Sheena (1984)

[Drunk Monk]

Still amazingly bad but strangely engaging. Shot in Kenya, there's some amazing wildlife and landscapes - a massive flamingo flock taking off serves as the background of many scenes. And the tribe looks authentic. Then there's Tanya, last string angel of Charlie's, the silliest Bond girl (srsly? A villain can sneak up on you in a blimp?) This is the role of her career. Her take on Sheena is so bizarre, but all is forgiven by her spectacular breasts, which are always in shot. There's a lot of big explosions - for real, not cgi. It's all pretty real - no effects, just stunts. I really appreciate old school stunts now, more than ever. I miss big stunts in film.

[cranefly]

I miss big breasts in movies too.  I mean stunts!  I miss big stunts.

Reminds me of when Hatari! (1962) first came out.  Mercilessly panned and considered a terrible, silly vehicle for John Wayne.  (Put the chimpanzee down, Duke.  Git yer swagger back in the saddle.)  But now I see it getting three-and-a-half out of four stars in a lot of places.  It's the African footage.  You just can't get that kind of footage anymore.  I think there's a whole class of movies creeping up towards masterpiece just for their footage.

War movies are another example.  Today's movies made about past wars always feel small, because they don't have all the planes, tanks, heavy artillery, etc. to depict a major engagement.  Back in the day, they were readily available.  True, we can CGI things up to epic scale today, but it always has that artificial look about it.

Maybe eventually we'll get the CGI all ironed out.  Then we can once more do big breasts stunts in movies.