- Parts #1-30.
- Parts #31-40.
- Part 41. (Stadia)
- Part 42. (Doomsday Clock)
- Part 43. (Larry Cohen)
- Part 44. (Trek covers)
- Part 45. (Presents)
- Part 46. (Rankings)
- Part 47. (GB3 casting 3)
Heavy Metal action figures!!!!!
*Goes back in time, gives Taarna figure to my 7 year old self*
*Taarna struts into the He-Man play of some other kids on the playground*
*Devo starts playing*
We're through being cool!
We're through being cool!
Eliminate the ninnies and the twits!
Going to bang some heads!
Going to beat some butts!
Time to show those evil spuds what's what!
*Taarna chops Skeletor's, Hordak's, and King Hiss's heads off, green blood shoots out*
*The other kids run away crying*
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The last I heard of "Heavy Metal" was when I watched the South Park episode based off of it and Trey and Matt said on the mini-commentary that they rewatched HM in order to make the episode and they really hated it. That was...odd.
On a related note geez I'm way behind on SP. Haven't even seen the gun episode. I think I've got like five seasons to catch up on.
You know, I watched the original "Ghostbusters" for the first time ever last week. I'd never seen it in its entirety before.
Bill Murray walks away with the movie--his biggest, best-known movie ever--despite TOTALLY WINGING IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH. Did he do that on purpose? I know he adlibbed a lot but he only made the movie on the grounds that they'd let him do his personal project from the same year, "The Razor's Edge," which (I don't know if you've ever seen it) he totally slept-walked through as well. He frankly comes across like he doesn't give a crap at all playing Venkman! Who would believe this character as a parapsychology professor, even a crappy one?!?
Why did Dan Aykroyd co-write the picture only to end up playing the least interesting of the four guys?
How did Ernie Hudson feel about being listed like ninth in the credits and not being on the poster?!? He's the fourth GHOSTBUSTER for god's sake!
Did Murray have Methuselah syndrome or something? He was the same age in this movie (maybe even slightly younger) than Aaron Paul was when they finished "Breaking Bad." He was 32 and looks about 47. Andy Kaufman hair plus pockmarks all over his puffy face, I know that generation smoked a lot more but shit.
Heavy Metal-
I didn't know Matt & Trey hated the flick.
You can kinda see it around the edges, I guess.
It's not a perfect movie, it rides a lot of 80's nostalgia.
Still, they (meaning human animators on the whole planet) have yet to make an adult animated movie that's as much pure fun.
There are a lot of really cool animes, but they take themselves so goddamned seriously.
And "Sausage Party", is goofy raunchy fun, but not as much of an adventure.
Only Heavy Metal has the perfect combo of nerdy sci-fi and adolescent vulgarity.
There's "Heavy Metal 2000", but it's a pale ripoff, and I ignore it.
Ghostbusters-
Interesting you bring it up.
Ivan Reitman produced Heavy Metal, Elmer Bernstein did the score, and Harold Ramis, John Candy, and Eugene Levy are in it.
John Candy and Eugene Levy aren't in Ghostbusters, but John Candy was almost the Rick Moranis character, and even filmed a couple days, but decided it wasn't for him.
And Eugene Levy played Rick Moranis's uncle in a deleted scene of Ghostbusters 2.
And John Candy was in "Stripes", which I kind of see as a rough draft try-out for Ghostbusters.
So, Heavy Metal has a lot of Ghostbusters DNA in it.
Anyhoo!!
Everyone thinks Bill Murray improvised everything, but there was a script, and he mostly stuck to it.
Flirting with Sigourney Weaver he had a little leeway to play around, but the film is 90% as written.
Him being a crappy parapsychologist, I get the gist he's friends with Egon because he saved him from drilling himself in the head, and then Egon helped him pass his tests.
And then he's friends with Ray through Egon.
Then, just like the dean said, he got into the ghost stuff cuz it was a good scam to get out of real work.
"Then what did Egon and Ray need him for?".
His sleazy business hustling skills got them the firehouse.
Ray being the least interesting....Aykroyd is a nerd, and likes doing the techno-babble exposition stuff, so he was more than happy to let Bill do all the funny stuff while he pushed plot.
He sacrificed ego for what was good for the movie.
So, the Ghostbusters are the reverse Beatles.
Ernie Hudson not being listed, and not being on the poster....
That was some complicated thing to do with contracts.
I don't quite understand it all.
They remedied it in Ghostbusters 2 though.
The contract shit ripples through to today though, cuz even on NEW DVDs/Blu-Rays, and posters, you legally have to hide Winston.
Murray's aging, I dunno if it's nutrition or preservatives, or what, but generation X-Y are aging better than the WWII-ers and boomers.
It was just recently pointed out that Will Wheaton is as old now as Patrick Stewart was when he started TNG.
I found out that Belushi was supposed to be in it before he croaked and then Eddie Murphy was supposed to be Winston. Then Murphy went to do other stuff and be the biggest star in the world and they gave it to Hudson and made it so Winston only shows up 45 minutes in.
Oh well, Ernie Hudson has 200 screen credits so I guess he's still working. He even got like two minutes in new Twin Peaks.
Eugene Levy is only like six or seven years older than Moranis! That's a weird one.
Oh sheesh Stewart was only 40 in fucking "Excalibur." And already bald. I'm 36. I'm the same age as that Pete Buttigieg guy who is the most unfortunately named gay man since Roddy Bottum from Faith No More. (What, everyone moved on from Andrew Yang so quickly!)
Hell, it gets worse--Wheaton (46) is almost as old as CARROLL O'CONNOR was at the start of "All In The Family"! James Gandolfini was 35 in the Sopranos premiere.
I'm recommending you skip "The Razor's Edge," which was really drab and most people don't care about it at all today.
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