Comments on: Mind Blowing Movies: Popee the Performer (circa 2000), by Lars Martinson

By: miasm

miasm — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:19:00 +0000

wow. good recommendation dude.
This boggles my mind in places I didn’t even know I had boggles.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:30:00 +0000

I thought Popee was a woman and Kedamono was her dog.

By: Large Mammal

Large Mammal — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:06:00 +0000

” in a movie about clown-rape, it’s important to get right to the ‘clown-raping’.”
- K. Smith

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:54:00 +0000

Or, David Lynch does “The Children’s Hour”.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Does what it says on the tin.

By: Ambiguity

Ambiguity — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:57:00 +0000

That frog would have made a nice helicopter.

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:55:00 +0000

So the kids got to see anime Ringu before the live action one?

By: elix

elix — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:21:00 +0000

In the "Ghost" episode (the second video), the episode begins with several seconds sampled directly from Moonlit City Roa, from the Legend of Mana soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura. That game had only been published in Japan in July, 1999, so it would've been a fairly timely (if not well-known) little insert.

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:04:00 +0000

Posting is weird tonight.

I’ll say. Fist-pumping refrigerator doorknobs, Margaret.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:30:00 +0000

I like how they gave him (?) boxer shorts, rather than just the standard cartoon animal featureless crotch. Just that added bit of odd.

Edit: That was supposed to be in response to zarray. Posting is weird tonight.

By: foobar

foobar — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 03:59:00 +0000

O.o

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 03:42:00 +0000

Holy crap!

This is what the Occupy movement would look like on acid.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 03:00:00 +0000

Was that the troll face on 2:22?

By: Labbit

Labbit — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:58:00 +0000

In the Christmas and New Year period of 05/06 I spent two weeks in Japan with my then-fiancee who was there on the JET program. One night we had dinner at the home of a teacher from the school where she was based. Afterwards, the teacher’s university-aged daughter produced these DVDs of something called “Popee the Clown” which we sat and watched for over an hour.

I’d watched a lot of anime before, but this was some of the weirdest, most awesome whacked out stuff I’d ever seen! I’ll never forget my Japanese Night of Popee™.

By: Werther deGoethe

Werther deGoethe — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:43:00 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was introduced to Popee years ago and could never find the bizarreness again because I couldn’t remember the name.

Yes, indeedy, it will blow your mind.

By: zarray

zarray — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:23:00 +0000

YES! I love Popee! Kedamono is my favorite; there’s so much mystery surrounding him.

By: zombiebob

zombiebob — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:21:00 +0000

I’m just waiting for someone to choose Vulgar the Clown as one of the mind bending movies.

By: Lars Martinson

Lars Martinson — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0000

When I drew this comic for the “Mind Blowing” series, I had no idea that not only would Jim Woodring be doing one, but that he’d be writing about a Fleischer cartoon! Small world!
http://boingboing.net/2012/06/05/mind-blowing-movies-bimbos.html