This is now streaming on Netflix, so I turned it on, expecting something along the lines of "Corvette summer", not soft core porn. Almost an hour later, and three gratuitous multiple person sex scenes, I had more than enough. Shame too, some good authentic 70's scenery going on.
I'm not anti porn or anything, but I'm surprised Netflix is streaming it.
it's weird, man, like totally weird how a futuristic 21st century entertainment medium like "late-night Netflix streaming" can unearth an oddity like "Blue Summer."
this movie is both a godawful 'teen sex romp' and a sublime existential road movie all at once, if that's possible. without any genuinely funny humor, it's not a comedy, but it does have amusing weirdness: the guy "customizing" his '70s party van with a loud speaker, cheesy paper cut-outs of psychedelic butterflies, and "The Meat Wagon" embossed on the side is awesome. I also like Roger, the New Age charlatan with his flute and harem of groovy sex slaves, and The Biker, a sort-of 'Easy Rider' guardian angel who functions as a mythic symbol of good karma. Regina, the 'town floozy' who guzzles beer, dances, and speaks in pure floozy-language is also fun.
"Blue Summer" is vintage early '70s bizarro exploitation - some interesting themes about innocence lost in the big bad world, coming of age blah blah, threaded through unwatchably long soft core sex sequences featuring mostly unappealing naked bodies in bad lighting.
Basically, a better Netflix streaming option than anything with Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Heigl, or produced by the Disney Channel.
I agree with this: i'd rather have oddities like this than half the junk available.
The first sex scene is so long and graphic, it cracks me up that the OP sat through another hour and two more sex scenes before deciding "that's enough!" haha. Wonder how they made it through such difficult viewing
I found this too wondering what it was on Netflix seeing it was NR... and I skimmed it (FF through the dull parts...) and these were the kinds of skin flicks we had actually back then. I was surpised how MUCH they actually showed. They didn't leave too much to the imagination. It really is a bad movie, in more ways than one, but man those clothes... I remember having some little red short-shorts, like the white short-shorts one of the guys was wearing... I thought it was funny, when they had the dad run in on the girl (with WAY too much mascara) in the garage. That was the funniest part of the whole movie right there. The biker was odd, but funny too in a way. They told him to go... and he went! And one of the last girls, just simply walks off walking barefoot down the road one the guy starts having a serious conversation with her! At first when the biker at the end was waving at them, I thought he was trying to get them to actually STOP, so I thought with only 1 minutes in the movie they were going to fall off a cliff driving drunk (what a way to end it...) but.... they didn't. And talking about their future 'sobers' them up?? Really? Thing is, I could see this movie remade (maybe watered down a bit...with MUCH more comedy) and better no-name actors, with a LOT better-looking girls. The girl who lived by the lake looked pretty good, and one of the two in the field was ok, but the rest... Eesh.
shareThe only reason I watched so much, was, I really wasn't paying much attention. It was kind of one of those movies you put on, just to have something on the TV. I like movies from the period, and I did enjoy the authentic 70's era eyecandy (no pun intended). That first sex scene, is so long and drawn out, if somebody walked in the room and saw what I was watching, they would think it was porn. In some peoples eyes, it might be. Like I said I'm not anti porn, just surprised to see it on Netflix. For the record, I turned it off when the locals where lining up to screw the drunken town whore, who the boys spent their hard earned money intoxicating.
shareDespite it being a bit of a soft porn sex film, I think there's a bit of decent message hidden in the movie. The kids were just out of high school about to go to college. It was all about them moving on in the civilized world. They obviously came from two decent families, and we see each of their families eating at kitchen tables. They try to have their stupid "one night stands" so to speak, and nearly chewing a bit more than they bargained for. With help from their 70's Hell's Angel on a motorboke (get the pun now?) they are mostly protected and escorted OUT of the realm of the harshness of the world to go back home and college. While the boys were in a real way creating and reveling in thier own sins, they also were having to deal with the sins of all they came across. Their own lust for flesh, the girls stealing from them, the drunkards, the prostitute, etc. etc. It a very odd movie (even for it's era), but it had it's own unique ways for showing morals.
shareNetflix surprises me once again with another pulled from the archives of someone's private collection of really bad low low budget movies from the 1970's. I don't know what it is about these low budget 60's and 70's films but I just cant get enough of them. Maybe its the scenery that brings me back to a simpler time but I do enjoy most of them by trying not to over analyze them and just reminisce the past. I would describe it as a cheesy 70's road trip John Holmes wannabe movie. Overall pretty bad.
shareActually, I thought the girl in the end, Miss "No Name", was beautiful and charismatic and actually had a germ of acting talent. That was the only sex scene in the movie I enjoyed watching. Also, she seemed to be the only girl in the movie who looked like she was enjoying it.
Also, she was a total Rosanna Arquette lookalike. Amazing.
We got a job.
What kind?
...The Forever Kind.
Me too! I love movies,especially the old ones like this....Ever see "Two Roses and a Golden Rod"? It's pretty sexy too..it's from 1969....very erotic,like blue Summer....I like the eroticism in both of them!
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