Wild Orchid [VHS]

Heated and lewd. It's rated R for a purpose! I'm old enough to watch it :)

For whatever reason, there's something I like enough about this movie. I've owned a copy since it was on LaserDisc, but my player is deceased and I gave my LaserDisc away. Since then I've hoped that a Blu ray was in the works, but it wasn't until about May 2015 that I found that my hope had become a reality.I won't bother with a review of the movie itself, others here have reviewed it, and I expect it's the kind of movie you either like or don't like. I've read all of the reviews of the Blu ray version of Wild Orchid here, and there's one thing no one has made any mention of, at least that I've seen, and that's the horrible lip-sync in the first approx. 50 minutes of the movie. It's like watching an english-dubbed version of a Japanese Godzilla movie, and I'm shocked that no one else has pointed this out. I began to think that maybe I got a defective run of the Blu rays, so I went online and searched for reviews from other sources and immediately found this issue mentioned. From bluray dot highdefdigest dot com:"There's one audio track, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, and there's a potential deal breaker: The audio is around two frames early/out of sync until 50:37. Your tolerance for this discrepancy may be better or worse than mine. At 50:37, a complete one-frame dropout occurs at a cut, and the sync restores itself to normal until the end of the film. Aside from these issues, the audio is below average at best. The dialogue is mixed way too low, and the SFX as well as the music are too high in proportion."Also mentioned:"The video on this release is a 1:85 AVC encode. The presentation throughout is poor. The image is extremely noisy, look at any blue skyline and it's swimming in large patterns of pixels. One scene of beachwash was almost indecipherable, with textures breaking up. Film scratches, stains, spots, and other source-based anomalies exist throughout, mostly on exterior sequences, and are ugly to look at. Interior sequences fair better. The detail is good in most close-ups, and one particular scene showing a cigarette showed fine texture. Contrast throughout is average at best; most blacks look to be a dark gray."I have to agree with everything the reviewer Eric Bennett said. This is a bad, amateurish transfer. Little or no cleaning was done and it appears that no restoration was done to the film. Eric Bennett is wrong about the lip-sync, it's off further than 2 frames- other than that, his review is quite accurate, and I recommend you read it. The only thing you can say about the quality is that it's better than nothing.Whether you like Wild Orchid or not (and I do like it) this movie deserves a lot better than it got- it's story is told largely in pictures, in an exotic and beautiful part of the world (which I have seen first-hand) and the effort that was made to capture that on film has been largely negated by the lack of attention to the technical quality of the transfer. For me it was a must-have, but it makes me sad when I see what Olive Films has done to it.

Wild Orchid can lay a fair claim to being among the worst movies ever made. It's hard to recall a film that is so utterly dreadful in its acting, direction and "script" (that's being generous - I don't think there was one). In fact, it's SO bad that it's almost watchable just to see how ludicrous it can (and does) get. The whole thing is so preposterously wooden that you sometimes can't help guffawing.To be fair, Carré Otis as the succulent object of desire is extremely nice to look at, and a guy could do worse than spend a week and a half - oh wait, it was actually only one hour and 57 minutes - lusting over her. But that is the ONLY redeeming feature of this movie, and if you are unfortunate enough to be trapped in front of a TV when it's playing I strongly suggest you turn off the sound, because Otis' delivery of her lines makes you seriously wonder whether they gave the part to an android - and not a late-generation model at that.It is something of a tribute to Mickey Rourke that he sometimes manages to deliver his lines in a way that makes the laughably clunky script sound better than it is. But he's the only one in the movie who comes even close to success, and his character is so absurdly clichéd and one-dimensional that the poor guy really doesn't have much to work with. Jacqueline Bisset is painfully bad as a stereotyped hellion of a female lawyer; she tries her best to infuse her character with, well, character, but her attempt just comes off as horrible amateur dramatics.This cinematic travesty comes to you from Zalman King, who both wrote and directed it. Interestingly, King also wrote the screenplay for Nine And A Half Weeks. That movie, by contrast, is fantastically stylish and well-paced, and its abundant erotica is sexy as hell. But if you analyze it more than superficially the script there - while way better than this dead duck - has similar elements of clunkiness to it which are camouflaged by the sweet slickness of the direction.The final agony of Wild Orchid is the controversial sex scene between Otis and Rourke (who were married for six years, by the way). The big question was whether the sex was or was not simulated... but trust me, by the time you've survived everything that comes before - which amounts to almost two hours of painfully inept foreplay - you really won't care.And don't miss the credits, which feature the two of them riding horses together and rolling around in the waves!Please, make it stop.

I enjoyed watching this DVD again after a long time. The DVD arrived on time and in good order.

been waiting to order this for awhile love this movie one of my favorites not for the adult theme but Mickey R other actresses music scenic tropical etc etc thanks for a great movie

Wild Orchid. Most people think its some smut movie with no plot. No one ever looks between the lines. It may have sex, and some crazy acting, and even a bogus plot, but the theme of it is important. True love. Call me sentimental and a hopeless romantic, but this movie touched me. Emily and Wheeler, opposites in every way, somehow find love, together. I wish everyone was as lucky. To find happiness where you least expect it. I wish I could be as happy as those two. Look around you. Do you see people with this kind of passion and love? It's sad, too, because we know what happened to the actors who played these lovers. I hope that someone out there has a relationship like this so that we have more to cling to then fiction. It may not have been the best movie, but it had an important message: When you find true love grab it with both hands and never let go.

A young lawyer, Emily, lands a job with an international law firm, which immediately offers her a job In Rio de Janeiro. She is introduced to Claudia ( one of the firm's top executives ) and together they arrive in Rio to finalize the purchase of a hotel, but Emily is left alone when Claudia flies off to do business with the hotel’s owner, leaving Emily to cover her date for that night.Emily meets Claudia’s date, a mysterious man called Wheeler, who then sets about trying to entice her into a journey of self discovery & sexuality.The film was never going to win any Awards for its performances ( a lot of stilted dialogue is indeed delivered with wooden precision ) and whilst you do spend a great deal of time trying to figure out what the actual appeal is with Wheeler ( slicked back hair, pursed lips and a penchant for the kind of lines that would have most women cringing) what it does have is a fantastic soundtrack ( a stunning combination of rock, pop & tribal drums with latin American rhythms and spine tingling vocals ) true simmering sexuality & it is genuinely erotic.It’s a true guilty pleasure and is nowhere near as awful as people make out.It’s designed to titillate and it certainly does that far better than any Fifty Shades of Grey film.It’s also worth noting that “ the volleyball player from the beach “ is truly stunning and the film is worth watching just for him.The film gets an extra star for him alone.

Dated and rather dull . I guess it’s soft porn but for me it just didn’t work and I got bored with itMickey Rourke is wooden to say the least4 start for service and one for the film

A bizarre boring film. How it got past the sex censors I do not know. Jacqueline Bisset actually only played a fairly minor role.

Very good old film, serious and fun to a degree. We had a good laugh but considering it's an old showing film, not bad at all.

ridiculous story. to be avoided. Such an awful film . Actings are funny and the dialouges are laughable. such a trash.