AM)
Priscilla all the way. It's a million times better. TWFTFEJN was just a load of dribble and an american hollywoodised update of Priscilla as they quickly tried to rake in as much dosh as possible after the success of Prscilla.
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preppy-3 — 19 years ago(May 08, 2006 01:27 PM)
PriscillaMUCH better and funnier. Also the Priscilla soundtrack can't be beat and we see the guys prefgorm in Priscillanot To Wong Foo. And Wong Foo goes out of its way to play everything safePriscilla doesn't.
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alisha83 — 19 years ago(June 15, 2006 08:25 AM)
I may be the only one who disagrees but I happened to see Priscilla after "to wong foo" and I found it much "greyer" than the latter one.
I may be wrong cause I just watched them to enjoy and don't know anything about the culture behind it, but in my imagination "to wong foo" it's my favourite cause it gives me a much colorful feeling, which I expect to get from a movie about drag queens.
I feel that Priscilla, on the other hand, feels more real and tells the story with a much more "real" feeling, but that's maybe just for it's colorful unbelievableness that I liked "to wong foo" more
Just my point of view by the way