Roger Ebert's review


Meyer's fans are vociferously partisan, and here is the movie that director John Waters ("Hairspray") called "beyond a doubt, the best movie ever made. It is possibly better than any film that will be made in the future." Completing the circle, Stephen Holden, in his recent review in the New York Times, credited Meyer with having invented John Waters, not to mention Madonna.

What is it about Meyer that spurs critics to this hyperbole? I think it is an intensely personal reaction to the visceral power of Meyer's unusual images. Take away all the jokes, the elaborate camera angles, the violence, the action and the sex, and what remains is the quintessential Russ Meyer image: a towering woman with enormous breasts, who dominates all the men around her, demands sexual satisfaction and casts off men in the same way that, in mainstream sexual fantasies, men cast aside women.

Meyer's extraordinary women are of course fascinating to those with breast fetishes, but look a little longer and you will notice that the breasts are not always presented as centers of desire.

Instead, they're weapons used to intimidate men. Tura Satana, who plays the lead in "Faster, Pussycat," is extraordinary in appearance: Her makeup, with its slashes of Kabuki-style eyebrows, looks terrifying. Her black costume seems suited to a motorcycle gang. She never smiles. And her abundant cleavage seems as firmly locked in place as a Ninja Turtle's breastplate. One cannot think of her as fondleable.

What deep recesses of the psyche do these images address? The feminist and lesbian film critic B. Ruby Rich, writing at length on "Pussycat" in a recent Village Voice, said she dismissed "Pussycat" 20 years ago as just a skin flick. Seeing it again during its revival at New York's Film Forum, she had a different reaction, viewing it now as female fantasy, its images of "empowerment" fascinating to her. Meyer, from the beginning of his career and almost without exception, has filmed only situations in which women wreak their will upon men.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/faster-pussycat-kill-kill-1995

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"Meyer's extraordinary women are of course fascinating to those with breast fetishes, but look a little longer and you will notice that the breasts are not always presented as centers of desire.

Instead, they're weapons used to intimidate men."

^Oh for God's sake, these cucks will say anything to ease their guilt over liking a "jiggle" movie.

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Anybody who calls it a 'fetish' to like boobs is a fucking clown who needs lobotomized. It's perfectly natural and common place to like them, pretty much every single heterosexual Male on the planet adores breasts. How on earth can it be a 'fetish'? I love the way he downplays it and distances himself. "Heh, those weirdos who like boobs, for some unknown reason, will probably be fascinated by this cleavage fest".

Reminds me of those radical feminist's who demand people stop sexualizing breasts.

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Another point is how much pretentious wankers try to find deeper meanings. I'm positive Meyer had these great big honking tits in his films simply because he liked them and sex sells. People trying to read to much into it are idiots.

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It's called castration anxiety.

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