Heavy Metal 2000 Ost

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HeavyMetal 2000 (also known as Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. outside North America) is a 2000 Canadian adult animated science fantasy film produced by Jacques Pettigrew and Michel Lemire, and directed by Michael Coldewey and Lemire. Starring the voices of Michael Ironside, Julie Strain, and Billy Idol, the film is the follow-up to the 1981 animated cult film Heavy Metal, which is based on the fantasy magazine of the same name. The story is based on the graphic novel, The Melting Pot, written by Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley and Eric Talbot. The film was made by CinGroupe, a studio based in Montreal, Quebec. It received negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

In ages past, the Arakacians, a malevolent race, discovered a place where space-time leaked a type of fluid. This fluid granted immortality to anyone who consumed it. The Arakacians built an empire and enslaved the known universe for centuries. They were finally vanquished after the fountain chamber (where they gathered the water of life) was sealed by freedom fighters. The key to the chamber, a glowing crystal that can lead the bearer back to the fountain and drives anyone who possessed it insane, was cast into space and lost among the stars.

In a present-day asteroid excavation, space crewman Tyler and his colleague find the key by accident. Tyler touches the key and instantly goes insane. He kills his mining partner and takes over the ship, killing everyone but Dr. Schechter, and the pilots Lambert and Germain.[1] His search for the planet with the fountain leads to Eden, a planet that is designated F.A.K.K. (Federation-Assigned Ketogenic Killzone to the second level), but has inhabitants whose bodies carry the immortality fluid. Tyler invades Eden, and kills many of the Edenites, capturing some so he can extract the immortality fluids from their bodies. He also keeps the attractive Kerrie for his own sexual purposes. When Germain resists the idea, he is left on Eden.

Kerrie's sister Julie survives the attack and teams up with Germain to follow Tyler. At a renegade space station, Julie finds Tyler and critically injures him. However, he ingests a vial with the immortality serum and heals instantly.[1] In the ensuing gunfight, Tyler blows up the club. Escaping the explosion, Julie and Germain board a shuttlecraft that latches onto Tyler's ship before it jumps into hyperspace. Discovering them mid-travel, Tyler tries to shake them off, but the fight causes the two ships to crash.

Julie wakes up on Uroboris, a desert planet, and meets Odin, a mysterious cloaked sage, and his assistant, Zeek, a rock-like creature. The two are guardians of the ancient fountain. With his ship destroyed and most of his crew dead, Tyler orders Dr. Schechter to extract Kerrie's fluids. While exploring the planet, he finds a race of reptilian beings and conquers them by defeating their champion and their leader in a death match. Julie enters the reptilian city in disguise as a woman that the reptiles found for Tyler. That night, she seduces Tyler and tries to kill him, but Zeek stops the attempt and captures her, taking her back to Odin. Julie then infiltrates Tyler's ship and discovers Kerrie is still alive. She takes out Dr. Schechter, frees Kerrie, and escapes as the complex explodes. Tyler, with only three vials of serum left, orders his troops to storm the citadel where the immortality fountain is located.

At the citadel, Julie undergoes a ritual where armor is bestowed upon her. She, Kerrie, and Germain help the fountain's guardians defend against Tyler's army. In the fighting, Lambert suffers a near-fatal injury and knocks Tyler's last vial of immortality serum loose, breaking it on the ground. Tyler, enraged, kills Lambert for the blunder and walks to the pit of immortality. He is about to put the crystal into the fountain's final lock but is stopped by Julie, who stabs him in the left eye. A fight ensues in which, with Odin's help, Julie finally kills Tyler. Odin then throws off his cloak, revealing himself to be the last of the Arakacians. He has been in hiding all these centuries, waiting for someone to find the chamber key and be drawn to the fountain. He intends to claim it as his own and reestablish the Arakacian empire. However, Zeek pulls the crystal key from the pedestal, locking Odin inside the fountain chamber forever, and flies into outer space. As Germain and Kerrie help Julie to her feet, Zeek envelops the crystal into himself and becomes a new asteroid to hide the key for all time.

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 17% rating based on reviews from 12 critics.[2] Lisa Nesselson of Variety called the plot derivative but said self-selecting audiences may enjoy it.[1] Writing for Slant Magazine, Jake Cole said, "Everything here is disconnected and enervating, scuttling the winsome absurdity of the premise."[3]

The film had a video game about the events after Heavy Metal 2000, titled Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2, in which the player assumes the role of Julie as she fights to save Eden from an evil entity called "GITH". The game is set some time after the film and features cameo appearances of several characters, for example, Julie's sister Kerrie, the pilot Germaine (now married to Kerrie), and a resurrected Tyler.

After the release of 2000, a third film has been in various stages of development since then. During 2008[4][5] and into 2009,[6] reports circulated that David Fincher and James Cameron would executive produce, and each direct one of the eight to nine segments for a new film based on Heavy Metal. Eastman would also direct a segment, as well as animator Tim Miller, with Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, and Guillermo del Toro attached to direct segments. However, Paramount Pictures decided to stop funding the film by August 2009[7] and no distributor or production company has shown interest in the second sequel since.[8]

In 2011, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez announced at Comic-Con that he had purchased the film rights to Heavy Metal and planned to develop a new animated film at the new Quick Draw Studios.[9] However, on March 11, 2014, with the formation of his very own television network, El Rey, Rodriguez considered switching gears and bringing it to TV.[10]

The Heavy Metal 2000 Original Soundtrack is the 2000 soundtrack album to the film of the same name. In his AllMusic review, Greg Prato said that the album was a "truer heavy metal soundtrack" than that of the first film, featuring a combination of established bands such as Pantera, Monster Magnet, and Machine Head; then-newer bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, Hate Dept., Puya, and Coal Chamber; and a few non-metal artists such as Billy Idol, Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, and Bauhaus. The vast majority of the tracks were either specifically recorded for the soundtrack or were previously unreleased up to that point.[13][12] One month after its release in the U.S., the soundtrack peaked at No. 101 on the Billboard 200 chart.[14]

With the hard metal soundtrack and flagrant naughty phrases spewed left and right, Heavy Metal 2000 tries so hard (and fails) to be an edgy, rebellious underground flick. But in its failing, it surprisingly succeeds in popcorn and candy nutrition. The visuals are flashy and vibrant and the lunacy is endearing. In the post-PC era, this is a terrific flashback to the spirit of films long past. I honestly feel that this movie can grow on me with a couple more viewings, and perhaps it will do the same to you as well.

It was a fun watch but I struggle to see why it would have the following that it does. Anyway, it has been several decades since my last viewing and when I saw that Umbrella Entertainment was releasing it on blu I decided now was the perfect time to revisit this one. A few days later I received word that the film, along with the sequel, was getting an UHD release in a snazzy steelbook. When it arrived I decided it was time to check out both releases back to back.

The voice acting in this one features one hell of a cast with some names you would not expect to find in a sci-fi based anthology series with an early 80s metal soundtrack but we have some seriously heavy hitters like John Candy in this one. Sadly, the voice acting lacks emotion for the most part and just feels like a quick table read was recorded and laid over the animation. There is no real acting with the voice acting which makes most of the scenes feel a little awkward and cheap.

**Spoiler Alert** The film follows a group of space miners who uncover a green shard. The shard is a piece of the evil orb from the first film. It possesses one of the miners turning him into an evil psychopath hellbent on ruling the galaxy and uncovering immortality. After destroying a planet and taking a female hostage, a female survivor begins her journey to stop him and rescue her sister. **Spoiler ALert**

The voice acting in this one is actually a little better than the original. The cast seems to be more in tune with the project and deliver a wide range of emotions that feels genuine at times and forced at others. The late Julie Strain is fantastic along with Michael Ironside and the rest of the cast. The supporting cast is solid as well. They are all inconsistent but leagues above the first film.

Begun in late 1974 primarily as a showcase for French comic book artists Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius) and Philippe Druillet, Mtal Hurlant suggested an attempt to channel the spirit of the legendary EC Comics. Named for the still-nascent musical genre, the comics anthology shared with heavy metal an aesthetic rooted in pulp, and soon National Lampoon reprinted the publication in English to capitalize on its cutting-edge art and appeal to metal fans. All that remained was the inevitable film adaptation.

Just as Fantasia 2000 emerged at the dawn of a new century to serve a weak facsimile of its predecessor, so did Heavy Metal 2000. Swapping out the anthology format for a single unified narrative, the film suffers from being unable to pad out ideas that barely sustained a single segment of Heavy Metal into feature length. Much worse, though, is how badly the swords-and-sci-fi format of the comics clashes with the downtuned, simplistic guitar riffs and grunt, semi-rapped vocals that came to define metal at the turn of the millennium.

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