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Saturday, September 5, 2015

Barbarella


Barbarella is a 1968 French-Italian (not in french or italian, it's in english) sci-fi film based on the comic by Jean-Claude Forest.

The movie starts with Barbarella being assigned a mission to find a human being, Durand Durand, on another planet who had created a weapon for evil. In the future, where this movie is set, Earth has been at constant peace and has never needed weaponry, so Barbarella must go and find Durand Durand and his invention to bring them back to Earth. Basically, throughout the film we see Barbarella going through complications on her way to find Durand Durand.

This movie is sex without sex. There are sex scenes, but you know those scenes where you just ASSUME they had sex or they say they had "the best time of their life." It's that kind of sex. The women characters all have sexy outfits or have their breasts exposed. You don't see Barbarella's breasts that much, but she's constantly in sexy outfits and being viewed as a sexual object, because they see her as this amazing object from the planet Earth. "The ultimate pleasure."

Jane Fonda as Barbarella (she's so pretty!)
Anita Pallenberg as The Great Tyrant (also very pretty!)
Milo O'Shea as Durand Durand (half of the time I was thinking about Duran Duran)
John Phillip Law as Pygar, the angel. ("An angel doesn't make love, an angel IS love."

Honestly...this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I only watched it because Jane Fonda was in it, but this was horrible. The acting was horrible, like it was totally obvious they were acting!!! The effects were horrible, but you know it was 1968 so...whatever, still didn't help make it any better. The only saving grace was Jane Fonda's beauty throughout the whole movie. It was a great concept, but it wasn't well executed sadly. I wouldn't even want to read the comics after watching this movie.

Btw, run time is 1 hour and 38 minutes, so idk maybe someone else will find this movie amazing. It's like a cult classic (you either hate it or love it XD)


Here's the trailer:

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