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Barb Wire (1996)
« on: January 31, 2014, 10:13:10 pm »
Barb Wire
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Barb Wire is without a doubt one of the worst movies ever made. This is essentially Casablanca with Boobs, Guns and Explosions. Unfortunately, it doesn't help hide such a weak ass plot, or what is thinly veiled as one. The obvious reason why I bought the Unrated Version back when this first came out shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. As bad as the movie is, Pamela Anderson has never looked better. But beyond the eye candy appeal, it offers nothing much else. The writing, especially the dialogue is amateurish at best. Embarrassing. I would NEVER want to put my name on anything as bad as this. Skip this turd if you're looking for something entertaining. Rent if you want to see Pam doing her 'Rain Dance' that opens up the movie, which is the only reason why I'm giving this 1 1/2 Stars out of 5. It's been 12 years since I last saw this, now I remember why I never went back to it until tonight. eBay, here I come.
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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2014, 10:13:44 pm »
Barb Wire DVD Screencaps

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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2014, 11:46:43 pm »
There was a great How Did This Get Made about this one (which you should listen to, it's a scream), and how shockingly weird it was that for a movie with Pamela Anderson as the star, she never gets naked or screws or anything.  What was the point, then?

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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2014, 11:54:06 pm »
She's naked in 2 scenes: Rain Dance and Bath. The character that she plays really doesn't lend itself to banging anyone without it screaming gratuitous. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, the entire movie is gratuitous in the way she is dressed. But you get the idea of what I'm pointing out. As for why it's so tame, given who the 'star' is in this one, my guess is that they wanted to dip their toes in the Andy Sidaris waters, but "class it up" somewhat. Ironically enough, pick any Sidaris flick and you have a more entertaining movie in spite of the p*ss-poor production value by comparison to the high cost of what's on screen for Barb Wire.
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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2014, 12:05:16 am »
Yeah, but... outside of a shadow or something I don't think we even see anything, which is real weird b/c she's shown it all in other films and photo shoots and so on.  That HDTGM threw out the idea of a naked gunfight and I'm like "yeah, why the heck didn't we have THAT?"

Or failing that, remember that boob torture thingie from the first act?  How did they come up with that design and NOT think "shouldn't we put this on the lead actress who's known for having a giant chest?"

OR if they were so insistent about dressing her as a dominatrix all the time, why not have that be a sequence... remember that whip and sword fight they were gonna do in Indiana Jones?  Why not put that in there?  What other movie could get away with that?

And you mentioned the dancing at the beginning, that could have come back in some way, like she's gotta do a dance for the bad guys and starts laying 'em to waste, sort of like Planet Terror?
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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2014, 07:08:17 am »
Wasn't this based on a graphic comic (right term?). I thought the movie, especially the look was to emulate the book/comic.

Thus some things don't translate well to the screen.
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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2014, 07:49:56 am »
This is a case when a Comic Book should STAY as a Comic Book.
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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2014, 10:31:15 am »
They were keen on this becoming a franchise like The Mask, I understand.

When I was going on about the near-nudity, THAT reminded me of a comic book, you know, not just the way it treats the female main character but also just how everything's hidden right out of frame or just so by a pose or trick of the light.... just like comic books.

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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2014, 10:49:44 am »
With the exception of the opening scene, I'm sure that Pam wanted to tone down the nudity so that she would be taken as a "serious" actress and not have to rely on her 'assets'. Since I never saw the movie in the theater, I would assume that the Unrated Version is that a good chunk of the Rain Dance was added back into the overlong sequence. It's a fairly long opening, about 4 minutes to cover the entire dureation of the song 'Word Up!' . As for the rest of her  "n u d e"  scenes in the movie, they are as you said 'hidden in shadows', be it soap suds or a quick cutaway and these little tricks to hide everything just screams out that the opening was indeed extended for the DVD release. They just don't match up. She goes from "look at me in all my wet glory" to "blink and you'll miss what I got".
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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2014, 10:53:16 am »
One thing I forgot to mention, I'd actually be open to a reboot if they made it dark and dirty and dangerous. Give us a Mad Max world with a female lead and don't cheese it up as they did in this version. Write and kick-ass script and give us a good plot with characters we can connect with. There's nothing wrong with the character of Barb Wire, the problem was in the execution of everything from writing, tone, style, actors and directing.
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Re: Barb Wire (1996)
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2014, 10:57:50 am »
This was NOT the movie to take on if she wanted to be taken seriously as an actress, this was the one where she she should have embraced what people thought about her and messed with their expectations.

They were talking about maybe rebooting it in HDTGM and I'm sure eventually they'll come around to it (though I don't know who the next Pam Anderson is, and maybe it's a good thing for mankind and womankind if there isn't one)... I'm sure now you could get away with all kinds of crazy nonsense.  It might do better if they uncoupled the heavy sexual element from it.  Right now I can picture it being a low-budget actioner with Zoe Bell as Barb (or "Bob" I guess, with her accent).

I keep thinking about the rain dance b/c there's no water-centric dance in my stripper script, mostly because of this movie (it's such an unhealthy amount of water, even though I like the fact that the waiters had to wear slickers) and obviously Flashdance.  Don't wanna invite comparisons.
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