Very Heavy Metal

For so many nerds, the Heavy Metal movie (loosely adapted from material in the self-same magazine) was a major cinematic event, as it contained copious amounts of violence and nudity, and yet was a cartoon. Before the hentai / anime craze of the early '90s, the film warped our minds, and allowed to overlook the fact that Heavy Metal was both a terrible movie and made no damn sense.

For this generation, there's a new Heavy Metal movie on the way, and they have some big guns doing the segments. In addition to Fight Club and Se7en's David Fincher directing a segment, Pirates of the Caribbean's Gore Verbinksi and 300 and Watchmen s Zack Snyder are alleged to be on board.

I'm firmly betting all three of these dudes watched Heavy Metal before the legally required age of 18, and their fond memories of hilariously large, animated boobs are the reasons they've signed up, because I don't think Heavy Metal will be high on the Academy's must-watch list. Still, since Heavy Metal is nothing but high-action, low-thought guns n' breasts, I can only imagine how much cooler each of these directors can make it.