Joseph M
The greatest film of all time.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
08/19/23
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StephenPaul C
The greatest 01 hour: and 24 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
05/18/23
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Stefano L
I agree with John Waters: "This is the greatest motion picture ever made!!"
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
05/18/23
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Tom K
I don't think there has been a film since that has featured a female lead in the way Tura is here. A simple story but what a powerful character.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/16/23
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William L
Pure exploitative film, raw fetishism of everything that America considered salaciously taboo in the mid-20th century; powerful women in form-fitting outfits, gratuitous violence, fast cars, and free sex. It's visceral, gaudy, and often silly, but that doesn't necessarily make it worthless. It's pulp in a way that fully embraces the genre identity, there's not an ounce of pretension or the sense that it's masquerading as something 'legitimate' that happens to embrace racy elements. Though I have my doubts that it was done to appeal to socially conscious moviegoers by making a powerful statement on gender identity, Russ Meyer certainly knew exactly what he was doing by playing against norms, framing his female characters in powerful positions and intentionally conflating male and female roles.
If Douglas Sirk made soap operas into social commentaries, then Meyer did the same with exploitation films. Meyer just had more fun with it. (3.5/5)
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
07/13/21
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence, the word and the act. While violence cloaks itself in a plethora of disguises, its favorite mantle still remains… sex. Violence devours all it touches, its voracious appetite rarely fulfilled. Yet violence doesn't only destroy, it creates and molds as well. Let's examine closely then this dangerously evil creation, this new breed encased and contained within the supple skin of woman. The softness is there, the unmistakable smell of female, the surface shiny and silken, the body yielding yet wanton. But a word of caution: handle with care and don't drop your guard. This rapacious new breed prowls both alone and in packs, operating at any level, any time, anywhere, and with anybody. Who are they? One might be your secretary, your doctor's receptionist… or a dancer in a go-go club!"
You know how I always say, "They could have stopped making movies after this?" This is the movie at the center of my argument. I really don't know how any movie gets any better than this, unless Russ Meyer is directing it.
The three worst women you've ever met — and also the finest — finish their dance routines at a club and then head out to the California desert where they race their car and verbally abuse one another. They are Billie (Laurie Williams), Rosie (Haji) and Varla (Tura Satana, perhaps the finest thing Satan ever made for the Lord). They follow that up by sizing up the guy mansplaining things to his girl and snap his neck before drugging his woman, Linda (Susan Bernard).
Stopping to fill up, they learn that a wheelchair-bound man and his feebleminded son are literally sitting on a treasure. So they do what you or I would do — manipulate, manhandled and murder everyone in their way.
Originally known as The Leather Girls and then The Mankillers, this isn't a movie as much as a religion to me. No less a cultural giant as John Waters said, "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is, beyond a doubt, the best movie ever made. It is possibly better than any film that will be made in the future."
Tura Satana is the kind of woman that if she wasn't born, we would have created her and made her into a goddess. There have been many pretenders to her throne, but none will ever ascend it.
Seriously, I wore the t-shirt of this movie for most of the 90s before it fell apart. If you dislike this movie, we can never, ever be friends.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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