Michael Ledo
Michael (Michael Blakney) wants to make movies. He is making a film with on again/off again girlfriend when he meets Marlene (Marlene Selsman) whose dad is a producer. It is almost a match made in heaven as her dad allows Michael to make a film, with the catch being it has to be a nudie.The film has commercial and news breaks such as "Groove Tube." It even spoofs some things from the 70's combining a spoof of "The Exorcist" and the Tidy Bowl man. The concept was poorly executed and horribly written. There are times when the mike shows up on screen (lower left).Really not worth watching.Parental guide: No f-bombs. Ample full frontal nudity, nude girls on skateboards, nude girls on motorcycles, nude girl in a lizard costume...I think you get the idea.
daniel-mannouch
A few good laughs to be found which i was not expecting. Riding off the waves made by The Groove Tube and the Kentucky Fried Movie, Boogie Vision is a decent satire concerning the exploitation film racket of the 60's/70's directed by James Bryan whose filmography is notoriously hard to track down, but what's life without a few challenges? Still trying to find Lady Street Fighter and Dirtiest Game in The World at agreeable prices. I won't hold my breath.It's not as mad or rough-shot as i expected. This is no Executioner Part II thank god, but it has still got problems, most of them budgetary. Still, it's a fascinating contemporary reflection upon a fascinating time in film-making.
Michael_Elliott
Boogievision (1977) * (out of 4) Michael Laibson plays Mick, a young filmmaker who thinks he has gotten his big break when he learns that his girlfriend's father is a producer. The only problem is that the producer wants a porno movie but the young filmmaker wants to make a science-fiction film.As I go through the films of director James Bryan, I can see why this movie was made. He started off making sexploitation movies before making two porno titles with Rene Bond. I'm going to guess that he wasn't overly interested in making the porn movies but he had bills to pay and they were jobs. It seems this film here was his way of saying that but sadly the end results really aren't all that good.Again, I can see what Bryan was going for here but it just doesn't work because the satire is just poorly written and nothing here is overly funny. Another problem with this film is the fact that its 80-minute running time is really dragged out to the point where you're bored out of your mind before you hit the half-way point. The film is edited in a fairly strange way and add in the boredom and you can quickly lose track of where the plot it.There's a little bit of nudity but certainly not enough to please sexploitation fans. This one here is basically just for those who want to check out everything the director has done in his career.
Alan Smithee
I bought this because I've been a fan of "The Groove Tube" and similar movies like TunnelVision (I have a 35mm print of that!) and Kentucky Fried Movie, and the DVD cover claimed it was of that genre- the title Boogie Vision just about guaranteed it'd be a great movie also. Well, I just watched it and was a bit disappointed- it's more a conventional narrative about the guy making the movie, then a few random things are just thrown in (5-second news updates, a few commercials and a couple promos for phony TV shows) just to pad the running time. The animation at the beginning is pretty cool though and must have cost more money than anything else in the movie.Recommended only if you have to see every movie made in the 70s, or just a fan of bad and/or weird movies in general.
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