tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460474552118769771.post3031537746013486027..comments2024-02-28T09:34:58.074-08:00Comments on NATURALISTIC! UNCANNY! MARVELOUS!: AMAZONS (1984)Gene Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460474552118769771.post-50821973915608337512015-11-02T13:45:18.858-08:002015-11-02T13:45:18.858-08:00Neither the scripter nor the director seemed to al...Neither the scripter nor the director seemed to allow much space for fight-scenes, though Dobson had certainly garnered her share of experience doing these in the CLEOPATRA JONES films.<br /><br />Why doesn't the Jack Scalia cop-character make a better showing, given that the script is all about uppity women trying to take over from men? After I looked at Scalia's IMDB record, I noticed that AMAZONS is pretty early in his career. By the 1990s he'd played a lot of toughguy roles, but he might not have had that much experience doing all the involved blocking necessary for a good fight. So maybe Glaser did the best he could with what he had, ending up with a pretty pedestrian fight-scene.Gene Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460474552118769771.post-62649424022113376232015-10-27T18:43:09.463-07:002015-10-27T18:43:09.463-07:00Speaking of "unworthy males," as I said ...Speaking of "unworthy males," as I said on the CHFB site, my biggest complaint is how Scalia's character gets rid of the Amazons with a gun, except when he uses a real fight scene cliché and pushes a bookcase down on one of them. I'm not sure exactly what it would be, but a story with modern-day Amazons should show them being defeated in a way that's more "worthy" of them.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.com