Escape to the Movies: Heavy Metal
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Try the 70s. We used to watch "Top of The Pops" just to see Pan's People/Legs & Co dancing about.Therumancer said:
Or there was roleplaying games...
God Bless Boris Vallejo and others.
And you can imagine what happened with Barbarella, One Million Years BC, Fantastic Voyage etc.
You missed out, Bob, on referencing the later Heavy Metal 2000 (as alluded to above) or the stunningly good Heavy Metal: FAKK 2; which I may occasionally mention.
I never said it was subtle, did I?
I do as a matter of fact but I'm not as old as that. Those date back to like WW2 at least. But that doesn't change the point that, with the internet you can get whatever you want with ease. Pre-internet you had to work for it, I don't know about you but in my childhood they didn't just pass out thing like that.Redem said:
I've really gotta start remembering to put a "for those of us growing up in the U.S." on these nostalgia trips... the fact that I've got an international viewership still blows my friggin' mind...Jamash said:
I remember hearing about the casual cheesecake in the tabs from British friends way back in the day, and half the time I figured they were makin' it up...
Fuck yeah, MovieBob, fuck yeah... You nailed it 100%. Still a great film to watch for the MST3K factor and pop culture status. And of course the gratuitous sex and violence, which always sells...
Those films (at least the earliest ones) were all rated "R" and released before the advent of the "PG-13" rating, which was first applied to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984 if I'm not mistaken...Therumancer said:
Yup, it's official, I'm old.
I was about eight when my buddy said he got a copy of this movie. Back then, we all knew that girls were icky but he said there were lots of explosions and killing and blood. And so we went to his basement, watched it, and our little pre-pubescent minds were introduced to the fact that boobs were great and that the half of the human race that HAD boobs were awesome by association.
Nevertheless, a couple of the vignettes were good, and you know something? I think this was kind of a precursor to Pulp Fiction. Only with boobs.
I was about eight when my buddy said he got a copy of this movie. Back then, we all knew that girls were icky but he said there were lots of explosions and killing and blood. And so we went to his basement, watched it, and our little pre-pubescent minds were introduced to the fact that boobs were great and that the half of the human race that HAD boobs were awesome by association.
Nevertheless, a couple of the vignettes were good, and you know something? I think this was kind of a precursor to Pulp Fiction. Only with boobs.
I liked it, but didn't see it through to the very end (I couldn't find it anywhere so I had to watch it online and my connection died).
It did kinda drag on and none of the stories really seemed to be going anywhere but I liked the animation style, I liked the artwork and I liked the concept.
The execution was just a little sub-par and could easily be compared to something like "The Animatrix" which had some fantastic artwork and style going for it (Studio 4C are one of my favourite animation studios of all time, I thought their effort was the best) nothing really "gelled" the stories were altogether not terrible but also nothing special and it felt like a marketing gimmick trying to get me to buy the horrible Matrix games.
Heavy Metal was pretty much the same with music.
It did kinda drag on and none of the stories really seemed to be going anywhere but I liked the animation style, I liked the artwork and I liked the concept.
The execution was just a little sub-par and could easily be compared to something like "The Animatrix" which had some fantastic artwork and style going for it (Studio 4C are one of my favourite animation studios of all time, I thought their effort was the best) nothing really "gelled" the stories were altogether not terrible but also nothing special and it felt like a marketing gimmick trying to get me to buy the horrible Matrix games.
Heavy Metal was pretty much the same with music.
Hehe i'm 21 so i hit the 'booby awareness stage' right as the internet hit the big time, although this was before Google so actually finding stuff without loading the family computer's history full of chesticles took a bit more work.
[sub]Don't judge me[/sub]
[sub]Don't judge me[/sub]
Yes, it was INCREDIBLY difficult for me during the same time period to get anything sexual when I had just turned 10 and discovered those funny feelins... especially in the US and living out in the country a mile away from the nearest neighbor.
My closest neighbor was a tomboy who liked to show me her dad's playboys, but her mom was a horse-faced woman that watched us like I hawk and scared me to death, so I couldn't enjoy the flashed pictures when she snuck em >_>
GEEZ! Come to think of it, violence was in all the movies I watched and games, and everyone treated boobs like THOSE would make me a serial killer. Maybe ease-access net porn will make people less repressed when they grow up... who knows
But When Heavy Metal finally came out on tape, I did kinda like it beyond the boobs... but now, it just is worth seeing because it's just something every movie nut HAS to see.
My closest neighbor was a tomboy who liked to show me her dad's playboys, but her mom was a horse-faced woman that watched us like I hawk and scared me to death, so I couldn't enjoy the flashed pictures when she snuck em >_>
GEEZ! Come to think of it, violence was in all the movies I watched and games, and everyone treated boobs like THOSE would make me a serial killer. Maybe ease-access net porn will make people less repressed when they grow up... who knows
But When Heavy Metal finally came out on tape, I did kinda like it beyond the boobs... but now, it just is worth seeing because it's just something every movie nut HAS to see.
Am I odd for thinking that both the original and the sequel (Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2) were decent movies? I mean, it wasn't Tolkeinian story-telling, and the original didn't make nearly as much sense sober as it did on shrooms, but at the second had a continuous (if not coherent) storyline.
I liked them both, honestly.
I liked them both, honestly.
We used to get pissed and go see either this or RHPC at midnight madness, before this was The Wall.. Still kind of amazed they made a movie out of that album, heh, kids..
"Hangins too good for him, burnins too good for him. He should be torn into little itsy pieces and buried aliiiiive!!"
"Hangins too good for him, burnins too good for him. He should be torn into little itsy pieces and buried aliiiiive!!"