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Matter Of Fact, Don't Even Bother Renting This One!
( Or What NOT To Watch On DVD Tonight! )
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Last night we finished watching another movie on DVD, which when we added it to our eBay 'Reviews', put us up to 367 total reviews! Yes, since our sales niche is "comic book, sci-fi and pop culture related", we do have a lot of comic book movies or books on comics reviewed. BUT we also have reviews on 'chick flicks' and dramas as Tina tries to balance out the 'action movies' that we watch with other movies! AND I personally loved viewing 'Notes On A Scandal' recently featuring Cate Blanchett ! So just click on the links above with the white colors to be taken to our reviews on DVDs, VHS, CDs and Books for what should be a pleasurable viewing or reading night! Thanks for taking the time to read this, and feel free to post your comment below or on the review that we posted!  You can check out our Reviews on DVDs, Books & Movies. Then you can Vote YES or NO on whether they were 'helpful' for you...just click on the 'easy button' being held by yours truly above to be taken to our 360+ Reviews ! Michael
  Note From Make It So Marketing: Each comic book or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale! We attend several comic conventions during the year to replenish our inventory for resale! | Don't Trust A Black Scorpion!
As part of our eBay Blogs we are watching all the movies based on comic books or comic strips etc to see if they are entertaining or even watchable.... This is a terrible 'B Movie' !! I continued to watch it till the end for our blog report, but Tina pulled out her book and read that until the end of the movie. Every so often she would make a wisecrack about a scene that had just ended in her 'Jersey Girl' way of talking. Tina had liked Joan Severance in her role on the TV Show 'Wiseguy'. She thought that this movie wasted her talents! I informed her that Joan had gone on to do a sequel as Roger Corman has boasted that none of his movies had ever lost money so someone must have liked the first movie!! Tina said that was because none of the actors could act in this movie and that Roger saved a lot of money by hiring these actors! I would tend to agree with that statement! The movie does feature a sexy Joan Severance in the lead role of the Black Scorpion. The Black Scorpion is based on a comic book heroine. I have not read any of the Black Scorpion comics, and after this film.... well they won't be on the top of my list to find at the SDCC later this month!! This film was advertised to be a Roger Corman erotic thriller. (The Movie is rated 'R'.) It was not erotic, basically it was 'gratious sex scenes' and definitely not a thriller. There was no suspense at all. Funny thing is, I could see scenes in this movie that looked so similar in the later film 'Catwoman' starring Halle Berry. Especially between Black Scorpion and her alter ego's boyfriend when Black Scorpion seduces the boyfriend. However Catwoman (Halle Berry) was much better at that! Also the movie is stated to be about "a sexy undercover cop turns into a one-woman vigilante squad--Black Scorpion--following the murder of her father". Well, Joan is sexy looking and the Black Scorpion costume accentuates her great looks, a little too much for Tina! The fight scenes are not realistic, of course this is a mid 1990's film, and a Roger Corman film, so that can be understood. I found the transformation of Darcy's (the alter ego of Black Scorpion) orange Corvette into the Scorpion-mobile to be cool, but Tina thought it was laughable. There were some other scenes in this movie that reminded Tina of the hoky-ness of the 1966 Batman TV series. However this movie was not made for laughs so it missed the mark with Tina! One last point, that of the villain. His origin was OK, but the costume was so bad... it was so bad it reminded me how bad the Green Goblin's costume was in the Spider-Man I movie. Due to the gratitous sex scenes, the poor plotline, and the unrealistic fight scenes we will not be viewing the sequel to this movie. Tina refuses!! LOL, Michael (and Tina) |
Posted by makeitsomarketing
at 7:19 AM PDT
Updated: Monday, July 9, 2007 5:47 AM PDT
