Sunday, January 15, 2012

Set The Wayback Machine 1981.... Freshman Year College

Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian fantasy-animated film directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of "Heavy Metal" magazine, the basis for the film. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum.
The film is an anthology of various science fiction and fantasy stories adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, it has a great deal of graphic violence, nudity, and sexuality. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments, including CinéGroupe and Atkinson Film-Arts.


The movie had a "GREAT" soundtrack




and some cool animation given it was back in the early '80's that this was done.....













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7 comments:

  1. IrishJanuary 15, 2012 at 10:56 AM

    Good morning Kev :)

    Yup..The good old daze....hehehhehe

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  2. BoilerdocJanuary 15, 2012 at 10:59 AM

    That takes me back to my sophmore year, thanks for bringing back some good memories!

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  3. IrishJanuary 15, 2012 at 11:06 AM

    @ boiler and thanks for the mental vacation ;) ( linky post going up at lunch)

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  4. BobGJanuary 15, 2012 at 2:35 PM

    I quite enjoyed the movie (I was 29 when it came out), and the music was great.
    Another one that came out that year that I liked but was not as popular was the animated movie American Pop, which suffered from not getting as much publicity. It gave a good telling of the history of music in America through several generations of a particular family.

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  5. IrishJanuary 15, 2012 at 3:44 PM

    THanks Bob G... I never heard of it, I'll have to go check it out :)

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  6. Paul, Dammit!January 15, 2012 at 5:19 PM

    I rewatched as much of this as I could about a year ago. After about 30 minutes, I couldn't handle it any more, despite the excellent soundtrack. How I've changed.

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  7. ChrisJanuary 15, 2012 at 8:37 PM

    Still have the VHS tape of the movie and the cassette of the soundtrack. And the machines to play 'em.

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