Comments on: Weekend Review – Heavy Metal 2000

By: AceCaseOR

AceCaseOR — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:37:50 +0000

By the way, I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but the line of my review that you quoted, is (thus far) my favorite line I’ve ever written for a review, anywhere.

By: octa

octa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:07:50 +0000

I went looking to see what Heavy Metal has been up to and was surprised to see that not only is another movie in the works but it’s been confirmed to be an anthology like the first one. The whole thing is being headed by David Fincher. Even James Cameron is involved… this seems epic. Someone pinch me.

http://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/movieshm2.html

Then I read it’s going to be all 3D animation :(

By: fiziko

fiziko — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:46:54 +0000

[quote cite="AceCaseOR"]How the hell does using a table as cover work with ray guns! It doesn’t even work with the kind that fire bullets.[/quote] That depends on where you bought the table.

By: octa

octa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:23:34 +0000

I was an HM subscriber when this movie came out. I remember many issues filled with preview stills and interviews prior to release and it really got me pumped up. Needless to say the end product disappointed greatly and was an obvious vanity project for Kevin Eastman(he casted his own wife!).

I don’t know why they moved away from the anthology feel. There were many HM stories since ‘81 I would have loved to have seen animated. Opportunity lost.

Its one saving grace was the release of the F.A.K.K.2 video game tie in, a unique and surprisingly excellent action RPG at a time when the genre was sorely lacking on the PC. I’d rather see a sequel of it than the movie :)

By: AceCaseOR

AceCaseOR — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:19:05 +0000

Well, I mainly started doing it with animated films, basically because of all the horror stories I’d heard about video stores shelving Legend of the Overfiend in the children’s section because it’s animated (it’s also very disturbing porn), or the mother who took her kid to see Grave of the Fireflies, or Akira. So, I started including the content warnings basically as a quick evaluation guide for parents, without making hard-and-fast age judgements.

But, yeah, I can continue with the nudity and violence warning in my live-action reviews as well.

By: Timeshredder

Timeshredder — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:09:29 +0000

You know, that might be a good idea, except where it's not an issue at all or self-evident.

By: Chad Cloman

Chad Cloman — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:26:39 +0000

I appreciate the nudity and violence warning. Is this something you can include in every review?