From: rkelly@carina.unm.edu (Robert Kelly)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Get a Sex Life  was: Oh, COME OFF IT! was: DANGER! Cool World
Date: 26 Jul 92 23:39:04 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


Summarizing this post:
All-in-all, wait for your little brother to rent the movie while Mom and Dad
are out of town and make sure he makes the popcorn--that way you will have
invested everything that it is worth.  I give this movie: a limp dick and two 
thumbs down.


Someone sez: Cool World sux.

Jeremy Holstein sez:
>
>In point of fact, it isn't THAT bad, IMHO.  It's nice to see Bakshi in
>action again, and the animation is wonderful.  The soundtrack is high
>energy, and Kim Basinger provides a great cartoon voice.  I'm not
>saying this is the best film in the world, it does have its problems
>(mainly in the area of script and editing).  But I had a good time in
>the film.  THere's alot of humor satire in the animation which is far
>and above other animation satire projects.  The rabbit sequence, the
>sexualtiy issue, and finally the last 10 minutes with the superhero
>sequence is wonderful.

(Just the script and the editing... nothing else... and if this is Bashki
"back in action" tell him to disappear again.)


A) I decided not to waste time to post about Cool World because it was bad.
But, someone had to defend this piece-o-shit, therefor I post.

Every character is trying to get laid.  All women have asses that jiggle.

Basinger plays a typical vamp--and the only difference between her and a 
whore is that Basinger is fortunate enough to not have to take off her 
clothes _and_ perform sex to get her money.

The ending was easily guessed (Spoiler: Boy can't fuck girl. Other girl gets 
fucked by other boy.  Other girl kills boy.  But boy lives and now can fuck 
girl.  Other girl gets stuck with other boy. The fucking end.  Even Disney
couldn't have done better.)

Characterization?  Hey, a new record for minimalist art.

B) Pop culture-wise: young adolescent males, since they aren't getting fucked
by REAL "girls," why not try to masturbate to a comic book?  You don't have to 
old enough to buy a Playboy and Mom wont notice cum stains all over Rogue,
Power Girl or whoever your "Wonder Woman" really is.  Even better, go see 
this movie....

If you happen to have better fantasies about comic book characters than you 
do about real people, I suggest you learn Social Skills -- otherwise you 
are condemning yourself to being bitterly disappointed when you find out 
that real women don't obey your every whim like your fantasies do.

Plus, instead of imagining Omaha the Cat Dancer and "Holly would if she could"
are real women, why don't you RISK your MACHISMO a little and learn that real 
people need responces and emotions unlike your comics.

What is worse is that the sex scene, (yes, there is only one) wasn't even good
and all of this hype has nothing to show for it.  (Holly does, but *yawn*)

C) I didn't pay for the movie, therefor I did not walk out and ask for my
money back.  (You can do this, you know.)

D) The movie is slower than Big Numbers' release dates.

E) The movie *DOES* have some redeeming features: a very good soundtrack
that is worth buying without seeing the movie (esp. if you are into Rave.);
and two funny scenes: one is the superheros, and I laughed somewhere else, 
but forget when.  One neat, groovey scene: Boy drives up in car, gets out,
walks around the car, which suddenly, is two dimensional.  All of the other
creative scenes must have been cut (see the editing above.)

F) How appropriate the letter "F" is animation.  This is no successor to 
Roger Rabbit -- in fact, the animation is horrible.  

All-in-all, wait for your little brother to rent the movie while Mom and Dad
are out of town and make sure he makes the popcorn--that way you will have
invested everything that it is worth.  I give this movie: a limp dick and two 
thumbs down.


Robert Kelly
rkelly@triton.unm.edu
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