Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-04 (Saturday) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 22:22:41 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <474157218.757823480.117556.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:22:41 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c96cf61b409a69348b39bd7d99ea82b0"; logging-data="2196143"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+3yATt94oIeRFE8+r2SLokKSHGPeKYxTE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:YxQqAyAZUx7zvVDa1VYEu7DL4eo= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: <474157218.757823480.117556.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250106-2, 1/6/2025), Outbound message Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2911 On 1/6/2025 9:55 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening >> up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films >> in my collection. I watched: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film. Each >> segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball. >> > > I actually watched them film three of the segments from this at Wally > Bulloch’s Anicam where they were shooting a job of mine at the same time. > > If I recall correctly, one of the segments, they forgot to put in the green > glowing ball at all, and nobody ever notices. > > > It's in all of them, but sometimes its' presence is tangential at best. In particular the B-17 bomber segment the ball is almost an afterthought. And in the Pentagon segment it sets things in motion, but then it's forgotten. >> >> Titan A.E. (DVD) Don Bluth directed this 2000 animated sci-fi epic > > I refused to work on it way back when it was still called treasure planet > and had a different Director. Disney came out with a Treasure Planet movie two years later. Any relation? Then it became ice planet and then it became > planet ice. We were telling them they should call it TITAN I.C. > > > Not only did they shutter fox animation, they did it the next day. It > opened on a Friday and just from the projected grosses they called people > at home on the weekend and told them not to come in Monday. > > >> >> What did you watch? > > Hey, thanks for asking! > > Nothing > > >