Fun Fact: Immortal: AD Vitam & Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow (both 2004) duke it out for the 1st film shot entirely on green screen. Immortal came out first, but Sky Captain gets the official nod because it has one shot, that is 3yrs older than the rest of the movie.
Sky Captain is a very enjoyable and odd film. It's like 1930's - 40's pulp science fiction - adventure done in a highly stylized manner, and it's definitely more mainstream than Immortal. Of course, it also had a much larger budget than Immortal. I'd never even heard of Immortal until a viewer brought it up on a recent live show. Very interesting that it's an English language film considering it's French roots in Metal Hurlant with the great Enki Bilal (Exterminator 17).
You're doing an excellent job with these Heavy Metal themed videos, Mike. I'm going to check out Immortal and the Corben Neverwhere films today. Just by the clips you've shown, it's very impressive how effective the Neverwhere film is with such crude means and limited animation. Corben's work is stunning. I have a couple of stacks of early Heavy Metal magazines around here that I never cataloged the way I did with my other mags. I'm going to go through those and see exactly what I have, inspired by your HM coverage. I don't think I have the first issue, but I have a few issues from before 1980. I might find some gems in there.
Thanks, Michael, I watched Immortal a few days back and really enjoyed it. A very odd mix of live action, cgi animation, and that "Sin City" style visual effect which works really well. Definitely in the Heavy Metal cinematic universe.
I'm suprised by your preference for Alien Resurrection and respect you for standing by that. That aside this is a good video I look forward to future content.
Thanks for watching. It's an easy choice with Alien Resurrection considering that Aliens was space marines fighting aliens on an outpost and Alien 3 was prisoners fighting aliens in a penal colony. Not much in the way of developing the Alien mythos until the 4th film came along.
@@horrormike I do respect Resurrection for taking some ballsy risks and interesting artistic direction. I feel A3's exsistance was very detrimental to AR and would have been better served pretending 3 didn't exsist. I however am a simple man and much enjoy the gunfire, the bombastic score, the primal fighting for survival and paternal aspect of Aliens and so I subjectivly rank it 2nd to the first movie. Simply out of my own personal taste. To each their own.
@@helmetfire5973 I agree in your ranking of Alien 3 as the least of the four films, no doubt, and I do like Aliens a lot. Great action and suspense and we see just how sleazy Weyland and the military industrial complex is in the future. I think this is an aspect that Cameron and the writers carried over very well from Alien.
So glad joko didn't get to screw up Dune. All that kum by ya junk was not what dune was about. It was about absolute power corrupts. If someone wants to change a story that much, just make your own damn story. Just plain laziness. He would fit in at Disney perfectly.
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Fun Fact: Immortal: AD Vitam & Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow (both 2004) duke it out for the 1st film shot entirely on green screen. Immortal came out first, but Sky Captain gets the official nod because it has one shot, that is 3yrs older than the rest of the movie.
Sky Captain is a very enjoyable and odd film. It's like 1930's - 40's pulp science fiction - adventure done in a highly stylized manner, and it's definitely more mainstream than Immortal. Of course, it also had a much larger budget than Immortal. I'd never even heard of Immortal until a viewer brought it up on a recent live show. Very interesting that it's an English language film considering it's French roots in Metal Hurlant with the great Enki Bilal (Exterminator 17).
Okay, so im writing my thesis now. I watched this like a couple hundred times. Thank you for this video.
Mátyás Mészáros thank you, I'm glad this video helped you. The contributions of Metal Hurlant to science fiction and fantasy cannot be overstated!
You're doing an excellent job with these Heavy Metal themed videos, Mike. I'm going to check out Immortal and the Corben Neverwhere films today. Just by the clips you've shown, it's very impressive how effective the Neverwhere film is with such crude means and limited animation. Corben's work is stunning. I have a couple of stacks of early Heavy Metal magazines around here that I never cataloged the way I did with my other mags. I'm going to go through those and see exactly what I have, inspired by your HM coverage. I don't think I have the first issue, but I have a few issues from before 1980. I might find some gems in there.
Thanks, Michael, I watched Immortal a few days back and really enjoyed it. A very odd mix of live action, cgi animation, and that "Sin City" style visual effect which works really well. Definitely in the Heavy Metal cinematic universe.
Hi Mike i found it interesting how Metal Hurlant & Heavy Metal inspired some of these great Sci-fi movie's.
Thanks for watching this Heavy Metal - Metal Hurlant video, Michael Taylor, I really appreciate it.
I'm suprised by your preference for Alien Resurrection and respect you for standing by that. That aside this is a good video I look forward to future content.
Thanks for watching. It's an easy choice with Alien Resurrection considering that Aliens was space marines fighting aliens on an outpost and Alien 3 was prisoners fighting aliens in a penal colony. Not much in the way of developing the Alien mythos until the 4th film came along.
@@horrormike I do respect Resurrection for taking some ballsy risks and interesting artistic direction. I feel A3's exsistance was very detrimental to AR and would have been better served pretending 3 didn't exsist. I however am a simple man and much enjoy the gunfire, the bombastic score, the primal fighting for survival and paternal aspect of Aliens and so I subjectivly rank it 2nd to the first movie. Simply out of my own personal taste. To each their own.
@@helmetfire5973 I agree in your ranking of Alien 3 as the least of the four films, no doubt, and I do like Aliens a lot. Great action and suspense and we see just how sleazy Weyland and the military industrial complex is in the future. I think this is an aspect that Cameron and the writers carried over very well from Alien.
I am loving the art work very cool
You have good taste, Fred Hall! The Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal art is fantastic, especially in the early years.
So glad joko didn't get to screw up Dune. All that kum by ya junk was not what dune was about. It was about absolute power corrupts. If someone wants to change a story that much, just make your own damn story. Just plain laziness. He would fit in at Disney perfectly.
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