Deadly Weapons (1974)

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   nbats

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   https://adult.noodlemagazine.com/watch/-182468888_456240918 1 year 10 months ago
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   andype

   No, this "movie" is not so bad it's good, this is (whatever it is) just terrible bad. 1 week 5 days ago
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   Siskoid

   A friend of mine had a copy of Deadly Weapons with Chesty Morgan that he liked to show at parties, and I remember my original take-away was that it was ridiculously bad, and that I felt sorry for Chesty who seemed to ill-at-ease in front of the camera. Deadly Weapons remained an inside joke in my group for years thereafter, but watching it with fresh eyes, there's a lot more to it than I remembered. First of all, yes, Chesty Morgan is rather wooden, often glances at the camera, is one of the characters whose voice is undoubtedly voiced by someone else. She's not alone, and at least Chesty's character is often SUPPOSED to be uncomfortable. Acting is the weakest thing in this sexploitation cult classic, and if the editing is weird and choppy at times, it's largely because legendary director Doris Wishman is trying to cover up that acting. Otherwise, the camera is pretty dynamic, and between that, the funky music and the lurid plot - about a woman who avenges her fiance by smothering gangsters with her breasts - sit comfortably on the same shelf as many of the more gonzo blacksploitation films of the early 70s. Where I think the film is worth a second look (beyond the fact that it's so bad it's good) is in its subversive lack of male gaze despite its surface-level nudiness. Consider: Chesty is of a certain age and doesn't correspond to the usual body types seen in nudie films. None of the sexual situations really resolve into sex per se, with a lot of over-the-clothes stuff for the other girl in the movie, and Chesty having more pleasure in the tub and orgasmically killing dudes than with her partner. The awkward burlesque dance number is half-shot via a distorting mirror to enhance Chesty's anxiety. And when men see her bust size, they go boing like cartoon characters - a comment on male lasciviousness from Wishman? Wishman herself, in an interview for the Shlock documentary, said she doesn't think you can tell her movies were made by a woman, and perhaps she's right. But if you KNOW, then maybe it changes how you understand them. 1 year 1 month ago

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