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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(film)

[Bud Brewster]

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Enjoy the trailer and the Elmer Bernstein "hero theme" from the Den story. I've loved this music for decades.

_________ Heavy Metal Theatrical Trailer (1981)


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_ Heavy Metal Soundtrack (1981) - Elmer Bernstein


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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Being a life-long fan of Elmer Bernstein's music, I love the score for this film! The movie itself, however, doesn't thrill me quite as much.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Maurice]

I wanted to like the movie, and bits of it are good, but ultimately it just doesn't hang together. The Grimaldi/Green Ball linking device doesn't really work, and, in the case of the Captain Stern segment, actually makes no sense with the punchline. Few of the sequences land, and while it's fine to pick up an issue of a comic and get only part or a serialized story, that's not effective in movie where the episodes either need to be self-contained little stories or fit together to make a bigger story.

They also made a big deal about the all the rock songs, but so many of them are so briefly excerpted that they might as well not be there. Fortunately, Bernstein's score (you can hear it here) is fantastic. The theme for "Taarna," played on the ondes Martenot with chorus was him adapting his rejected love theme from Saturn III.

Yeah, and I realize this was aimed at teens and young men, but it turned off a lot of women I know. I remember one friend rolling her eyes when Harry Canyon's taxi's disintegrator first vaporizes The Girl's clothes, leaving her naked before burning her out of existence, whereas it didn't do the same thing to a male earlier in the sequence. I think that emphasis on major boobage limited its box-office appeal in the long run.

And speaking of major boobage, the South Park episode "Major Boobage" totally sent up Heavy Metal. Definitely NSFW.

[Bud Brewster]

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Maurice, youve written a wonderful review for this movie!

Thanks for the fine analysis and interesting comments. You really summed up the flaws which lessened this film's impact on the audience.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)