My apologies Dio---I just posted this under your FF Links; meant for it to go here.
On the CWWS (under Thinking, I believe it was) Barb did an excellent analysis of the pulse pounding battle between two women. The movie from which it comes is apparently obscure but nonetheless I wondered if anyone had ever seen a clip from this that one could access. Or has anyone out there seen the whole movie and would indulge us with a commentary?
I saw the movie when it was out on video in the 80's. I of course got it because on the video jacket it showed the girls choking each other while wrestling. Back then that was a big deal so an immediate rental for me.
Barb did a great job in reviewing the match. I thought it would have been very good but was ruined because like most of the wrestling producers seem to do, they filmed much of it too fukking close instead of showing the full bodies. What the hell is it with many of these cameramen who immediately zoom in on the shoulders and side of the heads when the girls are all wrapped up together in a nice, sexy hold ? I swear they do it just to piss us the fukk off.
The cameramen of most wrestling producers should watch and study some VSL matches to learn the right way to film girls wrestling.
Don't get me started on the incompetent buffoons calling themselves "producers". My theory is simple: they are stupid people. I'm not talking just regular run of the mill dolts that you might encounter in everyday life, I mean really stupid, far below "normal" IQ. Of course this stupidity manifests itself in everything they do, including unfortunately for us, the production of porn. Case in point: check some of the absolutely retarded ideas that come from the atrophied brain of that jerk who runs Ultimate Surrender. The dunce frequently makes comments on his message boards which give a fascinating insight into just how low the stupidity level can go. One of his theories: the customer is always wrong. Heheh. Another one is : he starts off novices wrestling the best so they will "learn something" and "gain experience". Presumably this halfwit would toss an amateur boxer in the ring with Muhammed Ali to "gain the experience" of being knocked out.
That is why, when we are lucky enough to come across a producer with normal intelligence, one who is able to use technology to its potential and come up with a decent product like VSL "Marty" he looks like a genius by comparison to the rest of the dunces on parade.
If you want to look skinny, hang around fat people. If you want to look like a genius, hang around morons, or porn producers.
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Oh yah, Seven Ridiculous Gladiators. Terrible, awful movie, a fast forward special that is not worth buying for 30 seconds worth of posed bikini wrestling. Lou Ferrigno makes Schwartzenegger look like a talented actor. Sybil Danning looks glorious as usual but never wrestles anyone...she just does a few badly choreographed sword fights and a few fake karate moves, which I despise. Booooring.
Russ Meyer did this all the time as well - in 'Common Law Cabin' he spent the whole movie building up a rivalry between two buxom bikini beauties but they never wrestle/fight on the beach. Go figure?
Has it escaped the notice of these morons that Raquel Welch is quite famous as a 'catfight queen' for the one little scene she did fighting Martine Beswick in fur bikinis in One Million BC? Apparently. It could be done so much better. That's what kills me.
Let me direct a fight scene between Sybil Danning and Sandahl Bergman and everyone will forget all about Raquels effort. Of course, those two are old bags now. Would have to set up a wrestling ring at the Nursing Home for has-been B movie queens.
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Of course, those two are old bags now. Would have to set up a wrestling ring at the Nursing Home for has-been B movie queens
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Blah ha ha ... aint that the truth. One of them goes to bite the other and her detures fall out. All the while they wrestle in their depends undergarments. Oh God the humanity!!!!!!!!!!
You are so correct about Requel being the Catfight Queen, but you failed to mention or possibly remember "Rollerderby Queen". There were a few decent fights which to my surprise lasted more than a minute!!! From there shes like the posterchild for catfights. Shes appeared in afew sitcomes as ofcourse a mean bitch that usually gets into that terrible 10 second fight scene. Or not one at all ...Seinfield ... but I heard the chick who played Elaine was pregnant at the time so I understand (just ****ty timing!)
I don't understand it either. Most every movie that features a catfight in them they ALWAYS preview in the commercials. Aside from sex and nudity scenes it too helps sell a film. A movie loses its element when they have a build up and nothing to show for it. Ofcourse not every senerio requires people to resort to fist-a-cuffs but again its what people really want.
Never seen Seven Mags.... and really don't care to after the review of it.
Hows the greenery in Canada lately? U know what I mean:)~
I'm going to post the fight from Seven Magnificent Gladiators on my site later this week, and then you can judge for yourself. It's better than it's been given credit for so far, in my opinion.
I taped the scene from an airing on a premium cable channel back in the latter 80's. When 7MG was broadcast on non-premium channels, this scene was cut out! Guess it was (AND IS!) considered too shocking for the masses, lol.
BTW, the brunette wrestler was Mindi Miller, her bio and credits (altho 7MG isn't listed among them) are here:
Yeah, I thought it was 'shocking' when I saw it just because I wasn't expecting breast duels and grapevines in a movie for the masses. First viewing I couldn't believe what I was seeing!
I thought it was sexy as hell but that still didn't keep me from cursing out the basterds for the piss poor camera work that cut out most of the enjoyment by shooting too fuking close, which is a never ending problem with most of the *******s the producers stick behind the camera. I think some of these just get whoever will work cheap and just tell these idiots :
" Just try and keep the girls that are wrestling in the frame ... if you can ... but don't go to too much trouble. And if they end up in a real sexy, leglocked tangle, zoom in on their shoulders ... the guys love to see macro shots of shoulders, necks and ear lobes when they're like that."
VSL and Premier were always good and now Ultimate Surrender and Fighting Style know how to do it. Four out of how many ?
I'm not into the 'Round 4' stuff US does but their wrestling is very sexy. Hopefully making the girls wear ugly shoes will stop right there without later adding knee pads and helmuts. I really fell in love with Shannon Kelly ... too bad she ran out of opponents her size
