Metal hurlant/Heavy Metal comes to live action TV

[samurainoir]

anyone see the recent South Park parody of the animated movie?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRd_...eature=related

my favourite sequence was always the B17... the realism of those initial moments were so shocking to me as a kid that it was almost a relief when the zombies showed up.

[mego73]

I love the South Park parody!

I love the rotoscoped planes in B17 and the rotoscoped moving background in Tarna. Actually it wasn't exactly rotoscoped. The models were made and painted white with black line detailing and filmed against white. They actually printed the footage in high contrast on acetate and painted it like cels.

[samurainoir]

well worth checking out.

[tay666]

Just watched the movie this morning, as part of my Halloween weekend movie marathon.

I love the movie. I remember sneaking over to the theater to see it in my early teens. (my mom said there was no way I was seeing it, so one afternoon I rood my bike across town to the only theater we had and watched that and Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams, double feature)

Most expensive video tape I bought when it was finally released on video.

Never saw the South Park version until now, thanks for the link.

[SeattleEd]

The talk of "A" live action movie for Heavy Metal was talked about long ago but never has come to fruition. I would love to see something go into production and curious if the fan base is around. Only folks from my generation are familiar with it while the next generations have no clue.

I agree, Sandy. Moebius is god and very brilliant.

I've always loved the Pink Floyd omitted sequence of the movie, "Neverwhere Land". Makes a great music video.

As for the original movie, I love it but wish they went the with the original storyline of Taarna and focused more on Den as a separate movie.
The final result was brilliant as is the Bernstein soundtrack and music track as well. Both of which finally made it to CD. Would love to see a BR release someday.

I still own my bootleg VHS copy from back in the day.

[bizzaro megomauler]

[Would love to see a BR release someday.

I still own my bootleg VHS copy from back in the day.[/QUOTE]


I have it on Blu Ray, and it transfers pretty bad. any of the older animated moveis need to be painstakingly redone, ala disney, because the scratches and dust from each cell is noticible.

[mego73]

[Would love to see a BR release someday.

I still own my bootleg VHS copy from back in the day.

I have it on Blu Ray, and it transfers pretty bad. any of the older animated moveis need to be painstakingly redone, ala disney, because the scratches and dust from each cell is noticible. [/QUOTE]

It's not that the transfer is bad, it's that 1980's films were made on such grainy stock and that shows better on blu ray.

[SeattleEd]

[Would love to see a BR release someday.

I still own my bootleg VHS copy from back in the day.

I have it on Blu Ray, and it transfers pretty bad. any of the older animated moveis need to be painstakingly redone, ala disney, because the scratches and dust from each cell is noticible. [/QUOTE]

thanks. I just saw it listed this morning for sale. Ordered it!

Despite it being a bad transfer I don't forsee this being cleaned up for archival purposes in the near future. That is as best as it's going to get for now and I'm okay with it. Love the rough grainy late 70's feel to it.

[mego73]

I have it on Blu Ray, and it transfers pretty bad. any of the older animated moveis need to be painstakingly redone, ala disney, because the scratches and dust from each cell is noticible.

thanks. I just saw it listed this morning for sale. Ordered it!

Despite it being a bad transfer I don't forsee this being cleaned up for archival purposes in the near future. That is as best as it's going to get for now and I'm okay with it. Love the rough grainy late 70's feel to it.[/QUOTE]


On my set up, it looks pretty good. There is excessive grain in some shots (the sun in the Harry Canyon prolouge, the opening shots of Den) but again, the grain of 1980's film has made people balk at the Ghostbusters blu ray (when it is actually a terrific transfer).

There is some problems for me though on the sound remix. Some sound effects are mixed down compared to before ( like the transcom message service sentry). Also, I there are musical stabs in the B 17 sequence ( where the co pilot is grabbed by the belly gunner zombie and when the pilot opens the door on the zombies) that have been missing since the Legit VHS release (I am willing to bet your bootleg has them).