Monday, December 28, 2009
DOXPLOITATION
Today's movie was the documentary
They call it Ozploitation. It is the amazing growth of "B" movies in Australia parallel with the emergence of a high art film industry. High and Low.
Quentin Tarantino, an expert at these things, takes us through the years of sexploitation, slashploitation and roadploitation films.
It is another world. It is fun to hear some of the "how we did it" stories. It is OK to see the film clips. But a little of a good thing is sometimes better. They go on quite too long.
I enjoyed the sexploitation stuff because all of it was so funny and irreverant. A healthy bawdiness pervades the entire genré. And Barry Humphries, now famous for Dame Edna, was a writer and director for the sex films and Ms. Edna started her career cast as a prudish church lady type amongst all the wild goings on.
"I don't quite care for seeing lesbian sex. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth".
It was also sad fun to see the old or failed Hollywood actors that turned up there to get a part in a film. Broderick Crawford is the saddest. There is Dennis Hopper and Jamie Lee Curtis. George Lazenby, the failed James Bond and many others. Fun to look for.
I cared less for the gore fest part.
The road stuff was just amazing with the talk about high risk stunts and "how we did it" without being killed.
I watched the whole thing although I wanted to speed forward from time to time.
That makes it a 2 out of Netflix5. Just where a "B" picture wants to beeee.
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