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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-03 (Friday)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:43:33 -0800
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On 1/12/2025 1:05 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 1/4/2025 8:11 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> On 1/4/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>>
>>> I also saw:
>>>
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm still powering through movies in my collection.  Now I'm going to
>> dive into animation for the next few weeks.  I'll be watching some old
>> favorites I've watched before but a lot of movies still in the shrink
>> wrap.  I'm going to try (more or less) to watch them in release order by
>> decade.
>>
>> First up, I watched a few Charlie Brown movies.  These have been in the
>> shrink wrap for years.  I only wanted "Race for your life Charlie Brown"
> 
> Produced under the title “Charlie Brown’s Race for Life”
> 
> They made a big deal about changing the title because somebody decided the
> original title sounded like Charlie Brown was going to die.  I never
> thought the new title changed that perception any.  Why not Charlie Brown’s
> great river race or something?
> 
>>

Because that would mess up the wonderful theme song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xClstkPnw&t=44s

>>
>> Fantastic Planet (blu-ray) 1973 French animated sci-fi movie.  The movie
>> is set on an alien planet where humans are kept as pets by giant aliens.
>>   The aliens think of humans as nothing more than simple pets but soon
>> discover humans aren't as dumb as they think.  It holds up well enough,
>> I think I probably appreciate this movie more now than I did when I was
>> younger.  I never noticed before now, but I think "Battlefield Earth"
>> ripped off this movie's plot.  They just changed the setting to Earth.
>>
> 
> Saw this with a group of friends in a drive-in. The people that were
> totally stoned, loved it.
> 
>>
>> Wizards (blu-ray) 1977 Ralph Bakshi classic, set millions of years after
>> an apocalypse has wiped out human civilization and replaced it with
>> mutants and wizards.  An evil mutant wages a war against non mutants
>> while his good wizard twin brother leads a group against him.  This is a
>> movie that the first time I saw it, I didn't really care much for, but
>> I've watched it again and again over the years, and I keep liking it
>> more and more.  The first time I saw it, I hated the ending, but now I
>> anticipate that climatic moment when things are settled.  I should also
>> mention the picture quality on the blu-ray looked excellent.
>>
> 
> Saw WIZARDS in the theater first run and was wildly underwhelmed.

Yeah, you really have to watch it more than once to appreciate it.

> Especially at the ending that was ripped off from Larry Niven’s “What Good
> Is a Glass Dagger?“
> 
> But the main take away was the previews for some new film we never heard of
> called STAR WARS.
> 

Sounds like a cheap Roger Corman flick.  And wasn't that directed by the 
guy who did the Happy Days movie?  I'm sure nothing will come of it.