BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

bombersflyup Butterfly is a low quality film, the script and acting are quite poor, but it is watchable for its dissimilarity and setting.Funny to me that it's labelled a crime/drama, seems they didn't want to label it anything else. The ending is perplexing, Keach's character pleads guilty of incest and commits to going to prison for 10 years when he isn't even her father, to free her of any punishment and to continue to be something. She then says she wasn't forced, which in turn causes Jess to say that Katy isn't his daughter. So he is willing to do 10 years for nothing and she was willing to receive the punishment for her actions to defend him, but not interested in staying with him. Absurd! and all still very wrong. Orson Welles was amusing as the judge.

RavenGlamDVDCollector Outright: Yes, long-legged child woman, elfin- faced Pia Zadora is worthy as Golden Globes' Best Newcomer 1982. Take careful note that the award says "newcomer" and doesn't focus on acting ability. Certainly Pia was THE most dramatic newcomer arriving in the flurry of excitement accompanying this movie's release. And listen to the interviews on the DVD... the accusations of "buying the award" are, IMO, false. Makes a great story which the press jumped upon, but it seems to be only public opinion. It hurt little Pia very much, and it was all fueled by envy, because the public were jealous of the pretty girl and the rich old guy who had his young wife cast in the movie he financed. These two people deemed not to defend themselves at the time, figuring "it would blow over" but then, as stated in the interview*, it didn't.*Personally, I find DVD extras like commentaries and interviews generally to be one big bore, but I recommend BUTTERFLY's extras for getting to another exciting aspect, the back- story (especially regarding the Golden Globe fiasco) I'm just saying, the movie deserves a chance. Even with its contentious subject matter. Which, when viewed without frothing at the mouth, comes down to: acts of passion between consenting adults. Why get the law involved in what goes on between two lovers? The law should hunt down violent criminals and stay out of private business.Okay, about the movie itself now:I had only seen a trailer I had downloaded, some of it was in slow motion or something like that, focusing on the initial Orson Welles court scene, and it looked heavy-handed and dumb. Fortunately great shots of Pia's angelic face did appear and I decided to go for it, but I had little hope for a decent movie, given this one's bad reputation and the downloaded evidence at hand.I was surprised. I had hoped, and thought, maybe... but didn't go in expecting too much.There is a heck of a lot more going for this movie than what you would suspect. Is it worth watching for Pia Zadora alone? Yes. She is a performer. Oddly enough, she is way older than I had thought, and some camera angles are even unflattering to her face, but as for the nude scenes, let's just say that there should be no complaints.The movie works better before all the "ensemble cast" enters the scene. The first half is erotic and frothy fun, think of it as bubbly champagne, the second half is just a large swig of vinegar. Must admit that I commented to myself "haven't had this much suspense in ages" - I really felt for the Jess character.Okay, the prudes and the embittered haters would love to tear the movie apart, and that is exactly what they did. Don't let them spoil it for you, watch it for yourself, and then decide.Powerful performance by Stacy Keach which gains sympathy every second of the way. What the average viewer here is most likely not gonna get, is that Kade goes for Jess because he is gentle with her, touching her the way she wants to be touched. Not rough-and-tumble. Not knock the stuffings out of her. I think that counts for something.

dwpollar 1st watched 3/6/2010 -- 3 out of 10 (Dir-Matt Cimber): Laboring tease-fest with Pia Zadora winning the Golden Globe for newcomer of the year as a daughter of a miner who enters into his life and causes all kinds of havoc. The best part of the movie is a comical performance by Orson Welles as a judge gathering up all the facts at the end of the movie and giving a hoot of a performance(that definitely fits the film!!). The basic storyline is that Pia's character visits her father, played by Stacey Keach -- teases him sexually, and then finds out about a possible motherload of silver in a mine that he guards. They then try to harvest it(illegally, of course)for profit until Pia's fiancée comes into the picture trying to get her back. From here on there is sex, violence, murder and other mayhem followed by a courtroom scene to sort out all the pieces. Zadora's performance is pretty bad even though Keach does an OK job as the put-upon father. How Zadora got a Golden Globe I'll never know?? Anyway, this is really a pretty trashy piece of film-making that should be avoided, in my opinion, unless you want to get a peak at Pia(which is pretty much all you get).

Easyrob This is sort of a classic in the sultry, steamy sensuality arena, as it was defined early in the 1980s. Pia, like Laura Dern and others did later, appears in alluringly sheer hot weather clothes that will keep most red-blooded males captivated! These are all the more captivating when set in the early part of this century.