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shinji ikari

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i was up very late last night and stumbled across this movie. i came in about half an hour into it and was confused but intrigued. it was made in 77 so the psychodelic mood hit its mark at nearly 5 am (so that unnerved/weirded me out). it has very interesting ideas about the effect of propaganda on a people, and the role technology plays.

i did some reading about it, i found out what happens and realized it has a good cult classic behind it. i was interested and enjoyed the movie but it was too heavy handed for me. it does a good job of illustrating its points very well and the visuals whole stunning sort of push the message over the top for me

don't get me wrong i was morbidly fascinated, but after the initial shock and awe wore off after going through the movie i don't think it would be in my top collection.

anyways i saw this and thought it would be a neat thing to talk about for a bit.

(BTW i did not stay up to watch the whole thing, reviews and screen shots helped get the point across for what i missed.)
 
a little surprised no one has commented on this yet. has no one ever seen the movie before or just content with the quick stroll down memory lane?
 
Wanting to see this movie was one of the reasons I signed up for Netflix back in 2005, since no stores around here had it for rent. Anyway, even at only 80 minutes I couldn't make it through the whole movie. By midway through it felt like I'd been watching it for 90 minutes already and it just wasn't doing anything for me, so I had to shut it off.
 
yeah at 5 in the morning i was getting that vibe of a movie that drags through its plot very slowly. it was just something interesting i flipped through in the middle of the night.
 
Wizards (originally titled War Wizards) was written, produced and directed by none other than Ralph Bakshi.

The film debuted in 1977. I thought it was OK. A very ambitious effort on Bakshi's part: a post-apocalyptic fantasy centering on the forces of magic (represented by the good wizard Avatar) and technology (represented by the evil wizard Blackwolf).

I do enjoy fantasy kingdom stories, but I admit that Wizards did drag a bit in parts. But there were some enjoyable moments, and the fairy Elinore was hot, so there's that.
 
the hot evaluation is definitely on target.

like i said i did enjoy the scale and message the movie undertook. the moral was interesting but after their mapping out of the situation it seemed liek things ran out of steam.
 
I love this movie. It was a rite of passage for kids at my school (age 10-14) when I was growing up. It was really the first cartoon I ever saw that mixed adult themes with a story that pretty much is geared towards pre-teenage boys. Bakshi calls it a "kids" movie in the DVD commentary and while it's kind of bizarre he thinks that it also makes a weird kind of sense. He's been trying to get Wizards II off the ground for decades.

I actually rewatched it a few days ago (I'm rewatching all the Bakshi stuff I own on DVD multiple times to gear up for Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures DVD release in January) so the timing of this thread strikes me as strangely topical.
 
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