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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-04 (Saturday)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 07:22:32 -0800
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On 1/5/2025 9:44 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> Cool World (blu-ray) 1992 live action and animated movie directed by
>> Ralph Bakshi and starring Brat Pitt as a human in a cartoon world who
>> has to figure out Who Framed Roger Rabbit, wait wrong movie.  Pitt plays
>> a human cop living in the cartoon world.  Kim Basinger also stars.  She
>> is basically a Jessica Rabbit rip off who brings Gabriel Byrne into the
>> cartoon universe to have sex with her so she can enter the real world.
>> But once there she threatens to destroy reality.  I don't think I've
>> watched this since I saw it in the theater in 1992.  I don't recall
>> carrying much for it at the time, but after so many years I really just
>> wanted to see it again.  I still didn't care much for it.  But I have a
>> very strong impression this movie was meant to be hard "R" and Bakshi
>> was forced to tone it down for a PG-13 which left it with this weird
>> doesn't work tone.
> 
> I've seen this once on tv and had no idea what they were trying to do. I
> vaguely recall it got pulled from theaters quickly.
> 
> Do you own the Chris Rock movie?


It took me a minute to figure out which movie you were talking about, 
"Osmosis Jones."  Unfortunately, I don't have that.  I only saw it once 
in the theater and really liked it. But it was never released on 
blu-ray.  And if I recall correctly, when it was on TV it was in the 
wrong aspect ratio.  I just checked, it's on Amazon Prime, in the wrong 
aspect ratio.  It's filmed in 2.39 : 1, so I have *no* interest in 
watching it pan and scanned!  But thanks for reminding me, I forgot it 
even existed.  I just took a look at the box office and it flopped 
harder that Titan A.E. and that movie killed an entire studio division. 
Warners probably isn't in any hurry to release it, but maybe some 
boutique studio will take an interest in it.  Why do all the good 
animated movies flop so hard?  LOL