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Barenaked Survivor

Turzman's picture
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2001

"No food, no men, NO CLOTHES."  What a tagline, eh? Well, it served its purpose in my case, offering two tantilizing things; a parody of something I absolutely hate (reality TV), and beautiful, naked women. In a testament to how lame I am, I learned that I expected too much from something that offered so little; Penthouse pets on an island. To my shagrin, I found that I've become so "mature," that a film needs more than just tits on a beach to hold my interest.  How depressing.

In my defense, the film offers a variatable "who's who" from softcore porn and Penthouse pages. Softcore legends Julie K. Smith and Shauna O'Brien head the cast that includes the super-sexy Alexus Winston, Aimee Sweet (who I adore), Aria Giovanni (who I have lusted after for about six years now) and the surprisingly butter-faced Tess Broussard, who I had never heard of before, and with good reason. Who would have thought that tits like those could be overshadowed by such an ugly face? Rounding out our merry cast is Lenny Juliano as Cliff Probate, the doofus in charge of the whole contest thing.  Oh yeah, there's a contest.

In the retarded spirit of Survivor, the girls are supposed to do moronic tasks for points, and of course, there is voting out of the tribe, but the "plot" (HA!) is so mundane and the tasks are so idiotic that the viewer can't help but hope there is an active volcano, a giant gorilla, cannibalistic natives, malaria; something that will just kill these fuckers off. But that never happens.  Instead, we are given ample titties, upon which the viewer says, "Hey look, tits." But they are hardly a saving grace.

This film is hardly what one might call "erotic cinema." So weak compared to other softcore films, Barenaked Survivor barely rates the hard "R", and dangerously toes the PG-13 line. The best part is a scene where Aimee Sweet strips of her panties, graciously and mercifully showing her bush as she's engaged in conversation with Winston.  Yes, conversation.  About lipstick.  The film's promise of lesbian scenes are reduced to some watered down, soft petting and kissing.  In a word, unsexy. Nobody thought to bring dildos to the island, I guess.  Oh bother.

I cannot recommend this film at all.  Unless you are a hopeless, infatuated fanatic of one of the girls, there's nothing here for you.  To summarize, I'd like to quote Grey from Ezequiel's On a Dark and Stormy Night, where he so eloquently states, "What's the big deal?  It's just a pair of tits."  And how, brother.

Average: 10 (2 votes)
Ezequiel's picture

I WANT TO SEE THIS FLICK!

I want to reveiw this film. Over and over and over and over.

haha

EZEQUIEL

FableForge's picture

I hate softcore

 
I always feel cheated with softcore. I want either R-Rating, or full XXX-Rating, but nothing in between. I mean, it has to do with what the movie is for. If the movie is trying to tell me a story, then any kind of XXX stuff just gets in the way and obstructs it, result: bad story. But if the filmmaker has no pretensions about being a story teller and just wants to capitalize on boobies, then that's valid too, but then go all the way and dont apologize. Softcore just feels half-assed (no pun intended, or do I?) I can't for the life of me figure what its target audience is. Half the people will leave feeling it was too much, and half the people will leave feeling it was too little.

Anyway, that's my rant against the genre, nothing much to do with this particular film :) 

Corollary: is it even possible to deliver a good, cinematic, film-worthy story, with a XXX rating? That may tear the fabric of space-time if it ever happens.  

P.S. Cool Review Turz, i think we agree! 

Turzman's picture

XXX and Story ??? You got it-

FableForge wrote:

Corollary: is it even possible to deliver a good, cinematic, film-worthy story, with a XXX rating? That may tear the fabric of space-time if it ever happens. 

See 1979's Caligula. A Penthouse production written by Gore Vidal and directed by Bob Guccione and Tinto Brass.  It stars Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole and Sir John Gielgud.  To this day, it's still the most expensive film ever to receive an XXX rating.

Yes, Ezequiel.  In adjusted dollars, it still had a higher budget than Joone's Pirates.

"Baffling the critics since 1971."

BigSugar's picture

Hard To Handle

Dude, that fuckin' movie's an endurance test.  Three hours of
flick for fifteen minutes of porn.  And the shit where ten guys
jerk off in a bowl and they smear it on that ugly broad, that sent me
to john to puke.  God help you if this flick gets you off. 

 

 

 

If it's just ridiculous, it's bad.

IF IT IS RRIIIDDDIICCUUULLOOUUSS, then it's okay.

BigSugar's picture

Twice As Hard

The only descent softcore came out of Europe in the '70s.  Nice
'n' hairy, softcore, the at good shit before they started putting fake
tits on everything.  Not that there's a damn thin wrong in the
world with fake tits, but you get a little more variety out of the
deal.  

 

 

If it's just ridiculous, it's bad.

IF IT IS RRIIIDDDIICCUUULLOOUUSS, then it's okay.

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