Oct. 3rd, 2010

amedia: (Calatoria Themis)
We got this on DVD from Netflix in August.

Very enjoyable crime caper movie from the early 1960's. I especially enjoyed Melina Mercouri's performance as the roguish jewel thief. The lovable rogue is such a hard character to pull off - anyone remember ST:TNG's "Outrageous Okona"? (*cringe*) She nailed it - AND she was also very sexy as a woman of a certain age - she was in her mid-40s back when people in their mid-40s actually looked like it. Gorgeous Greek and Turkish scenery and some highly entertaining plot twists.
amedia: Curlicue of butterflies on black background (Default)
There were some parts of this movie that I liked extremely well, and others that I didn't - overall, I would still say that I enjoyed it quite a lot despite the flaws. Some curious feminist issues going on. (SPOILER ALERT)Expandhere be spoilers )
amedia: Curlicue of butterflies on black background (Default)
We rewatched Conan the Barbarian recently (we had both seen it on TV, but not ever sat down and watched the whole theatrical release), which is just such a quintessential popcorn sword-and-sandals movie, we both really enjoyed seeing it again. I really dug Sandahl Bergman as Valeria, and we went looking for her other movies (we have Red Sonja, which we've also already seen a long time ago, but I'm sure we're rewatch that one soon as well).

We got Hell Comes to Frogtown on DVD from Netflix. It's a cheesy post-apocalyptic movie about one of the last remaining fertile men on Earth who goes on a special government mission - wow, that actually sounds better than it was. It was hilariously bad, as we expected. Sandahl Bergman gets to fight AND dance, both of which she's very, very good at, and she doesn't have to act too much.

She, which we did as an Instant Watch from Netflix on the TiVo, was absolutely insane. This was a post-apocalyptic movie on LSD. I loved the bad guys who were dressed as Roman generals, or ninjas, or knights, or harlequins, or bizarre mixtures of all of the above. I loved the sense, in general, that people who were children or babies when the bomb dropped were trying to reconstruct a society they didn't really remember. The interlude with the mad scientist dressed like Mozart and his burly tutu-clad assistant was gloriously surreal. I adored Sandahl Bergman as the barbarian goddess - there was one scene I especially liked but it's very spoilery so I'll just say, she was great. The movie didn't so much end as stop, with more of a whimper than a bang, but it was a heck of a ride!

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