2.0 out of 5 stars
The Lost Art of Exploitation Filmmaking, April 11 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: Battle Queen 2020 (DVD)
First, I love Julie Strain but there comes a time to hang up the thong, and give the next breast enhanced Amazon a break to star in some grade Z action flick. Jule was around 40 when this film was released. Still my favorite 6' plus B queen but even with six pounds of make-up on her face - well, I'll be kind. Also, the cinematographer really shot her in an unflattering way. She seems enormous and awkward, rather than sexy and powerful.
The film itself is just terrible, borderline unwatchable. Make sure the remote is nearby for that 4X ff button. My problem with this type of film is, why not just give the audience what they want? Would it really be that hard to shoot and action flick with Julie Strain as she is portrayed on the cover art of the DVD? (...) Why do these films ->always<- have to be so boring, bad, unimaginative, and uninspired?
Exploitation films used to be fun - many were down right good! And they were shot with lower budgets and without the technology available to filmmakers today. They also were more constrained in terms of nudity and explicitness. There are also many more markets for exploitation films - foreign, DVD, etc. to make back their investment. I don't get it.
Where are the TALENTED exploitation filmmakers of this generation? (...)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
So bad it's Great, Feb 5 2004
This review is from: Battle Queen 2020 (DVD)
Well, well, well. Bad plot:check, Lots of senseless nudity:check, Horrible acting:check, Bad fights:check, Julie Strain: roger we are ready to move out. This may sound like a horrible movie and it is but the dialogue is great. Not great as in good but great as in "I can't act". The facial expressions and sheer lack of talent (except Julie) are priceless. Seeing an actor start to laugh as he says his lines with pride is classic in my book. The look on almost everyones face makes it seem like they are lost and unsure of what they are doing. To see people behave in this way is just funny. Kinda like real life.(You do meet some charactors out there.)
But in all seriousness, If you want to relax and watch something thats not complicated then this is about as bad as it gets.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
brain freez, Mar 9 2003
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This review is from: Battle Queen 2020 (DVD)
I love Julie Strain, because she fun to watch and has a great body for a B film actress.This film is not the best production it's very sloppy looking and that's because it's very low buget.Julie Strain is not a very good actress she has a limit to what she can do.The film it self don't have a plot that's meaning full, the action in the film is totaly not there no body tries to write a good scipt no one tries to put a good action scene in this damm film .If you are going to buy this on 'DVD" just buy it for the great body of Julie Strain.
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