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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, we’re starting with Barbarella (1968), one of the most famous 60s slop movies. Jane Fonda stars as a scantily-clad space bounty hunter who hunts down cosmic supervillains for money. She goes to many strange planets and gets into all manner of weird and campy situations, accompanied by a groovy soundtrack and psychedelic set design. Highly influential on a lot of spacey slop to follow, such as the anime Dirty Pair. Be warned that this is pretty much Male Gaze: The Movie, and much of it exists to put Jane Fonda in whatever the director found sexy, though the movie does not depict any actual sex; it is more Maxim than Playboy. The director is Roger Vadim, a Frenchman who specialized in this sort of cheesecakey schlock; this was his biggest hit.

After that is Legally Blonde (2001), a comedy starring Reese Witherspoon as a bombshell whose boyfriend breaks up with her for being too blonde. She pursues him to his law school to win him back, only to discover that she actually likes doing lawyer stuff. Chicks are about to rock. Director is Robert Luketic, who has otherwise made a bunch of junk; this is his magnum opus.

Last is Pokémon the Movie - Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction (2014), for those who are still awake by then. Yep, we’re continuing the saga. We’re into the Kalos (Gen 6, aka X/Y) arc now.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Barbarella: https://letterboxd.com/film/barbarella/
• Legally Blonde: https://letterboxd.com/film/legally-blonde/
• Pokémon the Movie - Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction: https://letterboxd.com/film/pokemon-the-movie-diancie-and-the-cocoon-of-destruction/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Barbarella: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/64731
• Legally Blonde: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/10343
• Pokémon the Movie - Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3918368/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Barbarella:

• Objectification of female characters.
• Nudity.
• Sexual innuendos.
• Striptease.
• Child slavery.
• Drug use.
• Animal cruelty.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Sexual assault: a character is placed inside a machine designed to pleasure them to death.
• Torture.
• Death of child.
• Kidnapping.
• Claustrophobia.
• Flashing lights.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Spaceship crash.
• Blood.
• Gun violence.

CWs for Legally Blonde:

• Domestic violence.
• Misogyny.
• Discrimination against blondes.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Sexual assault: A man touches his student in a lascivious manner without her consent.
• Shaving.
• Broken bones.
• Ableist slurs.
• Death of parent.
• Cheating.
• Razors.
• Bath scene.
• Incarceration.
• Outing of LGBT person.
• Meltdown.
• Eating disorder.
• Screaming.
• Obscene language.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Fat jokes.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Ethnic stereotypes.
• Age gap.
• Sexual innuendos.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Car crash.
• Honking horns.
• Gun violence.

CWs for Pokémon the Movie - Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction:

• Death of child.
• Child endangerment.
• Death of parent.
• Ghosts.
• Animal cruelty.
• Cartoon violence.
• Explosions.
• Existentialism.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Unstable reality.

Links to movies:

• Barbarella: https://tankie.tube/w/w7n3FHsiToKYSQG5VvD6gL
• Legally Blonde: https://tankie.tube/w/6Lk2FmJDMDGwp3aMaSR7og
• Pokémon the Movie - Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction (2014): https://tankie.tube/w/tBC5LJ4CoF3xhGasqY9Db3