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:

The Fly

Yesterday, I saw a fantastic film that was absolutely amazing. . .

I don't remember how it came up, but my mom and I were talking about something similar to the topic, when she said, "That reminds me of this movie I saw called The Fly, I'll check it out for you when we go to the library." She did just that and yesterday we finally saw it. The guy at the library said that it was about AIDS but after watching it, I can't say I can make the connection. More so, I think it was a movie that was made to teach people that science is not all that it is cracked up to be. The acting was good, the make-up was not (you'd have to watch it to know what I mean), sometimes the continuity was not all that good (i.e. there's a scene where the main character has hair on his back and in the next scene he no longer has it.).

The movie was based on a short story that was written in Playboy. It is a sci-fi horror movie, I'd say more leaning towards the sci-fi aspect (duh!). There's a second part, but my mom said it's not that great. Still, I wouldn't mind checking it out.

The main characters are:

Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle. I thought he was very cute at the beginning and then gradually he began to disgust me.

Geena Davis as Veronica "Ronnie" Quaife. She was very good and at first I didn't like her character, but I ended up liking her very much.

John Getz as Stathis Borans. I did not like his character, because he was a pervert (sex maniac towards Veronica).

There were a few more characters, but really not that many. The whole story was mostly centered around Seth and Veronica.

Probably my favorite part is where Brundle starts becoming the fly and he realizes he's becoming a horrible thing and then calls it "the perfect disease". I mean he calls himself "Brundlefly". Does that not worry you? He basically lost his wits and if you see towards the end of the movie he really has. Everything went downhill for him. It really shows that people die for science, science could be the death of you. Maybe that's what the film was trying to say, that death and science go hand in hand. At least, that's how I'm interpreting it.

I say watch it if you're an intellectual person, it's not a movie that people will pick apart if they're only in it for the horror aspect. You have to love a movie for all it's parts. (I should be a critic!~)