Obsess much? What NOT to do if the girl you like doesn't like you back. Cut off her arms and legs...Also see Bill Paxton's best role besides Aliens all in leather pants and a mesh shirt!
So if you don't already know this is a widely hated film. Even the original lead Kim Basinger had to pay to pay 9 million dollars to get out of the contract (although later I think it was overturned). So why the heck do I like it? Well it's incredibly strange, ridiculous and oddly compelling somehow. Most people complain about the execution of this film, but I more than got the point of it and I actually think it's not bad since Jennifer Chambers Lynch (yes David's Daughter) was only 19 when she wrote this.
The story is about a compulsively strange Doctor (Sands) who is married, but OBSESSED with a bitch named Helena (Fenn). Anyhow he alienates the wife with talk of his precious Helena (you simply must hear him repeat it creepily...it's so pathetic). He ends up getting a date with her, and from there you'd better believe he won't leave her alone. He throws a party simply to invite Helena (I think) and she ends up avoiding Dr. Nick and flirting with others.
Nick makes sure she leaves her purse there and then makes her come back for it. While she's trying to escape Nick's weirdness she gets hit by a car and wakes up a prisoner in Nick's care...and without legs I might add. Oh it gets weirder from there, let's just say the center of the movie is the statue of Venus DeMilo. Oh and it gets stranger still because she starts to dig him...seriously. There is a fair amount of sex in this and you never see him remove Helena's limbs, so if you are looking for gore you won't get any. Instead you'll get to watch this insane plot unfold, and an ending that is about as clear as mud. Still I can't help but like it and I've seen it quite a few times so I guess that makes me a fan.
a good film, but julian sands is always creepy, which is a good thing, but when he tries out the girl in white blouse, and ravages her, that makes him ok in my book
Potential does not make a movie. I'm embarrassed I saw this with a group of people back in college ('97) - I'm shocked it was directed by a woman and screenplay was written by a woman, not shocked at all that she hasnt directed again until this year.
An immensley disturbing and rather mysogonistic tale of lust & obsession boiling over! A great film, but if you are a prude stay away from this film...
Sherilyn Fenn is so sexually charged in this film, her scenes are gorgeous and she makes Bill Paxton look like a weenie she's so hot in this film. Julian Sands plays the obsessive Doctor so well, and the scenes with them together are amazing, the way they play off each other really lends a deep emotional root to this film. Not to mention the beautifully photographed sex scenes.
Strange story of obsession, domination and sexual inadequacy as well as writer-director Jennifer Chambers Lynch shoots for the same hypererotic feel that marks the films of her father, David Lynch.
Boxing Helena is an old movie that reminds me of Peter Süskind novels. Plenty of fantastic elements that lead the story in unknown direction but at the same time reveal the basic in human nature; however Jennifer Chambers Lynch's film goes a step further than that cause a fiction that we meet here has a very clear link to reality and it comes from a dark side of human soul. The whole movie is nothing else than a inner battle of a main character; his male erotic desire towards a woman that was out of his reach and all of his inhibitions fears and duobts. A love that is turned into to a sick obsession, a sick obsession that becomes a desperate need that revels of his insecurity. A great eye for details, beautiful little digressions; a great choice of music and a story old as a mankind; a male-female conflict told in a completely new way. Well done, Jennifer, well done..
This is a love story movie in which man loves a woman but she doesn?t love him even she talks to him like he is her servant but man wants her badly because of man she meets with terrible accident she loses her two legs he does all the way he wants to do but still she blames him why she met him man keeps her prisoner his house in the end she sees that man who cares, treats and love all the way even she has no legs to walk but her x-boyfriend finds her?
Nobody has really heard of it, but it was on etv (free TV, for those not born of South Africa). So I checked it out for what was roughly half an hour (it is only an hour and a half or so). Good thing I switched off then.
The plot is convoluted - or tries to be. The desire Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) feels in the film is brought across as unrealistically maniacal, and not seductive and 'juicy' (may I say juicy?).
The film was passed off as 18+ in South Africa, but quite unnecessarily so. Not that there isn't enough sex and violence, but I mean, why? If you understand me, many restriction - worthy aspects are quite needlessly thrown in for good measure.
Average, but only because bad filmmaking is so very fascinating.
A God-awful movies. Director Jennifer Chambers Lynch(David Lynch little girl) seems to have convinced herself that she's made a movie as great as her father's Blue Velvet when really it's just a boring version of showgirls.
Pretty demented movie, but it reflects some of man darkest sides. Sometimes hidden emotions can be more real than reality itself. Despite the fact of having a pretty bad finale.
Wow! David Lynch's daughter should not be allowed to play in daddy's office! Good writing and film-making is not hereditary in this family. If you like lifetime movies spliced with soft core porn, then this is the movie to waste two hours of your life on! The idea of the film was good, but lacked good dialogue, suspense, fear, and story...and what a surprise ending! Can we please stop wasting good film on "It was all a dream" endings now. I am giving Sherilynn Fenn the "get out of a career killer" free card because I think she is a good actress, but this is no Twin Peaks! You have been warned! Do not watch this film looking for quality, but it may not be so bad for a good laugh. The highest hope for this film is to go down in the "B" movie hall of fame. I wished I watched it under those pretenses, as I would have prepared myself better.
Terrible, although good for a laugh if you want to see Julian Sands and Bill Paxton duke it out for "Most Overwrought Performance in Cinematic History" (for my money Sands wins in a landslide).
Julian Sands is a wonderully strange, dark, deeply troulbled and sensitive man who has major issues with woman . . . but I still can't help but empathize with his character. Sexiest soundtrack of all time. And it certainly doesn't hurt that Mr.Sands is so incredibly handsome in this film.
This movie gained a lot of notoriety when Kim Bassinger was originally slated to star in the film but pulled out after, I would say, reading the script. She was sued for $9 million for breach of contract, had the case overturned and eventually settled out of court. Sherilyn Fenn, maybe mis-reading the director's name and thinking it was her old boss from TWIN PEAKS, signed on. The plot of the movie is simple enough. Wacky doctor guy is in love with hot chick, hot chick is NOT in love with wacky doctor, and wacky doctor cuts arms and legs off of hot chick and makes her live in a box. Except, it's not really a box. I dunno what I expected - a wooden crate or something. But this was a nice, well made, handcrafted three sided 'box' that looked more like an uncomfortable chair without legs. The movie itself is bit "rambly" at points and, frankly, tries too hard to be artsy. Jennifer Lynch apparently has seen all of her dad's work and fails horribly trying to mimic it in parts.
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