Had an odd experience at the ComiQuest movies today, at the showing of Heavy Metal. While waiting for the theatre to re-open (as they were cleaning it following the previous showing), and later while in the theatre waiting for the movie to start, I overheard at least three incidents of a guy telling a girl that was with him something to the effect of “OMG you’re going to love this movie, it’s going to change your life.”
(”change their life” = “allow them to realize they like girls”?)
And shortly before it started, a man stood up -- one of the volunteers for the NC Comicon, it tuns out -- and asked who here had never seen Heavy Metal. About a third of the audience (of about 40-50) raised their hands. Of the ones raising their hands, most seemed to be women in their late teens or 20s.
During the movie, I did notice a lot of laughs from the audience, mostly during the scenes of gratuitous nudity and sex. So, for about a third of the film.
Also: I just realized that the demon-god-thing worshiped in the “Den” story -- the thing that sounded like “Oolootek” -- is Uhluhtc... which is ”Cthulhu” spelled backwards.