Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-04 (Saturday)

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

Cool World (blu-ray) 1992 live action and animated movie directed by
Ralph Bakshi and starring Brat Pitt as a human in a cartoon world who
has to figure out Who Framed Roger Rabbit, wait wrong movie.  Pitt plays
a human cop living in the cartoon world.  Kim Basinger also stars.  She
is basically a Jessica Rabbit rip off who brings Gabriel Byrne into the
cartoon universe to have sex with her so she can enter the real world.
But once there she threatens to destroy reality.  I don't think I've
watched this since I saw it in the theater in 1992.  I don't recall
carrying much for it at the time, but after so many years I really just
wanted to see it again.  I still didn't care much for it.  But I have a
very strong impression this movie was meant to be hard "R" and Bakshi
was forced to tone it down for a PG-13 which left it with this weird
doesn't work tone.

I've seen this once on tv and had no idea what they were trying to do. I
vaguely recall it got pulled from theaters quickly.

Do you own the Chris Rock movie?