Here are the ordered results of the balloting, complete with links to film clips.

(If you are a member, you don’t need to get the film clips from those storage locker sites. They are in the members’ page along with more than 50,000 others. Aesthete alone has done more than 5,000 film clips, and Defoe about 3,400!)

Although it takes me a long time to assemble the choices, create the thumbnails, create the poll page, create the film clips and assemble the results page, I have to say that it was fun to look back on 1998. I really enjoyed recalling some of those great scenes and seeing how you evaluated them. I usually have a lot of reservations about the results of our “real time” polls, but I felt that this one came out almost exactly the way I would have done it personally. (Although one commenter reminded me that Dangerous Beauty probably placed far too low. Fair point. I would not have placed it second, as he suggested, but probably would have pegged it for the #6 slot.)

Given that it seemed to be a pleasant experience for all of us, I’ll trudge along on 1997 as soon as I muster sufficient ambition.

A young Jane Fonda took her clothes off for this cult sci-fi parody.

Or maybe it wasn’t supposed to be a parody. Either way, people were scoffing. Film Quarterly called it “pure sub-adolescent junk … bereft of redeeming social or artistic importance.”

In other words, our kind of movie!

On the other hand, this film is not bad by the standards normally set by director Roger Vadim. He directed some two dozen movies, none of them any good, but he certainly had success in the field of seduction. His wives included Fonda and Bardot. His mistresses included DeNeuve and Cindy Pickett. Many more women could be included in both categories.

“I have had bouts of situational depression and my heart was broken last year because, unknowingly, I put so much validity in the reaction of the public, and the public didn’t react in the way I had expected to … which broke my heart.”

Nah. Not gonna happen. Here’s the real deal:

Katie Perry lives for attention. If she can get attention by saying she will leave music, she will say that. Then she will again get attention by saying she will not leave music. Then she will get attention by saying she’s leaving her silly judging job. Then not. Then she will get attention by saying she’s leaving Orlando Bloom. Then not. Then she will get attention by saying she loves Donald Trump or something else preposterous. Then not.

Whatever it takes to keep the focus on her.

 

It’s the famous co-ed shower scene from Starship Troopers.

Entertaining scene, but some of the laziest character development in the history of screenwriting. Guy walks into a shower and asks each person in turn why they joined the infantry.

Still …

If you have to do a gratuitous exposition scene, you may as well do it naked. This film DID follow the Scoopy Prime Directive: “If the R is for V, the tits are free.” If I were the  messiah of screen nudity, director Paul Verhoeven would be one of my most dedicated disciples. He always abides by my rules.

I like Starship Troopers, and I dislike it. It’s a strange film which constantly gives off mixed signals.  It’s a creature film. It’s making fun of creature films. It’s a stirring war film. It’s a parody of war propaganda. It’s a love poem to military fascism. It satirizes military fascism. I still can’t figure out whether is it pro- or anti-fascism. I don’t know whether I was supposed to deplore the fact that the human race has evolved into a mind-controlling fascist state, or be thankful for it, since that seems to be our only hope for survival as a species.

This must be a pretty good film, at least in the sense that both pro-military and anti-military viewers extol the fact that it championed their values. It has that in common with Patton, although Patton is a great film, while Starship Troopers is merely an entertainment confection.

She emerged from the water sans top in Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

You’ve probably seen that one several times. Here’s one you may not have seen before unless you’re a superfan of Charlie’s site:

Pare did her first topless scene at 18 in the seldom-seen “En Vacances”

Her first three youthful nude scenes (pictured here) were:

(1) that one shown above in En Vacances (1999)
(2) Stardom (2000)
(3) Lost and Delirious (2001)