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funkcatbrown@reddit

For really stoned recently and watched it again for the first time since maybe high school and it was just as damn good now as it was back then.

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fullofsharts@reddit

This is such a great episode and a great take on the movie.

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DisastrousMechanic36@reddit

one of the greatest soundtrack compilation albums of all time

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Darury@reddit

I maintain this the greatest soundtrack ever made.

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Agreeable-Can-7841@reddit

and it is. Two of Cheap Trick's best works.

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ForswornForSwearing@reddit

Cheap Trick also contributed to Rock & Rule. Worth checking out.

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Love Rock&Rule! I watched it as a kid and for years couldn’t find it and thought I just had an amazing fever dream! I found it on YouTube about 10 years ago. Watched it a couple times since then! Lou Reed and Debbie Harry?!? Amazing!

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random420x2@reddit

Absolutely agreed, 0 competition. Until I heard the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack which is so damn loaded nothing will ever touch it.

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Chzncna2112@reddit

Forrest Gump has it beat. For just how well the songs match the scene

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kjbrandon75@reddit

The real GOAT

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Phog_of_War@reddit

This is the One

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-Ancalagon-@reddit

Death and darkness are rushing forward to take a bite from the wall.

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Agreeable-Can-7841@reddit

You've nothing to say!!!

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Confident-Crawdad@reddit

They're breaking away!!!

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Agreeable-Can-7841@reddit

IF YOU LISTEN TO FOOLS

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Confident-Crawdad@reddit

THE MOB RULES!!!!

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Agreeable-Can-7841@reddit

{ vicious guitar solo }

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DarthGuber@reddit

Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules

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Stunning_Ad_3057@reddit

One of the All time greats

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postfuture@reddit

This and Akira were the essential cool. Almost impossible to get. I think my copy had a Cinamax intro? I threw a lot of high school parties (every weekend in 11th) and just left this tape rolling in the living room while the main event carried on up stairs. Was greatly effected by The Mask of the Red Death, and bought different color light bulbs for each room.

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Marti1PH@reddit

Turns out Gen X invented anime / hentai too.

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Lawless123456@reddit

Naked animated boobies.

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Kestrel_Iolani@reddit

A friend of mine was going on and on about this Netflix show Love Death and Robots. I told him, "Wait until you hear about Heavy Metal."

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Divtos@reddit

Live death robots was the long coming sequel to Heavy Metal. There was a reason they didn’t use the name but I didn’t not recall what the reason was.

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Yarg2525@reddit

First saw it in 82 or 83 as a midnight movie.

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Dramatic_Arugula_252@reddit

January 1982, age 12

Marked me forever

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myjohnson6969@reddit

Awesome movie

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WBW1974@reddit

...was hard to find. You had to buy it at a "convention" from some scummy guy with a table full of "shared" movies. Price was $10 and a blank tape, or $20. The first 0.333 seconds of any tape was always some random thing. One of my friends swore that his copy started with a quick burst of porn. Piracy was way more fun back before The Internet.

I bought a legitimate copy on VHS when it became available. Fun movie to watch.

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Oldjamesdean@reddit

The only time I've ever bought a bootleg copy of anything.

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Dramatic_Arugula_252@reddit

At 3am while waiting on line overnight to see the 20th anniversary showing of Star Wars in its original theater, I bought a bootleg VHS tape of various pop culture Star Wars moments, such as the Donnie and Marie extrAaaavaGANZA

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kjbrandon75@reddit

They had to secure all the rights to the music that they used before they could release it on home video. That didn't happen until 95. I remember staying over at my brother's apartment one night. He had cinemax and they would play it once in a blue moon in the early hours of the morning. I stayed up to tape it.

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OtterPeePools@reddit

I taped it on VHS, and then took "screenshots" , pictures with a 35mm camera, and had my dad develop the pictures so I could try and draw some of the stuff :)

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Alex_Plode@reddit

It took me far, far too long to realize that Harry Canyon was the basis for Fifth Element.

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Shekelrama@reddit

Fire and Ice

Fritz the Cat

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

Coonskin

Rock & Rule

Heavy Traffic

American Pop

Down and Dirty Duck

Wizards

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BritInMD@reddit

I was going to ask for recommendations of similar movies, but you've given a great answer already, thanks!

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SourChipmunk@reddit

"If you refuse you die. She dies. Everybody dies."

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rsw001@reddit

I’ve had her encased in glass.

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rsw001@reddit

Hanover

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splorp_evilbastard@reddit

My copy. (My CD is still packed from my move).

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Sufficient-Pin-481@reddit

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MurazakiUsagi@reddit

I remember opening some of my Dad's Heavy Metal magazines as a child, and holy shit did I see some shit a 8 year should NOT have seen.

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evilJaze@reddit

My first exposure was as a 13 year old looking at my friend's big brother's stack. It got me hooked into that fantasy world.

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slybob@reddit

Same, I was about the same age and had a neighbour with all of the Heavy Metals and all of 2000AD back until 1977 (when they both started). Hooked me for good.

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Strangewhine88@reddit

I think you’re supposed to watch this as a double feature after Conan The Barbarian, while stoned.

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ThinWhiteRogue@reddit

Well, I have my weekend plans now

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RamboGram@reddit

…is okay, but the soundtrack is killer. And, Don Felder’s Heavy Metal is better than Sammy Hagar’s Heavy Metal!

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Dark_Web_Duck@reddit

Drive it on up and let's cruise a while
Leave 'em very far behind
You can hedge your bet on a clean corvette
To get you there right on time
Now if you're ready to dive into overdrive
Baby the green lights are on
It's like you're runnin away on some high octane
Every time she reached the boulevard

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Shuatheskeptic@reddit

Ha, I just watched this the other day. I think it still holds up as long as you're stoned.

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Intelligent_Arm_7186@reddit

that damn orb!

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FlyParty30@reddit

The first time my son watched it he accused me of gatekeeping it. GenX parent problems

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Defiant_Network_3069@reddit

I remember watching it on TBS as a kid. Bought the soundtrack as a teen and it's a staple of my iPod. Bought the DVD and it's on sale currently on Amazon streaming. So I bought it last night. Met Kevin Eastman last week and thanked him for making the movie and soundtrack available for the masses. Really nice guy too.

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MatterInitial8563@reddit

OMG

This movie and Wizards!

I was just getting into anime and picked this out at a video store thinking they were along the same lines .

My parents should not have rented those for me XD

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BigBaldHaggis@reddit

I only know about this movie because of South Park. Wonder if it's one of those events that never made it over to the UK.

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therealfozziebear@reddit

Look, man, if there's one thing I know, it's how to drive while I'm stoned. It's like you know your perspective's fucked so you just let your hands work the controls as if you were straight.

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ImInBeastmodeOG@reddit

This sounds like a thread that needs to be made by you.

Im not afraid to ask stupid questions since I don't smoke it. (I have nothing against pot at all.) I see so many people driving who are doing pot at lights followed by massive clouds. I have never seen anyone get in an accident doing it or weaving or anything unusual when they start driving. Of course, I never see anyone pulled over either because I'm in Colorado. Cops don't do that kind of thing here. But what impact does it have on your driving? I don't do pot, just curious. People who drink and drive seem like a muchhhhhh bigger threat ("research" in the 80s tells me this) but I don't know what strain they're smoking or if it hits different people differently.

Thanks

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AmbitiousEdi@reddit

It's a quote from the movie, lmao

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ImInBeastmodeOG@reddit

Oh, never saw it, just remember the great soundtrack. 😂 But we still know you drive stoned so give an answer. 😜

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AmbitiousEdi@reddit

I'm not the guy you responded to...

and I am thankful every day that my lifestyle does not require a car. They're expensive, frustrating, and make you mentally prone to excusing your own mistakes while magnifying the mistakes of others.

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TripleSSixer@reddit

Just scored an original movie poster of this for the collection.

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Ethernetman1980@reddit

Did they ever make any similar style movies? I’ve tried anime but other than Akira nothing does it like the OG Heavy Metal.

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reapersaurus@reddit

Love, Death & Robots (Netflix) is a direct spiritual successor to Heavy Metal, and has quite a few good animated shorts.

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Life-Finding5331@reddit

There was a sequel

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D_for_Drive@reddit

You could try Rock and Rule. Same era, great music.

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PerformanceHour1675@reddit

John Candy, FTW!

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bigSTUdazz@reddit

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AmbitiousEdi@reddit

What do you mean, different?

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Life-Finding5331@reddit

My new body worked great!

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AmbitiousEdi@reddit

I was maybe 12 years old, staying at my grandparents place over night. They always set up an air mattress for me in the den, which meant I watched tv and movies late into the night. At like 1am this came on and absolutely blew my mind. I had no idea that cartoons could be so violent or sexual. Or both.

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theflamingskull@reddit

One of my all-time favorite movies to trip to.

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dbasinge@reddit

SSSSTTTERRRNNN!!

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Careless-Witness-976@reddit

Fun fact, another good movie to watch while you’re stoned 😎

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BitterAttackLawyer@reddit

I found an animation cell from this movie among an inheritance

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bigSTUdazz@reddit

John Candy as the robot that fucked that blond chick...and Tommy Chong as the coke-snorting alien...my childhood shifted gears the night I watched it on HBO.

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kjbrandon75@reddit

Eugene Levy and Harold Ramis played the niborg sniffing aliens.

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bigSTUdazz@reddit

50 yard lines of the shit.

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scubasteve1886@reddit

Go for broke.

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EmptySeaDad@reddit

Iirc Harold Ramis was the other coke snorting alien.

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bigSTUdazz@reddit

He WAS....forgotten about that.

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Dubs9448@reddit

I’m ‘70 and it was over my head. It seemed super cool tho.

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FPB270@reddit

Am I a bad parent if I watch this with my almost 14 year old?

He turned me on to Meat Canyon on YouTube, who is highly derivative of this, The Wall, and Ren and Stimpy. Check out Meat Canyon if you’re not familiar.

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ThinCandyShells@reddit

Calling Hanover Fist!

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HeinousHaggis@reddit

NOSEDIVE!!

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PizzaDog33@reddit

John Candy

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TopRevenue2@reddit

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Internal_Craft_3513@reddit

YYEESSS!!! I actually listened to this soundtrack 1 week ago. 1st time in a long time. Still think it’s one of the best!!

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arthurjeremypearson@reddit

She had the most beautiful ... ... ... eyes!!!

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SkepticalPenguin2319@reddit

I was 11 when this came out. My cousin and I snuck into the theater to see it. I was floored!

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Confident-Crawdad@reddit

Same here! But it was my older stepbrother.

We happened to catch an ad for it one night and just gave each other a look like "Oh we are definitely seeing this.

"A step beyond science fiction, a step beyond sexual fantasy..."

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HumbleXerxses@reddit

Sturghil Sampson made a similar movie.

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MaximumJones@reddit

Every young metalhead boy's introduction to cartoon soft porn. 😁

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Confident-Crawdad@reddit

Not just metalheads. This movie turned me from a Hank Williams/Johnny Horton country hick into a rabid fan of Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult.

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Katnyx1969@reddit

Dammit now I have to go look for this soundtrack in all those old cd's I have in boxes!

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MareShoop63@reddit

I saw this in at a drive in theater when it came out.

I think I saw it twice.

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Curtmac86@reddit

Get ripped. Watch alone. Just say'n

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SomeCrazedBiker@reddit

I know I've seen this, but it was back when I was using a lot of drugs. I mean, I still use a lot of drugs, but that isn't the point.

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CorkTaint@reddit

..is awesome.

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Odjig@reddit

Saw this at the Eaton's Centre Cineplex. The taxi cab death ray hit hard.

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E_Howard_Blunt@reddit

Was just listening to Take a Ride by Don Felder!

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rnavstar@reddit

Same.

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PeopleLikeUDisgustMe@reddit

🟢

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LylaDee@reddit

I have this Soundtrack on CD. It's still wicked.

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GoldenMonkeyRedux@reddit

I stumbled across a good quality vinyl copy years ago. Probably about $5. It rules.

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citycouple30@reddit

Yessssss

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Grendeltech@reddit

I used to think Rock and Rule was connected to this movie.

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AJourneyer@reddit

Still in my top 10. Still have the VHS tbh :D

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LaurieIsNotHisSister@reddit

I just got my 4k version in the mail today. Man, is it beautiful, and it sounds amazing.

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doa70@reddit

I'm reading through wondering if this is available on 4k, or even BR, and here it is. Nice.

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LaurieIsNotHisSister@reddit

I got the OG and 2000 combo pack. The OG is in 4k and has a bluray copy while the 2000 is just bluray. It also comes in a steelbook with digital copies. $28 at Walmart right now.

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