Movie: Wizards

[amedia]

The movie Wizards had come up in conversation some months ago when TODS and I saw this pic on the lolcats site (it's actually a lolbunny):



We both thought that the bunny's pose and demeanor reminded us of something - TODS more than me - and I finally dug up this image and TODS said, "Yes, that's it!"




[See what I mean?]

Here's the whole poster:




I remembered seeing the poster; he had seen the movie when he was in college, but I hadn't.

Well, I found it on laserdisc at MediaWest*Con for a buck, so I bought and brought it home, and we both watched it with metherion.

It was a cool movie, much better, I thought, than Bakshi's Lord of the Rings. It felt complete, for one thing, and the differing styles of animation seemed to complement, rather than grate against, one another. There were some exquisite backgrounds that looked like still pen-and-ink drawings, animated only in the sense that the camera would pan across them or zoom in or out. There was a fair amount of cartoonish animation, used for most of the major characters and some of the settings. There was rotoscoping, here used to very good effect, I thought (I actually had liked it for the Black Riders in LOTR, too), and some plain old live-action film. But it all *worked*, at least for me. I enjoyed the movie a lot.

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Oh, deah lawd!

[rh-andi.livejournal.com]

That movie. THAT movie. THAT MOVIE.

I remember seeing it at, what, sixteen? So wierd, so wild. (Did you know Mar Hamill did a voice in it?)

I haven't seen it in AGES. Laserdisc? Yikes! I thought we were the only ones left with a laser disc player!

It was an interesting Bakshi film (and I agree that it was better than the rotoscoping on his LOTR1), and quite adult, without being overly so.

Is it out on DVD? Must check.... (the ending is still - wow!)

Re: Oh, deah lawd!

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mark Hamill was the only person whose name we recognized in the entire cast!

It *should* be out on DVD - I mean, if there's any justice in the world - but I honestly don't know whether it is.