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Written by James M. Tate / 10/21/2024 / No comments / animated , eighties , mews small , music , ralph bakshi

RALPH BAKSHI'S MULTI-GENERATIONAL MELODRAMA 'AMERICAN POP'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbagUIVx00QOV5VA-dUXmkTzBVFHVLVPgKgKyECXyXxeKrNOkDEw8tWyHOjjyrzs7kNw8TJPIQ4H42D0jRpLjbHwddALJhPVdPA6OauoPVf65oMvLCSQ5VfWi7NptvPZvjUV5LTKvpdJ8yyWr5IeDjAt0rDWhibhKNd3AzYrQsOyDzkPK9fuNTD2s-CvV/s1974/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.28%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1974" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbagUIVx00QOV5VA-dUXmkTzBVFHVLVPgKgKyECXyXxeKrNOkDEw8tWyHOjjyrzs7kNw8TJPIQ4H42D0jRpLjbHwddALJhPVdPA6OauoPVf65oMvLCSQ5VfWi7NptvPZvjUV5LTKvpdJ8yyWr5IeDjAt0rDWhibhKNd3AzYrQsOyDzkPK9fuNTD2s-CvV/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.28%20PM%202.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marya Small (now Mews Small) in Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP Year: 1981 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What's considered cult animation director Ralph Bakshi's greatest achievement is a searing saga about four generations of failed musicians dating back to the turn of the century... winding up with a singer/songwriter who's supposed to have become famous having written and performed Bob Seger's NIGHT MOVES...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But the most involving sequences should have been during the first half, dealing with historically iconic topics from vaudville to mobsters to jazz joints to world wars... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVoAEnZ9Ws-CZa4uPzNL5Z50YDtWSz_LJEsdacFaJ3Gi-YdDidTZ3M-7ncrDN17cAdjOhBpykSHhyphenhyphenTu5o-vxJxy5g0DydgeCwoPBLCsHilLqQSsEe82UZQlQS2YCofoSAMz-W7JAbdgozrGWW0WFDz1mf4-jt8azr_ETBxhyeqpK6ijDLRDB7FGHKUrjsH/s2250/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.02.38%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="2250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVoAEnZ9Ws-CZa4uPzNL5Z50YDtWSz_LJEsdacFaJ3Gi-YdDidTZ3M-7ncrDN17cAdjOhBpykSHhyphenhyphenTu5o-vxJxy5g0DydgeCwoPBLCsHilLqQSsEe82UZQlQS2YCofoSAMz-W7JAbdgozrGWW0WFDz1mf4-jt8azr_ETBxhyeqpK6ijDLRDB7FGHKUrjsH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.02.38%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Which is nicely presented with vibrant, cool-looking imagery yet on a human level, the rotoscope process... of actors/actresses being filmed in live-action that transforms into an ultra-realistic animated experience... doesn't really work because those actual performers are so lethargic, their animated characters aren't very animated... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, like today's CGI-transferred <i>Uncanny Valley</i> (computer-generated people that seem like hollow shells), these characters are awkward, clumsy and visually downright creepy... <br /></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis59pEnWF9L0ezLNuGnL2Ri72nvHTCrbkgwYbYtXUV1mYHjw3PoqDI71sSX-31ftUkJzwiG1CkxnAy8mPQ8T36EQXln3Wsio5KFgX6yTjnCSTVRLVS_VH7g3tSD6S0UgOkmNG-DtJlV-W2Y0Xcq7l07fSfwqA_kK4mmMzFoObb7WgI1gOsgCQKgcY2arWv/s1596/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.19.32%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis59pEnWF9L0ezLNuGnL2Ri72nvHTCrbkgwYbYtXUV1mYHjw3PoqDI71sSX-31ftUkJzwiG1CkxnAy8mPQ8T36EQXln3Wsio5KFgX6yTjnCSTVRLVS_VH7g3tSD6S0UgOkmNG-DtJlV-W2Y0Xcq7l07fSfwqA_kK4mmMzFoObb7WgI1gOsgCQKgcY2arWv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.19.32%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marya Small in AMERICAN POP</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Everyone lacking the necessary traits for the audience to care about, especially veering into the drug-fueled 1960's/1970's centering on the third generation's painfully self-centered beatnik-to-hippie poet/lyricist...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Who basically hangs around a lowlife band led by the otherwise talented ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST actress/singer Marya Small as a Janis Joplin-inspired drug-fueled crooner... <br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRmJZiPSMbLXH65hJ_xQYig-BC2uPzIQ9ISm-WfM7t-0hVLnmn_7XrkKra7SaIPA6R1rHk4VSzoMTppX4DXsPl8-NDSbJN8hpx6su9QcEc0BtabJqzUghhqOdmdICTY77CVQbQ0tcXanNWu3SHWMNNe3Zs3ZtuEFW9A4VpJA-t7QeD_k1ApLlQumVbwwdZ/s1700/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.52.42%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRmJZiPSMbLXH65hJ_xQYig-BC2uPzIQ9ISm-WfM7t-0hVLnmn_7XrkKra7SaIPA6R1rHk4VSzoMTppX4DXsPl8-NDSbJN8hpx6su9QcEc0BtabJqzUghhqOdmdICTY77CVQbQ0tcXanNWu3SHWMNNe3Zs3ZtuEFW9A4VpJA-t7QeD_k1ApLlQumVbwwdZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.52.42%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marya Small in Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Had the movie centered more on these particular dropouts, like Bashki's most honestly-soulful semi-autobiographical HEAVY TRAFFIC, there would be an actual beginning, middle and end to what's instead a cliche-filled counter-culture vignette within a multi-generational epic spanning the 20th century...</p><p></p><p>And all this bares the celebratory title AMERICAN POP... but instead of actually celebrating the music, these characters basically steal it for themselves: so not only does Janis Joplin and Bob Seger not exist, but there isn't a Bob Dylan or The Sex Pistols either... and what kind of world would that be?<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsmj8a1ZDenLce6fIoDycA8VFl0HMtVb-Gl6AKeNE0bP4QAYbDrXBmE1TwZs_-XTt5Bx5HqRSgSEXrQc9I2Cn2LuShtAQwsv5L1L2n5FIG2rRd4CPHpOQFBiHYT_1StvELVjMoXMXsDSUvQXaqU_YQpvnzvIf3BZiXMIdHopRNwPAiOs5nsxUxktdryJbG/s1640/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.39%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsmj8a1ZDenLce6fIoDycA8VFl0HMtVb-Gl6AKeNE0bP4QAYbDrXBmE1TwZs_-XTt5Bx5HqRSgSEXrQc9I2Cn2LuShtAQwsv5L1L2n5FIG2rRd4CPHpOQFBiHYT_1StvELVjMoXMXsDSUvQXaqU_YQpvnzvIf3BZiXMIdHopRNwPAiOs5nsxUxktdryJbG/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.39%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifcomtrGd2o30QMOhO708DO8PH9lAkpdeYxbROl_OobbS1JbHwXvkmnxsVJOrulchcNSDH9bqAx1nN7jT9D8LbSWtuZQV_uGg6Q-S2bpA6UHPyJGExg5VsqJY1mcHz_SCm5eKCUGbcHyK-ZXr_-zFa5Hl6f4MjPdVQ9qeUdi4EbC2M657MShwjvpJIRdK5/s1694/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.49%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1694" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifcomtrGd2o30QMOhO708DO8PH9lAkpdeYxbROl_OobbS1JbHwXvkmnxsVJOrulchcNSDH9bqAx1nN7jT9D8LbSWtuZQV_uGg6Q-S2bpA6UHPyJGExg5VsqJY1mcHz_SCm5eKCUGbcHyK-ZXr_-zFa5Hl6f4MjPdVQ9qeUdi4EbC2M657MShwjvpJIRdK5/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.49%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4PQ6sA86_PPGnq74GE_HE55CTBdDhWCkvIiX54w-rzkd8_cJOvWH1DDCR9xMRkM2fxvmYHT97tBiXL8gOC6uJ4fXxokwk0yhbDarpiHNZCqZ3VHIB-BmmPWaYucCwVIg1sma6KGWT1zmwWHXrcJlFgABTk1nLCDxASON0a_jN9CAzcezJJxGLzbVZ4C-c/s1570/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4PQ6sA86_PPGnq74GE_HE55CTBdDhWCkvIiX54w-rzkd8_cJOvWH1DDCR9xMRkM2fxvmYHT97tBiXL8gOC6uJ4fXxokwk0yhbDarpiHNZCqZ3VHIB-BmmPWaYucCwVIg1sma6KGWT1zmwWHXrcJlFgABTk1nLCDxASON0a_jN9CAzcezJJxGLzbVZ4C-c/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.47.57%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_IzJ4dSGTx8cP7cOqSPY_2hdC9OroSM6oAGxKl1Se-5LOFUkyQphTnrbKmfLcM8DEeDMM4bvdG_CA_y-mZM-wqkdbQ-YE7o4_hQYpWVL6o2BsAVga15rL8BJGV7ihMob-LNgPuO_zfz8ZvUP3QSE0YM3pjpk7DO7e63KITVskSI9J18wpx6OJgl5SOqE/s1674/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.48.21%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_IzJ4dSGTx8cP7cOqSPY_2hdC9OroSM6oAGxKl1Se-5LOFUkyQphTnrbKmfLcM8DEeDMM4bvdG_CA_y-mZM-wqkdbQ-YE7o4_hQYpWVL6o2BsAVga15rL8BJGV7ihMob-LNgPuO_zfz8ZvUP3QSE0YM3pjpk7DO7e63KITVskSI9J18wpx6OJgl5SOqE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.48.21%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9yZ6iK9tIoZeablH-eN6ANj7hTXb0drFU0_ONEXWHvL1Wp7UVLS1nn9Lghtovx0Sfr03902FAoJ1HbQplJc2uXPRTq3NyLIlfi1CDsjmh43E7bk_9ag37CGkpGOK10RkOCWVyrgzYx9TLpX7bluBNec0ZR6vtkj9Hf4uEKpSTuBKFOETDK_FFmgw1PjCL/s1692/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.48.38%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1692" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9yZ6iK9tIoZeablH-eN6ANj7hTXb0drFU0_ONEXWHvL1Wp7UVLS1nn9Lghtovx0Sfr03902FAoJ1HbQplJc2uXPRTq3NyLIlfi1CDsjmh43E7bk_9ag37CGkpGOK10RkOCWVyrgzYx9TLpX7bluBNec0ZR6vtkj9Hf4uEKpSTuBKFOETDK_FFmgw1PjCL/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.48.38%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9udSBodO9vBSmumG1jJ4O0IrXhLfO7qC-zCt_Zd1SFYJH7fPH06If4lrinVa-mXpm6yz_C19xhBRLGsTxNSXGtMyfkcrhjcGBfqo8FsL_ZOgw8kHLd8RhKxFuf-5dDDEPcM5ZX3UN_aCNpAsUWFIYADCDeUECBba2cDr8Er1e3E5djxiYh3s4xUdDatt/s1704/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.51.25%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1704" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9udSBodO9vBSmumG1jJ4O0IrXhLfO7qC-zCt_Zd1SFYJH7fPH06If4lrinVa-mXpm6yz_C19xhBRLGsTxNSXGtMyfkcrhjcGBfqo8FsL_ZOgw8kHLd8RhKxFuf-5dDDEPcM5ZX3UN_aCNpAsUWFIYADCDeUECBba2cDr8Er1e3E5djxiYh3s4xUdDatt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.51.25%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4c3MH_mpz6O4KRP9c7UTHyyceDKpggtjpMQ1cdIy5TdtblxkJvQ6FS9rV_SZwBc2jyhyMvTYz8caSUffsiVxLoKOeZT4yTC411ocDbhNm5nhJx05Ep7db0g3Z5RDwl57DtbnjXcqfSroR6jN6ynSVXt1pYeNIDdkYd9Nm14J0COQveYXw-e1FKOYHPK_j/s1700/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.51.33%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4c3MH_mpz6O4KRP9c7UTHyyceDKpggtjpMQ1cdIy5TdtblxkJvQ6FS9rV_SZwBc2jyhyMvTYz8caSUffsiVxLoKOeZT4yTC411ocDbhNm5nhJx05Ep7db0g3Z5RDwl57DtbnjXcqfSroR6jN6ynSVXt1pYeNIDdkYd9Nm14J0COQveYXw-e1FKOYHPK_j/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.51.33%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwx3insOF3HnAIwDpRpc32CqU0kIkdW98wfMgwieBt9Y8o2GYje4YoRd4RvrHgfGHu0oYVGRN8FqCdmNHzafQ6uOFZPrmILZkaH-Lji2KYgpEFwLXT5l-DlzYCKQndhJoOCChJ2wpzkzuJpd51bEpAE_V8tG5shoVTZgEBk5ht2XWmH5BMquosUA1uDMQb/s1692/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.51.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1692" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwx3insOF3HnAIwDpRpc32CqU0kIkdW98wfMgwieBt9Y8o2GYje4YoRd4RvrHgfGHu0oYVGRN8FqCdmNHzafQ6uOFZPrmILZkaH-Lji2KYgpEFwLXT5l-DlzYCKQndhJoOCChJ2wpzkzuJpd51bEpAE_V8tG5shoVTZgEBk5ht2XWmH5BMquosUA1uDMQb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.51.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP7z6NbXxOUNs0V7dAoqJZ2h-NG0S9sLORVqsxGerjsiieWm3OjioGZkf7fm1KbujSOi_HX1qz_K5JPNhjcVIfTdlk3NovwfaMRgZotuDLD7iUvVKmLpHgcY2F3Ipom3gAESYw9kNEiD-NPWLEUkWGlcz7oOrv8vw4KffrKGJMhpQB1ORdeo-VzPfCUynr/s1698/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.51.53%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="1698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP7z6NbXxOUNs0V7dAoqJZ2h-NG0S9sLORVqsxGerjsiieWm3OjioGZkf7fm1KbujSOi_HX1qz_K5JPNhjcVIfTdlk3NovwfaMRgZotuDLD7iUvVKmLpHgcY2F3Ipom3gAESYw9kNEiD-NPWLEUkWGlcz7oOrv8vw4KffrKGJMhpQB1ORdeo-VzPfCUynr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%208.51.53%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4JXDkYAHFwr5RXtdcEvpQiXRKSMfZhyh4aXltGlVjanHh_jv2lz1ilUNMnUN5obCAwykWUAbZZLV9GyGBY6AEBkMm6JwlJ9YBZfju3R0mZH47YWHf8KhuEnGANUApD1HodV3UujuAj2aO576Q3zxQrmQv0Qa5MlXm5JGgv1bs-CiMyXGABD7x3LTw0VP0/s2272/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.58.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="2272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4JXDkYAHFwr5RXtdcEvpQiXRKSMfZhyh4aXltGlVjanHh_jv2lz1ilUNMnUN5obCAwykWUAbZZLV9GyGBY6AEBkMm6JwlJ9YBZfju3R0mZH47YWHf8KhuEnGANUApD1HodV3UujuAj2aO576Q3zxQrmQv0Qa5MlXm5JGgv1bs-CiMyXGABD7x3LTw0VP0/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.58.28%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTtRnbiKp8ZrYa8tgnGWeeoGG8bXMbqCxchT_c3hkC0hKR1B0wWTKWUXEa1DQxOpaAkDi29EDRPnolcsiWs2_e3mYGx8JkO6P8lW9RHr52plckTe5rLCG5AOPsSWX_SIVQHbtAC5mHz1bHcP-EetFm1w-RhGihPFFre_um8icm_lLM9z6cp4_TqsfCYKd/s2294/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.59.10%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTtRnbiKp8ZrYa8tgnGWeeoGG8bXMbqCxchT_c3hkC0hKR1B0wWTKWUXEa1DQxOpaAkDi29EDRPnolcsiWs2_e3mYGx8JkO6P8lW9RHr52plckTe5rLCG5AOPsSWX_SIVQHbtAC5mHz1bHcP-EetFm1w-RhGihPFFre_um8icm_lLM9z6cp4_TqsfCYKd/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.59.10%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5TQvx6fjgAYjNO4a-CRnnYhEuwqDk_WOXm_GkSayCjuughW9gRahdvuLYz3chNtSRiBhxY5Lq3_nU-Rk3dsvHATAN6nM4jM4p3fgs2U-pYGGLmUe0l_0YddY2f7_JHHubLgHjxfuf0aH94MQ2qS36NirmlN2DtW_n_RHD9TxkgOkCh6lGdrd-m0XcZsg/s2264/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.59.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5TQvx6fjgAYjNO4a-CRnnYhEuwqDk_WOXm_GkSayCjuughW9gRahdvuLYz3chNtSRiBhxY5Lq3_nU-Rk3dsvHATAN6nM4jM4p3fgs2U-pYGGLmUe0l_0YddY2f7_JHHubLgHjxfuf0aH94MQ2qS36NirmlN2DtW_n_RHD9TxkgOkCh6lGdrd-m0XcZsg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.59.22%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB9Ry9Ufe3TRnKHGFcbu1MEhYGYtKZJVHWwEHCAzP_d0D7-DSUyi06M0rqVY7w9lk_kWsFKlE3XYKvfqnIyKvYovJHUeEXY3wC7BnOYDtEWG24-lwPpLNdPOs48EvPegKNpJD4ittrwbEtjyvfrfXM_XqL-ZhZNmS6H12NFNqVgmYxLSf3cbOWBQMbTpc3/s2024/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.59.34%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="2024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB9Ry9Ufe3TRnKHGFcbu1MEhYGYtKZJVHWwEHCAzP_d0D7-DSUyi06M0rqVY7w9lk_kWsFKlE3XYKvfqnIyKvYovJHUeEXY3wC7BnOYDtEWG24-lwPpLNdPOs48EvPegKNpJD4ittrwbEtjyvfrfXM_XqL-ZhZNmS6H12NFNqVgmYxLSf3cbOWBQMbTpc3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%209.59.34%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWQ0NbrPAtZhYEUW11_vxhtMPsqHsrUaIgF3hN5iUK-WD6wM7pAeN1uoOz4e4XMK6CcmxCQ_iN5UCXG3Hw6zhcqSb_ENlK-_YdEVQVmaWnnk_6xL9qfG86YWha4KbqtYSo8p_w0LxeUWP420123pMg9BLvSXydJZ_O4e0pwH4Or8BjwEU-E8NNh_PVk2n/s2274/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.00.00%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWQ0NbrPAtZhYEUW11_vxhtMPsqHsrUaIgF3hN5iUK-WD6wM7pAeN1uoOz4e4XMK6CcmxCQ_iN5UCXG3Hw6zhcqSb_ENlK-_YdEVQVmaWnnk_6xL9qfG86YWha4KbqtYSo8p_w0LxeUWP420123pMg9BLvSXydJZ_O4e0pwH4Or8BjwEU-E8NNh_PVk2n/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.00.00%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimLJI4oYJ6NqQK3YLjJQ-ItTAZSk0tfBveR0NGCzfryJIRorjI9RNhPL9khpJE1tpmnoR3Qo-TJBElO3EpMArbuR1kFjmGhL9MH_AiguPNS2ls_DTF1v1QJ3CiQQ7FKhNRrAZjq-hNT_qWA3I9vLjsBy8nU8K8mrKkLah7m0glWPskUo7vYyMF-PyFmiwF/s2244/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.00.10%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="2244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimLJI4oYJ6NqQK3YLjJQ-ItTAZSk0tfBveR0NGCzfryJIRorjI9RNhPL9khpJE1tpmnoR3Qo-TJBElO3EpMArbuR1kFjmGhL9MH_AiguPNS2ls_DTF1v1QJ3CiQQ7FKhNRrAZjq-hNT_qWA3I9vLjsBy8nU8K8mrKkLah7m0glWPskUo7vYyMF-PyFmiwF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.00.10%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVbAB_bVptKVf90mlQjtvdWJrQkljn3a7vn_lLT84WHn2ANN_B2zrrFddgJ5CdQ-1ElghuQhjHPY0wp6EZ3uU8RWJITRn9IPE75gg9tcajBlByApbwz0YAfooXKUvOboH-nc3UjXLyoOVpexYedSJ-uMvRRwiaLB_fnz0Ngz-12HtDId_DgOJDB1CYBrca/s2272/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.05.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="2272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVbAB_bVptKVf90mlQjtvdWJrQkljn3a7vn_lLT84WHn2ANN_B2zrrFddgJ5CdQ-1ElghuQhjHPY0wp6EZ3uU8RWJITRn9IPE75gg9tcajBlByApbwz0YAfooXKUvOboH-nc3UjXLyoOVpexYedSJ-uMvRRwiaLB_fnz0Ngz-12HtDId_DgOJDB1CYBrca/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.05.43%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZmNXj81CH-suRj4gWKABoBn0ZgkgnnxGo2T_1XikIpC-WTF3b0md3t2KiaN-ym2hU9sfT8XDPH8yrbogLn5zE-P0pzrv7vgJBNKXo4OEWqLC9MTi-6wXc2og6koP4pwFQ0bHRt-FOAM1Hnfrz7aykuq0vaqAYHV2AibrIYW4xXmV1x7bCaSIPDeQmCJvf/s2272/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.05.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="2272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZmNXj81CH-suRj4gWKABoBn0ZgkgnnxGo2T_1XikIpC-WTF3b0md3t2KiaN-ym2hU9sfT8XDPH8yrbogLn5zE-P0pzrv7vgJBNKXo4OEWqLC9MTi-6wXc2og6koP4pwFQ0bHRt-FOAM1Hnfrz7aykuq0vaqAYHV2AibrIYW4xXmV1x7bCaSIPDeQmCJvf/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.05.54%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZUZa4RPG5mVTu2l4sBk7sHSAvaT5kaiC9ewWOSw5F_qt7_ofJgseBNb6ugsqkI5y9guQsjBFQbqOV10UWmj_aaBV0r4Wxb3GAoCymqBhdv2dwAM66FuzjMH9ePjCYacsqML96j_ueOflQpLPhcc5EpqCocd8HPMZZK52WjDXqk1Rqc6hV63XJpOw72TZE/s2260/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.06.17%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="2260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZUZa4RPG5mVTu2l4sBk7sHSAvaT5kaiC9ewWOSw5F_qt7_ofJgseBNb6ugsqkI5y9guQsjBFQbqOV10UWmj_aaBV0r4Wxb3GAoCymqBhdv2dwAM66FuzjMH9ePjCYacsqML96j_ueOflQpLPhcc5EpqCocd8HPMZZK52WjDXqk1Rqc6hV63XJpOw72TZE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-21%20at%2010.06.17%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP </u></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

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RALPH BAKSHI'S MULTI-GENERATIONAL MELODRAMA 'AMERICAN POP'

Marya Small (now Mews Small) in Ralph Bakshi's AMERICAN POP Year: 1981 Rating: ** What's considered cult animation director Ralph Ba...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/20/2024 / No comments / animation , david proval , fantasy , jesse welles , mark hamill , nazi , ralph bakshi , richard romanus , science-fiction , seventies

RALPH BAKSHI'S ANIMATED APOCALYPTIC-FANTASY 'WIZARDS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguf9O1eM4GCAGR3b3eFIcJuKfMcC17vhPBv2o_oiMbDjRPFIWBm5TcJbgXxXOVHDUSvpk2p8c6qA4lAkKp-wgMEw8MWLn-QAQdXNMr_CvgFxSwA3esXWQC7xky_dNNwJtXeviglizbnJaby4jPkwm7hvYnwBz8U4DLFPKcuVXZaHcgrq8aNV1oOUL6CPR2/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-20%20at%201.02.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguf9O1eM4GCAGR3b3eFIcJuKfMcC17vhPBv2o_oiMbDjRPFIWBm5TcJbgXxXOVHDUSvpk2p8c6qA4lAkKp-wgMEw8MWLn-QAQdXNMr_CvgFxSwA3esXWQC7xky_dNNwJtXeviglizbnJaby4jPkwm7hvYnwBz8U4DLFPKcuVXZaHcgrq8aNV1oOUL6CPR2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-20%20at%201.02.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WIZARDS Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Animation director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/ralph%20bakshi">Ralph Bakshi's</a> infamously rushed/ill-conceived <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/LOTR78.html">LORD OF THE RINGS</a>, combining the then-new Rotoscoping process of animating actual people/objects without seeming entirely animated, began with WIZARDS where that bizarre, half-baked process eventually makes sense...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not centered on an already famous source like J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth trilogy, WIZARDS (liken to Terry Brooks's SWORD OF SHANNARA) is set in the post-apocalyptic future where, instead of the usual barren scorched landscape, everything's gone back to the dreamy world of wizards, elves, fairies...</p><p><span></span></p>

animation, david proval, fantasy, jesse welles, mark hamill, nazi, ralph bakshi, richard romanus, science-fiction, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI'S ANIMATED APOCALYPTIC-FANTASY 'WIZARDS'

Title: WIZARDS Year: 1977 Rating: **** Animation director Ralph Bakshi's infamously rushed/ill-conceived LORD OF THE RINGS , combining ...

BYRON HASKIN DIRECTS PAUL MANTEE 'ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS'

adam west, adventure, byron haskin, paul mantee, science-fiction, sixties

BYRON HASKIN DIRECTS PAUL MANTEE 'ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS'

Title: ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 A low-budget science-fiction film by super-low-budget producer Aubrey Schenck and ...

RALPH BAKSHI BLAXPLOITATION-ANIMATION OF 'COONSKIN'

animation, barry white, blaxploitation, cult, philip michael thomas, scatman crothers, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI BLAXPLOITATION-ANIMATION OF 'COONSKIN'

Title: COONSKIN aka STREET FIGHT Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 After HEAVY TRAFFIC where cult director Ralph Bakshi inser...

RALPH BAKSHI COUNTER-CULTURE ANIMATION 'HEAVY TRAFFIC'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeNZJxi6vzm7B3a6f7nqLy_XyfnWH2nJy-zHJzps95dLmExCT3LryqZ4v4RaGAzC67k9zCFfneUqBB2h3nghp-0lU5TQ8o6cDvQaIcSXOFDtwiFThBve_OFvw9RbrRPZt5bBIn1YcasE1JOM2gPg4I6XceBZFnXDPVrC5XJcYfvA7mpDNx2xek7YCQY50/s2141/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%202.15.59%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeNZJxi6vzm7B3a6f7nqLy_XyfnWH2nJy-zHJzps95dLmExCT3LryqZ4v4RaGAzC67k9zCFfneUqBB2h3nghp-0lU5TQ8o6cDvQaIcSXOFDtwiFThBve_OFvw9RbrRPZt5bBIn1YcasE1JOM2gPg4I6XceBZFnXDPVrC5XJcYfvA7mpDNx2xek7YCQY50/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-13%20at%202.15.59%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HEAVY TRAFFIC Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Double-irony of Ralph Bashki's urban-animated HEAVY TRAFFIC in that he turned down making the sequel to his previous years' surprise blockbuster FRITZ THE CAT, based on Robert Crumb's underground comic, and chose to do a story that actually involves a young underground comic, who's not even known enough to be unknown, or even underground... and both the style of this very feature and the fictional artist's work is also very similar to Crumb's...<br><br>That aside, HEAVY solely belongs to Bakshi, who began his process of combining live-action footage along with animation... framed by a sporadic pinball game in process, representing the downtown world where characters bounce around spontaneously...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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RALPH BAKSHI COUNTER-CULTURE ANIMATION 'HEAVY TRAFFIC'

Title: HEAVY TRAFFIC Director: Ralph Bakshi Year: 1973 Rating: **** Double-irony of Ralph Bashki's urban-animated HEAVY TRAFFIC in that ...

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED MEAN STREETS 'HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATx_YOFWuDMTKoKM42rVd36MKiapvDylupzgRlBE7rMkQ74TMlKnIL__h0Ux3WiOebBpQubkkeasDMyxfv9qnOdqtFmvJ8u1XrFQJe__0diDTxJWAPAR_1puPxh7vgEp1m7SPqslE_xeHq9GBqoy_XQhxe62am8ym7RqOVBXLSDEBuALnbxHy9hs0V23C/s2012/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2010.15.34%20PM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="2012" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATx_YOFWuDMTKoKM42rVd36MKiapvDylupzgRlBE7rMkQ74TMlKnIL__h0Ux3WiOebBpQubkkeasDMyxfv9qnOdqtFmvJ8u1XrFQJe__0diDTxJWAPAR_1puPxh7vgEp1m7SPqslE_xeHq9GBqoy_XQhxe62am8ym7RqOVBXLSDEBuALnbxHy9hs0V23C/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2010.15.34%20PM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Richard Romanus in HEY GOOD LOOKIN' Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Despite being compared to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/09/grease-revisited.html">GREASE</a>, being that the main character... a suave/strutting New York City hood... resembles John Travolt, it seems animation icon Ralph Bashki's HEY GOOD LOOKIN' is more Martin Scorsese's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/08/goodstreets.html">MEAN STREETS</a> as an adult-oriented cartoon, and for two good reasons...<br><br>The first is that the script and some of the artwork were created in the mid-70's, right after STREETS came out and where Bashki was to originally combine animated and live-action characters... leaving only a few genuine locations, from a dingy poolhall to Coney Island... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED MEAN STREETS 'HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

Richard Romanus in HEY GOOD LOOKIN' Year: 1983 Rating: *** Despite being compared to GREASE , being that the main character... a suave/s...

RALPH BAKSHI & FRANK FRAZETTA'S CULT FANTASY 'FIRE AND ICE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNb7s1tQgOKaYMVOeYvsGmkZvu4m1N8nbm1sQPfraLqWcUc9yPE2WcRZ8RqZfRCuOsBNqgS_7HQWd335yUa5rS-QkmI4n9PLCpZsmuU5iz3KB8XRGzbCJiZGRF8V4CG4rhan7u_cj28jdTH9AqZtCR6fE6NgeafQUiX-6CPevLAv7BgfcJoPoHHC4J2NWS/s1670/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2012.19.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1670" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNb7s1tQgOKaYMVOeYvsGmkZvu4m1N8nbm1sQPfraLqWcUc9yPE2WcRZ8RqZfRCuOsBNqgS_7HQWd335yUa5rS-QkmI4n9PLCpZsmuU5iz3KB8XRGzbCJiZGRF8V4CG4rhan7u_cj28jdTH9AqZtCR6fE6NgeafQUiX-6CPevLAv7BgfcJoPoHHC4J2NWS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-11%20at%2012.19.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steve Sandor as Darkwolf in FIRE AND ICE Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironic that animation director Ralph Bakshi and fantasy-book-cover illustrating-legend Frank Frazetta's collaboration FIRE AND ICE is narrated by one of the antagonists, witchy mother of an evil ice kingdom ruling son, when the intrepid good guys are the most intriguing, and numerous: three total covering a 90-minute traipsing-adventure where a princess is captured before escaping until she's captured once again... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly by primal slave creatures sent by Susan Tyrrell's whiskey-voiced queen, provoking other dangerous obstacles for the jungle-resilient, Tarzan-esque Lark, survivor of a peacefully picturesque woodsy-village encroached by sharp glacier fortresses that open the film as the title literally plays-out... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, eighties, exploitation, fantasy, leo gordon, ralph bakshi, steve sandor, susan tyrrell, william ostrander

RALPH BAKSHI & FRANK FRAZETTA'S CULT FANTASY 'FIRE AND ICE'

Steve Sandor as Darkwolf in FIRE AND ICE Year: 1983 Rating: ****1/2 Ironic that animation director Ralph Bakshi and fantasy-book-cover illus...

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED ADAPTATION 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeu18gkyCLAnneBTQuDxyX9oXOt4Fg5Bt2eP6lON1Cr4QrWsiqBcBS_E75Dv88SjR1kD3_9Gs_9RwDX8o-39TzWbHrajppHecYbKfnxiyeqog2UGGZPtWxx9PkrpI-HZcqXV0ueujeQSFi1-iPOuPJYNBwnvn-Q4YVUlJKQVux2QHzjX39X0eAapIuZ_i2/s1970/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-10%20at%2010.07.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeu18gkyCLAnneBTQuDxyX9oXOt4Fg5Bt2eP6lON1Cr4QrWsiqBcBS_E75Dv88SjR1kD3_9Gs_9RwDX8o-39TzWbHrajppHecYbKfnxiyeqog2UGGZPtWxx9PkrpI-HZcqXV0ueujeQSFi1-iPOuPJYNBwnvn-Q4YVUlJKQVux2QHzjX39X0eAapIuZ_i2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-10%20at%2010.07.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ralph Bakshi's THE LORD OF THE RINGS Year: 1978 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>As the Hobbits' legendary adventure begins... in animator Ralph Bashki's mostly maligned albeit cult-appreciated version of J. R. R. Tolkien's iconic fantasy THE LORD OF THE RINGS... it's pretty decent, involving...<br><br>And with vibrant colors more richly deep-toned than the intentionally child-geared storybook-aesthetic of the Rankin/Bass HOBBIT from the previous year, RINGS follows pretty close to the source, in both exteriors and interiors, until those chosen little ones... suddenly without their leader Gandalf the Wizard... arrive at The Prancing Pony...<span></span></p><p></p><p></p>

action, adaptation, adventure, animated, anthony daniels, fantasy, john hurt, jrr tolkien, ralph bakshi, seventies

RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATED ADAPTATION 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS'

Ralph Bakshi's THE LORD OF THE RINGS Year: 1978 Rating: ** As the Hobbits' legendary adventure begins... in animator Ralph Bashki...

NAKEDLY INGITING THE ANIMATED CULT CLASSIC 'HEAVY METAL'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheV5gkvmm7SKxgTNhsioZ_Em5Lb5YruyixUkWho-peYe6hcMbmYDFf_cTPianjNUYuR19Pr1X6dCiDrs1AcPCd7-6clEDce3st3tOT7ejzJmnyr9KklVwsx4Dn1TBBsEigSVNjsSwtVOoDnHxkhg7ZdZkQgfgz-toJgB9kjwJY1n0CYix-VU8zrtMWlZTr/s1664/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-07%20at%2011.43.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1664" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheV5gkvmm7SKxgTNhsioZ_Em5Lb5YruyixUkWho-peYe6hcMbmYDFf_cTPianjNUYuR19Pr1X6dCiDrs1AcPCd7-6clEDce3st3tOT7ejzJmnyr9KklVwsx4Dn1TBBsEigSVNjsSwtVOoDnHxkhg7ZdZkQgfgz-toJgB9kjwJY1n0CYix-VU8zrtMWlZTr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-07%20at%2011.43.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HEAVY METAL Year: 1981 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The best two stories from HEAVY METAL... producer Ivan Reitman's animated/cartoon anthology with a continuously-pulsating soundtrack of acts ranging from Devo to Sammy Hagar to Don Felder to Donald Fagan to Black Sabbath... have a beginning, middle and end, and either could have stretched into full-length features: starting with a futuristic film-noir homage with modernly-grungy cab-driver HARRY CANYON (voiced by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/08/goodstreets.html">MEAN STREETS</a> actor Richard Romanus) that includes the usual pulp-signature glib narration, chain-smoked cigarettes, crooked cops, flying cars above grounded savage hoodlums and a luscious backstabbing dame...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the last a fantasy... in the mesmerizing otherworld style of Roger Dean's progressive-rock album covers combined with Ralph Bakshi's animated-fantasy-flicks <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/LOTR78.html">THE LORD OF THE RINGS</a> and WIZARDS (while the urban-noir resembles Bakshi's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/10/htraffic.html">HEAVY TRAFFIC</a>)... that gave this 1981 cult classic its gorgeous flying-avian-riding poster-girl TAARNA who, sword in hand, violently protects a village like an antihero from a Spaghetti Western...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, animation, cult, eighties, exploitation, fantasy, future, harold ramis, ivan reitman, john candy, music, neo noir, richard romanus, science-fiction

NAKEDLY INGITING THE ANIMATED CULT CLASSIC 'HEAVY METAL'

Title: HEAVY METAL Year: 1981 Rating: **** The best two stories from HEAVY METAL... producer Ivan Reitman's animated/cartoon anthology w...

JEREMY PIVEN LITERALLY DRIVING 1994'S RIDE 'JUDGEMENT NIGHT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6GkOGa-1ZYurARF2V-9t4uW44R2KDCUG7K6MLuZcYfug2G0WENcP9r-9Mw_4v2DMuhkf5nAHH2MpJSHYNHD1PS5bGXN2ZdzIM-Ex2CjTeVzijUqiPlRA8-M8UC4LnFqkt6jpfeAjMqZpEixIKxKPHBjDC8qGh6vEY6JJU5GNogRAlMkbnLIjfUKZ4M3Z/s1594/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6GkOGa-1ZYurARF2V-9t4uW44R2KDCUG7K6MLuZcYfug2G0WENcP9r-9Mw_4v2DMuhkf5nAHH2MpJSHYNHD1PS5bGXN2ZdzIM-Ex2CjTeVzijUqiPlRA8-M8UC4LnFqkt6jpfeAjMqZpEixIKxKPHBjDC8qGh6vEY6JJU5GNogRAlMkbnLIjfUKZ4M3Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%201.54.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jeremy Piven in JUDGEMENT NIGHT Year: 1994 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In JUDGEMENT NIGHT, token instigating/troublemaking black-sheep of drinking-buddies Jeremy Piven has provided a giant one-night-only RV for buddies Emilio Estevez, his nervous little brother Stephen Dorff and intense yet cool-headed Cuba Gooding Jr to hang out and drink in... all while watching prime night boxing on the way to  front seats for the actual match...<br><br>What's funny is that, while stuck on a very important freeway traffic jam, and with drinks in hand and mobile satellite television, they could have simply cruised around and had a better time than at the place they never reach...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, cuba gooding jr., denis leary, emilio estevez, gang, jeremy piven, nineties, race against time, stephen dorff

JEREMY PIVEN LITERALLY DRIVING 1994'S RIDE 'JUDGEMENT NIGHT'

Jeremy Piven in JUDGEMENT NIGHT Year: 1994 Rating: **1/2 In JUDGEMENT NIGHT, token instigating/troublemaking black-sheep of drinking-buddies...

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, KAREN BLACK & GENE HACKMAN 'CISCO PIKE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjca0OogyxbVy1JWT23-OVMOfUA_T3HQaPFiFbhaiwh0w8f2L2SVRJdO13X81KK0QkGSgj2w3Wr4SnZ2zfBrdji8NrZNrC7OTkpNAbbuNtHWUaVXEawbEjhF7HpDHyp2wpPC094BJ4wN6YMGEX3a-0bIYpai80ZPFIasNOxRYuNzURI2n6TGQ-W0QZBSiCu/s1749/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%2012.10.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1749" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjca0OogyxbVy1JWT23-OVMOfUA_T3HQaPFiFbhaiwh0w8f2L2SVRJdO13X81KK0QkGSgj2w3Wr4SnZ2zfBrdji8NrZNrC7OTkpNAbbuNtHWUaVXEawbEjhF7HpDHyp2wpPC094BJ4wN6YMGEX3a-0bIYpai80ZPFIasNOxRYuNzURI2n6TGQ-W0QZBSiCu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-10-04%20at%2012.10.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kris Kristofferson in CISCO PIKE Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since EASY RIDER ignited movies by stoners for 
stoners, CISCO PIKE takes it a step further: while Dennis Hopper
 and Peter Fonda safely sold cocaine in Mexico before riding off into 
America, CISCO has a different approach...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>By having the title character... a musician fresh outta jail played by acting-newcomer Kris Kristofferson... blackmailed to sell pot by crooked cop Gene Hackman, the crime-thriller genre's mixed into an otherwise spontaneously free-form counter-culture expose...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

cop, counter-culture, exploitation, gene hackman, harry dean stanton, joy bang, karen black, kris kristofferson, music, seventies, viva

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, KAREN BLACK & GENE HACKMAN 'CISCO PIKE'

Kris Kristofferson in CISCO PIKE Year: 1971 Rating: **** Since EASY RIDER ignited movies by stoners for stoners, CISCO PIKE takes it a step...

GORDON SCOTT VS SEAN CONNERY 'TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE'

action, adventure, al mulock, anthony quayle, franchise, john guillerman, niall macginnis, scott tarzan, sean connery, sixties

GORDON SCOTT VS SEAN CONNERY 'TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE'

Sean Connery in TARZAN'S GREAT ADVENTURE Year: 1959 Rating: **** John Guillerman's TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE has a grainy aest...

GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

<p></p><p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL1onM9d5ymbkQjaYGtAKogGuO3mECjMijeVE_H2Dp2_lLtqtYoxLlDg1ZRY_wDmdaVvKHxlqMcWf-HWHVZyfL2093wDYz3kqW_3X6lfkKGC8MCw9oLL3Zhtrr8bBqZGiyp4h2x3tec1SU0F7G49M3tcilZgLhTekHiShwtV-B6yYXXg1tQHL3al4oWyM/s1502/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-30%20at%2010.51.42%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1145" data-original-width="1502" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL1onM9d5ymbkQjaYGtAKogGuO3mECjMijeVE_H2Dp2_lLtqtYoxLlDg1ZRY_wDmdaVvKHxlqMcWf-HWHVZyfL2093wDYz3kqW_3X6lfkKGC8MCw9oLL3Zhtrr8bBqZGiyp4h2x3tec1SU0F7G49M3tcilZgLhTekHiShwtV-B6yYXXg1tQHL3al4oWyM/w400-h305/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-30%20at%2010.51.42%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordon Scott in the Tarzan role... but it's really a cross between the John Ford Western STAGECOACH... with Tarzan traveling with a group of bickering characters... and William Shakespeare's family-quarrel saga KING LEAR... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter the criminal clan, with patriarch John Carradine but it's oldest son Mahoney really in charge: he led a local store robbery and, captured by Tarzan, is being brought to authorities for the reward money to help a native village... All while his vengeful father and brooding brothers (including LOLITA actor Gary Cockrell) are on their trail and, along with Tarzan's group there's a great cast including Lionel Jeffries as a jealous husband, whose wife has a thing for the captured heavy yet MAGNIFICENT is a mostly hi/miss adventure that relies on random bursts of action while the characters (far too many here) never really gel... Leaving Scott's final TARZAN role more a whimper than bang until a QUIET MAN style fist-fight with Mahoney that should have not only happened sooner... but a lot more throughout. </p><span></span>

action, adventure, alexandra stewart, earl cameron, franchise, gary cockrell, gordon scott, harry baird, jock mahoney, john carradine, lionel jeffries, scott tarzan, sixties, warner archives

GORDON SCOTT VS JOCK MAHONEY 'TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT'

Year: 1960 Rating: **1/2 TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT is mostly known for, in the following film, having the villain, Jock Mahoney, replace Gordo...

KATHRYN GRANT 'THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED' WILLIAM LESLIE

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxtsevWVxZnYI1rqgFmjukJvXkfVctiKkwSPGP4PgasU3cfPcUFLaMZSGODmaKb_EjwtodC-saEgc1DPaBjyVxm49_xGo_cqNxiTP8kOsArXlWvN5BGx9jBjSEh6JkXJMVYkxhhTUY0OXhB77ha5dSXs4YMNZqrPSIY3gw3TfVnC6CSoGdrMKtPrOoAlU/s1201/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-29%20at%2010.22.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1201" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxtsevWVxZnYI1rqgFmjukJvXkfVctiKkwSPGP4PgasU3cfPcUFLaMZSGODmaKb_EjwtodC-saEgc1DPaBjyVxm49_xGo_cqNxiTP8kOsArXlWvN5BGx9jBjSEh6JkXJMVYkxhhTUY0OXhB77ha5dSXs4YMNZqrPSIY3gw3TfVnC6CSoGdrMKtPrOoAlU/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-29%20at%2010.22.05%20PM.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1957 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a scene in otherwise underrated b-movie director Fred F. Sear's 1950's science-fiction disaster flick THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED where lovely actress Kathryn Grant (who he had directed in the film noir biopic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/04/cell.html">CELL 2455 DEATH ROW</a>), soon to be known as Kathryn Crosby after marrying legendary WHITE CHRISTMAS crooner Bing Crosby, is beautifully pouting with her insanely-gorgeous full lips...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, despite being surprisingly first-billed, that's pretty much every scene she's in in this early "we're to blame for the earth's inevitable demise" melodrama, with only a few exterior shots of archive footage and where most of the time's spent in a clean office or grungy tunnel while blandly-handsome scientist William Leslie's being constantly... pouted at by that gorgeous assistant who silently adores (and is burdened with the desire to connect with) him... only there got an entire WORLD to save and enough lectures to make EXPLODED more drowsy motion than the supposed action built into a misleading title that's (other than Kathryn) the best thing going. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

cult, disaster, fifties, fred f. sears, kathryn grant, melodrama, race against time, william leslie

KATHRYN GRANT 'THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED' WILLIAM LESLIE

Year: 1957 Rating: ** There's a scene in otherwise underrated b-movie director Fred F. Sear's 1950's science-fiction disaster fl...

CAREN KAYE MAKES FOR AN EXQUISITE 'MY TUTOR' EXPERIENCE

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCsRnTMkY-DFD-Ru3927YwDg_FVlztIpXtuvqbJLgwEWH-PqqguXC9SBtFQQcDMiTk0Ify0avmxNz7yUjmxqwGzHfLIFPDex1cxXir-MO-kxxUNRNvNWbfMM3zpVHX-OWfwltm0clmCGOe95HkKUVQxv-8c-LkOlXJRYZmzi_3SkK0DdsTFM7Qz5D7XzVn/s1234/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-29%20at%2012.21.45%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCsRnTMkY-DFD-Ru3927YwDg_FVlztIpXtuvqbJLgwEWH-PqqguXC9SBtFQQcDMiTk0Ify0avmxNz7yUjmxqwGzHfLIFPDex1cxXir-MO-kxxUNRNvNWbfMM3zpVHX-OWfwltm0clmCGOe95HkKUVQxv-8c-LkOlXJRYZmzi_3SkK0DdsTFM7Qz5D7XzVn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-29%20at%2012.21.45%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Caren Kaye in MY TUTOR Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Another 1980's sex-comedy combining various attempts at awkward teens trying to lose their virginity ala THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN, but with THE GRADUATE (or HOMEWORK or LOSIN' IT) theme of a sexy older woman coaching a shy younger man, MY TUTOR has pretty much everything... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Particularly thanks to titular tutor Caren Kaye, actually not that much older than failing student/shy rich kid Matt Lattanzi, who, seeming as if Vincent Spano had missed a few acting lessons, is fitfully vulnerable... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

amber denyse austin, caren kaye, clark brandon, crispin glover, eighties, kevin mccarthy, matt lattanzi, sex comedy

CAREN KAYE MAKES FOR AN EXQUISITE 'MY TUTOR' EXPERIENCE

Caren Kaye in MY TUTOR Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 Another 1980's sex-comedy combining various attempts at awkward teens trying to lose th...

REGENERATING THROUGHOUT 'THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhf-QUzXSTmd3egCt2tDL9JN6GQRPdo3FLWH0HH7gDO0n7PBxrqFDoOET1DTUfAcgDh6DS1BvJ1dmE5CMjG159A6k0bUh7nMDJkzViAL5yAl2Lt6aa6TkQA6cZRRD9P-x_MBYHpHFS9-YfCQsMz03YBbpo7SeoWVuqXwkvbgfmbnbK2B9xXOV_ZDYeQjR/s1620/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-27%20at%204.47.27%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="1620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhf-QUzXSTmd3egCt2tDL9JN6GQRPdo3FLWH0HH7gDO0n7PBxrqFDoOET1DTUfAcgDh6DS1BvJ1dmE5CMjG159A6k0bUh7nMDJkzViAL5yAl2Lt6aa6TkQA6cZRRD9P-x_MBYHpHFS9-YfCQsMz03YBbpo7SeoWVuqXwkvbgfmbnbK2B9xXOV_ZDYeQjR/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-27%20at%204.47.27%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Orson Welles heads THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE Year: 1986 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Critics unfairly blasted THE TRANSFORMERS MOVIE as nothing but a prolonged toy commercial while it's really a collected hybrid of brisk, adult-oriented, ultra-violent HEAVY METAL-inspired animation; stylized Japanese anime; 1970's expository-filled Marvel sci-fi comics; Roger Dean's proggy planets inhabited by those titular robots that turn into motor-vehicles and spaceships or are already (in the best scenes) metallic dinosaurs, lizards and sharks... while a planet-engulfing planet derived from George Lucas's STAR WARS weapon <i>The Death Star</i> and <i>V'Ger</i> from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/07/STMP.html">STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE</a> is the truly formidable antagonist... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the budding-hero lead, Judd Nelson turns in a kind of deliberately cornball 1950's throwback, befitting the equally cheesy wall-to-wall 1980's stadium-rock/arcade-jukebox soundtrack... while Orson Welles provided his last professional job, voicing that immense world-engulfing villain, splendidly named Unicron...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, cartoon, david mendenhall, eighties, eric idle, fantasy, judd nelson, leonard nimoy, orson welles, robert stack, science-fiction

REGENERATING THROUGHOUT 'THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE'

Orson Welles heads THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE Year: 1986 Rating: **** Critics unfairly blasted THE TRANSFORMERS MOVIE as nothing but a prol...

MARK HAMILL VS KIM MILFORD THROUGHOUT 'CORVETTE SUMMER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWlu8RARC289WTHtGb9gwWk46qJHYvN9ztVl0lSFbRo6SmQ49xK_rdVgohmOywwBQjh4zx4LyxPPrCX26aufMAHeNqncBnoYNAXDSm3hsho55Ki_XvBPW0k-MZrBUGnXDMqAoY7d_f3iF2-DLIEUTxCsxW3YB41d344Bb9fVA6CnwSbmG3ZaNpl7YGphU/s1714/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-22%20at%209.07.47%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWlu8RARC289WTHtGb9gwWk46qJHYvN9ztVl0lSFbRo6SmQ49xK_rdVgohmOywwBQjh4zx4LyxPPrCX26aufMAHeNqncBnoYNAXDSm3hsho55Ki_XvBPW0k-MZrBUGnXDMqAoY7d_f3iF2-DLIEUTxCsxW3YB41d344Bb9fVA6CnwSbmG3ZaNpl7YGphU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-22%20at%209.07.47%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CORVETTE SUMMER aka AMOR SOBRE RUEDAS translated LOVE ON WHEELS Year: 1978 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Too mainstream for drive-in/exploitation and too risque for younger audiences seeking more Mark Hamill after the previous years' blockbuster STAR WARS, Matthew Robbins' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/05/C-SUMMER.html">CORVETTE SUMMER</a> is a lot of movies rolled into one extremely entertaining time-filler...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Beginning with Hamill as lonely high-school student Kenny Dantley, who... on an auto shop junkyard field-trip (with teacher Eugene Roche) not long before graduation... initially discovers one piece of a corvette: and eventually builds the titular dream-car from scratch in a nifty montage revealing the most important aspect of his entire life...</p><span></span>

action, adventure, annie potts, e, eugene roche, exploitation, kim milford, las vegas, mark hamill, road movie, seventies

MARK HAMILL VS KIM MILFORD THROUGHOUT 'CORVETTE SUMMER'

Title: CORVETTE SUMMER aka AMOR SOBRE RUEDAS translated LOVE ON WHEELS Year: 1978 Rating: **** Too mainstream for drive-in/exploitation and ...

KATHRYN GRANT & RICHARD KILEY GAMBLE 'THE PHENIX CITY STORY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCwPOMBqtWnJhwUNPet-hYLMWYaqauez3P0WJUN9SK9ewYB0KI4w3tZtj6X3N8kCNblTAh0G75x4DWBKWa2F472Qr_ugZDIDLNw7KFtE48hafUhxQrckJfi38jzkzrW4uDVSFKf2pGfhtILC7uE2PqhgLqG9IlUbDU0AN5LLKOhoNbhU8LZVNogtHemup/s902/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCwPOMBqtWnJhwUNPet-hYLMWYaqauez3P0WJUN9SK9ewYB0KI4w3tZtj6X3N8kCNblTAh0G75x4DWBKWa2F472Qr_ugZDIDLNw7KFtE48hafUhxQrckJfi38jzkzrW4uDVSFKf2pGfhtILC7uE2PqhgLqG9IlUbDU0AN5LLKOhoNbhU8LZVNogtHemup/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE PHENIX CITY STORY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since the entire first act of the film noir docudrama THE PHENIX CITY STORY consists of interviews with actual citizens recalling when one seedy downtown street of vice and gambling ruled the otherwise peaceful and rural titular Alabama town, when the second act rolls in, we get right to dirty business...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>With actors now, beginning with good girl Kathyrn Grant dealing the central casino's marked cards to losing-streak boyfriend Biff McGuire... at which point everything's literally on the table since the joint's not only wholly dishonest, but bare-knuckle dangerous...</p><p><span></span></p>

biff mcguire, docudrama, edward andrews, expose, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gambling, jean carson, john larch, john mcintire, kathryn grant, meg myles, mobster, phil karlson, richard kiley

KATHRYN GRANT & RICHARD KILEY GAMBLE 'THE PHENIX CITY STORY'

Title: THE PHENIX CITY STORY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 Since the entire first act of the film noir docudrama THE PHENIX CITY STORY consists ...

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