derek2

IMDb member since November 2001
    Lifetime Total
    10+
    Lifetime Trivia
    1+
    IMDb Member
    22 years

Reviews

Trainwreck
(2015)

This "Train Wreck" is aptly named
If you like cussing, you will love "Train Wreck". Every other word of dialog is COPULATE, except when it happens to be DEFECATE. It appears that writer/producer Amy Schumer and producer/director Judd Apatow were attempting to set a Guiness record for most cussing in one flick.

Buried deep under all that cussing is a story that is trying to come out. But it is hard to find.

LeBron James has a small role as a basketball player named "LeBron James"--how's that for creativity and originality? Fortunately he is spared from having to say the cuss words. He actually proves to be a very good actor. Unfortunately his part is too small.

I don't believe it's any kind of spoiler to report that the ending is as sappy as it is predictable. Don't waste your time on this copulating pile of defecation. I would like to give it zero stars, but IMDb won't let me go lower than one.

À la recherche du paradis perdu
(1993)

Awesome!
It is a documentary. I don't much care for documentaries.

The audio was about 90 percent French without subtitles. I don't speak French.

Yet it held me enthralled for one hundred minutes, and I only wish it didn't have to end.

If you enjoy good-looking nudity you will love "Living Naked" (also called "Vivre Nu"). The nudists in this movie are all real people. All of them--men, women, children--look like they enjoy every minute that they can spend unclothed. And the viewer cannot help sharing in their enjoyment.

Well worth at least 15 stars--too bad I can't give more than ten.

Treasured Island
(1993)

A very pleasant hour
"Treasured Island" is a very pleasant bit of fluff. Four beautiful nudists from England go to the Orient club on St. Martin to search for buried treasure and work on their all-over tans.

There is eye-pleasing nudity from beginning to end, as the intrepid explorers spend far more time nude than clothed. The nudity is 100% non-sexual.

The only negative is a sappy soundtrack of inane songs. It is the reason I downgraded the rating to 8 points instead of 10.

The movie is 59 minutes long. Watching it is well worth the hour you will spend.

Act Naturally
(2011)

Modern movie pays homage to "nudie cutie" genre
This is a fun picture--a lightweight entertainment with lots of eye-candy. It is a very modern homage to a classic genre from the past.

When their father passes away, two young women are surprised to learn that he has left them an unusual inheritance: a nudist resort. So naturally they have to go there and find out what they have.

Initially reluctant to "go native", they gradually get over their inhibitions.

Unlike most modern movies with nudity, there is very little frontal exposure, and not much sex. Like the classic "nudie cuties" of the 1960's, there are generous displays of good-looking T & A.

Leave You in Me
(2007)

A silly soap opera
This 20-minute movie is in black-&-white instead of color. If you would ask the producers why they did it that way, they would probably say it was for artistic effect. Personally, I think they did it because it was cheaper.

In this silly soap opera, a man and a woman are having sex. For some unknown reason, he gets the sudden urge to admit to her that he has cheated on her. This revelation makes her unhappy, but she decides that she will keep him around anyway, because she likes the way he applies a washcloth to her body when they are together in the bathtub.

The lovers spend much of the picture in the nude. That is the only reason to even consider watching it. There isn't much else to recommend it.

Cap d'Agde, Naked City
(2000)

Fun travelogue about famous naturist resort city
Cap D'Agde is a popular summer resort town in France. A large section of the town is clothing-optional, and thousands of tourists flock there every year for the opportunity to spend their days naked--not only on the beach or in the pool, but in the shopping area also. (Curiously, although it isn't required, most of them put clothes on for evening activities.)

Our tour guides, Alison Brown and Wendy Cooper, are fetching blondes who enjoy showing off their beautiful all-over tans while they show off the town's attractions. They interview a number of visitors and locals to find out what they most enjoy about vacationing in the nude.

Whether you are a nudist or not, "Cap D'Agde: Naked City" is a fun way to spend an hour.

Educating Julie
(1984)

Entertaining mixture of documentary with romance-comedy
"Educating Julie" is part documentary, part romantic comedy, and mostly fun.

It should be noted up front that this is a picture about nudism and nudists, and lots of people of all ages and both sexes are seen naked. That includes Gail Ward, the fetching blond who plays the title role.

Julie is a British college girl who researches nudism for a sociology class project. That gives her the opportunity to visit several nudist resorts and interview some of the members. That's the documentary part.

The romance-comedy part centers around Julie and her boyfriend, and how they cope with their different attitudes toward nudism.

Coming Up: Naked
(2003)
Episode 1, Season 1

If you enjoy seeing lots of nudity you will love this.
This is a short (22 minutes) romance-comedy in which many of the performers, male and female, spend lots of screen time in the nude.

So whether you will like it depends in large measure on how much you like seeing naked people. And these are average-looking people, not glamorous movie-star types.

The story is about a man whose girlfriend comes from a family of nudists, and how he copes with meeting her parents and some of their relatives and friends--all of them naked, most of them frontally naked. It is a good story, and it is funny.

I especially liked one scene where a nude man sits on a sofa, casually and nonchalantly playing with his penis. He made it look very natural, and I wonder if that was scripted or improvised.

Among Giants
(1998)

Dull plot with one interesting scene
This is, for the most part, a dreadfully dull movie with an utterly pointless plot.

Pete Postlethwaite plays the foreman of a freelance crew of painters who are hired to paint some high-voltage electrical towers. What he knows, and the rest of the crew doesn't know, is that the company which owns the towers is short of money, and may not be able to pay them in full. (This "secret" is revealed early on, so I do not consider it a spoiler.)

Rachel Griffiths needs a job, so she joins the otherwise all male crew.

Big yawn.

There is an "intermission" nearly two minutes long which features Pete and Rachel running around fully naked. This scene has absolutely nothing to do with the story. I think the producers threw it in to wake the audience up after the preceding events have put everyone to sleep.

It is the only part of the movie that is worth watching.

The Green Hornet
(2011)

Extremely disappointing because of language and violence
Rarely have I been so disappointed by any movie as I was by "The Green Hornet".

I wanted to like it, because I fondly remember a delightful radio program about a masked hero who fights crime by pretending to be an arch-criminal. This movie copies the names of the characters and the basic premise from that program, but distorts that premise beyond all recognition.

Seth Rogen's version of the Hornet is a bungling idiot, a toilet-mouthed frat boy who cannot put two sentences together without dropping a slew of "S" bombs.

Ultra-violent car chases and wholesale destruction are prevalent throughout.

The salty dialogue and the excessive violence are the reasons that I suggest you do yourself a favor and avoid this turkey.

Sonne, Sylt und kesse Krabben
(1971)

Best beach picture ever made!
A charming romantic beach comedy. In many ways it's like the old Frankie Avalon-Annette Funicello beach pictures. But there is one small difference: it is set on a NUDE beach! There are numerous scenes of skinnydipping and other nudity. A delightful story plus lots of eye candy make this film a total joy.

There is one scene I especially enjoyed. A nude man invites a nude woman to join him in a secluded spot behind some trees. When she accepts his invitation, he makes a pass at her. She starts to walk away, but when he apologizes and asks her to stay and talk for awhile, she does so. They even joke about being nude. She asks if he has a cigarette, and he replies, "You can see I have nothing up my sleeve!"

See all reviews