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01 Heavy Metal 1981.
An astronaut brings home a glowing green orb for his daughter. However, the green
orb wipes him out and corners the girl for its purposes. Claiming to embody
ultimate evil, the malevolent sphere, known as the Loc-Nar, terrorizes the little
girl by showing a series of bizarre and fantastic stories it has influenced. The
first is "Harry Canyon", a cynical taxi driver in a squalid futuristic New York who
finds himself involved with a damsel in distress who is relentlessly pursued by
murderous thugs who desire the Loc-Nar her archaeologist father found. The second
is "Den", which chronicles the adventures of a nerdish teenager who is thrown into
the fantasy world of Neverwhere, where he is transformed into a handsome muscleman,
desired by beautiful women, who must get involved in a conflict revolving around
possession of the Loc-Nar. The third is "Captain Sternn", where the title character
is a handsome but irredeemable scoundrel who stands accused in a trial that the
Loc-Nar throws into chaos. The fourth is "B-17", where a World War II bomber plane
limps home after a bombing run, only to have the Loc-Nar ram into it and revive the
dead crew members as murderous zombies. The next is "So Beautiful, So Dangerous",
where a voluptuous secretary at the Pentagon is abducted by stoned alien wastrels
and an oversexed robot. The final story is "Taarna", where the Loc-Nar has to come
to a future Earth and changes a peaceful people into a horde of murderous
barbarians who rampage with genocidal zeal. Only the last Tarrakian, a silent
warrior woman known as Taarna, can avenge the victims and stop the Loc-Nar.
Stars.
=>-John Candy : Desk Sergeant : Dan : Robot.
=>-Harvey Atkin : Alien : Henchman.
=>-Don Francks : Grimaldi : Co-Pilot : Barbarian.
=>-Susan Roman : Girl : Satellite.
=>-Eugene Levy : Sternn : Male Reporter : Edsel.
Directors.
=>-Gerald Potterton : John Bruno : John Halas.
02 Heavy Metal 2000.
In the distant past, an ethnic group known as the Arakacians were the dominant
power in the known universe. The source of their powers were the sacred waters of
immortality, kept within a chamber on the desert planet Uroboris. The Arakacians
were eventually defeated by a revolt, losing access to the waters and losing their
immortality. The chamber was locked and its key was cast out into space. Whoever
found it would reputedly gain both power and insanity. In the present, a miner
called Tyler finds the missing key during an asteroid mining expedition. He is
transformed into a power-hungry tyrant. He violently hijacks a spaceship and starts
seeking immortality. Discovering that the people of the planet Eden contained a
weakened form of the immortality fluid within their bodies, Tyler prepares to
capture them. He leads a large crew in a sudden invasion of the planet, massacring
most of the planet's population, and capturing the rest for experimentation. He
keeps Kerrie, a young woman who fought against his forces, as his prize captive and
intended mate. After Tyler leaves, there are only two people left on Eden: Julie
(Kerrie's sister) and the navigator Germain St. Germain who was left behind by
Tyler as punishment for insubordination. Julie forces Germain at gunpoint to follow
her orders, and starts a quest for vengeance. She follows Tyler to the space port
New Calcutta and then to Uroboris itself. Tyler becomes the new lord of a local
reptilian race, while Julie receives unexpected help from a mysterious sage who is
known as "Odin". Tyler and Julie soon lead rival forces into combat over possession
of the planet's Holy Land, and of the waters of immortality which it contains. But
Odin may have a hidden agenda of his own.
Stars.
=>-Michael Ironside : Tyler.
=>-Julie Strain : Julie.
=>-Billy Idol : Odin.
=>-Pier Paquette : Germain St-Germain.
=>-Sonja Ball : Kerrie.
Directors.
=>-Michael Coldewey : Michel Lemire.
Info.
=>-Genre : Animation : Sci-Fi : Adventure : Cult Classic.
=>-Languages : English : Russian.
=>-Chapters : 24 : 26.
=>-File Size : 1.27 GiB : 1.24 GiB.
=>-Overall bit rate : 11.8 Mbps : 12.3 Mbps.
=>-Movie Runtime : 1 h 30 min : 1 h 27 min.
Video
=>-Codec : H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
=>-Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1.
=>-Resolution : 1 280 x 688.
=>-Bit rate : 2 012 kbps.
Audio 1 English.
=>-Codec : AAC LC: Advanced Audio Codec.
=>-Channels : 2 channels.
=>-Bit Rate : 114 kbps.
=>-Max Bit Rate : 146 kbps.
Audio 2 English.
=>-Codec : AC-3: Audio Coding 3.
=>-Channels : 6 channels C L R Ls Rs LFE.
=>-Bit Rate : 320 kbps.
=>-Bit Rate Mode : Constant.
Audio 3 Russian.
=>-Codec : AAC LC: Advanced Audio Codec.
=>-Channels : 2 channels.
=>-Bit Rate : 113 kbps.
=>-Max Bit Rate : 127 kbps.
Subtitles - Softsubbed : SubRip.
=>-English.
=>-Russian.
