I have seen that "Amazon Women of the Avacado Jungle" or whatever the title
is. I once saw it on an afternoon movie and couldn't stop laughing for
days. I'm dying to see it again, but haven't been able to find it. I
thought it was interesting that it seemed to be a really cheap B movie, but
had such intellectual content...at least in some ways.
>Anybody seen "Cannibal Women of the Avocado Rainforest Jungle?"
> (At least I *think* that's the title-- but it could be "Amazon
>Women" or some other variant.) This is a film that was obviously
>made by feminists (academics, I feel certain) for feminists.
>It teems with a myriad details that anyone who isn't a feminist
>just don't get. (& there are plenty that would probably slide
>by feminists without at least graduate student experience.) I've
>watched videos of it numerous times, always with other people.
> A friend of mine who's a history professor shows it perhaps once
>a year at an all-women party of mixed students & faculty. Every
>time I see it I just howl-- & each viewing get more of the jokes.
> (Of course it also helps if you've read Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_
>or-- so I'm told-- seen _Lost Raiders of the Ark_ & _Apocalpyse
>Now_ --neither of which I've seen.) I usually don't like slapstick-type
>roll-in-the-aisles humor, but I love this movie. (Yeah, I'm the
>kind of person men are always telling to "lighten up.") I suppose
>its magic for me lies in its outrageous premise: that there are
>two rival groups of militant feminists occupying a huge tract
>of land ("jungle") in California that the CIA, the marines, &
>every kind of corporate & government sabatour is powerless to
>eliminate. (All the marines & CIA agents sent in get eaten--
>with either clam dip or guacamole, depending on which feminist
>faction captures them.) I must say that I've yet to meet a male
>"fellow traveller" who appreciates this film. The ones I've seen
>trying to watch it give up because they think it's boring & silly.
> (Just the way I feel about most movies that are "comedies.")
>
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