What Did You Watch? 2025-01-04 (Saturday)

[Arthur Lipscomb]

On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening
up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films
in my collection. I watched:


The Secret of NIMH (blu-ray) 1982 animated film directed by Don Bluth.
This was a childhood favorite. I've been looking forward to watching it
again but holding off for either a live action remake (which has been
long promised!) or a 4K upgrade. But I'm going through my animated
films this month and couldn't wait any longer. On the surface the plot
is a bunch of talking mice living on a farm. A mother mouse goes to
rats and asks for help moving her house. I was about 5 when this movie
came out. Watching it as a kid, this movie had blood, cursing, graphic
murder. Sure they were mice, but they weren't messing around. As a 5
or 6-year-old, this was probably the most hard-core cartoon I'd watched
up to that point. And as adult, the movie continues to hold up great.
I was on the fence about listening to the commentary track and started
with the commentary, but then Bluth started to talk about the wonderful
Jerry Goldsmith score and sound mix and convinced me to turn off the
commentary and listen to the audio. The movie really does have a good
Goldsmith score.


The Last Unicorn (4K disc) 1982 animated film directed by Rankin and
Bass based on the novel by Peter S. Beagle. Much like the Secret of
NIMH, this is an animated film I watched as a kid that I remember for
being much more on the adult side of things. The plot involves a
unicorn that goes on a journey to discover if she is the last one or
not. Another child hood favorite that holds up great.


Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film. Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.


Robot Carnival (4K disc) 1987 Japanese animated anthology film. Each
segment tells a different story featuring robots. Most of the stories
are told visually without much dialogue. I tend to pair this with
"Akira" because one of the segments was directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, who
also directed "Akira." This new 4K presentation looks great.


Akira (4K disc) 1988 Japanese R-rated animated film. This is set in a
post world war III future in Neo-Tokyo and follows the leader of a biker
gang who winds up having to do battle against his telekinetic friend.
The movie holds up great. But where is Taika Waititi's long promised
live-action remake?!?


I burned through my 80s animated movies (the ones I *wanted* to watch) a
lot faster than I thought, so I moved up a decade.


Cool World (blu-ray) 1992 live action and animated movie directed by
Ralph Bakshi and starring Brat Pitt as a human in a cartoon world who
has to figure out Who Framed Roger Rabbit, wait wrong movie. Pitt plays
a human cop living in the cartoon world. Kim Basinger also stars. She
is basically a Jessica Rabbit rip off who brings Gabriel Byrne into the
cartoon universe to have sex with her so she can enter the real world.
But once there she threatens to destroy reality. I don't think I've
watched this since I saw it in the theater in 1992. I don't recall
carrying much for it at the time, but after so many years I really just
wanted to see it again. I still didn't care much for it. But I have a
very strong impression this movie was meant to be hard "R" and Bakshi
was forced to tone it down for a PG-13 which left it with this weird
doesn't work tone.


Titan A.E. (DVD) Don Bluth directed this 2000 animated sci-fi epic
starring Matt Damon as one of the last humans after a hostile alien
species blew up the Earth. I have been wanting to watch this again for
many years. I've been holding out because it was never released on
Blu-ray and back when it would air on cable it wasn't in the proper
aspect ratio. I finally gave in and went with the DVD. To my surprise
the picture quality was actually pretty good, but I suspect that was
probably due to my projector doing most of the heavy lifting. But most
importantly it was in the proper aspect ratio. The movie held up very
well. I've always liked it and it's a shame it was such a huge flop
when it came out. It flopped so bad they shuttered Fox animation.

What did you watch?

[Ian J. Ball]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening
up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films
The Secret of NIMH (blu-ray) 1982 animated film directed by Don Bluth.
This was a childhood favorite.
The Last Unicorn (4K disc) 1982 animated film directed by Rankin and
Bass based on the novel by Peter S. Beagle.

Yeah, I've been meaning to rewatch both of these sometime, especially
"The Last Unicorn", but I haven't gotten around to them yet...

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Akira (4K disc) 1988 Japanese R-rated animated film.  This is set in a
post world war III future in Neo-Tokyo and follows the leader of a biker
gang who winds up having to do battle against his telekinetic friend.
The movie holds up great.  But where is Taika Waititi's long promised
live-action remake?!?

And this is one of those films I should watch one of these days...

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
What did you watch?

My grand-nephew's(!) 5th-year B-day party was yesterday, so not a whole
lot...:

football - Final week of the regular season. As expected, the Ravens
buried the hapless Browns (who end up with a 3-14 record!). And then, in
a mild (and pleasing!!) surprise, the Bengals outlasted the Steelers -
now the Ravens have locked up the AFC North, and the Bengals keep their
still improbable playoff hopes alive!!

The Last Thing She Said (Lifetime) - I finally got through one of the
recent Lifetime/LMN flicks I had missed recently (though I fell asleep
towards the end, and had to finish it off OnDemand this morning).
This stars the lovely Canuck actress Kylee Bush, but she's not
allowed to be very lovely in this as first she's sexually harassed, and
then she's kidnapped and held captive in a basement.
This was sort of an odd choice for a thriller plot - they set up all
these red herrings as Bush's kidnapper, but that lasts all of about
20-30 minutes, and then the rest of it is Bush trying to escape as two
cop detectives try to figure out what's going on after Bush goes missing.
I wish they had given Bush's first headlining (Lifetime) flick a
better plotline for her.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film.  Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

But not the followup?!

What did you watch?

The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service". Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th Anniversary. Lots
of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did one Bond movie. The
bits of the interview with him sounded like he knows he screwed up but
other make it clear there was a lot else going on as well.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film.  Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

But not the followup?!

I was really on the fence about the sequel. I put the sequel on, but
only watched a few seconds before changing my mind.

Post by Dimensional Traveler

What did you watch?

The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service".  Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th Anniversary.  Lots
of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did one Bond movie.  The
bits of the interview with him sounded like he knows he screwed up but
other make it clear there was a lot else going on as well.

What else was going on? I don't remember, did he quit or was he not
asked back?

I have plans to watch all the Bond movies later this year. Some of them
I don't think I've watched in decades, so I'm really looking forward to
revisiting them.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film.  Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

But not the followup?!

I was really on the fence about the sequel.  I put the sequel on, but
only watched a few seconds before changing my mind.

Post by Dimensional Traveler

What did you watch?

The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service".  Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th Anniversary.
Lots of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did one Bond movie.
The bits of the interview with him sounded like he knows he screwed up
but other make it clear there was a lot else going on as well.

What else was going on?  I don't remember, did he quit or was he not
asked back?

Sort of both. He had some attitude, wasn't sure if he wanted to come
back for a second film, the producers weren't especially enthralled with
him and the box office for OHMSS was well below what was expected.

I have plans to watch all the Bond movies later this year.  Some of them
I don't think I've watched in decades, so I'm really looking forward to
revisiting them.

I know you are big on extras so I suggest, if you can get it, the Bond
50 box set. Lots of behind the scenes extras and the restorations are
absolutely perfect. The movies look like they were just filmed.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film.  Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

But not the followup?!

I was really on the fence about the sequel.  I put the sequel on, but
only watched a few seconds before changing my mind.

Post by Dimensional Traveler

What did you watch?

The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's
Secret Service".  Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th
Anniversary. Lots of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did
one Bond movie. The bits of the interview with him sounded like he
knows he screwed up but other make it clear there was a lot else
going on as well.

What else was going on?  I don't remember, did he quit or was he not
asked back?

Sort of both.  He had some attitude, wasn't sure if he wanted to come
back for a second film, the producers weren't especially enthralled with
him and the box office for OHMSS was well below what was expected.

I have plans to watch all the Bond movies later this year.  Some of
them I don't think I've watched in decades, so I'm really looking
forward to revisiting them.

I know you are big on extras so I suggest, if you can get it, the Bond
50 box set.  Lots of behind the scenes extras and the restorations are
absolutely perfect.  The movies look like they were just filmed.

I wish I had that set. I have the Daniel Craig 4K set. The others are
a mix of random blu-rays and DVDs. I've avoided the DVDs which is why
there's a huge gap in the last time I watched some of them. But I read
recently there is a new, I think 4K, box set of the Sean Connery movies
on the way. I plan to pick that up and it should have extras along with
the discs I already have.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film.  Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

But not the followup?!

I was really on the fence about the sequel.  I put the sequel on, but
only watched a few seconds before changing my mind.

Post by Dimensional Traveler

What did you watch?

The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's
Secret Service".  Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th
Anniversary. Lots of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did
one Bond movie. The bits of the interview with him sounded like he
knows he screwed up but other make it clear there was a lot else
going on as well.

What else was going on?  I don't remember, did he quit or was he not
asked back?

Sort of both.  He had some attitude, wasn't sure if he wanted to come
back for a second film, the producers weren't especially enthralled
with him and the box office for OHMSS was well below what was expected.

I have plans to watch all the Bond movies later this year.  Some of
them I don't think I've watched in decades, so I'm really looking
forward to revisiting them.

I know you are big on extras so I suggest, if you can get it, the Bond
50 box set.  Lots of behind the scenes extras and the restorations are
absolutely perfect.  The movies look like they were just filmed.

I wish I had that set.  I have the Daniel Craig 4K set.  The others are
a mix of random blu-rays and DVDs.  I've avoided the DVDs which is why
there's a huge gap in the last time I watched some of them.  But I read
recently there is a new, I think 4K, box set of the Sean Connery movies
on the way.  I plan to pick that up and it should have extras along with
the discs I already have.

https://www.amazon.com/Bond-50-Complete-Collection-Skyfall-dp-B00EK6RM92/dp/B00EK6RM92/ref=dp_ob_title_dvd

or TinyURL
https://tinyurl.com/y96dhbwt

$154 but includes all but the last two Craig Bond movies and they are
all BR (for less than $7 a disc). And as I mentioned earlier, restored
to "like new" visual quality with massive amounts of extras.

[anim8rfsk]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film.  Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

But not the followup?!

I was really on the fence about the sequel. I put the sequel on, but
only watched a few seconds before changing my mind.

Post by Dimensional Traveler

What did you watch?

The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service".  Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th Anniversary.  Lots
of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did one Bond movie.  The
bits of the interview with him sounded like he knows he screwed up but
other make it clear there was a lot else going on as well.

What else was going on? I don't remember, did he quit or was he not
asked back?
I have plans to watch all the Bond movies later this year. Some of them
I don't think I've watched in decades, so I'm really looking forward to
revisiting them.

Be sure to include NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN.

I include the 1967 version of CASINO ROYALE as well.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Dimensional Traveler

Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film.  Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

But not the followup?!

I was really on the fence about the sequel. I put the sequel on, but
only watched a few seconds before changing my mind.

Post by Dimensional Traveler

What did you watch?

The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service".  Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th Anniversary.  Lots
of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did one Bond movie.  The
bits of the interview with him sounded like he knows he screwed up but
other make it clear there was a lot else going on as well.

What else was going on? I don't remember, did he quit or was he not
asked back?
I have plans to watch all the Bond movies later this year. Some of them
I don't think I've watched in decades, so I'm really looking forward to
revisiting them.

Be sure to include NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN.
I include the 1967 version of CASINO ROYALE as well.

Absolutely, I'm including Never Say Never Again! Although it's
apparently not going to be part of the 4K set, I do have it on blu-ray.
I was thinking about the 1967 Casino Royale today and if I would watch
it or not. The jury is still out on that one!

Here's where I"m getting my info from on the Connery set:
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/collecting-4k-sean-connery-ultra-hd-blu-ray-2025?id=05327

[Adam H. Kerman]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
. . .
I was thinking about the 1967 Casino Royale today and if I would watch
it or not. The jury is still out on that one!

I offer the following argument:

Dahlia Lavi
Joanna Pettet
Barbara Bouchet
"Jacky" Bisset

Did I mention Dahlia Lavi?

Ursula Andress was all glammed up. Deborah Kerr was still gorgeous but
her director's scenes were even dumber than the rest of the movie.

There was something about movies in that era and how incredibly
beautiful all the women were. The early '30s were the same way.

Burt Bacharach's score was wonderful as performed by Herb Alpert and the
Tijuana Brass. And Dusty Springfield performs "The Look of Love",
written for this movie.

[shawn]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 16:58:43 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"

Post by Adam H. Kerman

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
. . .
I was thinking about the 1967 Casino Royale today and if I would watch
it or not. The jury is still out on that one!

All great arguments for watching the movie listed below. I find it a
funny movie that I'll watch again every so often.

Post by Adam H. Kerman
Dahlia Lavi
Joanna Pettet
Barbara Bouchet
"Jacky" Bisset
Did I mention Dahlia Lavi?
Ursula Andress was all glammed up. Deborah Kerr was still gorgeous but
her director's scenes were even dumber than the rest of the movie.
There was something about movies in that era and how incredibly
beautiful all the women were. The early '30s were the same way.
Burt Bacharach's score was wonderful as performed by Herb Alpert and the
Tijuana Brass. And Dusty Springfield performs "The Look of Love",
written for this movie.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by shawn
On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 16:58:43 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"

Post by Adam H. Kerman

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
. . .
I was thinking about the 1967 Casino Royale today and if I would watch
it or not. The jury is still out on that one!

All great arguments for watching the movie listed below. I find it a
funny movie that I'll watch again every so often.

Post by Adam H. Kerman
Dahlia Lavi
Joanna Pettet
Barbara Bouchet
"Jacky" Bisset
Did I mention Dahlia Lavi?
Ursula Andress was all glammed up. Deborah Kerr was still gorgeous but
her director's scenes were even dumber than the rest of the movie.
There was something about movies in that era and how incredibly
beautiful all the women were. The early '30s were the same way.
Burt Bacharach's score was wonderful as performed by Herb Alpert and the
Tijuana Brass. And Dusty Springfield performs "The Look of Love",
written for this movie.

I know I've watched it two or three times over the years, but I don't
remember it all that well. And the bits I do remember are more towards
the end when it gets goofy. Anyway, I already put the list together. I
was looking to see where I could squeeze it in and turns out it was
already on the list. That doesn't guarantee I'll watch it, but at least
I don't have to squeeze it in anywhere since it's already accounted for.
And if I follow the watch order I made, it's the first movie of the
day, which is a huge plus. I prefer to get the ones I'm least
interested in out of the way first.

[Adam H. Kerman]

Post by Dimensional Traveler
The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service". Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th Anniversary. Lots
of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did one Bond movie. The
bits of the interview with him sounded like he knows he screwed up but
other make it clear there was a lot else going on as well.

Connery had a rotten time making You Only Live Twice, didn't like being
mobbed by fans, and was dead tired. This movie had problems, but the
cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, and Blofeld's lair, the volcano
interior, was the single largest set constructed up to that time.

Saltzman and Broccoli cast Lazenby for On Her Majesty's Secret Service
hoping to strike gold twice with a relative unknown, except Connery was
a real actor and had an extraordinary screen presence; Lazenby not so
much. He was a model.

Lazenby had a 7 picture deal, so no, Saltzman and Broccoli weren't
waiting for Connery. A couple of things happened: Charles K. Feldman had
also released Casino Royale in 1967, which is said to have hurt the box
office of OHMSS, but that's doubtful as Lazenby's movie attracted almost
as large as audience as the top Bond movies had. Feldman's movie
production was a huge mess given multiple directors and a feuding Orson
Welles and Peter Sellers but the women were absolutely gorgeous, Feldman
wouldn't pay Connery's fee and would regret it.

For whatever reason, Saltzman and Broccoli didn't interfere with
production of OHMSS and, for once, we got an entirely straight
adaptation of Fleming's novel and they finally honored their promise to
Peter R. Hunt to let him direct.

YOLT and OHMSS were filmed out of sequence due to bad weather in
Switzerland.

I say that if Connery had starred in OHMSS, we'd have gotten another
Goldfinger and not the straight adaptation (although the movie plot was
a great improvement on Fleming's plot).

Dianna Rigg was glorious.

Lazenby apparently had Jeffrey Hunter's girlfriend, who talked him out
of being typecast as James Bond and talked him out of a career.

Dude: You already had Dianna Rigg (even though she was assasinated). You
could have gotten any girl in the world as James Bond. Typecast as James
Bond? THere are worse fates.

Lazenby became The Man Who Would Not Show Up to Work. He was going to
star in Diamnds Are Forever. Saltzman even insisted that he'd honor his
contract and held up the start of production for a time.

Finally, S&B did what CKK should have done: They backed up the
trailerfull of cash to Connery's front door and he came back for one
more picture, and then would do the remake of Thunderball for Kevin
McClory.

Lazenby has never reclaimed his man card.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by Adam H. Kerman

Post by Dimensional Traveler
The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service". Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th Anniversary. Lots
of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did one Bond movie. The
bits of the interview with him sounded like he knows he screwed up but
other make it clear there was a lot else going on as well.

Connery had a rotten time making You Only Live Twice, didn't like being
mobbed by fans, and was dead tired. This movie had problems, but the
cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, and Blofeld's lair, the volcano
interior, was the single largest set constructed up to that time.
Saltzman and Broccoli cast Lazenby for On Her Majesty's Secret Service
hoping to strike gold twice with a relative unknown, except Connery was
a real actor and had an extraordinary screen presence; Lazenby not so
much. He was a model.
Lazenby had a 7 picture deal, so no, Saltzman and Broccoli weren't
waiting for Connery. A couple of things happened: Charles K. Feldman had
also released Casino Royale in 1967, which is said to have hurt the box
office of OHMSS, but that's doubtful as Lazenby's movie attracted almost
as large as audience as the top Bond movies had. Feldman's movie
production was a huge mess given multiple directors and a feuding Orson
Welles and Peter Sellers but the women were absolutely gorgeous, Feldman
wouldn't pay Connery's fee and would regret it.
For whatever reason, Saltzman and Broccoli didn't interfere with
production of OHMSS and, for once, we got an entirely straight
adaptation of Fleming's novel and they finally honored their promise to
Peter R. Hunt to let him direct.
YOLT and OHMSS were filmed out of sequence due to bad weather in
Switzerland.
I say that if Connery had starred in OHMSS, we'd have gotten another
Goldfinger and not the straight adaptation

Why? Was Connery pulling strings to prevent straight adaptations?

(although the movie plot was

Post by Adam H. Kerman
a great improvement on Fleming's plot).
Dianna Rigg was glorious.
Lazenby apparently had Jeffrey Hunter's girlfriend, who talked him out
of being typecast as James Bond and talked him out of a career.
Dude: You already had Dianna Rigg (even though she was assasinated). You
could have gotten any girl in the world as James Bond. Typecast as James
Bond? THere are worse fates.
Lazenby became The Man Who Would Not Show Up to Work. He was going to
star in Diamnds Are Forever. Saltzman even insisted that he'd honor his
contract and held up the start of production for a time.
Finally, S&B did what CKK should have done: They backed up the
trailerfull of cash to Connery's front door and he came back for one
more picture, and then would do the remake of Thunderball for Kevin
McClory.
Lazenby has never reclaimed his man card.

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

[Adam H. Kerman]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Adam H. Kerman

Post by Dimensional Traveler
The "let's let Connery cool down" Bond movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret
Service". Part of the 2012 box set for the Bond 50th Anniversary. Lots
of extras, including one on why Lazenby only did one Bond movie. The
bits of the interview with him sounded like he knows he screwed up but
other make it clear there was a lot else going on as well.

Connery had a rotten time making You Only Live Twice, didn't like being
mobbed by fans, and was dead tired. This movie had problems, but the
cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, and Blofeld's lair, the volcano
interior, was the single largest set constructed up to that time.
Saltzman and Broccoli cast Lazenby for On Her Majesty's Secret Service
hoping to strike gold twice with a relative unknown, except Connery was
a real actor and had an extraordinary screen presence; Lazenby not so
much. He was a model.
Lazenby had a 7 picture deal, so no, Saltzman and Broccoli weren't
waiting for Connery. A couple of things happened: Charles K. Feldman had
also released Casino Royale in 1967, which is said to have hurt the box
office of OHMSS, but that's doubtful as Lazenby's movie attracted almost
as large as audience as the top Bond movies had. Feldman's movie
production was a huge mess given multiple directors and a feuding Orson
Welles and Peter Sellers but the women were absolutely gorgeous, Feldman
wouldn't pay Connery's fee and would regret it.
For whatever reason, Saltzman and Broccoli didn't interfere with
production of OHMSS and, for once, we got an entirely straight
adaptation of Fleming's novel and they finally honored their promise to
Peter R. Hunt to let him direct.
YOLT and OHMSS were filmed out of sequence due to bad weather in
Switzerland.
I say that if Connery had starred in OHMSS, we'd have gotten another
Goldfinger and not the straight adaptation

Why? Was Connery pulling strings to prevent straight adaptations?

Goldfinger was an extraordinarially entertaining and popular movie and
they weren't going back to Fleming's original conception like Dr. No and
From Russia With Love. The Bond series had been changed permanently, and
OHMSS would have been largly a comedy like Diamonds Are Forever.

Now, Thunderball began life as a movie script that Fleming novelized
when McClory didn't get financing, so that wasn't going to change too
much.

The advantage with Lazenby is that a Connery movie was no longer
expected and we got a straight adaptation.

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Adam H. Kerman
(although the movie plot was a great improvement on Fleming's plot).
Dianna Rigg was glorious.
Lazenby apparently had Jeffrey Hunter's girlfriend, who talked him out
of being typecast as James Bond and talked him out of a career.
Dude: You already had Dianna Rigg (even though she was assasinated). You
could have gotten any girl in the world as James Bond. Typecast as James
Bond? THere are worse fates.
Lazenby became The Man Who Would Not Show Up to Work. He was going to
star in Diamnds Are Forever. Saltzman even insisted that he'd honor his
contract and held up the start of production for a time.
Finally, S&B did what CKK should have done: They backed up the
trailerful of cash to Connery's front door and he came back for one
more picture, and then would do the remake of Thunderball for Kevin
McClory.
Lazenby has never reclaimed his man card.

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

You're welcome.

[Adam H. Kerman]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Cool World (blu-ray) 1992 live action and animated movie directed by
Ralph Bakshi and starring Brat Pitt as a human in a cartoon world who
has to figure out Who Framed Roger Rabbit, wait wrong movie. Pitt plays
a human cop living in the cartoon world. Kim Basinger also stars. She
is basically a Jessica Rabbit rip off who brings Gabriel Byrne into the
cartoon universe to have sex with her so she can enter the real world.
But once there she threatens to destroy reality. I don't think I've
watched this since I saw it in the theater in 1992. I don't recall
carrying much for it at the time, but after so many years I really just
wanted to see it again. I still didn't care much for it. But I have a
very strong impression this movie was meant to be hard "R" and Bakshi
was forced to tone it down for a PG-13 which left it with this weird
doesn't work tone.

I've seen this once on tv and had no idea what they were trying to do. I
vaguely recall it got pulled from theaters quickly.

Do you own the Chris Rock movie?

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by Adam H. Kerman

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Cool World (blu-ray) 1992 live action and animated movie directed by
Ralph Bakshi and starring Brat Pitt as a human in a cartoon world who
has to figure out Who Framed Roger Rabbit, wait wrong movie. Pitt plays
a human cop living in the cartoon world. Kim Basinger also stars. She
is basically a Jessica Rabbit rip off who brings Gabriel Byrne into the
cartoon universe to have sex with her so she can enter the real world.
But once there she threatens to destroy reality. I don't think I've
watched this since I saw it in the theater in 1992. I don't recall
carrying much for it at the time, but after so many years I really just
wanted to see it again. I still didn't care much for it. But I have a
very strong impression this movie was meant to be hard "R" and Bakshi
was forced to tone it down for a PG-13 which left it with this weird
doesn't work tone.

I've seen this once on tv and had no idea what they were trying to do. I
vaguely recall it got pulled from theaters quickly.
Do you own the Chris Rock movie?

It took me a minute to figure out which movie you were talking about,
"Osmosis Jones." Unfortunately, I don't have that. I only saw it once
in the theater and really liked it. But it was never released on
blu-ray. And if I recall correctly, when it was on TV it was in the
wrong aspect ratio. I just checked, it's on Amazon Prime, in the wrong
aspect ratio. It's filmed in 2.39 : 1, so I have *no* interest in
watching it pan and scanned! But thanks for reminding me, I forgot it
even existed. I just took a look at the box office and it flopped
harder that Titan A.E. and that movie killed an entire studio division.
Warners probably isn't in any hurry to release it, but maybe some
boutique studio will take an interest in it. Why do all the good
animated movies flop so hard? LOL

[Dimensional Traveler]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Adam H. Kerman

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Cool World (blu-ray) 1992 live action and animated movie directed by
Ralph Bakshi and starring Brat Pitt as a human in a cartoon world who
has to figure out Who Framed Roger Rabbit, wait wrong movie.  Pitt plays
a human cop living in the cartoon world.  Kim Basinger also stars.  She
is basically a Jessica Rabbit rip off who brings Gabriel Byrne into the
cartoon universe to have sex with her so she can enter the real world.
But once there she threatens to destroy reality.  I don't think I've
watched this since I saw it in the theater in 1992.  I don't recall
carrying much for it at the time, but after so many years I really just
wanted to see it again.  I still didn't care much for it.  But I have a
very strong impression this movie was meant to be hard "R" and Bakshi
was forced to tone it down for a PG-13 which left it with this weird
doesn't work tone.

I've seen this once on tv and had no idea what they were trying to do. I
vaguely recall it got pulled from theaters quickly.
Do you own the Chris Rock movie?

It took me a minute to figure out which movie you were talking about,
"Osmosis Jones."  Unfortunately, I don't have that.  I only saw it once
in the theater and really liked it. But it was never released on blu-
ray.  And if I recall correctly, when it was on TV it was in the wrong
aspect ratio.  I just checked, it's on Amazon Prime, in the wrong aspect
ratio.  It's filmed in 2.39 : 1, so I have *no* interest in watching it
pan and scanned!  But thanks for reminding me, I forgot it even
existed.  I just took a look at the box office and it flopped harder
that Titan A.E. and that movie killed an entire studio division. Warners
probably isn't in any hurry to release it, but maybe some boutique
studio will take an interest in it.  Why do all the good animated movies
flop so hard?  LOL

"But I don't have kids so why would I go watch a cartoon?"

[Adam H. Kerman]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Adam H. Kerman
. . .
Do you own the Chris Rock movie?

It took me a minute to figure out which movie you were talking about,
"Osmosis Jones." Unfortunately, I don't have that. I only saw it once
in the theater and really liked it. But it was never released on
blu-ray. And if I recall correctly, when it was on TV it was in the
wrong aspect ratio. I just checked, it's on Amazon Prime, in the wrong
aspect ratio. It's filmed in 2.39 : 1, so I have *no* interest in
watching it pan and scanned! But thanks for reminding me, I forgot it
even existed. I just took a look at the box office and it flopped
harder that Titan A.E. and that movie killed an entire studio division.
Warners probably isn't in any hurry to release it, but maybe some
boutique studio will take an interest in it. Why do all the good
animated movies flop so hard? LOL

This is half of a good movie. The gags in the animated portion of the
movie work great and I like the buddy formula with Chris Rock and David
Hyde Pierce. But I don't care for the gross-out Farrelley brothers humor
in the live action portion, and Bill Murray is wasted.

[anim8rfsk]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening
up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films
Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film. Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

I actually watched them film three of the segments from this at Wally
Bulloch’s Anicam where they were shooting a job of mine at the same time.

If I recall correctly, one of the segments, they forgot to put in the green
glowing ball at all, and nobody ever notices.

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Titan A.E. (DVD) Don Bluth directed this 2000 animated sci-fi epic

I refused to work on it way back when it was still called treasure planet
and had a different Director. Then it became ice planet and then it became
planet ice. We were telling them they should call it TITAN I.C.


Not only did they shutter fox animation, they did it the next day. It
opened on a Friday and just from the projected grosses they called people
at home on the weekend and told them not to come in Monday.

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!

Nothing

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening
up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films
Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film. Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

I actually watched them film three of the segments from this at Wally
Bulloch’s Anicam where they were shooting a job of mine at the same time.
If I recall correctly, one of the segments, they forgot to put in the green
glowing ball at all, and nobody ever notices.

It's in all of them, but sometimes its' presence is tangential at best.
In particular the B-17 bomber segment the ball is almost an
afterthought. And in the Pentagon segment it sets things in motion, but
then it's forgotten.

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Titan A.E. (DVD) Don Bluth directed this 2000 animated sci-fi epic

I refused to work on it way back when it was still called treasure planet
and had a different Director.

Disney came out with a Treasure Planet movie two years later. Any relation?

Then it became ice planet and then it became

Post by anim8rfsk
planet ice. We were telling them they should call it TITAN I.C.
Not only did they shutter fox animation, they did it the next day. It
opened on a Friday and just from the projected grosses they called people
at home on the weekend and told them not to come in Monday.

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
Nothing

[anim8rfsk]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening
up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films
Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film. Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

I actually watched them film three of the segments from this at Wally
Bulloch’s Anicam where they were shooting a job of mine at the same time.
If I recall correctly, one of the segments, they forgot to put in the green
glowing ball at all, and nobody ever notices.

It's in all of them, but sometimes its' presence is tangential at best.
In particular the B-17 bomber segment the ball is almost an
afterthought. And in the Pentagon segment it sets things in motion, but
then it's forgotten.

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Titan A.E. (DVD) Don Bluth directed this 2000 animated sci-fi epic

I refused to work on it way back when it was still called treasure planet
and had a different Director.

Disney came out with a Treasure Planet movie two years later. Any relation?

Yes, Fox was ripping them off.

Somehow the story got out that Disney was canceling their plans to make
treasure planet and Fox immediately jumped on it, even though they didn’t
own the script Disney was using. And Disney immediately pointed out that
the rumors were false and they hadn’t canceled treasure planet at all, but
Fox decided to go ahead anyway.

Bluth wouldn’t let the new Director in the building and so they just hired
a bunch of people in my department to paint inspirational stuff at random
and shipped to the art to California where the Director would say yes or no
to any given image.

One day they asked for my opinion of the model spaceship they built. They
had taken a model kit of the seaQuest DSV and stuck masts on it from a
model of the HMS bounty. I told them that’s exactly what it looked like
they had done. They insisted you couldn’t tell it was the seaQuest because
the seaQuest model, they had turned upside down and the masts were actually
sticking out of its belly. I pointed out that except for very minor details
the seaQuest looks exactly the same right side up as upside down.

https://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/seaquest-schematics-1-png.258202/

So now they were ripping off both Disney and Spielberg. I didn’t want to
come anywhere near being caught in the middle of that!

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Then it became ice planet and then it became

Post by anim8rfsk
planet ice. We were telling them they should call it TITAN I.C.
Not only did they shutter fox animation, they did it the next day. It
opened on a Friday and just from the projected grosses they called people
at home on the weekend and told them not to come in Monday.

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
Nothing

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening
up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films
Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film. Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

I actually watched them film three of the segments from this at Wally
Bulloch’s Anicam where they were shooting a job of mine at the same time.
If I recall correctly, one of the segments, they forgot to put in the green
glowing ball at all, and nobody ever notices.

It's in all of them, but sometimes its' presence is tangential at best.
In particular the B-17 bomber segment the ball is almost an
afterthought. And in the Pentagon segment it sets things in motion, but
then it's forgotten.

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Titan A.E. (DVD) Don Bluth directed this 2000 animated sci-fi epic

I refused to work on it way back when it was still called treasure planet
and had a different Director.

Disney came out with a Treasure Planet movie two years later. Any relation?

Yes, Fox was ripping them off.
Somehow the story got out that Disney was canceling their plans to make
treasure planet and Fox immediately jumped on it, even though they didn’t
own the script Disney was using. And Disney immediately pointed out that
the rumors were false and they hadn’t canceled treasure planet at all, but
Fox decided to go ahead anyway.

And the interesting thing is, Titan came out two years earlier, so
everyone would have thought Disney was ripping off Fox. It would have
been worse if Fox's version was better than Disney's version. And I do
prefer "Titan" over Treasure planet by a lot.

Post by anim8rfsk
Bluth wouldn’t let the new Director in the building and so they just hired
a bunch of people in my department to paint inspirational stuff at random
and shipped to the art to California where the Director would say yes or no
to any given image.
One day they asked for my opinion of the model spaceship they built. They
had taken a model kit of the seaQuest DSV and stuck masts on it from a
model of the HMS bounty. I told them that’s exactly what it looked like
they had done. They insisted you couldn’t tell it was the seaQuest because
the seaQuest model, they had turned upside down and the masts were actually
sticking out of its belly. I pointed out that except for very minor details
the seaQuest looks exactly the same right side up as upside down.
https://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/seaquest-schematics-1-png.258202/
So now they were ripping off both Disney and Spielberg. I didn’t want to
come anywhere near being caught in the middle of that!

There's an extra on the Cool World disc where Bakshi talks about the
making of the movie. And they showed the same thing, "inspirational"
art designs that never made the movie. And some of those drawings were
*clearly* ripping off Who Framed Roger Rabbit. They didn't need to pay
someone to draw those images, they could have just taken screen shots
from "Rabbit" and it would have been the same thing.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening
up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films
Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film. Each
segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.

I actually watched them film three of the segments from this at Wally
Bulloch’s Anicam where they were shooting a job of mine at the same time.
If I recall correctly, one of the segments, they forgot to put in the green
glowing ball at all, and nobody ever notices.

At the end when they blow up the house, it isn't roto-scoped.
Apparently they either ran out of time or money, I don't remember the
details.