Last night Youtube recommended the Ralph Bakshi animated movie Fire and Ice (free with commercials!). So I figured I'd watch it and do another recap like I did a little while ago but the movie is simply not good. I'd sum it up as directionless. BUT!
There's a line at exactly 55:41 where one of the bad guys Nekron says, "I'll squash you like a bug!"
And I immediately IMMEDIATELY knew that I'd heard that line sampled in a song before and I tried googling it and nothing came up and then the band Pain kind of bubbled up into my brain and in the song 'Fight' at 54 seconds the sample plays.
I'm not saying I have a superhuman memory. I regularly forget important parts of important conversations and people's names that I should really know among other things. I'd say I have a better-than-average long term memory. But I think this particular pull borders on useless superpower.
But also why? Why instant recognition for a song I haven't heard in at least 15 years and don't even like that much. It's not even one of my favorites. Why is that neural pathway or whatever so optimized and primed? Why can I not help but feel at the mercy of some web and force beyond my comprehension.
No one cares about the 1983 animated movie Fire and Ice which has a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. No one cares about the band Pain from Alabama whose most notable song Jabberjaw was used in a Cartoon Network music video that aired during commercials in 1999- a song about the underwhelming Hanna-Barbara Scooby-Doo clone cartoon that ran for only 16 episodes in the Fall of 1976.
Why must I be the conduit and keeper of this total animal soup of time!?
3 comments:
And y them naked, tho??
I only watched like ten minutes since the moment you linked. Old rotoscoped fantasy movies are fascinating though. If only the voice overs could have been higher quality. We needed those 90's Batman animated series actors. Where's Kevin and Mark when you need em.
Ok I had to see the ending so I skipped a bit and it took me a few minutes to realize that axe barbarian batman just showed up and killed the main guy and he wasn't the protagonist??? Did he really just arrive, kill Mr. Blueberry Yogurt and then dip!? And said NOTHING!? Legend.
Haha yeah it's a pretty disappointing movie in a lot of ways. I didn't watch much past the squash you like a bug scene because it started to feel like work.
Yeah the blond guy is supposed to be the main dude. That's hilarious that the axe guy kills the blue man. That kinda tracks with the rest of the story. Let's not have the final confrontation be a reckoning of two different forces and views that we've come to learn over the course of the story. Let's just have the cool strong guy that's good at fighting kill him. I dunno I kind of respect it.
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