Maybe just the second time...

So I saw it back in 2000 when it came out and was quick to forget it. Then, just this morning, I walk into my friend's room and he is watching some animated movie. HA!
"Is that the new Heavy Metal?"
"Yeah."
"I haven't seen this in seven years, I remember the first one was a lot better though."

An hour later I was watching the ridiculous lizard tribal combat scene like a riveted five-year-old watches ice-cream melt on a warm, summer afternoon. Wait a minute? This movie sucked when I saw it in 2000. How is it good now?

All I did was turn up the volume and smoke a bowl. Made the story intensely involving and even, dare I say, enjoyable. I am not a fan of the magazine or much a fan of Metal, but I love movies and consider myself a snob about most. Being that most people found the movie a horror of modern cinema (much as I recall my own distaste for the film for seven years,) I was wondering why I found it entertaining instead of painful or laughable. How much the smoke helped is debatable, but the volume being very loud allowed me to engage entirely with the film.

Ironside was perfect for Tyler and Julie was a strong character backed by all the typical story elements that keep me busy with new scenes and ideas. The film seemed to got through stages of evolution and then devolved into barren landscapes and primal life. From the drudgery of the space-port bar shootout to the hyperspace catastrophe and the aforementioned lizard tribe and subsequent events around the "waters of immortality" (which included the worst cgi'ed bad guy ever). I was absolutely engaged.

Sorry if you don't agree. I wouldn't want you to think I was trying to say it is a good movie, just that with certain 'additions' and lower expectations you might get more out of it.