The second movie to give you nightmares that you also happened to fap to, or the second movie that fit in the Venn intersection of nightmares and fapping.
Damned if I haven't always liked the Felder eponymous HM track more than the better-known Hagar one (although it's awesome too). Wasn't allowed to see the movie when it came out (I was like 12) so buying the soundtrack on cassette (one of, if not my very, first album purchase in life) had to fill in until I got to see it at a midnight showing years later.
He should have killed two birds with one stone and gone ahead and greenlit a live action reboot of the original film. This would have been the most expensive shot.
I can't believe that didn't occur to me. This is not just surreal, absurd and outlandish... IT'S A FUCKING TESLA CAR COMMERCIAL. The level of sheer brilliance of this move makes my jaw drop in awe.
This whole thing is such a masterstroke of marketing it's mindblowing (I know it's also a genuinly amazing technical feat with real life consequenses, but that's not my forte). From the point of SpaceX it gives people who aren't that interested in space something to cling onto and antropomorphise. The actual visual is so cool and ridiculous it will be played not only on the news, but every morning and late night show in the world. They significantly amplified the hype.
From the point of Tesla they are now branded as the car of the new space age, the car of the future. That image will be iconic, and it creates a clear association between SpaceX and Tesla, above just having the same ceo. Like the reason Wolkswagen makes the Bugatti Veyron isn't because it's profitable, it's so they can point to it and say we're the company that can make a consumer car go +400km/h. Well Tesla can now point to Mars and say our car is somewhere in that direction. Creating that image of the car with the earth in the background isn't something that's too expensive for other companies, it's something that's literally impossible for any other car company to do. In many ways this whole thing encapsulates why Musk is where he is right now.
I've seen Heavy Metal a few times and this is the first time I've noticed that Harold Ramis and Eugene Levy are in it. After checking IMDb for confirmation I saw John Candy also did several voices. I might need to watch it again now that I'm not a teenager and see if I can pick out their voices.
John Candy was the fat New Yoork cop, Den of Earth and the big-eared horny robot. Harold Ramis was the green alien who snorted all the plutonium nyborg. They also did minor background characters.
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u/BetterOffLeftBehind Feb 07 '18
Of all the Sci-Fi / Fantasy shit I watched as a kid, this is the last thing I thought would be real one day ...