What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[Nathan]

Part of Springbreakers. Uhhhh....

[Timothy225]

Wizards (1977) - I'd DVR'd this a couple of months ago, as I hadn't seen it in about 10-15 years, and even then, I barely remembered watching it. This time, with full attention paid, I gave it a watch.

Bakshi's always been hit or miss with me with his films. I do love a lot of his TV wok (The Mighty Heroes, the original Spider-Man cartoon, etc.), I dug Fritz the Cat (for what it was), and his later work (Fire and Ice, Cool World - which I'd watched a bunch of times on cable, mostly for Kim Basinger).

Wizards was more... "meh." While I do get where he was going re: his commentary on then current issues (war, technology, politics, etc.), but it felt like I was watching a student film moreso than an epic fantasy. The non-animated inserts, drawn by comics legend Mike Ploog, immediately recalled Wendy & Richard Pini's ElfQuest, and had this played as a straight fantasy film, I probably would've enjoyed it more. The sci-fi bits, small though they were, kind of threw off the story a bit. Also, some of the rotoscoped bits, mostly the huge armies that were cribbed from films about the Crusades or King Arthur, kept taking me out of the film. Same stuff happened with Bakshi's Lord of the Rings (required viewing if you dig animation or are a Tolkien fan, but the film pales when compared to the, IMHO, superior Rakin/Bass takes on The Hobbit and Return of the King, and the Jackson films). Bakshi even swiped from himself by using some of those scenes in Wizards in his take on LOTR - lazy, lazy, lazy.

As a film buff/student, absolutely give Wizards a spin if you haven't seen it. Bakshi took some risks, developed some tech still in use today, and was a pioneer in the medium. Matt watched this a year or so back and his take was valid - the film has a lot of issues, needed more thought in some of the ideas it worked with, and could've been a hell of a great fantasy flick, but it seemed to be somewhat disjointed and laid back on the execution.

[Matt]

THEY SHOT FRITZ! THEY SHOT FRITZ!!!

[Timothy225]

OK, I DID enjoy that bit, Matt.

[Abraham Smashington]

Part of Springbreakers. Uhhhh....

Finish it because it's one of the best films of the year.

[BillyG]

Finish it because it's one of the best films of the year.

OF ALL TIME










look at my shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

[Abraham Smashington]

yessssss

[Abraham Smashington]

hatsssss and gunssssss

[Abraham Smashington]

Watched Fast 6 with Ceej on Friday since he never saw it. Pretty sure he didn't like it as he made fun of it the entire time. Silly bastard has no idea the genius of it.

SHOW VIN'S FLYING HEADBUTT OF AWESOMENESS SOME GODDAMN RESPECT

[Martin]

Watched Pacific Rim finally. Some of you guys are nitpicky as fuck. It wasn't perfect but it was fucking fun as shit. Mako or whatever her name was, was more of a void than Hunnam to me and Elba was fine in it. SO NITPICK, SUCH WRONG

AMEN BRO.

*EPIC BROFIST*

[Ben Thomas]

I really can't muster up the energy for Spring Breakers. Franco is the only thing in it that makes me want to give it a go.

[BillyG]

I really can't muster up the energy for Spring Breakers. Franco is the only thing in it that makes me want to give it a go.

And he's exactly why you should. It's a culmination of all the Franco weirdness encased in a perfectly weird bubble of a world.


my bed is fucking aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart

[Matt]

Watched DIE HARD last night (for Christmas) for the first time in something like ten years. So damned good.

[Nathan]

Watched DIE HARD last night (for Christmas) for the first time in something like ten years. So damned good.

Absolutely

[B_Metal]

Watched Fast 6 with Ceej on Friday since he never saw it. Pretty sure he didn't like it as he made fun of it the entire time. Silly bastard has no idea the genius of it.

SHOW VIN'S FLYING HEADBUTT OF AWESOMENESS SOME GODDAMN RESPECT

Sometimes I wonder about Ceej.