Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-03 (Friday)

On 1/12/2025 1:05 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 1/4/2025 8:11 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 1/4/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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I'm still powering through movies in my collection.  Now I'm going to
dive into animation for the next few weeks.  I'll be watching some old
favorites I've watched before but a lot of movies still in the shrink
wrap.  I'm going to try (more or less) to watch them in release order by
decade.
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First up, I watched a few Charlie Brown movies.  These have been in the
shrink wrap for years.  I only wanted "Race for your life Charlie Brown"

 Produced under the title “Charlie Brown’s Race for Life”
 They made a big deal about changing the title because somebody decided the
original title sounded like Charlie Brown was going to die.  I never
thought the new title changed that perception any.  Why not Charlie Brown’s
great river race or something?
 

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Because that would mess up the wonderful theme song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xClstkPnw&t=44s

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Fantastic Planet (blu-ray) 1973 French animated sci-fi movie.  The movie
is set on an alien planet where humans are kept as pets by giant aliens.
  The aliens think of humans as nothing more than simple pets but soon
discover humans aren't as dumb as they think.  It holds up well enough,
I think I probably appreciate this movie more now than I did when I was
younger.  I never noticed before now, but I think "Battlefield Earth"
ripped off this movie's plot.  They just changed the setting to Earth.
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 Saw this with a group of friends in a drive-in. The people that were
totally stoned, loved it.
 

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Wizards (blu-ray) 1977 Ralph Bakshi classic, set millions of years after
an apocalypse has wiped out human civilization and replaced it with
mutants and wizards.  An evil mutant wages a war against non mutants
while his good wizard twin brother leads a group against him.  This is a
movie that the first time I saw it, I didn't really care much for, but
I've watched it again and again over the years, and I keep liking it
more and more.  The first time I saw it, I hated the ending, but now I
anticipate that climatic moment when things are settled.  I should also
mention the picture quality on the blu-ray looked excellent.
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 Saw WIZARDS in the theater first run and was wildly underwhelmed.

Yeah, you really have to watch it more than once to appreciate it.

Especially at the ending that was ripped off from Larry Niven’s “What Good
Is a Glass Dagger?“
 But the main take away was the previews for some new film we never heard of
called STAR WARS.
 

Sounds like a cheap Roger Corman flick.  And wasn't that directed by the guy who did the Happy Days movie?  I'm sure nothing will come of it.