BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Luecarou What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

daniel-mannouch A few good laughs to be found which i was not expecting. Riding off the waves made by The Groove Tube and the Kentucky Fried Movie, Boogie Vision is a decent satire concerning the exploitation film racket of the 60's/70's directed by James Bryan whose filmography is notoriously hard to track down, but what's life without a few challenges? Still trying to find Lady Street Fighter and Dirtiest Game in The World at agreeable prices. I won't hold my breath.It's not as mad or rough-shot as i expected. This is no Executioner Part II thank god, but it has still got problems, most of them budgetary. Still, it's a fascinating contemporary reflection upon a fascinating time in film-making.

Michael_Elliott Boogievision (1977) * (out of 4) Michael Laibson plays Mick, a young filmmaker who thinks he has gotten his big break when he learns that his girlfriend's father is a producer. The only problem is that the producer wants a porno movie but the young filmmaker wants to make a science-fiction film.As I go through the films of director James Bryan, I can see why this movie was made. He started off making sexploitation movies before making two porno titles with Rene Bond. I'm going to guess that he wasn't overly interested in making the porn movies but he had bills to pay and they were jobs. It seems this film here was his way of saying that but sadly the end results really aren't all that good.Again, I can see what Bryan was going for here but it just doesn't work because the satire is just poorly written and nothing here is overly funny. Another problem with this film is the fact that its 80-minute running time is really dragged out to the point where you're bored out of your mind before you hit the half-way point. The film is edited in a fairly strange way and add in the boredom and you can quickly lose track of where the plot it.There's a little bit of nudity but certainly not enough to please sexploitation fans. This one here is basically just for those who want to check out everything the director has done in his career.

Bill357 Apparently people in the seventies laughed at anything, even crap. Boogievision is proof of that. Then again I don't smoke tons of wacky tobaccy like everyone else who thinks this kind of film is funny.It tries hard to be like the early (overrated) years of Saturday Night Live, The Groove Tube, and Kentucky Fried Movie but the jokes are more embarrassing than hilarious.The structure of Boogievision is also pretty bad. There's the main story of the hippie film director who looks a bit like Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider. In the first scene he exposes a badly run sanitarium in a scene stolen directly from a young Geraldo Rivera! After that he becomes decidedly more immature and stays pretty much unlikable throughout the film.His trials and tribulations while trying to direct a crap movie aren't very interesting or sexy, despite loads of full frontal nudity.Then there's the badly written TV parodies that litter the place, cutting in at random intervals. Though marginally more entertaining than the story of the film director, they're still pretty bad unless you think dildos are funny.Do yourself a favor and get high before you watch this!

Woodyanders Struggling independent hippie filmmaker Mick (affable Michael Laibson) gets his big break after he finds out that his girlfriend Marlene's (hot blonde Marlene Selsman) father Burt (an amusingly smarmy portrayal by Bert Belant) is a movie producer. Unbeknownst to Mick, Burt specializes in porno pictures. Mick cranks out a hilariously cruddy sci-fi schlocker in three days for Burt, who demands countless changes and has a hard time figuring out how to distribute Mick's lousy flick. Writer/director James Bryan gives this delightfully screwball comedic romp an authentically hip'n'heady oddball and irreverent experimental 70's vibe while tossing in a wealth of mock TV commercials, phony news broadcasts, plentiful tasty female nudity, and even a generous sprinkling of funky animation. The loosey-goosey narrative meanders all over the place, the playful throwaway tone remains extremely silly throughout, and the cheerfully dumb and zany lowbrow humor is anything but subtle or sophisticated, but this picture still manages to be quite funny in a pleasingly goofy sort of way. Victoria Miller contributes a charming performance as flaky feminist Mouse. Popping up in cool uncredited bits are Renee Harmon as the histrionic narrator of Mick's uproariously atrocious Lizardwoman epic and beloved 70's drive-in icon Chreyl "Rainbeaux" Smith as a naked hippie chick on a motorcycle. The rough, grainy cinematography by Frank Mills gives the film a suitably raw and unpolished look. The groovy-jammin' score by Bill Spater and Gene Sturman likewise hits the loopy spot. A total wacky hoot.