Heavy Metal - Midnight Screenings Review
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I am older then dirt . I saw Heavy Metal during its initial theatrical release in 1981 when I was 30 and loved it .Since then ,I had a copy of the movie off of HBO , the first legit VHS release , the DVD , and at this time, the regular Blu-Ray release and the 4k Blu-Ray release .
It gets better for me at 71 years old every time I see it. When I see a movie that I saw years or even decades back, I temporally am in the mindset I was in at that time , so aging badly rarely is how I see older films. I can do the same thing for movies from times I was around ,but didn`t see then. and view them with the mental mindset of that era.
We need more animation made for adults like Heavy Metal in mainstream theatrical runs in todays multiplexes .I miss that kind of thing .
Side edit : I also saw Fritz The Cat in the theater. It was at a downtown mainstream theater durring its first theatrical run. I was 21 then . It was in 1972 . miss the days that kind of animation was shown in theaters all over . Happy times.
the 1970s-1980s was a great time for animation that was aimed for adults with Ralph Bakshi and Heavy Metal.
Agreed. They should re-release Ralph Bakshi's "Fire and Ice" or "Wizards".
While I cannot deny the importance of Ralph Bakshi and his contributions to the art of animation, I can honestly say that I have never truly enjoyed ANYTHING he has ever done. I've seen Fritz the Cat, Coonskin (aka, Street Fight), Lord of the Rings, Cool World. . . I think I might have seen Wizards. While the animation is, at times, absolutely gorgeous, there is something decidedly unwholesome about everything. I know that that's the point--all his worlds are dark, gritty, and downright dangerous. But still, they just give me a really bad vibe.
That said, if it weren't for Ralph Bakshi (and his polar opposite, Bob Clampett), we never would have had John Kricsfalusi and _Ren & Stimpy_.
Still remember the first time I saw it in 89 and was blown away. Just rewatch it again and it's timeless. Even the soundtrack is great.
The soundtrack to Heavy Metal rocks! When I hear "heavy metal(taking a ride) "by Don Felder, "Mob Rules" by Black Sabbath, or" Heavy Metal" Sammy Hagar, I automatically think of the movie
The soundtrack was even more successful than the movie ever was. It was a big hit.
I remember this movie from my childhood but was never able to see it until my senior year of high school. We saw it in a midnight showing in an actual theater. It was glorious! We were in the right state of mind for sure.
The bomber segment scared the shit out of me as a kid.
But generally I really like this movie.
First saw Heavy Metal as an adult and that scene creeped me out a little.
I'm glad Major Boobage was mentioned.
I saw this movie in Canada, in a movie marathon at a theatre along with The Rocky Horror Picture Show back around 1981. I loved it because it is so Canadian. I miss John Candy.
I'm in awe at there being another Midnight Screenings. These are what we stay alive for. I'm still waiting for one about 2000 Mules, this year's Dinesh-terpiece.
Midnight Screenings is back everyone
They're back... THEY'RE BACK!! #MidnightScreenings
The men behind the masks
I missed these so much.
The animation and writing I think is very good, it's all 2D hand drawn, and when you put it under the lens of the year and the budget, I feel the dedication that came through! - also FWIW, I feel like some of the stories or pretty clever - But something that we're not talking about that's key, THE MUSIC (other than Journey, I hate Journey)
I heard Netflix's "Love, Death, and Robots" anthology was born from a potential Heavy Metal sequel. Works better as one compared to the "2000" movie, that's for sure.
That is actually true.
Richard Corben's Den really deserves its own series. Maybe by combining the orginal Neverwhere short and the one in the movie by switching the premises around, having it so that its the younger Den that saves the Red Queen, then returning again as a grown man because of the Loc Nar?
In a very old Cinema Snob episode, you referred to Nina Hartley as "your one-way ticket to bangtown." When I heard that, this movie came to mind immediately...She's your one-way ticket to bangtown! Call Her! Nina! Hartley!
I missed videos like this! Please do more reviews in your car!
I first ran into this movie late night on TBS and recorded it from there, and that ment it was edited for broadcast. When it popped up on DVD I was surprised at how well it was edited down considering it kept everything flowing well.
I got to see Heavy Metal at a local drive-in theater in the early 80s. Some of the animation has not aged very well and the stories are very hit or miss. The B52 and Captain Sternn are arguably the better segment, but I have a soft spot for the Taarna story. It's unfortunate the writers didn't give her much of a personality but she still comes across as a tough character. The DVD copy has a couple deleted scenes but doesn't add much to the overall story and were rightfully left unfinished.
MIDNIGHT SCREENING REVIEW BABY!!!!! WOOOO
Given Ivan Reitman also produced SPACE JAM, thank God for the PG rating or Lola Bunny would've been very different.
I'm just here to say I'm happy to see the old fashion Midnight Screening reviews back and would love to see some more of these sprinkled in. If we can get a 2000 Mules one I would love that.
This is my yearly 4/20 movie. Smoke a bowl, put this one and watch it. I used to watch it when I was a kid so when I was casually smoking, it was always the perfect movie to put on.
Hell yeah, Heavy Metal! This is absolutely a "hell yeah" movie, and once again, Brad and I are sympatico. The Captain Sternn segment is my favorite too, it kicks off what is for me the best section of the movie: that one, then B-17, then So Beautiful and So Dangerous. It's great that not only are the Midnight Screenings back, but they're also returning with what have to be my two favorite anthology movies of all time. Wicked!
There must have been something in the Canadian water in the early 80s because there's another "adult" animated film from a Canadian studio featuring rock music- Rock & Rule . It's much more obscure than Heavy Metal by virtue of it being unavailable for decades due to music rights. You should give it a Midnight Screening.
Been a bit, but it’s nice seeing one of these kind of reviews again
Fun fact: The character Hanover Fiste (the dude who hulks out in the Captain Sternn segment) is voiced by Rodger Bumpass, who is best known as the voice of Squidward on Spongebob Squarepants.
Also, Eugene Levy voices Captain Lincoln Sternn.
That said, the two best segments were Captain Sternn and Den of Earth.
It's such a mixed bag, but its all good. I remember actually seeing this late at night on TBS of all places, where they cut all the violence and nudity out. Later on I rented it and then bought a copy, mostly because it's a legendary piece of animation history, but also because it tends to be a fun watch every now and then.
I don't care if there's stuff in it that makes no logical sense, I LOVE this movie!!!!!😃
Wow been a long time since the last Midnight Screenings.
First saw an edited version of this on TV (I think it was TNT in the early 90s) and it gave me the creeps. I wasn't used to seeing adult animation.
This movie was way too horny and immature. The stories in the comic magazine on which it is based would explore eroticism, but there was a deeper maturity and cerebral quality to them.
Holly shit brads back in the car
Just ordered this on dvd for Christmas, saw it in the 80’s as a teenager and have loved it ever since ❤. Bought a bootleg vhs copy at a Star Trek convention in the 90’s lol
3:14 Ah yes Dirty Duck, still a great review
"I've got an angle."
I'm convinced that Hanover Fiste's severed hand is the same hand in the Rick and Morty opening.
"Métal Hurlant" was the most influential magazine in the 70's early 80's. This americanised version is not well known in France.
A lot of French, myself included, were not aware that this movie existed before the South Park episode.
Hereabouts, this cartoon is not well regarded. Often considered badly animated and cheaply designed.
The animation for the Richard Corben and Moëbius segments were highly down-graded for this movie, compared to the comics.
Have a look at the magazine, it was fun Si-Fi and the graphismes are very great.
Technically "Canadianized."
As a kid I loved the graphic comics/novels of Mad and Cracked and later found the adult fantasy Heavy Metal and Epic. Was glad when they came out with the animated anthology of some of the best artists of that era.. just a great memory from those days.
My favorite is"Harry Canyon, the taxi driver!
The same french comic books that inspired Fifth Element, also inspired Heavy Metal. Jean Giraud/Moebius and friends, started a scifi comic magazine (with tits) called Metal Hurlant, and then in 1977 that got a US version, Heavy Metal.
Elmer Bernstein's epic score was not mentioned, which is wrong.
Right? The music from the "Den of Earth" segment was absolutely fantastic.
I remember it being a big deal when this became available on VHS (in the early 90's I think), and it was expensive. Prior to that, only saw it in college from somebody's old recorded off of cable worn copy.
And I will admit, I enjoy Heavy Metal 2000. Big fan of Julie Strain and it has ICP on the soundtrack.
The title, _Heavy Metal_, has nothing to do with heavy metal music. _Heavy Metal_ was the name of an adult comic magazine, which inspired the stories. One of them--"Captain Sternn"--actually appeared in the magazine. It was written and wonderfully illustrated by the late, great Bernie Wrightson, and is frame for frame identical to what appears in the movie (except Hanover Fiste doesn't die in the end).
“Now that I’ve grown up my standards have changed….” Ugh. That just depressed me! I’m 45 and still love stuff like this and I hope I never feel above it or whatever. I think it’s important to retain that youthful spirit and find the fun in crazy stuff like this!!
John Candy, "Mmmmmm...Big!"
Oh my god an honest to God car review
This movie reminds of working at the movie theater in high school. They ran midnight movies on Friday & Saturday; Heavy Metal, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Last House on the Left, Fritz the cat, etc. Great time to be a teenager. Of course I volunteered to work late.
I actually only knew Heavy Metal 2000, I realised half way through when they mentioned it and just THEN I realised why I remembered nothing they were talking about.
My friends and I were around 14 when this aired on HBO when we were kids. We watched it so many times we had the Captain Sternn segment memorized line for line. After four decades, I can still recite it.
I was a fan of the magazine and recognized most of the segments from the original strips by Corben, Wrightson, etc. I agree the animation isn’t the greatest, some definitely better than others.
"Nose dive!"
The first time I saw Heavy Metal was at a midnight showing. The place was packed with small children, because... it's a cartoon and everybody knows cartoons are for children, even R rated ones at midnight.
Saw it in the early 80s at a friends house and again at midnight at the cinema in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida bout 20 yrs ago with a friend I had told that it was a great movie having forgotten how corny it was.
I love Heavy Metal but it's a shame that you can really tell at times how much they cheaped out on the animation budget in some segments.
Heavy Metal 2000 is... interesting. At the time, there were two artistic mediums that were in kind of an awkward transition: animated movies and metal music. A lot of animated movies were an odd mix of traditional hand-drawn and CGI, while at the same time, the metal bands that would be big in the 00's were starting to come out, which wasn't exactly sounding like what was established metal at the time, which caused various "reactions" from the already established bands.
In the center of all that, we saw the release of Heavy Metal 2000.
I saw it twice. Once when it was new, again last year. It's a movie. It's not great, it's not terrible. It just kind of exists. As a huge fan of metal, it's an amazing time capsule. For example, the band Machine Head is on the soundtrack. They are still releasing music today. In fact, their latest album is, at the time that I'm writing this, no more than a few months old. I love both their new stuff and their old stuff, but they will never write a song the way they wrote them back then ever again. I could go on and on, but if you grew up on that era of metal, the music is kind of worth it alone, especially if you still listen to metal.
The movie itself is Heavy Metal. The villain is Michael Ironside, so there's an automatic plus from me. It's the whole "evil guy is evil and wants to unlock the bigger evil" plot, but kinda forgettable, with moments of CGI characters walking around in a hand-drawn environment. It clashes more than it works.
I've seen much worse, but I know that I'd have a hard time getting someone else to watch it with me lol
Makes one wonder if Elon's inspiration for launching a car into space was Heavy Metal?
I can GUARANTEE it was. I mean the Roadster even had a dummy in a space suit.
Great movie, should do a real review.
I saw Heavy Metal 2000 before this one when i was a teen...Boobs scene are cool at that age but it got weird Titan AE animation and it's one story, a pretty generic one really with some fun one liner. Micheal Ironside got some pretty good one and the music is all right...Its just super generic, i still don't understand why they didn't want to try the same model of antology...What do you guys think ?
Love this movie, saw 2000 too, it's essentially the last story in this one but more fleshed out. I thought it was fine, but definitely prefer this.
I saw it back when I was a preteen in the mid 90s blew my mind
Never watched Heavy Metal 2000...but I played the hell outta the soundtrack!!!
Oh shit I remember watching this movie when I was a teen, I used to rent it from my local video store all the time, It kicked ass
The nice thing about it being an anthology is you get 2 exhibitionist power fantasies for the price of 1
I saw heavy metal 2000, I wish I hadn't.
The version on Tubi is missing some music. It made me want to dig out the VHS.
Heavy Métal 2000 isnt that good compared to the og Heavy Métal...but its decent
Plus you got Pantera's Immortally Insane playing while the dude decimates an entire village
Within ten seconds there will be laughter.
I'm surprised it took you this long to get to this film, heh.
I'd recommend watching Heavy Metal 2000 at least once. It shouldn't have the Heavy Metal "brand" but it's a fair adult animation movie
What are the f**king chances. I literally just watched movie for the first time like a week ago.
I loved the original Heavy Metal. Read the magazine too. I remember being excited for Heavy Metal 2000. And then I saw it....yeah. it was bad. I was really angry at how bad it was. Main character not even a little likeable and didn't bother with the anthology style of the first one. There were a lot of things wrong with it. I try to pretend the second one doesn't exist.
I learned that there is a bambi 2??
I first saw this when I was 9-10 at a friend’s house on a sleepover along with Friday the 13th part 4.
I have this on dvd 📀 along with the sequel Heavy Metal 2000, but i haven’t watched this in years and haven’t watched the sequel yet.
Heavy Metal is a unique animated film.
Sternn and B-17 are my favorite segments. Some parts are better than others, but I like the whole movie. Heavy Metal 2000 is one long boring story.
this is one of those movies i watched at like 5 and parts of it were just ingrained in my brain, to the point i had to seek it out to see if i remembered stuff correctly
Used to have a rotted lasterdisc copy.
Yeah, I have seen Heavy Metal 2000 and... it's not good. Not that the original is necessarily a masterpiece or anything but it's at least watchable and enjoyable with some memorable moments. But compared to Heavy Metal 2000? It's Oscar worthy.
Jared looks great
Heavy metal 2k is no better or worse that the average direct to vhs 80s fantasy flick.
Dio also shows up. He is the singer for sabbath at this point.
3:00 I remember HBO and CineMax BOTH having nudity. I think they dialed back on that a lot since HBO ditched REAL SEX and its spin-offs. Now the sex on their comedies and dramas is either awkward, unnerving, or horrifying to watch. That way, it's technically not porn.
I remember 1st watching HEAVY METAL on VH1 Classics (now MTV Classis), but I somehow knew the cut out something naughty. I found it again on TCM Underground almost a year ago, in all its uncensored glory, and it ruled! I vaguely remember watching part of HEAVY METAL 2000 a couple of decades ago on one of the Premium cable channels, but not really enjoying it. I also remember watching the Nostalgia Critic's review of HEAVY METAL, with Diamanda, and I don't know why it's not on Channel Awesome now.
Would someone review 'Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986).
It's like the 80s sex comedy that time forgot.
8:37 Man Brad you really can't remember Zapp Brannigan, twice you forgot his name. You forgot his name here and the other in the infamous Nut Job review
What is this your religion?
I saw the 2nd film, it was ok, but inferior to the original, period.
Please do the sequel
I remember renting and watching the second one, but I forgot everything about it at soon it was over.
I don’t think I feel asleep on it. 😅
If you’re bringing back old co hosts, will Jake be making a return?
it's hard to top Taarna sequence, as a whole it's interesting, but like considering an average anime can OUT DO ANYTHING in it, the crude ass alien scrambling for cocaine doesn't cut it.
I have heard about this adult cartoon but I don't think I've seen Heavy Metal. I was a bit too young with all the boob shots. But I did see American Pop.
Rory Gallagher recommend this movie? as in the long dead amazingly talented British rock guitarist who influenced Brian May of Queen?......Awesome!
Heavy Metal 2000 is basically the Taarna the Taraakian story again, but not as memorable and in comparison it's pretty bland. Though the heroine in that one could talk and is voiced by Julie Strain. The villain is voiced by Michael Ironside, which is always a great cast, and Billy Idol is one of the voices in the movie too and he has a couple of songs in that one as part of the soundtrack.
It's not Blues Brothers 2000 bad, but it's very bland and forgettable, it doesn't have the same fun, over the top, crazy, bat-sh*t drug-hallucinationess like the 1st movie, it took itself too serious!
The one thing I didn't like about this movie was the editing, they even put two scenes at the wrong order at the stoner aliens and the sexbot segment. On the DVD, and I assume the Blu-Ray as well, there's a rough cut of the movie, but it's not animated completely.
The stories are in different order, but that order actually makes sense, there's more lines that where cut out from the final cut, plus a deleted scene and the deleted story and the two scenes that where in the wrong order in the final cut where actually in the right order on the rough cut! They should have gone with the original rough cut as the actual movie because it was slightly better and put together that actually made sense!
Heavy Metal has flaws, but it's a guilty pleasure of mine. Love this movie! Btw, Dio is actually the singer on the Black Sabbath song Mob Rules, it plays in the scene were the green marauders attack the city, killing and slaughtering all the people who lives there. First time I saw it I was like; D*****mn! Holy sh*t! =O =D =P
Is Jerrid the only Midnight Screenings person now?
Has been for a long time.
Heavy Metal is one of those movies I remember thinking was really cool back in the 80's... But I doubt it'd hold up in the space year 2022.
Just revisit the time period in your mind when watching it, rather then comparing it to movies that came out since .
Heavy metal 2000 is mid, heavy metal fakk2 is an ok game, my favourite part of heavy metal is the part with the zombie pilots
Your in a parking garage
Watched like 20 minutes of Heavy Metal 2000, it's bad.
Yeah. But we can pretend it never existed.
It's just unfortunate that the sequel, heavy metal 2000, was kind of awful
Not gonna lie, when first found, I only watched it for the ( o )( o ), but eventually, I grew to enjoy how well made the stories were & how freaky the animation was.
You do these in your girlfriend's car...?
Watched Heavy Metal 2000 earlier this year (think it was on Prime). It’s not an anthology like its predecessor, it’s just one story, and that story is basic AF. If you want animated gore and titties, it provides, and Michael Ironside is clearly having fun as the villain, but the story is just Conan The Barbarian in space; nothing worth remembering. It’s exactly the kind of sci-fi schlock my friends and I would have on the tv in the background while playing D&D in high school.
I never saw the love for this movie, its total shit lol
this film is the reason I go by "Locnar1" on youtube.