One great, one terrible
JamesMc
from London
[Highly rated reviewer]
, 28/08/2005
The wild west prooves that sometimes breasts just aren't enough, hard to believe I know, but it's true. Ultra low budget, theres is probably only about 15 minutes of largely silent footage filmed for this movie cut together in a kind of collage to pad it together, repeating each shot several times,especially the close ups of breasts (nothing else though) all held together with a mad little narrative which is not worth explaining. Watch it if you rent this just to see the true meaning of no budget cinema.
Blacksnake is a more interesting picture, and probably as far from kitsch as Meyer ever got. Luckily this is not very far, and his attempt to make a 'serious' movie about slavery is still high camp. This makes it a bit offensive in places, but quite hilarious in others. The blacksnake is the whip, and the plot involves a wicked woman who runs a plantation full of slaves and goes through husbands faster then Joan Collins, although she has a tendancy to kill hers. With a subplot about a slave rebellion to match, probably inspired by roots, this was obviously an attempt by Meyer to enter the mainstream, it bombed, deservedly so, and thankfully he returned to classics about ultravixens. Worth a look for how not to make a socially aware film (Don't have people walking naked down a beach whilst a portentious monolouge explains the moral of the film might be the answer to that one.)
Neither of these should be in the adult section, the first is just T&A stuff, and the second has very little nudity, and is an attempt to make a mainstream movie. First one gets two stars, the second only cos it is funny at times, and the second three, four if you really love kitsch.
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