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Title: Barbarella
Post by: Swamprat on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I saw this baby when it came out. Based on a French Comic Strip that was based on a Classic Cult Novel. Roger Vadam was a "European" director and Hanoi Jane's husband at the time. I think he was trying to be the new generations answer to Truffant or something. He didn't even get close...but that's just my opinion. Anyway Gang, we're here for the movie...Right?  A glorious exercise in "counter-culture" cliche. Hanoi Jane bouncing in and out of this jam and that one, looking to get laid the "old fashioned way". Fonda is, we all should admit, just as good an actress as her father was an actor. But in this piece of s**t she moves around like a Heavy Metal Fashion store manniquin. Her boobs move around more convincingly than her lips do. It's kinda like watching a Japanese Godzilla movie...all kinds of stuff going on with these strange "people" floating around in each scene...words never really matching what's going on in the situation at hand. Horrible special effects...even by the standard of it's day. It may have been shot in Vadam's basement in the South of France, by the look of it, I wouldn't be surprised. David Hemmings, one of the best cult actors of the 1960s, is totally wasted in this film. He was lucky his character was zapped into oblivion. It was the late 60s and they wanted to get way out there...they did...way, way out there. Hopefully they'll stay out there. This movie is a must see...at least one time. It's like reading Gone With The Wind, You have to experiance something this bad in order to figure out how such tripe becomes "Classic"...At least Mitchell had Hollywood to clean up a sloppy story and give it a gloss shine. Barbarella...there's a Hollywood saying..."No matter how hard you try, you just can't polish a turd." Watch it once...then burn it for the sake of future generations. Oh yea...the wicked queen was Keith Richard's girlfriend around the time this thing was made. Kinda spooky, ain't it?


Title: Barbarella
Post by: GMO on July 12, 1999, 03:05:55 PM
What really amazes me is that the film was based on a novel...


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Angela on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Barbarella is one of my favourite films!!  It's Kitsch at it's best!  I love the fashion in it.  One of Jane's best films.  The set was amazing.  I'm sure I saw a wall move once....what was it made of? Cardboard jelly?....lol.  The set was colourful, fantastic.


That Marcan is one hunky hairy beast of a man.....waahhaayyyyyyy ;) and Pygor isn't bad either.....who needs one of them pills when you've got them.....



:D


Angela
Wales
UK


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Madcow on December 16, 1999, 04:23:51 AM
If there were more scenes of La Fondue in the Orgasmatron, this picture would be universally acclaimed.  Right up there with "Citizen Kane", "8 1/2", and "Rules of the Game".  In fact, if the remake ever goes into production, Ms. Barrymore and company would have an unabashed runaway smash on their hands if Drewcella agreed to be in the ecstasy machine for one and a half to two hours.  They should give serious thought to this suggestion.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Paul H. on January 27, 2000, 05:04:48 PM
Worth watching when you want everyone/thing to go away and leave you alone.  It is a good movie to keep your mind confused and unable to think correctly.  Just sit on the couch and veg.

If you are in anyway wanting to do something, you won't be able to watch this movie.  It is just to slow and to "not right with the ways of the universe".

Depending on mental state 3-6 out of ten.
2-3 green globs

Not every movie should be entertaining.  It is just like watching and aquarium.   While it could have been better I think it is fine how it is; leave action to other movies.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: on March 27, 2000, 11:11:40 PM

 Did you actually know, The movie is rated PG, but
when it was actualy released in 1968 the R rating
did not exist so they rated it M(for mature
audiences) then in 1969 they rated it R! It is PG
now because they made cuts in 1977 to the movie.
So rumour has the the rated M or R version is
avaiable somewhere! I found that out some


Title: Barbarella
Post by: shan on June 08, 2000, 05:12:24 PM
I'm sorry this is without question the BEST movie ever I mean even Duran Duran loved it.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Muttonhead Smith on July 31, 2000, 01:17:07 AM
Jane Fonda stature in the Women's Liberation Movement is destroyed by this movie. She is too anxious to do the reproductive act to please men. In fact, that was the whole plot. In the end, it is the ANGEL, practically a non-participant in this story, who gets the GIRLS! (How sexist can you get. This is even a slap at the Secular Humanists who share Fonda's Liberal Philosophy!) Director Vadim, who was Fonda's Husband at the time of the movie, appears to be fanatically focused one one message to the audience with this movie, the message being "This is what SLEEPS IN MY BED!"

Fonda has betrayed her Liberal Friends far worse than she betrayed the boys in Vietnam by even letting her name be mentioned in this move! A self-respecting Women's Libber would have caponized Vadim.

Good Work, Jane! You are a Conservative's best friend!


Title: Barbarella
Post by: McVouty on February 02, 2002, 10:21:49 PM
She looked great.  The first 5 minutes are among the best 5 minutes in the history of cinema.  And Ho Chi Minh beats the hell out of Osama bin Ladin or Saddam Hussein.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: esther on July 19, 2000, 05:57:31 AM
I simply adore the movie, haven't even found "essence of men" in an amsterdam coffeeshop.  Desperatly looking for the soundtrack.  Want to mary in a cow-suit with an even longer tail.  I wouldn't mind playing with the one-eyed witch.  


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Big Dog on July 21, 2000, 05:19:49 AM
Fact 1:  movie is campy, cheap looking, and has a weak plot
Fact 2:  Regardless of what you may think of Jane politically, she looks great in this film.  Great body, killer eyes, and a sexy as hell kind of bumbling innocence.

Leave your brain in another room, watch the movie, and have fun with it.  It's a cult classic.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Jean on August 09, 2000, 06:10:38 PM
I saw the movie when I was a little kid and was traumatized by the robot dolls....


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Captain Syrup on September 04, 2000, 01:03:49 PM
This film absolutly ROCKS! Genre Sci-Fi/Erotica (yeah, sounds impossible), the budget appears to be less than a Grand, the acting is terrible but the film is great, seriosly. Oh yeah, I saw it on TV recently (I live in the U.K.) and it is now rated 15+


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Jennifer on September 13, 2000, 02:22:49 PM
I am 99% sure that the villian's name in the movie is actually Durand Durand.  Duran Duran DID take their name from this film (they have been quoted numerous times over the years stating this) but left off the extra d's.

I will have to go home and check the credits to be 100% postive about the name, but just wanted to make this mention!





Title: Barbarella
Post by: Siskel on September 21, 2000, 02:41:33 AM
Just so you know, Barbarella isn't supposed to make any sense.  It's full of gratuitous shots of Jane Fonda being the universe whore.  Just enjoy a movie for what it's worth every once and a while.  Just like someone can love Back to the future (I admit it) you can love barbarella.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: on October 11, 2000, 07:36:02 PM
D00d I've seen this movie 50 times and now I'm gay.
You have been warned.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Brad Wilkinson on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
A few (hopefully) interesting facts about this film (which I have grown to love by the way).
It's based on a French Comic book
The Great Tyrant is played by Anita Pallenberg who was Keith Richard's girl friend at the time (She's also in Performance with Mick Jagger). However her voice was dubbed by British actress Fenella Fielding, who British readers will know best as the vamp in Carry On Screaming.
Professor Ping is played by famous French mime artist Marcell Marceau. He also appeared in Mel Brook's Silent Movie, in which he says the only word.
The angel is played by John Philip Law who did several spagetti westerns and David Hemmingway (most recently seen in Gladiator last year) also appears. I'm pretty sure the monster is called the Mathmos (not magmos) and it shares its name with a company that produces lave lamps (although which came first I couldn't tell you). And Jane Fonda apparently now hates the film


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Josh on January 30, 2001, 04:19:25 AM
Mental note:  Sex cures blindness and makes hawkmen fly.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Matt on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Watching this film for the first time changed my life - it's like a two-hour orgasm.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Rat Dog on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
This movie was really strange. I can't figure the PG rating.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Dave on March 19, 2001, 06:23:40 AM
I saw Barbarella for the first time last night and I wish I were around in the sixties...nothing in that decade made sense, but the gratuitous breast shots certainly rock. Three cheers for Jane Fonda!!


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Lady_Ceara on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
This is the best B movie ever made.  I finally got a copy a couple years ago and torture my fiance with it on a regular basis (he hates it).  It has everything a great B movie should - bad acting, bad sets, bad clothes, bad plot, bad music, bad script.  It does have that 1960's appeal though! Forced my 20 year old son to watch - he kept expecting Austin Powers to appear!  LOL


Title: Barbarella
Post by: catboat on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
The first time I saw this movie was with a group of friends on a ski vacation. We all ate magic mushrooms and had the best time, roaring with laughter at this idiotic classic.

It is still one of my all time favorite movies - I just can't tell my kids why I like it so much!


Title: Barbarella
Post by: The Congo Kid on June 24, 2001, 05:25:01 PM
Oh yeah!  And squeeze in there at about #2 1/2 the fact that Barbarella makes love to a guy with more chest hair than Chewbacca!  GOOD LORD! buy a lawn mower, or something!


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Frode Brændø on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Ok. As a BIG Barbarella-fan I feel I should add a
comment to one thing that is said about this movie on
this site: The lake on which the evil city is build upon
is called "The Mathmos" and not the "The Magmous". This
is important due to the fact that Mathmos is a british
manufacturer of lava-lamps and has been so since the
sixties. This fact makes the evil lake of "The Mathmos"
in Barbarella an early and very original way of placing
a product in a movie. Wouldn't it be cooler if Lara Croft
in the Tomb Raider-movie didn't use an Ericson-cellphone,
but rather Ericson was some mystical device that transmitted evil radiowaves corrupting the minds of the
entire planet or something? Now that would be cool
product-placement.

Frode  


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Polka hottie on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Ah yes.... a classic "B" movie. I agree it shouldve been "R" but actually, "R" wasn't around--- it was "M"-for "mature" (if you wanna see it all...get the Original European Version)As for the plot, I forgot what it was..oh yes Go seek out Duran Duran (hehe...great band too) and save universe. But it is clear that its all about SEX....:) Jane Fonda and some hairy guy in a hairysuit, then its Jane Fonda falls for a blind angel. Lastly, she "blows" up some dude's---oops Duran Duran's "Orgasmatic"
ah classic:) Did I mention the outfits? A designer made the costumes (which every scene Barb. has a different outfit on...well er "bikini"...As for the psycho children with badmanners....let them play on their "iceskates"--get it..REALLY bad PUN...they were "ICE" skates (as in Manna reys, etc...)AND the DRUGS....the big bong in the background (Queens layer area) went really well with the shag carpet and wooly walls:)...LASTLY, yes it's based on a book/comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest.  


Title: Barbarella
Post by: ronaldt49 on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
  Having gone to the theatre to see this in high school(
Yep, I'm up there!!) as I recall it may have been an R rating back then. That was in the days of P,M,R,X ratings. Things were also stricter. What was R back then will probably be PG now. Remember that Clockwork Orange and Midnight Cowboy were X initially. They are almost worthy of Sesame Street,now. I recall that while viewing the beginning few minutes that I thought she would actually have undergarments on. Nope!! Was I surprised (and pleased) to see all she had on was a Smile. This was also before she went to Vietnam, so opinions of her changed drastically in the not to distant future.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Loof on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
I too saw this film as a youngster I was about 11.  And I also was traumatised by it.  I have been badly scared by it for life.  Ever since seeing that film at the beginning of my adolescence I have been unable to look at an attractive, scantily clad woman with out becoming immediately sexually aroused.  In fact the women don’t even have to be particularly attractive.  Resulting in spending most of the rest of my life so far in an semi-permanent state of sexual arousal.

Long live Barbarella.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Joe Stalin on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I was 15 years old when I saw this movie on T.V. I was at my aunt's place. She walked in and thought I was watching porn. Since then I have come to learn that [Hanoi]Jane Fonda is a traitor to America due to her actions during the Viet Nam war. I think we should strap that b***h to a chair and force her to watch her own crap movie until her frigging eyes bleed.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Taika-Kim on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
This is THE ultimate space-funk-groove experience!

The costumes change for about every scene (after getting torn to pieces for some reason or another), and are mostly SO cool :)

Hmm, people of the future smoke guys swimming in bongs?

The visual style is just perfect. And the soundtrack too. And the carpet interiors of le space ship...

Ánd, oh, btw I saw this in a movie theatre last summer. Wow. Now that was a culture experience ;)

And the leader of the underground resistance, the dildo-whatever is apparently Juhan af Gran's brother, which figures... :) (if you didn'y get this one, you're propably not Finnish<g>)


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Jo on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
IT's my favorite movie! But some things in the review need to be corrected: it IS Durand-Durand (with the d's), the Mathmos (not the magmos) is the evil lava-lamp like monster-liquid-life-form-thingy, and what is the talk about "Lythion"? the Great Tyrant (whose 'obsession' with the word 'pretty' is actually the nick-name she gives barbarella) rules over the city of Sogo (a reference to the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorra), outside the Ice and Forests of Wier, on the planet 16 in the system Talseti. I see no talk of "Lythion".

Anyways I believe that it is the best movie ever and Jane Fonda is the only one that can play it so well. The music is just too perfect, it adds to the acid-trip like effects.

Oh yeah, if I had a futuricistic state of the art spaceship with a psycedelic viewscreen, I would want it to have orange shag carpeting from top to bottom, also.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Janet on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I also saw this as a child the first time around 1978.  I remember I had the chicken pox and we had cable and I watched it as my mother was in the kitchen doing something.  I just remember thinking I can't believe she is letting my watch this, it seemed like the dirtiest thing I had ever seen.  As soon as I went back to school I had to tell all my friends about it, and then we tried reinacting some of the scenes!  After that I have always been infatuated with it.  On my honeymoon I remember the first night it was playing and I made my husbad watch it.  He was not as impressed.  I've rented it on and off since then, and watched it the other day with a new boyfriend and he said "no wonder you are like you are now"!  I thought it was definetly cheesy but I thought it was great!


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Pygar on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I just love it when people talk about how much better the unrated, Originial Uncut European version of this film is... and then never say WHERE TO FIND IT!!!

Anyone know where I can find it? While I am at it... I am also looking for any behind the scenes pics I can find of the spaceship (inside, outside, or model) and the Excessive Machine. I am also on the lookout for pics of Mark Hand's Catchman sleigh. I am a scale modeler and feel these desgns need to be made into models! But the spaceship is either seen at a distance or always from the same 3/4 view, the same with the Excessive Machine.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: lung on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Saw it on british TV yesterday, and I must say that is excellent with its halucinatory trip. I was truly amazed at how much nonsense was thrown at the spectator, and how I could accept it. The only thing a tad difficult is the pace, which isn't that fast compared to today's movies.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Philip Morris on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I liked the site but needed to know a silly answer to this question: any idea why they'd put in a barbarella type doll shop in Saint Peters, South Australia, near Bacall's hairdressers? And a thing called Paramount Aquariums? And a place built by a supreme court judge in 1963 builders named Zechariah Investments, Levy & Co; judge named Sir herbert kingsley pain? any idea why they'd put in a doll hospital ala barbarella? turner's meats nearby etc?


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Andy Ramos on October 17, 2003, 05:57:21 PM
From Spain, I have just seen the movie. One word: incredible. I have no words to describre the movie; everything is amazing, terrific, the kish style is difficult to improve. Just great.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Katherine on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Barbarella is a complete and total trip. It's so funny. Seriously, the people creating it, and rating it were on shrooms. Oh well, the more the marrier!


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Steve on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Hey, I did'nt like Red Jane sitting on the AA gun either, I AM a Viet Nam vet. However, as a disabled vet, and a patriot, my veiw is that I fought for all Americans, those that agreed with the War and those that did not. While I may not agree with Ms. Fonda's extreism I fully and unquestionable agree with her right to exprees her disagreement with American policy. Hey my man, that IS what America is all about. About this movie, I think Jane Fonda was hot, but Anita Pallenberg was hotter.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: pretty pretty ;P on January 02, 2004, 03:19:33 AM
Remaking the movie with Drew Barrymore is a terrible idea not only will they ruin the original but she wont fit the chacter like Jane Fonda.  A movie like this should just be left alone.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: double-D-diehard on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Barbarella is a great movie. I first seen it back in the 80's when a best gal-pal got her hands on a copy (Her brother was stationed in Germany at the time. He got her the Euro version). It's not a film for the mind, but for the body (watch it with a love one, you'll see what I mean).
If you listen to the way Barbarella talks, it sounds like " Dr. Guran Guran" not Dr. Durand Durand.
And of course like many people I got into it because of Duran Duran! Thank God!


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Bug on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I think this movie is where the creators of Living Dead Dolls got their ideas. I shall channel Barbarella's sexual force and take over the world! And I wouldn't throw The Great Tyrant out of bed, either....


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Raejo on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Amazing, Barbarella hit me straight in the lower abdomen, I've seen it this afternoon, and now, seven hours later I'm still laughing my ass of, not to mention the Afrodisian effect (is that correct use of language?)... Oh wow!


Title: Barbarella
Post by: lonesome loon on June 28, 2004, 07:36:14 PM
And this is not the only putrid movie with hanoi jane there also THE BLUEBIRD  and STEEL YARD BLUES and to think that JOHN PHILLIP LAW WOULD STOOP SO LOW? what a fool


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Cyanide Fish on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Back when Ted Turner and Jane Fonda were an item the joke was that you could tell when they had a fight 'cos Ted would show Barbarella on TBS.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Eduardo on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
About the PG rating.
In '68 there were no ratings, it was approved but suggested for mature audiences.
the movie get the re rating (PG) in 1977


Title: Barbarella
Post by: WitchKing on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Absolutely mind-bending.  Though the Barbarella character ultimately proves to be more Hapless Bimbo than Intergalactic Amazon (really, she does scream often and makes many mistakes; Pygar is probably more brave & heroic than her), she is aesthetically pleasing and certainly not meant to be taken very seriously.  The whole film is rather throwaway, but when taken as a head trip, it is a fun ride.  The set design and costumes alone are incredible to behold.  Fonda is more fresh-faced and beguiling than any of today's crop of plastic Femme Bots (can't really picture Drew Barrymore in a remake, or anyone else except maybe Charlize Theron), and John Phillip Law is a vision as Pygar.  A nice companion piece to "Flash Gordon" and "Danger: Diabloik" (an even wilder pop opera also starring Law).  Choice line:  "Decrucify the angel or I'll melt your face!"


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Liz on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I can't even picture a remake, but if they did, I think Linda Cardellini (Scooby Doo Movie, ER) would make a great modern day Barbarella/Jane Fonda. Why they could ever think Drew Barrymore is crazy to me. Linda Cardellini may only be a little too short, but nothing they can't overlook or disillusion us with once she put on the spike heeled boots.


Title: Barbarella
Post by: lump516 on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
The "PG" version of the film has a few minor cuts and places a few filters over Ms. Fonda's chesticular region to reduce the naughtiness quotient a bit.  Unfortunately, it doesn't come equipped with a coherent plot, which would have been nice.  The main source of amusement are the wild costumes, courtesy of Jacques Fonteray and fashion designer Paco Rabanne (in the days when he was actually making clothes, not just licensing smelly aftershave), and some very amusing character turns by Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, and particularly David Hemmings as Dildano, who "has the pills" and may be the most incompetent revolutionary in history (in the end, The Great Tryant who rules everything overthrows herself and flies off with Barbarella and her favorite Flying Freak).  The script has some great bits of comic dialogue and Joan Greenwood purrs amusingly as the voice of The Great Tyrant.  It all looks great thanks to Claude Renoir's lovely photography and the music isn't THAT bad . . .


Title: Barbarella
Post by: pale_vixen on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I personally have been The Great Tyrant for Halloween...pretty, pretty, pretty...
the organ-like (tee hee) machine Duran Duran uses on Barbarella, which she ultimately destroys, is called the Orgasmatron...any mechanics out there wanna build one?...I'll test drive it for you


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Vess on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I tried watching this "film" a few days ago. I gave up after almost 30 minutes. It makes Uwe Boll's celluloid vomit seem almost coherent. It could, however, find use as a prison torture device, alongside McGinty Nichols's "Charlie's Angels".


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Evan on January 25, 2006, 12:26:45 PM
This film was a classic at the time


Title: Barbarella
Post by: Kerry on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I love this movie, I have it on disc and love to pop it on when my gal pals come over for a few drinks.  I nearly pee'd my pants laughing once watching my girlfriend have apopolexy over the man in the bong! there's nothing funnier than watching a Cosmo-Magazine-poster-child (I luv her anyway)snort a strawberry daquiri out her nose!

Long live Barbarella! /cheer


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: mike on January 21, 2007, 10:55:08 PM
my favorite movie of all time...hey its 1968...the sets were great ,costumes even better...fun story line..my mother actually took me to see this...she had no idea..lol. i even through a barbarella party in my basement for my 15th birthday party...i even had extra plastic capes and things to wear for the friends that didnt have a clue...a real classic. ive seen it over a hundred times and keeps getting better.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: garv on January 23, 2007, 12:10:52 AM
I'd like to personally thank Jane Fonda for helping me through puberty.

By the way, I recently saw Vadim's The Game is Over.  If anything, Jane looked even yummier in that one.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: raj on January 23, 2007, 09:56:57 AM
Got the dvd, one of my all time favs.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: pygar on April 05, 2007, 08:19:55 PM
i read Jane Fonda has got the rights on the novel and there's talk of a remake!......superb :thumbup:

)o+


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: dean on April 05, 2007, 08:52:15 PM

One of the best movie soundtracks ever...


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Torgo on April 05, 2007, 10:11:50 PM
The current PG rated DVD is actually the complete uncut, uncensored version of the film.

Jane Fonda has never looked hotter.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Alain on April 09, 2007, 05:17:49 AM
I am 99% sure that the villian's name in the movie is actually Durand Durand.  Duran Duran DID take their name from this film (they have been quoted numerous times over the years stating this) but left off the extra d's.

I will have to go home and check the credits to be 100% postive about the name, but just wanted to make this mention!






The real name is Durand Durand ( Durand being a french last name ) and has nothin to do with the band Duran duran


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on April 15, 2007, 02:01:46 PM
I just thought I add that the scriptwriters for the most recent "Casino Royale" are working on a script for a remake of "Barbarella." To be out sometime next year.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Torgo on October 18, 2007, 10:29:15 PM
I just thought I add that the scriptwriters for the most recent "Casino Royale" are working on a script for a remake of "Barbarella." To be out sometime next year.

I had heard that Robert Rodriguez was involved in directing the remake of Barbarella.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Sara on January 05, 2008, 02:13:53 PM
My friend insisted I watch this movie, and as terrible as it was it was entertaining. The director wanted to make a sexy movie, but forgot that most people are not turned on by giant pianos. I think the last line of the film made it for me, combining plot holes, deus ex machina, hippiness, and a Broadway-style musical cue without the Broadway-style musical quality.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: chris conley on January 10, 2008, 10:47:43 PM
The guy who played pygar is john philip law who is recongnizable  to you mst3k fans as  diabolik and kalagan from space mutiny the first was a semi good movie the next was a cheesey mess.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Cut 'n' Paste on June 23, 2008, 12:47:53 AM
Without a doubt, this is one of the most colourful movies ever.
There is an entire generation of men (now middle-aged) for whom the names "Jane Fonda" and "Barbarella" are synonymous, despite the fact that she has spent the rest of her career trying to live it down.

My estimate of budget allocations:
Ms Fonda's wardrobe/makeup : 40%
Everyone else's wardrobe : 30%
Sets : 20%
Special effects : 8%
Scripts, music and extras : 1.8%
Everything else that goes into making a film : 0.2%

Verdict : I still love this film, just for its total lack of any serious content.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: CheezeFlixz on June 29, 2008, 12:12:04 AM
Frankly I can't stand Jane Fonda, but she's smokin' hot in this film and therefore I have it.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: HarlotBug3 on August 01, 2008, 02:06:45 PM
I've been thinking about renting this movie my entire life, sitting there next to all the other sci-fi movies rather than in the comedy section where it belongs.

I'm glad I waited till I was a young adult, because as much as I stressed my mother with my movie tastes, this one might have broken her. Who could explain to a child, even a teenager, that this movie was not just a product of someone's mind, but of the times they lived in?

I reject nostalgia, but Barbarella makes me envy those who saw it in its time, no matter how stoned or disgusted they were.

It must be seen and must be seen to be believed, if even then.

   


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: FLU-BIRD on December 22, 2008, 11:27:31 PM
Im not a HANOI JANE fan she commited treason but as for those carniverous parakeets GO GET EM BY LITTLE FEATHERED BROTHERS KILL,KILL,KILL


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Steve on January 10, 2009, 02:33:45 PM
Is this a movie review site, or a political site?  Come on people!  How long are you going to dwell on Jane Fonda's self-admitted mistake in the 1960's?  Comment after comment after comment . . . . . geeze!  Get a life.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Andrew on January 10, 2009, 06:16:07 PM
Is this a movie review site, or a political site?  Come on people!  How long are you going to dwell on Jane Fonda's self-admitted mistake in the 1960's?  Comment after comment after comment . . . . . geeze!  Get a life.

This is a movie review site.  I count 5 out of 67 comments that mention what went on with Jane Fonda and her trip to North Vietnam.  They are pretty evenly spread out.  Did I miss quite a few, or are you making a mountain out of a molehill?


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: SeanK. on September 19, 2009, 06:06:23 PM
The character's name is actually Durand Durand.  lol


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Angantyrthe on June 28, 2010, 07:01:41 AM
Americans are amusing creatures!

"Since then I have come to learn that [Hanoi]Jane Fonda is a traitor to America due to her actions during the Viet Nam war."

So, to avoid being a traitor she should have supported a war she didn't believe in? The North Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh had popular support from the majority of people in Vietnam and the Viet Cong were not soldiers from North Vietnam, anyway, but resistance fighters in the south.

The US government supported the side that oppressed the locals greatly, pandered to French colonialism and rejoiced in the suffering of the Buddhist (majority religion, unlike the Christian South Vietnamese government). The self immolation of Thích Quảng Đức, a monk, was a reaction to the persecution of Buddhists under Ngo Dinh Diem's regime.

Ngo Dinh Nhu, first lady of South Vietnam, made a statement saying she would ''clap hands at seeing another Buddhist barbecue''. The flying of Buddhist flags in celebrations of the Buddha's birth (vesak) was outlawed despite the fact Catholics in the country were allowed to fly Vatican flags at every major event.

Crowds of Buddhists protested peacefully against the discrimination and got grenades thrown at them for their troubles.

So, your government a disgusting side in that war. I would have happily been a traitor than support a government that backs Christian tyrants, sorry.

And, anyway, what does the politics of Jane Fonda have to do with a B-Movie. It is irrelevant.





Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Angantyr on June 28, 2010, 07:10:19 AM
Yes, in the film the villain is Durand Durand not Duran Duran but, as it is a French name, it is pronounced as ''Duran Duran''. It would be pronounced the same as that even if it was Durant Durant, infact.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Gluton on July 01, 2010, 11:27:30 AM
Rated PG on the dvd artwork but was confirmed on another review site that the dvd contains the original M version of the film. Apparently it was censored in '77. So just a typo on their part.


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Xaneth on October 23, 2011, 09:09:51 PM
I saw this when it hit VHS, in fact, it was the first VHS rental I ever made!  Fonda was hot in this one...


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: FatFreddysCat on July 24, 2012, 11:43:32 PM
Just watched this flick for the first time after wanting to see it for many years aaaaand... it's an utter mess. But boy, Jane Fonda looked pretty freakin' hot.

I guess the remake that was spoken of earlier in this thread never came to pass, too bad. I'd heard at one time that Robert Rodriguez wanted Rose McGowan to play Barbarella (this was shortly after they'd worked together on "Planet Terror.") Now that would've been SMOKIN'!!


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 25, 2012, 08:25:22 AM
Just recently watched this again after many, many years.  It was great kitsch but not as good as I remembered---I think most of the effect has to do with staring at the screen with utter disbelief as to what's going on. Since I knew the plot I found myself paying a lot more attention this time around to the crazy sets and costumes. Shag carpeting in a spaceship, oh my!


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: FatFreddysCat on July 25, 2012, 02:38:49 PM
Shag carpeting in a spaceship, oh my!

Austin Powers would've been right at home, eh? :D


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: Trevor on February 19, 2014, 05:27:18 AM
I believe this was banned in South Africa: looking at it today, I can't imagine why.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Barbarella
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on May 17, 2014, 04:54:56 PM
I believe this was banned in South Africa: looking at it today, I can't imagine why.  :teddyr:

I can't either, but how about the magazine serial (1962) and the book adaptation (1964), were they banned, too?

"I demand a remake."
Reading the original comic strip upon which this film was based, or, at least, the 1st volume, while out of order, one can see what elements were taken to make this film. But, a more faithful adaptation of the original comic strip would also make a good film. There's this scene in the original comic strip, which I don't believe was in the film, for example . . .

"Faking out a guard."
Barbarella and her BFF have to re-enter Barbarella's crashed spaceship to retrieve the weapons required by the rebels, but there's a guard. So, to distract him, Barbarella undresses, and then when he gets close enough to see what is going on, they grab him, and then in a series of sexual gymnastics, they leave him naked and virtually comatose, and so physically weakened, he can't get off the ground. This scene works, but . . .

"A more callow character"
It'd work better (i.e. "Private Lessons,") be more believable (i.e. "L'Anticristo,") and more credible (i.e. "Lair of the White Worm,") if the character was far younger and far less experienced than the character seen in the original comic strip.

But, how low can you go, ere you lose your audience?
19? 18? 17? 16? 15?

The filmmakers did lower the ages of two of the characters in the original comic strip. If they are 8 in the film, then they are 18 in the original comic strip or what seems to be the international age of majority in most works of fiction.

"It's reputation precedes it."
Maybe it's France
or maybe it's the 1st half of the '60's
or for some other reason, but . . .?
I was surprised at how straight-laced the original comic strip was.
Except for some . . .
nudity,
talk of spanking, which we never see,
and a hint of a "menage a trois," in the last panel of the 1st volume of the original comic strip,
there's nothing really kinky about it. Which maybe why . . .

"Much to my surprise!"
You couldn't do it in 1968 or the year of the film, but there is talk of doing it as a TV series, as of last year or 2013, it was still being written without any casting decisions being made. The only question is what network here in the U.S. would it be seen on, as it would be appropriate for most of the TV channels, since it is no more risque than "Game of Thrones" or many of the shows now on TV.

And, oh yes, the film was turned into a stage musical in 2004.