Heavy Metal (1981 film) - Revision history

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 (Should be an objective, unbiased, detailed synopsis of film's plot and themes.
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 * "Soft Landing" ("Grimaldi") - Wrap-around segment which begins with an astronaut riding through Earth's atmosphere in a classic convertible, soft-landing, and speeding to his house, to deliver a mysterious artifact to his daughter for her birthday; the artifact, a green, glowing sphere called the "Loc-Nar", immediately melts the astronaut before his daughter's eyes, and then terrorizes the girl with visions of the other stories from the anthology.
 * "Harry Canyon" - A cyberpunk-noir detective story in which a femme-fatale archaeologist's daughter hires a cab driver to help her protect the Loc-Nar from a gang of thugs.

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 * "So Beautiful, So Dangerous" - a forgettable comic relief segment involving a UFO crewed by stoner androids and aliens and the sexy Earth secretary they abduct to join their sex-and-drug-fueled space party.
 * "Taarna" - The last of a race of leather-clad, sword-wielding, giant-bird-riding warrior nuns tasked as Defenders of a fantasy world by sacred pact, is called upon to take vengeance upon a sadistic army raised and mutated by the Loc-Nar....
-* "Epilogue" - After Taarna defeats the mutant army and destroys the Loc-Nar, the wrap-around segment concludes with the Loc-Nar shattering, and the astronaut's daughter becoming the next Defender, riding off to the Dreamlands on Taarna's bird....}}
+* "Epilogue" - After Taarna defeats the mutant army and destroys the Loc-Nar, the wrap-around segment concludes with the Loc-Nar shattering, and the astronaut's daughter becoming the next Defender, riding off to the Dreamlands on Taarna's bird....
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 * "So Beautiful, So Dangerous" - a forgettable comic relief segment involving a UFO crewed by stoner androids and aliens and the sexy Earth secretary they abduct to join their sex-and-drug-fueled space party.
 * "Taarna" - The last of a race of leather-clad, sword-wielding, giant-bird-riding warrior nuns tasked as Defenders of a fantasy world by sacred pact, is called upon to take vengeance upon a sadistic army raised and mutated by the Loc-Nar....
-* "Epilogue" - After Taarna defeats the mutant army and destroys the Loc-Nar, the wrap-around segment concludes with the Loc-Nar shattering, and the astronaut's daughter becoming the next Defender, riding off to the Dreamlands on Taarna's bird....
+* "Epilogue" - After Taarna defeats the mutant army and destroys the Loc-Nar, the wrap-around segment concludes with the Loc-Nar shattering, and the astronaut's daughter becoming the next Defender, riding off to the Dreamlands on Taarna's bird....}}
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 * Phil Hardy in the Aurum Film Encylopedia: Science Fiction (Pg. 367 & 368) - "Between liberal spankings of Science Fiction, mysticism, dystopianism, gothic horror, soft-core sex and sword and sorcery... ...lies a tangle of connections not made... ...a fog of risibly portentous juvenile gibberish."
-* Johnny LaRue at Johnny LaRue's Crane Shots ([http://craneshot.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/heavy-metal.html link]) - "Seemingly designed for midnight crowds under the influence..."
+* Marty McKee at Johnny LaRue's Crane Shots ([http://craneshot.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/heavy-metal.html link]) - "Seemingly designed for midnight crowds under the influence..."
 * Janet Maslin at The New York Times ([http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9805EFDF153BF934A3575BC0A967948260 Link]) - " Animated or not, this isn't a movie to take children to, unless you'd like them to develop an early interest in bondage."
 * Dave Sindelar at Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings ([http://scifilm.org/musing4994.html Link]) - "Overall, I admire the movie's ambitions, but I can't say I found it satisfying."

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 * Phil Hardy in the Aurum Film Encylopedia: Science Fiction (Pg. 367 & 368) - "Between liberal spankings of Science Fiction, mysticism, dystopianism, gothic horror, soft-core sex and sword and sorcery... ...lies a tangle of connections not made... ...a fog of risibly portentous juvenile gibberish."
 * Janet Maslin at The New York Times ([http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9805EFDF153BF934A3575BC0A967948260 Link]) - " Animated or not, this isn't a movie to take children to, unless you'd like them to develop an early interest in bondage."
 * Dave Sindelar at Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings ([http://scifilm.org/musing4994.html Link]) - "Overall, I admire the movie's ambitions, but I can't say I found it satisfying."

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 * S____ (One Tentacle:  Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
-The invasive, corrupting influence of the green, glowing "Loc-Nar" sphere as it travels through time and space might be loosely compared to "[[The Colour Out of Space (fiction)]]", the stories generally seem to take place in a sort of sci-fi/fantasy [[Dreamlands]] setting, at least one story appears to be a pastiche of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' John Carter stories and [[Robert E. Howard]]'s Conan and Bran Mak Morn, etc., and some of the better stories are a nice mix of horror, fantasy, and/or science fiction, though the film as a whole is a little bit too schlocky, over-the-top, and rule-of-cool to ever end up feeling like a Lovecraftian pastiche in any but the loosest sense.
+The invasive, corrupting influence of the green, glowing "Loc-Nar" sphere as it travels through time and space might be loosely compared to "[[The Colour Out of Space (fiction)]]", the stories generally seem to take place in a sort of sci-fi/fantasy [[Dreamlands]] setting, at least one story appears to be a pastiche of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' John Carter stories and [[Robert E. Howard]]'s Conan and Bran Mak Morn, etc., and some of the better stories are a nice mix of horror, fantasy, and/or science fiction, though the film as a whole is a little bit too ham-and-cheesey, puerile, over-the-top, and rule-of-cool to ever end up feeling like a Lovecraftian pastiche in any but the loosest sense; it lacks the subtlety, dignity, and awe of a properly Lovecraftian treatment of its subject matter.
 ''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of

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 * Janet Maslin at The New York Times ([http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9805EFDF153BF934A3575BC0A967948260 Link]) - " Animated or not, this isn't a movie to take children to, unless you'd like them to develop an early interest in bondage."
 * Dave Sindelar at Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings ([http://scifilm.org/musing4994.html Link]) - "Overall, I admire the movie's ambitions, but I can't say I found it satisfying."
-* Richard Scheib at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Review (2.5/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/heavy-metal-film-1981.htm Link]) - "There is a trippy cult hallucinatory quality to Heavy Metal. At its best it conjures some nice vistas of space and other worlds. However... ...film also seems to embody far too much of what was criticized about the Robert E. Howard school of barbarian sword-and-sorcery... The film’s appeal at times seems little above that of a John Norman novel."
+* Richard Scheib at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (2.5/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/heavy-metal-film-1981.htm Link]) - "There is a trippy cult hallucinatory quality to Heavy Metal. At its best it conjures some nice vistas of space and other worlds. However... ...film also seems to embody far too much of what was criticized about the Robert E. Howard school of barbarian sword-and-sorcery... The film’s appeal at times seems little above that of a John Norman novel."
 ==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==

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+* Phil Hardy in the Aurum Film Encylopedia: Science Fiction (Pg. 367 & 368) - "Between liberal spankings of Science Fiction, mysticism, dystopianism, gothic horror, soft-core sex and sword and sorcery... ...lies a tangle of connections not made... ...a fog of risibly portentous juvenile gibberissh."
 ==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==

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-"Columbia Pictures takes you beyond the future into a universe you've never seen before. A universe of mystery. A universe of magic. A universe of sexual fantasies. A universe of awesome good. A universe of terrifying evil.  A universe one step beyond science fiction: Heavy Metal!"  A glowing green orb which embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy and horror.
+"Columbia Pictures takes you beyond the future into a universe you've never seen before. A universe of mystery. A universe of magic. A universe of sexual fantasies. A universe of awesome good. A universe of terrifying evil.  A universe one step beyond science fiction: the universe of ''Heavy Metal''!"  A glowing green orb which embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy and horror.
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 * Country/Language:  Canada, English
 * Genres/Technical:  Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, animated, anthology, musical
-* Setting:  [[Dreamlands]], [[Weird World War]], [[Cthulhu Icarus]], and others
+* Setting:  [[Dreamlands]], [[Weird World War]], [[Cthulhu Icarus]], [[CthulhuPunk]], and others
 * Runtime:  1 hr 26 min
 * Starring:  (various)
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 * artifact:  [[Loc-Nar]] (compare very loosely to the [[Colour Out of Space]])
 * fiction:  the segment "Den" appears to have been inspired by the fantasy work of [[Robert E. Howard]] and (especially) [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
-* setting:  [[Dreamlands]], [[Cthulhu Icarus]], [[Weird World War]]
+* setting:  [[Dreamlands]], [[Cthulhu Icarus]], [[Weird World War]], [[CthulhuPunk]]
 * name-dropping:
 ** As in the magazine, the evil emanation Den battles is called "Ulultc" - a variation on the name of [[Cthulhu]] spelled backwards...