No Wilykit or Snarf???

February 13, 2005 9:16 AM

Thundercats: The Movie. Nameless Entertainment's blockbuster is a one hour forty eight minute adventure based on a certain 80's cartoon. The prize winning movie was praised by Alex Ross and Kevin Smith at a convention.
(link is an mpg, noose is in the closet)
posted by Hands of Manos (42 comments total)

Ugh. Why the praise?
posted by grouse at 9:19 AM on February 13, 2005

Bwahahaha.

The music is "One Winged Angel", the theme that plays when you are fighting Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII (PS1).

Isn't it great that any hack can do 3D rendering now? That trailer would be so much less exciting without the bad graphics. I'm so glad they put those in.
posted by blacklite at 9:22 AM on February 13, 2005

Neat that they had the dedication to do this, and I enjoyed watching the trailer for that reason alone: the time those costumes must have taken! Don't think I could sit through the whole film though.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 9:28 AM on February 13, 2005

?
posted by gwint at 9:31 AM on February 13, 2005

!
posted by gwint at 9:33 AM on February 13, 2005

What prize? Oh, OK.
Live action and rendering intercut? And those screen-saver graphics...ah well.
posted by nj_subgenius at 9:41 AM on February 13, 2005

It's nice to see the nerds getting out more
posted by fatbobsmith at 9:46 AM on February 13, 2005

A certain 80's cartoon which was a cheap knock-off of He-Man, no less. Those of us in our late twenties seem to enjoy some nostalgia for the toys and cartoons of our youth, but some people take it too far and fail to realise that if you look back at these things with even a slightly critical eye, you see just how shitty they were in all aspects. The animation was terrible and the writing was worse. They were glorified commercials to make you buy the toys. Still, when we were kids we didn't care, because we didn't know better.

I try to keep my scorn in check, because to each their own and all that, but with stuff like this it's very hard when I think about how much time and effort they obviously put into it.
posted by picea at 10:10 AM on February 13, 2005

a one hour forty eight minute adventure


Running Time: 1 minute, 48 seconds


still pretty funny.
posted by blackfly at 10:11 AM on February 13, 2005

And I'm guessing you meant this Alex Ross, Hands of Manos?
posted by picea at 10:16 AM on February 13, 2005

Um.... Ho?
posted by FormlessOne at 10:37 AM on February 13, 2005

Those of us in our late twenties seem to enjoy some nostalgia for the toys and cartoons of our youth, but some people take it too far and fail to realise that if you look back at these things with even a slightly critical eye, you see just how shitty they were in all aspects. The animation was terrible and the writing was worse. They were glorified commercials to make you buy the toys. Still, when we were kids we didn't care, because we didn't know better.

I try to keep my scorn in check, because to each their own and all that, but with stuff like this it's very hard when I think about how much time and effort they obviously put into it.

Hello bitterness and cynicism. It's a fun lark that's nostaliga based. I doubt they're proclaiming it Citizen Kane.
posted by reeche1 at 10:42 AM on February 13, 2005

I'm both amazed and flabbergasted that people actually took the time to put this together. I'm amazed because, that's a lot of hard work to be doing on your freetime. I'm flabbergasted that they chose the thundercats???

But as reeche1 said, it's a fun-lark...I'm sure if I made my passions public, they'd be scrutinzed as well.

but then again...thundercats???
posted by Hands of Manos at 10:46 AM on February 13, 2005

The dub bloopers are much funnier (Flash link) (potentially NSFW due to swearing).
posted by longdaysjourney at 10:51 AM on February 13, 2005

Ever notice that the only identifiably "black" Thundercat, Panthro, was also the mechanic?

/snarf
posted by felix betachat at 10:54 AM on February 13, 2005

Wow, that was bad. Good for them. The girl playing Cheetara looked very uncomfortable doing her action stunts.
posted by dammitjim at 10:58 AM on February 13, 2005

Ever notice that the only identifiably "black" Thundercat, Panthro, was also the mechanic?

Didn't get me started on the racism in 80s cartoons.
posted by drezdn at 11:25 AM on February 13, 2005

felix,

That's why I snarl at spoiled whiney people when they say: "well why can't we have White History Month or Cloud Magazine???"
posted by Hands of Manos at 11:26 AM on February 13, 2005

I'd rather watch that than a Uwe Boll movie any day of the week.
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:26 AM on February 13, 2005

I'd rather watch that than a Uwe Boll movie any day of the week.

Waitasecond. Uwe Boll DIDN'T make that?
posted by tittergrrl at 11:32 AM on February 13, 2005

Dude, Uwe's gonna kick ASS with Far Cry.

But, I do have to wonder how a director gets a reputation for making video game adaptations...

Talk about a rut-
posted by Busithoth at 11:41 AM on February 13, 2005

Of course Uwe didn't make that, the costumes are far too well-designed.
posted by Ndwright at 11:43 AM on February 13, 2005

What the hell is Ben Kingsley doing in the next Uwe Boll movie, Bloodrayne? Michael Madsen and Meat Loaf I understand, but Gandhi? I guess he was in the Thunderbirds movie too. He's like a British Robert DeNiro.
posted by Arch Stanton at 11:57 AM on February 13, 2005

Dude, Uwe's gonna kick ASS with Far Cry.

This is probably true. It wouldn't be too unreasonable for Boll to dispense with the entire jungle premise and have it take place in a school playground. In place of Trigens, he'd feel forklifts driven by zombies would be more identifiable to the audience. Throw in some strobe lights, and maybe cast Corey Feldman as Jack Carver, and Uwe should have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in no time.
posted by Smart Dalek at 12:03 PM on February 13, 2005

Oh, wait. Did I mention forklifts driven by zombies? How silly of me. That would eat most of the production budget. I should've said shopping carts pushed by zombies.
posted by Smart Dalek at 12:06 PM on February 13, 2005

A Thundercats trailer with no Snarf, and no extended screen time of Cheetara is just not worthy of the Thundercats moniker. Oh wait, that would still be painful-Painful-PAINFUL-HOH!

http://www.rankinbass.com/thundercatscheetara.html

Aggg! Cheetara search yields Furries!
posted by somnambulist at 12:07 PM on February 13, 2005

perhaps the makers of the, er, movie have a stockpile of toys to sell 20 years later, and are counting on just enough of those late 20s folks to say "a Mum-ra figure would look so good next to my degree at the office."

"The Economy, we don't manufacture socks, but we can mine the past for a few yen."
posted by ilovemytoaster at 12:41 PM on February 13, 2005

Downloaded the trailer: looks like a campy cross between Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and the road company of "Cats".
posted by rdone at 12:47 PM on February 13, 2005

The crazy part is that there's actually impressive swordwork, and the makeup ain't bad either. And yet, the trailer graphics are about as bad as it gets.
posted by effugas at 12:47 PM on February 13, 2005

I think you guys are being too hard on this thing. It's a pretty respectable amateur clip to pay homage to a bit of 80s nostalgia.

(And how is it that I never noticed how phallic Liono's magical growing sword is?)
posted by ChrisTN at 1:02 PM on February 13, 2005

Yea between Lion-O's sword and Tranzor-Z's boobie missiles... it was an interesting childhood in front of the idiot box, to say the least.
posted by basicchannel at 1:23 PM on February 13, 2005

somnambulist, did you just complain about not enough cheetara screen time and make disparaging remarks about furries in the same breath?
Denial much?
posted by Wolfdog at 1:54 PM on February 13, 2005

This is sort of like that time Kevin Smith made out with Caitlin from Degrassi. Except it has great action, flashy graphics and is all around better thought out and executed.
posted by wfrgms at 2:03 PM on February 13, 2005

What, no samoflanges?
posted by Verdant at 2:35 PM on February 13, 2005

Even as a kid I loathed the Thundercats. I also hated the 'moral of the story' crap at the end of episodes of He-Man. If the writers couldn't make the moral pretty obvious in the past twenty minutes why do they think that it will sink in in twenty seconds?
posted by bangalla at 3:48 PM on February 13, 2005

Kick. Ass.
posted by mnemosyne at 3:59 PM on February 13, 2005

Suck. Ass.
posted by graventy at 4:38 PM on February 13, 2005

Look, I'm just sayin I was trying to find the original Rankin Bass images, and found some stuff going on between Panthro and Cheetara that's none of my business! Yikes!
posted by somnambulist at 5:00 PM on February 13, 2005

Wow, why all the haters? Yeah, it's amateurish, and yeah, Thundercats sucked balls, but I defy any male who grew up in the 80's not to get whistful when someone says "Thunder, thunder, thundercats... HO!"

It's certainly no worse than the various Star Trek fanflicks around the net...
posted by mkultra at 6:09 PM on February 13, 2005

I hear Jem is truly, truly, truly outrageous!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:07 PM on February 13, 2005

We'll be getting nostalgic for latin american death squads next .

Contra , Contra , Contra .....HO !
posted by sgt.serenity at 1:17 AM on February 14, 2005

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers the Tranzor-Z "Boobie Missles".
posted by davros42 at 12:53 PM on February 14, 2005