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Heavy Metal (1981 animated).

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EmmanuelZorg

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Wickedly cool and exciting yet erotic & Bloody cult animated Sci-fi horror fantasy anthology based on the popular adult comic magazine. Features the voices of John Candy, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy and Richard Romanus including Sailor Jupiter herself Susan Roman.

It's kind of like a cross between "Akira", "Creepshow", "The Fifth Element" and "Star Wars" all combined. Hot nude toon girls galore including Taarna, gore, dark humor, drug use, rock and roll music and good stories.

One of my favorites! who else thinks this movie influenced "The Fifth Element"?
 
Actually, The Fifth Element is more like a live action Heavy Metal. Back in 1987, I did happen to find the soundtrack to Heavy Metal, one of the best of all time, and even on cassette the price was still $21!
 
It was strange, and might have been more enjoyable had I been on some type of illegal drug. Although, as an avid fan of animation, I praise it for being one of the few animated works to break away from the norm and show that animation can be something other than a kids cartoon. Animation is versatile enough to appeal to many age groups and can be as diverse as modern live action movies in the area of genres and content.
 
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I saw this flick a while back, And I have to say the animation was ''chopy'' and the overall story was not what I would call TOP NOTCH.
 
Yeah, it didn't really help that for all of it's talk of being "The Ultimate Evil" the Lock-Nar hardly did anything evil in any of the stories. If it's the Ultimate Evil then the Heavy Metal Universe must be one nice place.
 
Mistral said:
The Fifth Element? In what way?
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Harry Cannon = Corbin Dallas in a lot of ways, down-on-his-luck cabbie, beautiful girl on the run falls into his life, even disarming the guy with the photo hat was sort of like Cannon disarming his passengers and throwing the weapons into the cache. In the end, Corbin defeats the Loch-Nar.:)
 
"You must slay the Boob-Monster of Boobatron so you may see my daughters AWESOME BOOOOOBAGE!!"
 
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:lol: Nice reference.

I really like this movie. Sure, it's corny, gratuitous, and the animation isn't exactly top-notch, but it's fun -- on the occasion that I come across it during my late-night channel surfing, I can't help but watch it. A lot of it is just so bizarre, but some of the stories are actually fairly well-done and memorable. It's also nice to see an animated feature that was clearly geared toward an adult audience, which, at the time, probably wasn't as common as it is now.

Plus, it has a pretty solid soundtrack (the legal issues of which kept it from reaching home video for years, IIRC).
 
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Anwar said:
Yeah, it didn't really help that for all of it's talk of being "The Ultimate Evil" the Lock-Nar hardly did anything evil in any of the stories. If it's the Ultimate Evil then the Heavy Metal Universe must be one nice place.
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The evil that was the Lock-Nar wasn't so much that it did evil things directly, but it influenced those around it to commit evil acts.

If you watch the deleted scene featuring the Lock-Nar falling onto a world after the Captain Sternn segment, it pretty much spells out that it's responsible for all the evils that have occurred on Earth.
 
Jeyl said:
Anwar said:
Yeah, it didn't really help that for all of it's talk of being "The Ultimate Evil" the Lock-Nar hardly did anything evil in any of the stories. If it's the Ultimate Evil then the Heavy Metal Universe must be one nice place.
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The evil that was the Lock-Nar wasn't so much that it did evil things directly, but it influenced those around it to commit evil acts.

If you watch the deleted scene featuring the Lock-Nar falling onto a world after the Captain Sternn segment, it pretty much spells out that it's responsible for all the evils that have occurred on Earth.
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Cool. It's on DVD now, and one I plan to pick up.

You young kids won't believe it, but when Heavy Metal was released, it was considered so cutting edge that many theaters would not show it until 10pm. And this was in an area where I lived where we had not one, but TWO drive-in porno theaters!!!
 
Who else thought Taarna was one fine hot toon girl? she's that white haired mute warrior chick. I mean she's just my ideal woman and a perfect one especially with those knockers and white bush when she's nude,

And does this movie compare to other adult toons like "Akira", "Ghost in The Shell", "Once Upon A Girl", "South Park The Movie", "Fist of the North Star", "The Professional: Golgo 13", "Ninja Scroll", "Wicked City" with other Japanese stuff or even Bakshi's stuff like "Heavy Traffic", "Fritz The Cat", "Fire and Ice" and "Wizards"?

I dunno why this movie is considered pornographic, it's not! sure there is some sex and nudity but it's softcore in a playboy magazine kind of way. If you want raw stuff, i suggest you should watch "Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend" the nastiest, goriest and raunchiest Japanese animated movie ever! it makes "Heavy Metal" look like "Hellraiser" and "Hustler Magazine". It's the infamous anime movie that spawned that whole Tentacle-demon sex subgenre or Hentai in the animation field as it's about this demon god who possesses a man as a half-beast person fights perverted demons in Tokyo to try to stop the Chojin (Or Overfiend) before mankind if harmed. It's over-the-top and sexually explicit with scenes of rape even done by tentacles, gore, graphic animated sex, mutilation, murder, demon transformations, bisexuality, masturbation, exploding heads, and every excess around that it got an NC-17 here in the U.S. and a "Warning: Absolutely Not for Children" label on the videos and DVDs. I double dare any animation fan or Heavy Metal fan to see this, once you see this you won't be the same again.
 
Alpha_Geek said:
'The girl dies, you die, everybody dies...." :lol::lol::lol:
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This I use while playing COD5. It usually confuses the hell out of everybody, which makes it perfect.

Never made the connection between Harry Canyon and 5th Element.:alienblush:

The "Den" sequence is absolutely hilarious, as is the "Nyborg" and "Captain Stern" scenes. I rocked to this movie over and over at midnight when I was a teen. Any flick that features a giant battle scene with The Mob Rules by Sabbath as the background music is aces in my book. While the individual chapters lack consistency between one another, the overall effect is top of the heap, IMO. Worth owning so you can watch it over and over. As for Heavy Metal 2000-they left out all of the elements that made the first movie a success.:confused:
 
This was way out there when it was released in 81. Some of the music selections contrast weirdly with the themes and action on screen. (Cheap Trick, Journey come to mind)

All in all a good effort for it's time and place. Haven't seen in it for long time though...
 
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