Let’s see. . big bloomin’ robot vs. Rutger Hauer. Rutger could stop just about anything in it’s tracks with that cold, crazy Rutger glare. But, the sweetness and good nature of The Iron Giant could melt even Rutger’s icy shell to reveal candy coated goodness.
What does Ladyhawke have going against it? The futuristic soundtrack that got drunk and woke up in the middle of a medieval romance. Matthew Broderick, who I usually don’t have a problem with, delivering his lines in an unnatural staccato, occasionally talking to the camera as if he’s already getting ready to play Ferris Bueller. Everyone else manages to be natural.
And Broderick’s prominent placement on the DVD cover, looking like he’s thinking, “Oh, I’m so coy and cute! I’ll be this freakishly cute forever, even when I’m 45 years old and married to Sarah Jessica Parker!”
Ladyhawke is a good adventure/ romance, but The Iron Giant works better as a period piece. Yes, an animated movie is a period piece. It takes place in 1957 and it isn’t just the look of the characters or the cars that evoke that time. The fear of Communist Russia that was rampant at that point is apparent; Brad Bird even managed to work in a clip of a “duck and cover” film.
The Iron Giant also puts forth a message of non-violence without being preachy about it. I’m sure the NRA loved it when little Hogarth pointed to a deer that had been shot by hunters and explained to the Giant that guns kill. That’s no message to send out to impressionable youngins!
This match is going to The Iron Giant, even though Rutger will probably give me the hook eye until I pee a little bit.
Previously in the PRGAAMWA Tournament. . .
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Well lets just take the names of the films. Yes? Good glad you agree.
Iron Giant
Iron: Metal. Hard. Heavy. Iron Maiden – ancient torture device/rustic sock tidy (trust me Mother Tamworthian loves hers) AND the greatest metal band the world has ever heard… well they knocked Cliff Richard off the Christmas No 1 spot years ago and thats gets a creamy slice of kudos from me.
Giant: BIG! LARGE! With the ability to crush all an sundry! Lots of cool things are ‘giant’ like diggers, castles, Godzilla, really huge cakes, the moon, Odin and my collection hair balls.
And the other contender?
Ladyhawke
Lady: YUM! We all love a lady. They can be soft yet firm. They can jut, sway and be pert and yielding. They can be kind and sweet or hard and mean. They are beauty incarnate! We love them whatever form they come in. They are our mothers, sisters, daughters, girlfriends, chums or fantasies (or all of the above if you were ever on Jerry Springer)! Odin bless every single one of them (especially the really cute ones in the mini-skirts).
Hawke: Well… this is either a careless mispelling or a ye olde-oh aaaarrrr Jim Lad version of the word that Chaucer may have used, perchance, in one of his less bawdy Cantabury Tales. Either way a Hawk/e is a really cool kinda bird that eats stuff and flies and had a pretty tough old school WWF wrestler named after him. So thats pretty sweet.
Hmmm this is tricky and I am very tired. Oh sod it I’m going with THE BLOOMING GREAT ROBOT!!! HOOOZAH!!!