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

On 1/5/2025 9:44 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

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?

It took me a minute to figure out which movie you were talking about, "Osmosis Jones."  Unfortunately, I don't have that.  I only saw it once in the theater and really liked it. But it was never released on blu-ray.  And if I recall correctly, when it was on TV it was in the wrong aspect ratio.  I just checked, it's on Amazon Prime, in the wrong aspect ratio.  It's filmed in 2.39 : 1, so I have *no* interest in watching it pan and scanned!  But thanks for reminding me, I forgot it even existed.  I just took a look at the box office and it flopped harder that Titan A.E. and that movie killed an entire studio division. Warners probably isn't in any hurry to release it, but maybe some boutique studio will take an interest in it.  Why do all the good animated movies flop so hard?  LOL