"Have to give the fans something to talk about. It's my obligation as a national hero."
- Frankenstein
I watched this a few times when I was younger, and appreciated it on the surface as a fun movie about racers trying to kill each other. I knew it was one year before Stallone wrote and starred in Rocky, and that it paved the way for everything from Super Mario Kart to Twisted Metal. I figured I'd rewatch it before I…
"Let's pretend that a man, with a little help from science, could psychically project himself inside the dream of a sleeping person..."
- Max von Sydow
"Oh hell yeah count me in!"
- Me at my TV
Where was this movie all my life? I went in blind and with very low expectations, because I wanted to add it to my dream movie list, and it blew me away.
It starts with Sarah Connor's nuclear nightmare from Terminator 2 (1991),…
"That was the sleaziest transformation I've ever seen."
"Thank you so much for waiting! So, what's on the agenda?"
This is 3 episodes about a 10 year old girl who turns into an adult with giant breasts and the magical powers of Mei the Forest Spirit. But to do so she has to do a racist dance, chant some racist gibberish, grab her breasts, and fake an orgasm. This is like if Billy Batson had to mime masturbating every time…
Of course the episode with the cute Disney animation has to be the grossest, nastiest, and most misogynistic. And for a story about abuse and then revenge, it needs to respect the balance. It needs way more revenge than abuse.
But steampunk Hong Kong with little robot cats and rabbits yes please!! I'd love a sequel in this world. If most of these end up feeling like video game trailers, this is the trailer for the coolest most radical 90s game: Robo-Fox Pimp-Hunter 2000. It would have been huge.
Best Letterboxd notification I ever got on my phone. A new Letterboxd exclusive partially stop-motion Coralie Fargeat Star Wars fan film from 1993 just dropped.
She made this with her friends when she was 17 and it is absolutely adorable!
The stop-motion editing on VHS looks so damn good! I used to try to do that with my Ninja Turtles toys in the 90s but could never get it this smooth! For an amateur fan film, the stop-motion and the music were the best parts. Coralie Fargeat is the real deal! I can't wait to hear your Oscar acceptance speech!!!
One of the horniest episodes of the series, reminding you of its origin as a reboot of Heavy Metal, the horniest comic anthology of all time.
Personally I wish we got to see a little more of this world and meet a few more of the beasties, or learn more about that secret bone-blade-mystery inside Turboraptor's arm. But I liked where it went and would have liked more of that too.
This would be such a fun video game. You'd…
