I wonder if the guy has already been approached by the people that are willing to pay top dollar for a Miley Cyrus version.
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Thereās one big difference. The idea of an animated Kim Bassinger getting wasted and dancing to old skool Moby rave music in a tantalizing fashion is quite appealing, and theā¦ thingā¦ this post was about is most certainly not.
And yes, Iām asserting my own personal taste and disfunctions here.
Edit: And you know, Iām not positive Iāve EVER watched Cool World from beginning to end. Which is a shame, considering the soundtrack was one of the main things that got me into my lifelong obsession with electronic music (the fact that my cousin passed me a pre-rolled jay in the cassette case when he loaned me the tape didnāt hurt, most likely). Time to fire this movie up.
Nobody questions that R2-D2 apparently has a gender identity and heās basically just a trash can on wheels.
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Not necessarily. I saw this for the first time a year or two ago and it was so badly written that it just made me angry. For example, in the beginning of the movie Brad Pitt gets sucked into a cartoon world for no apparent reason and is immediately hired as a cop in a society where the only law is that humans canāt fuck cartoon characters. Did I mention that Brad Pitt is the ONLY human in this crazy cartoon world at this point in the film and remains so for the next 47 years?
Iād really hoped to enjoy the film, but it was pretty obvious in retrospect that the only reason it got the green light was that Paramount wanted a piece of Roger Rabbitās commercial success.
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Prepare to walk away disappointed - or at best, āmehā. The soundtrack is great (features one of my favorite bands, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult). There are some great parts of animation. But overall it was a mess. Read the back story on the making of the film. Basically Bakshi had a great idea for an R rated horror film, and then studio was like āawesome lets do it!ā. Then they hired some other guy (Frank Mancuso, JR) who completely re-wrote the script, dumbed it down to PG-13, and later had Bassinger trying to make changes during filming.
I do take some solace that at one point Bakshi popped Mancuso in the mouth. But in the end, he was forced to make a film he no longer cared about and it showed. All the non-nonsensical background action throughout the film is a result of him basically telling the animators to have fun and do what ever they wanted.
Me too. Itās a shame that it could have been so much more.
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Christ, that IS appalling. We all know humans and cartoons are destined to shag.
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The Walking Dead could use it for their Las Vegas episode.
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Itās dancing erotically to Paul Simonās Graceland? Robots have got a lot to learn.
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So, nobody else thought Tina Turner in that first clip?
Well, itās certainly turning me off in interesting ways.
Iām pretty sure the LGBT nerd set considers R2-D2 a lesbian.
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Itās a bit of both. Iāve definitely caught the ape doing things that I come up with intellectual justifications for afterwardā¦ though Iāve stopped bothering for some of them, since I know where theyāre coming from.On the other hand, heās a pretty well-trained animal for the most part.
I think itās meant to be unsettling. It isnāt just an robot erotic dancer with a creepy face; it maintains eye contact and watches you as you watch it. The fact that itās impaled on a pole (along with the fact it looks like itās been through some rough times) seems to indicate that itās a critique of some kind, perhaps of sexual objectification.
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Wouldnāt that make it an Arduino broad?
Sex with robots? R2 was seen at the truck stop giving handies.
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