Anybody here ever seen Barbarella (1968)? Interesting discussion

[KleinTxHusker]

I may put this on my list of Sci Fi / culturally significant movies to see...

MSN

Fifty-five years ago, on October 10, 1968, one movie created the quintessential tongue-in-cheek sci-fi romp. But the legacy of this hyperbolic and often ridiculous film is perhaps more serious than you might think. Could a kitschy sci-fi movie from the swinging ‘60s actually have been not-so-secretly brilliant? There’s a case to be made that Barbarella is better than its hyperbolic reputation and that it actually managed to be more progressive than its TV sci-fi cousins like Star Trek.

In the far future, astronavigation expert Barbarella (Jane Fonda) has happily never heard of war, and cannot even imagine why someone would want to build a weapon. Nonetheless, like a hippie outer space James Bond, Barbarella gets an unexpected video call from the President of Earth who asks her to track down a missing scientist who may or may not have helped create such a weapon. Yes, the basic plot device that sets everything in motion in Barbarella is, basically the same plot as Rogue One — find a missing scientist, save the galaxy. And, if you think Barbarella is just an Austin Powers-style 1960s joke with more in common with Spaceballs than Star Wars, you may want to give it another look.

 

[NUinID]

I may put this on my list of Sci Fi / culturally significant movies to see...

MSN

Have watched about half of it. It is an incoherent mess of a movie that really doesn't make much sense.

 

[NorthwoodHusker]

Watching it as much as I could, the disconnect is real
Demolition man does it far better