Heavy Traffic
1 March 2010
5 Comments
4.0
Description
“Heavy images, crazy violence, insanity verging on insecurity and brilliance” (Films & Filming)! Heavy Traffic, the second feature from writer/director Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat), combines a quick-edit pace, a frenetic story line and an array of eye-popping animation and live-action styles. “Powerful, raw and valid” (Los Angeles Times), this “remarkable blend” of filmic styles is a “hypnotic, life-giving experience” (The Hollywood Reporter)! Michael, a young artist who l… More >>
I saw this film back in ’73 with my best bud, Juan during the time when it was rated “X”. I was only 16 but we didn’t let that stop us from getting in with a bottle of orange flavored vodka. Hell…if we could score some vodka we sure weren’t going to worry about getting into an “X”-rated film. It was the first time I saw an “X” rated anything and the first time I drank alcohol. Not a good idea. About all I remember from the film is a couple of rats going at it on a roof. Then the vodka kicked in and I got sick…repeatedly. It seems that hot-buttered popcorn and orange flavored vodka don’t mix very well. Now they tell me! In any event I wound up being so sick that for the next 3 days I couldn’t feel any pain (aside from a massive hangover) and I haven’t touched vodka since. So if there is a moral to the story….well I haven’t figured it out. But after nearly 30 years I thought I’d get the dvd and see how much of it I remember seeing. Yeah, the rats on the roof was all I remember.
Rating: 5 / 5
i started liking this movie, i thought the pinball metaphor and wild characters and lifes a cartoon shiz could have worked out, if it werent for the fact that bakshi is thinly disguising himself and his own frustration as being an unoriginal “underground” cartoonist who caught on to the scene too late…if you like the depressing, gritty, wild, fastpaced style of this movie, check out the original master ROBERT CRUMB, toward whom bakshi is obviously seething with jealousy and riding anxiously on the coattails of…this is crap in noncomformity, and dont say i “didnt get it”, i just think hes being hugely self-indulgent and this whole thing is an homage gone awry, lacking the wit, psychedelia, and pornographic brillinace that crumb could create so effortlessly..
Rating: 2 / 5
This part-live action, part-animated movie from 1973 seemed to get rave reviews, and I was up late one night, so I decided to check it out. But I’m sorry; I just didn’t get this movie. I did understand that the main character, Michael, had a hard life and some very dysfunctional (divorced) parents. But then the movie got all twisted. By watching the movie, you can tell that was sort of the point, but it was still weird in that a lot of the scenes and secondary characters didn’t seem to have anything to do with each other. Also, the “n” word was thrown around a lot, but I guess I can let that side since it was the `70s. Maybe you have to be drunk to understand this movie or something.
Anthony Rupert
Rating: 2 / 5
Well this product was packaged well and came in a good time frame.
The dvd played well and I am satisfied.
Thanks
Sphinx
Rating: 5 / 5
No level of animation can make up for the depravity of spirit in this film. Yes — the world is a harsh reality.
BUT – the heart is an impenetrable redemption. Please take notice.
This movie has no redemption. This movie has no heart.
Pitiful. Pathetic. Ugly. Stupid. With an occasional glimpse of artistic merit.
and the real life scenes are some of the most uncomfortable acting i’ve seen to date. watcher beware!
Rating: 1 / 5