This week I read Moebius' Heavy Metal. My first exposure to Heavy Metal was Nostalgia Critic's review of the film back in 2012. The majority of the criticism he had with it was the incomplete plots that starts and ends, lack of logic, and how little each story connects with one another. He had stated he like the range of style each story has and the creativity the film has.
Coming into the comic his review was in the back of my mind while I read it. After reading it I was given understanding about what it was trying to achieve.
Heavy Metal is very surreal and sporadic jumping shifts from story to story. In the first story the two characters were gunned down without explanation and the story ends. Another has two naked women smoking something, one of them gets ill, the other leaves just when she grew, then ends. Then there was a story of a messenger for the gods witnessing the gods brutally murdering a man traumatizing the messenger and causing him to vow to stop the gods, then ends. The final story is about a guy making a sex robot then it turns on him-end.
Heavy Metal is definitely not a comic meant for stories but fleeting experiences, and surreal universes. and I feel like the film was trying to mimic that. The story bits seem to reflect that as well as it's emphasize on strange locations and visual aesthetics that different each story. Moebius style changed heavily from each story.
I never really watch Heavy Metal in it entirety apart from segments with the taxi driver, the robot, and the zombie plane, however seeing Nostalgia Critic's review and other who share similar thoughts may be watching movie expecting it to be like a normal movie, rather than something that was entirely experimental.
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