• What Did You Watch? 2026-09-13 (Sunday)

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Monday, September 14, 2026 04:30:41
    I watched:

    WE ARE THE 80'S

    WE ARE THE 80'S

    WE ARE THE 80'S

    WE ARE THE 80'S

    Why There Are Two Versions | Rock & Rule (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZMtuf6Xi9c
    How did The Beatles and Star Wars help build Rock & Rule (1983), and
    why does the film still exist in two different cuts?

    This is the full production investigation of Nelvana?s adult animation
    gamble: Clive A. Smith?s path from Beatles animation into a Toronto
    studio, A Cosmic Christmas catching George Lucas?s eye, the Star Wars
    Holiday Special, and the first screen appearance of Boba Fett. From
    there we follow the leap into Rock & Rule. A dark rock epic scored in
    pieces by Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Cheap Trick, and
    Earth, Wind & Fire, often recording in different cities without the
    artists ever meeting.

    Then the collapse: MGM?s acquisition of United Artists, a launch that
    failed, a studio on the brink, and the Care Bears Movie hit that
    rebuilt Nelvana into a major animation company. We compare the Canadian
    cut against the US cut, trace the fire-damaged vault material behind
    modern restorations, open the lost concepts and scenes that never
    reached the final film, and close on the soundtrack that was never
    fully made.

    Video Chapters:

    00:00 - The Studio That Shouldn't Have Existed
    00:49 - A Cosmic Christmas & The Star Wars Connection
    03:18 - Drats! (From Children's Film to Sci-Fi Nightmare)
    05:11 - How They Actually Made It (In-Camera Visual Effects)
    08:04 - Animating the Rhythm (Method Animation)
    10:19 - Getting the Band (Lou Reed, Iggy Pop & Cheap Trick)
    15:57 - The Collapse (MGM and The Box Office Bomb)
    18:29 - The Two Films (Canadian Cut vs. American Cut)
    20:39 - Out of the Ashes (The Bootleg Restoration)
    22:15 - The Film That Never Existed (Lost Scenes & Concepts)
    24:11 - Coda: The Missing Soundtrack & Legacy

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    ROCK AND RULE:
    In the far future, a rock and roll mogul (who strangely resembles Mick
    Jaguar) kindnaps a female singer from a band in order to summon a
    demon. Her band mates foolow in an attempt to rescue her. Very "Heavy
    <etal" ish vibes and contained great songs from Blondie, Lou Reed,
    Cheap trick, and Iggy Pop. Unfortunately, Tubi has a bad copy and had
    annoying commercial breaks. At one point, the video "got stuck" like a
    record and I had to jump ahead a bit to continue.


    What did you watch?

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