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Dr Acula	Barbarella - Queen of the Galaxy	Lead	[-]
(04/19/08 10:23 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Tags : None Any other fans of this crazy, psychadelic dream of a film? My theatre showed it during the rerelease in the 1990's, and we all fell in love with it. Particularly the women on staff, who all felt like the film was an interesting and feminine take on sci-fi. There was something about Barbarella's unashamed take on sexuality that struck a vibe, as I recall. I dig the sets, and the overall feverdream qualities of the plot, and the campy acting, and the title sequence does bear rewatching! Though I'm still confused about exactly what the difference is between the uncut film print that we showed and the current PG DVD release. I'm also a big fan of the soundtrack, for which I was able to track down a legitimate CD release for a few years back as a UK import. A fun Barbarella Site
timothymayer		#1	[-]
(04/19/08 11:34 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Easily Jane Fonda's best movie. Loved the site too. I also have the soundtrack which is a good way to break the monotony on a long car trip. Saw it at a midnight show in 1979 and when the first cheesy spaceship flew across the screen someone stood up and yelled "Pigs in space!" I do look forward to the remake, just hope they don't botch it. "Of Course. Plan Nine." www.kraftcreation.blogspot.com
carl2000		#2	[-]
(04/19/08 10:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I saw this back in the late 70s when it was rereleased to cash in on the Star Wars craze. I was shocked to see it get away with only a PG rating (not that I'm actually complaining, mind you).
voyttbots		#3	[-]
(04/20/08 4:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I saw it in the theater in the 70s as well. I`m in the didn`t like it group.
Rick		#4	[-]
(04/20/08 5:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I saw it when it was brand-new and was disappointed. There was some fun to be had, but not nearly enough. I did, however, have the lifesize Jane Fonda poster on my wall. And here.... Easily Jane Fonda's best movie. ....we enter the world of hyper-fantasy.
Ba56		#5	[-]
(04/20/08 6:35 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I saw it at a drive-in in the mid-seventies. Made my mother take me, because it was sf, and I'd read about it. I was maybe 14. Oops... Liked it, though at the time I was a little sneery about it as being bad science fiction. Little twerp. Barry M.
timothymayer		#6	[-]
(04/21/08 7:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Ok...ok...I'll make it her SECOND best movie, right behind her Oscar-caliber role in THE CHAPMAN REPORT. "Of Course. Plan Nine." www.kraftcreation.blogspot.com
BijouBob8mm		#7	[-]
(04/22/08 2:29 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	First time I saw it, I was a little disappointed. A few years later I watched it again and, this time, it worked for me. I saw this back in the late 70s when it was rereleased to cash in on the Star Wars craze. I was shocked to see it get away with only a PG rating (not that I'm actually complaining, mind you). Sounds like we would have first seen this about the same time. In my area, it played on a double bill with the R-rated cut of FLESH GORDON. BARBARELLA was given a PG rating for the 1977 reissue (I've heard some cuts were made but, not having seen it on its original run, I don't know if that's true or not.) MAS*H was originally R-rated, but was later reissued as PG. (Running time cut by four minutes.) Last Edited By: BijouBob8mm 04/22/08 2:36 PM. Edited 1 times.
The Batman of Gotham		#8	[-]
(04/22/08 4:56 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Barbarella is one of those movies that I have always wanted to like but.... I just don't. I don't find it clever, or witty, or amusing on any level. It just falls flat. After the opening credits ( where she's changing her clothes in zero gravity ) is over, I'm done with the movie. - GJS
SFfilmfan	Barbarella - Queen of the Galaxy	#9	[-]
(04/22/08 5:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I never found biting dolls very exciting, the sets were wild but unbelievable, and the whole thing lacked the sophistication of the French comic strip, which I had read an English translation of. Obviously, there was an attempt to make a fun camp movie here, but frankly, it just didn't work for me. I was surprised to learn that Charles Griffith worked on the polishing the script, and he reported to me how ridiculous people found Jane Fonda at the time with her talk of going to North Vietnam and stopping the war all on her own (perhaps picturing a starlet in high heels trapsing through a Southeast Asian jungle). Fonda did prove she was more than a sex kitten some years prior, and certainly has shown what a determined woman can do.
Mark Hodgson		#10	[-]
(04/23/08 3:22 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Zoiks, Dr Acula, I didn't think it would be this hard to find fans for Barb! This is my fave movie of the sixties - I love everything about it and have watched it way too much. The lava lamp starfields, in-joke dialogue, OTT costumes are all ingredients that the FLASH GORDON remake never successfully matched. It's also got enough sex, nudity and psychedelics to indulge an exclusively adult audience - a space fantasy that's not for kids. I also can't think of many fantasy adventures that never leave the studio soundstage. It gives it a unique, hand-built, surreal atmosphere. The difference in the ratings has to do with the opening titles - one version has Fonda's nudity covered up by the animated titles during her zero gravity striptease. Black Hole DVD Reviews
BijouBob8mm		#11	[-]
(04/23/08 10:26 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The lava lamp starfields Which BARBARELLA producer Dino De Laurentiis would bring back for his version of FLASH GORDON!
Mark Hodgson		#12	[-]
(04/24/08 2:34 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Any ideas who dubbed Anita Pallenberg or Marcel Marceau for the US version? I also saw a behind the scenes promotional film, and the skyships that attack Pygar and Barbarella are completely different (transparent spheres with Leathermen inside) from the finished film. More late-in-production changes were the scenes with Barbarella and Dildano (the late David Hemmings), which was originally shot with an Italian actor. I'd also love to know which of the many credited scriptwriters wrote the most dialogue. It's priceless. "Screaming? A great deal of melodramatic situations begin with screaming!" The film has been influential in the past, though no one admits to liking it. Luc Besson name-checked BARBARELLA as an influence while directing THE FIFTH ELEMENT. But that could be more to do with the original comic strip being French. Black Hole DVD Reviews
BijouBob8mm		#13	[-]
(04/24/08 11:45 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Any ideas who dubbed Anita Pallenberg or Marcel Marceau for the US version? Sitting here chuckling at the thought of this being read by someone who has not yet seen the film, as I can just hear them asking, "How do you dub a mime?" Always got a kick out of the fact that, in Mel Brooks' SILENT MOVIE, Marcel Marceau was the only one who had any spoken dialogue heard on the soundtrack.
Mike Mariano		#14	[-]
(04/24/08 4:02 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Rick wrote: Easily Jane Fonda's best movie. ....we enter the world of hyper-fantasy. Probably not her best film, but she does look amazing in it. Pretty much at the peak of her 60s, sex-kitten, glamour phase. I can't think of a film she looks sexier in, can you?
RKS		#15	[-]
(04/24/08 5:00 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I thought she was hotter in CAT BALLOU, but this is good too.
LesDaniels		#16	[-]
(04/24/08 10:52 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Everybody's talking about Fonda's strip scene, but I found her dim-bulb act a turn-off (as we used to say back then), and was much more attracted (as usual) to the wicked queen, played with panache by Anita Pallenberg.
BijouBob8mm		#17	[-]
(04/25/08 9:39 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	was much more attracted (as usual) to the wicked queen, played with panache by Anita Pallenberg Have to cast my lot with Les. For years had seen stills of Fonda in her various Barbarella outfits and thought she was quite the eye candy. But, when I finally got to see the film, I came away more impressed by Pallenberg's performance.
Mark Hodgson		#18	[-]
(04/25/08 3:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	BijouBob8mm wrote: was much more attracted (as usual) to the wicked queen, played with panache by Anita Pallenberg Have to cast my lot with Les. For years had seen stills of Fonda in her various Barbarella outfits and thought she was quite the eye candy. But, when I finally got to see the film, I came away more impressed by Pallenberg's performance. But the crux of her wonderful performance is the super-suggestive voice that isn't hers! Black Hole DVD Reviews
BijouBob8mm		#19	[-]
(04/25/08 5:29 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	But the crux of her wonderful performance is the super-suggestive voice that isn't hers! I'll have to watch it with the volume on, next time
LesDaniels		#20	[-]
(04/25/08 10:43 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	>>But the crux of her wonderful performance is the super-suggestive voice that isn't hers!<< Not if you're lookin' it ain't! :) Seriously, I didn't know she was dubbed, but I still maintain she's mighty easy on the eyes, as we used say even before we said "turn-off."

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