elicopperman
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This is easily some of the most unhinged energy from any Clampett cartoon in his early career and this was only one of the very first appearances of Daffy Duck in anything. Clampett clearly saw the duck's potential from the get go (especially having animated his wackiest moments in the duck's debut short "Porky's Duck Hunt) and went all out in showing just how nutty a cartoon character could be at the time.
As for the cartoon itself, it follows a very basic premise as Porky secures a boxing gig for Daffy to fight the champ (a rooster). While very simple in concept, Clampett and his team make the short thoroughly entertaining from Daffy's chaotic energy and madcap mayhem, elevated further by Mel Blanc's delightful performances. While the short's timing isn't quite as punchy or brisk as the cartoons that would follow up in later years, the energy is all there to make the experience fun and exhilarating. In addition, Carl Stalling's score lightens things up with a lot of up beat tempos that add into the insanity on screen. It just goes to show you how much fun you can make of something with the right amount of wackiness on display.
As for the cartoon itself, it follows a very basic premise as Porky secures a boxing gig for Daffy to fight the champ (a rooster). While very simple in concept, Clampett and his team make the short thoroughly entertaining from Daffy's chaotic energy and madcap mayhem, elevated further by Mel Blanc's delightful performances. While the short's timing isn't quite as punchy or brisk as the cartoons that would follow up in later years, the energy is all there to make the experience fun and exhilarating. In addition, Carl Stalling's score lightens things up with a lot of up beat tempos that add into the insanity on screen. It just goes to show you how much fun you can make of something with the right amount of wackiness on display.
If someone were to criticize this movie's story for being simple, I couldn't for the life of me comprehend what they're going through. As much as Avatar's core story sounds familiar on paper, its immaculate world building and impressive fictionalized outer worldly creatures and people pull us into the Pandora universe and the people surrounding it. Jake Sully himself finding genuine value and purpose within his Avatar body could arguably be seen as a spiritual awakening, albeit from viewing a new world rather than a new belief within your own world. Even despite having not seen this film in so long, several eye dropping sequences still hold up for their massive scale alone. James Cameron clearly knew what type of universal anti-authoritarian themes and concepts to utilize for his pet project, and it's no wonder that Avatar is still beloved after all these years.
Part of me feels like I should know better and call this film bizarre schlock, but there's definitely a lot of passion towards sci-fi horror oozing in certain sequences. Director Tobe Hooper went all out in playing up the shear intensity of the intergalactic creatures slowly consuming humanity, from frightening body transformations to creative special effects to wild action set pieces. Admittedly, the film seems to favor its sci-fi mythos over fully developing its characters, not helped by the British cast's largely interchangeable personalities. That said, lead actor Steve Railsback overacts to such a hysterical extreme as Col. Tom Carlsen that it arguably fits the character's hysterical mindset after witnessing alien creatures wreak havoc everywhere. Much of the film kinda starts and stops from progression to progression, but once the climax kicks in, it's somewhat worth the eventual buildup. I'd deem Lifeforce more of a unique fascination than a genuine discovery, but it's certainly otherworldly in terms of blending sci-fi and horror and going off the rails.
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