Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
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Movie Reviews of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Movie Review: Must-have DVD ... but there is a discrepancy
Summary: 5 Stars
I just got a DVD set from an on-line auction that includes an extra disc (Ebert commentary, and just tons of extras) and miniature lobby cards.
But the Amazon listing above (same ISBN!) has none of these extras listed and is just ONE disc:
Another oddity is that the Amazon listing says it is rated X whereas my DVD has it rated NC-17. The running time of my DVD is the same 109 minutes however so if they cut some scenes to "soften" it for NC-17 they must have put new material in. My guess is that the MPAA now requires DVD releases to adapt the rating equivalent from the new system.
Movie Review: Beyond the Valley of the dolls
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie it's self is okay. When I ordered this film, I was under the impression that this was the original "X" rated version. What I got was the NC-17 version. This is a milder version from what the original film is. When I ordered this film, it said it was the "X" rated one. I also read that they had changed the rating from the x rated to the nc-17 version, but did not mention that the content in the movie was aslo changed. I am somewhat disappointed.
Movie Review: Get real
Summary: 1 Stars
Quite possibly, the stupidest movie ever made.
"well-written"--could have fooled me.
"artfully shot"--I guess it had its moments, especially if you like a lot of very black shadows covering most of what you want to see, but the rest of it is no better than the standards of crappy 60's TV.
"finely edited"--I guess there's an art to cutting a real turkey
Not a campfest, not a comedy, just plain bad. Get some busty dolls and some dopey guys, throw them in a stew, show some teasers of the breasts, add a cheesy, dashed-off script by a guy who suddenly exemplars "do as I say, not as I do" and plan on it becoming a "cult classic." This is not "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"! And you'd have so much more fun watching that one again instead.
Roger Ebert, do you really chuckle when you remember this one claim to movie making fame? I thought your profession was about helping people to not waste their time. You sure wasted mine.
Movie Review: Wow.
Summary: 5 Stars
The Roger Ebert commentary is one of the most educational pieces available out there. (ps. the Newsradio commentary with Brad Grey, Paul Simms, Julie Bean and Warren Littlefield is a close second).Movie Review: So bad its actually good!
Summary: 4 Stars
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is certainly the strangest film to ever have come out of Hollywood and that is saying something!
Made in the 1960s by Russ Meyer, the result is a cacophony of melodrama at its worst, sex for sex sake, comedy albeit unintentional and horror also possibly unintentional!
It is also a musical of sorts, in fact it has some of the best psychedelic rock in it from that era and this was for me what made the movie and stopped from failing completely as a movie.
The plot is simple enough, a rock chick band head for Hollywood, desperate to realise their dreams of fame and stardom, but they fall under the spell of rock Svengali Z-Man Barzell and find themselves drawn into the seedy world of casual sex, drugs and of course rock and roll.
This is ham and cheese at its best and worth watching with your friends, make sure you have a HUGE box of popcorn, lots of soda and sit back and enjoy a film that is so bad it is actually good!