Tank Girl

I watched tank girl today, a video that I had queued in my Block Buster account. I would have to say that the movie was Okay. IMDB gave the movie a 4.5 out of 10, but I don’t think it would given this movie any more credit if the movie had rocked; Tank Girl is a geek movie. The world is post apocalyptic and most of the water is monopolized by big brother, and that says geek.

I cut the fight sequences some slack, it was made in 1995. The same year Jackie Chan went main stream with his rumble in the Bronx, introducing a new kind of flow to the movie fight scene. Jet Li doesn’t even come on the scene for another 3 years.

I had the feeling that more than a handful of film ended on the cutting room floor, because the movie had a jerky feel to it. There are no smooth transitions from one part of the movie to another, just a flash of cut scenes from the comic book and there you are another part of the movie.

After some research on IMDB I noticed that Talalay is credited with mostly with television programs. What I see is either movie producer sees her lacking in talent for a movie has relegated her to the television medium, or when she did Tank Girl she lacked the experience. Either way what it meant for the movie was a mediocre movie. I never read the comic, but I could garner from the slide show of bridging scenes I would have liked it all lot. I don’t think Talalay successfully transitioned the mediums.