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| Laughing Gravy | Jun 15 2013, 07:54 AM Post #1 |
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In the far, far future, Jane Fonda's titties go into outer space in search of Professor Duran Duran, who has invented a dangerous super-weapon called the Positronic. Her titties get into lots of adventures, have sex with many different men, meet an evil witch queen, get locked in an orgasmotron, and hang out with a blind angel who can only fly after he's had sex, so did HE meet the right spacewoman. It all works out okay in the end in this film based on a naughty French comic strip, directed by Jane's then-husband Roger Vadim. Jane's spaceship looks like something a gay guy would stick up his butt, only it's got shag carpeting, and not just on the floor, either. The music soundtrack (by Bob Crewe!) has "in the style of The Fifth Dimension" written all over it. This isn't a bad movie, it isn't a good movie, and it sure the hell isn't a mediocre movie, so... Well, I am not sure what it is, but had I know Jane Fonda's titties were the star of it, I would've watched it a LONG time ago. Our supporting features included watching Sylvester play the Big Bad Wolf and try to eat Little Red Rodent Mouse; a bunch of snotty Junior High School kids learn how to survive in their new surroundings without eating each other; and episode 7 of The Green Hornet. |
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| riddlerider | Jun 15 2013, 09:47 AM Post #2 |
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This was the first "mature" movie I ever saw as a paying customer. Talked a couple classmates into joining me. (I'm still surprised the theater owner let three 15-year-old boys in without adult supervision, but business was bad that weekday afternoon.) Thought it was the cat's whiskers. How could horny teenagers not enjoy the sight of Jane Fonda's bare boobies on a 30-foot screen? We didn't understand the full implications of many scenes, but we pretended otherwise. I recently got the Blu-ray on sale for $9.99 and watched the movie all the way through for the first time since that weekday in 1968. Jane Fonda still looks adorable, but the film itself is too silly for words. And now I see how cheap and cheesy it was, too. Moreover, it's a testimony to the vapidity of what was then called "pop art." Even in 1968 there were very few things or people more pretentious than Europeans who took comic strips too seriously. |
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| JazzGuyy | Jun 15 2013, 10:23 AM Post #3 |
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RR, those would be my sentiments too. |
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| CliffClaven | Jun 15 2013, 10:41 AM Post #4 |
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Vividly remember Life or Look magazine having several huge photos of Jane posing in her costumes. It was actually several years before I saw the whole film beyond fragments caught during late-night channel surfing. Impressions: -- I found the evil queen more compelling (you know what I mean) than the heroine. Perhaps because she wasn't diluting sex appeal with broad comedy. -- The guy with too much body hair who rescues Barbarella and introduces her to non-technological sex just vanishes from the film. That always struck me as odd. -- There's a scene where Fonda is working really hard to persuade us that docile parakeets are attacking her. I remember cutaways to a row of parakeets calmly perched on her leg with some fake blood. -- The attacking dolls were creepier, but no more threatening than a 1960s Batman cliffhanger. -- There was a funny scene with an underground leader, trying to look cool despite non-functioning secret doors and such. -- Were the various miniatures intended to look fake? |
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| Frank Hale | Jun 15 2013, 11:11 AM Post #5 |
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Saw it in 1968 at college. As I recall Jane looked great, but the movie was dumb as hell, which seems to be the consensus here also. Isn't there a scene where she's in some sort of proto-tanning bed, being threatened with death by pleasure, but she breaks the machine instead by out-pleasuring it? Speaking of pleasure, you have to hand to it to Roger Vadim: 5 wives including Ms. Fonda and Brigitte Bardot. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Jun 15 2013, 06:20 PM Post #6 |
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I wonder what happened to him. He never made a good movie but he did a lot to popularize French movies. Blood and Roses is the only one I liked, and it's a mess like Barbarella. But it starred Annette Stroyberg, another one of Roger's wives, and the gorgeous Elsa Martinelli. When they named Vadim Roger they got it right. He also did a thing with Catherine Deneuve. Factoid: in his/her autobiography Warhol superstar Candy Darling claims he/she had an affair with Vadim. I kinda reserve judgement. It's a helluva jump from Jane Fonda... |
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| The Batman | Jun 15 2013, 06:25 PM Post #7 |
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A pretty movie to look at and Ms. Fonda looked great, but IIRC, she wasn't actually nude and/or topless in the film. So, am I remembering incorrectly or is there an uncut version that I haven't seen? Otherwise a silly film that no one needs to see twice. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jun 15 2013, 09:44 PM Post #8 |
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You must have seen a cut version. |
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