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Dick Tracy rules, it's got insane levels of makeup and like pastel blue Tommy guns and all kinds of radical poo poo.
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I watched Dick Tracy recently and loved it. I also love Darkman, but mostly for the ridiculous way he's thrown out of the lab explosion.
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Aug 31, 2016 14:46
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All I know about Dick Tracy is that it went for colorful camp at a time no one wanted to see it at all.
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Aug 31, 2016 14:49
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Dick Tracy is amazing, Warren Beatty and all. Darkman is peak Raimi madness and also flawless.
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Aug 31, 2016 14:50
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Darkman makes a great double-feature with Nightbreed.
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Aug 31, 2016 14:51
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I watched Dick Tracy recently and loved it. I also love Darkman, but mostly for the ridiculous way he's thrown out of the lab explosion. My favourite scene from Darkman.
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Aug 31, 2016 15:37
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Wheat Loaf posted:As far as that generation of superhero movies that were following Batman '89 go, I've only seen The Rocketeer (love it) and Darkman (love it). I've never seen The Shadow or The Phantom or Dick Tracy but I'm especially curious about the last one because I've seen some of the crazy make-up they used to reproduce all the bizarre characters from the comic strip like Littleface and the Brow, and thought, "That looks interesting." Dick Tracy is a beautiful looking movie with a rough script, but it's worth watching just for the amazing visuals. You can skip The Shadow and The Phantom.
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Aug 31, 2016 15:53
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The Shadow feels like someone tried to make Batman Begins a decade early.
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Aug 31, 2016 16:01
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I love the scene where he's waking up in the nonsense machine that is just rotating him for some reason in the hospital and the doctor is just rambling like "so we had to do this experimental poo poo to his nervous system cause of his burns and long story short he's got super strength and speed now and is probably invincible or something, oh and it gave him super-insanity"
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Aug 31, 2016 16:08
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The Action Man posted:Dick Tracy is a beautiful looking movie with a rough script, but it's worth watching just for the amazing visuals. The Phantom is really skippable, unless you really like Billy Zane. It's kind of just not too interesting for the most part. The Shadow was always a personal favorite of mine, even though Alec Baldwin is Alecing his way through it. Guy with guns + mind controlish powers gained from an ancient Tibetan monk? The hero being a grody-rear end warlord at the beginning? The Shadow basically blackmails people into helping him, and he's like a hair away from being just a complete douche that occasionally helps people not die. It was great. The CGI, though... ugh.
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Aug 31, 2016 17:08
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I had an amazing The Shadow lunchbox + thermos when I was a kid. This one; Who knows what hostess lurks in the heart of this lunch? I haven't seen the movie in literally 20 years though. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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Aug 31, 2016 17:41
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Wait, who doesn't really like Billy Zane?
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Aug 31, 2016 17:44
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Aphrodite posted:Wait, who doesn't really like Billy Zane? To the contrary, I don't believe I've ever met anyone who does like him.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:02
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Hansel told me that Billy Zane is a cool dude.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:16
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Dick Tracy is actually a lot better than you might expect. The makeup they had for the henchman was really good even if it looks ridiculous and Al Pacino was great as the bad guy. I think Warren Beatty got the movie made to hit on Madonna though.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:30
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The Barbie-scaled Breathless Mahoney doll had nipples.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:35
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Rhyno posted:The Barbie-scaled Breathless Mahoney doll had nipples. I had a set of Dick Tracy trading cards that prompted me as a third grader to look up what 'sultry' and 'seductive' meant.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:37
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The Action Man posted:Dick Tracy is a beautiful looking movie with a rough script, but it's worth watching just for the amazing visuals. The Shadow is fine and Billy Zane gives it his all in The Phantom and it's enjoyable. Neither are great movies, but they in no way suck rear end.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:48
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My distant memory of The Phantom is "very entertaining but completely forgettable". Dick Tracy is mostly great and the adherence to the comic book color scheme and outfits looks great, and most of the characters are great, but I didn't care for the Madonna stuff and from my extremely limited Dick Tracy reading/cartoon she seemed out of character for Tracy to react to. Pacino is great and hilariously quotable both for the misquotes and "I'm having a thought..."
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Aug 31, 2016 19:04
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The podcast " You Must Remember This," episode 15 (link below) goes into detail about warren and madonnas relationship and all the craziness surround the dick Tracy movie. http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustrememberthispodcastblog/ymrt-15-madonna-from-sean-to-warren-part-two
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Aug 31, 2016 19:52
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Also gently caress warren Beatty because he has made it so dick Tracy will never be adapted again until after his death.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:53
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The Action Man posted:Dick Tracy is a beautiful looking movie with a rough script, but it's worth watching just for the amazing visuals. Hell no, The Phantom is tons of fun. rantmo posted:To the contrary, I don't believe I've ever met anyone who does like him. Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight is awesome and it's 90% because of him. Billy Zane rules.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:
It is awesome because I watched it when I was 13 years old and there were boobs in it.
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Aug 31, 2016 22:19
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I watched Dick Tracy recently and loved it. I also love Darkman, but mostly for the ridiculous way he's thrown out of the lab explosion. On a similar note, I mostly love Dick Tracy for how ridiculous the two shots at about 2:37 here are - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4936ZOiOZw Perry Normal fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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Aug 31, 2016 22:36
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SlimGoodbody posted:I love the scene where he's waking up in the nonsense machine that is just rotating him for some reason in the hospital and the doctor is just rambling like "so we had to do this experimental poo poo to his nervous system cause of his burns and long story short he's got super strength and speed now and is probably invincible or something, oh and it gave him super-insanity" It's awesome. The coolest thing about Darkman is his super-power is partly having really huge melodramatic emotions, which means he's a normal guy who has an accident which gives him the huge operatic emotional characteristics implicit of comic book superheroes. Darkman is the best, it's the best by far of the post-Batman, pre-Blade era.
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Aug 31, 2016 22:58
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Karloff posted:Darkman is the best, it's the best by far of the post-Batman, pre-Blade era. Wasn't Darkman mostly finished before Batman was even released?
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Aug 31, 2016 23:05
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Perry Normal posted:On a similar note, I mostly love Dick Tracy for how ridiculous the two shots at about 2:37 here are - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4936ZOiOZw The bit where Tracy knocks out like ten guys with one punch? Hahaha, that's awesome. I've definitely got to watch this now. Karloff posted:It's awesome. The coolest thing about Darkman is his super-power is partly having really huge melodramatic emotions, which means he's a normal guy who has an accident which gives him the huge operatic emotional characteristics implicit of comic book superheroes. "PAY FIVE BUCKS! TO SEE THE DANCING FREAK! JUST FIVE BUCKS! SEE THE DANCING FREAK!" It's weird that Liam Neeson was in that. I mean, he's great in it, but it's sort of an oddity in his filmography in between the likes of The Mission and Rob Roy (also, in Rob Roy he looks almost exactly the same as he did when he played Qui-Gon Jinn and it's really distracting). Rhyno posted:Wasn't Darkman mostly finished before Batman was even released? I understand that Raimi actually wanted to make a Shadow or Phantom movie but couldn't get the rights, so he came up with an original character.
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Aug 31, 2016 23:12
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Wheat Loaf posted:I understand that Raimi actually wanted to make a Shadow or Phantom movie but couldn't get the rights, so he came up with an original character. Clearly he'd have done a better job than what we got with either of those films. But if I remember what I read, Darkman was mostly finished filming before Batman was released, it just took forever to edit and finish the FX work. To say it's "Post Batman" is kind of unfair since it wasn't really influenced by it.
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Aug 31, 2016 23:15
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Rhyno posted:Wasn't Darkman mostly finished before Batman was even released? Perhaps, but there was an influx of comic book properties being made into films post-Batman which it's hard not to consider Darkman a part of, whether or not the production was specifically inspired by Batman's success or not.
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Aug 31, 2016 23:15
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I just watched both Magic Mike movies and it is criminal that Channing Tatum is not presently charming everyone's pants off in a superhero movie. I'm sure the Gambit movie is toast, but that's fine, because he deserves better than loving Gambit.
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Aug 31, 2016 23:16
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SlimGoodbody posted:I just watched both Magic Mike movies and it is criminal that Channing Tatum is not presently charming everyone's pants off in a superhero movie. I'm sure the Gambit movie is toast, but that's fine, because he deserves better than loving Gambit. It's so odd that they made a HUGE ordeal out of having him on the Fox X-Men panel last year (he even warmed everyone's hearts by walking clearly confused Stan Lee off the stage) and now he'll probably never play the character. I read somewhere (maybe here) that Fox wanted him to sign on for like 12 films, to basically become their new lead to take Jackman's place and he balked at the idea since it would lock him in for 10+ years. Gonna be pretty funny when DC eventually scoops him up.
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Aug 31, 2016 23:21
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Tatum is way too charming and friendly to be in a DC movie
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Aug 31, 2016 23:28
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site posted:Tatum is way too charming and friendly to be in a DC movie "We're proud to announce Channing Tatum will play Booster Gold in Justice League 2!" <Booster shows up with one arm, warning of the dark future where Superman is ruler of all, Batman proceeds to beat him to death while crying>
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Aug 31, 2016 23:34
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site posted:Tatum is way too charming and friendly to be in a DC movie I think he could pull off a great Brave and the Bold style Aquaman.
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Aug 31, 2016 23:55
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SlimGoodbody posted:I just watched both Magic Mike movies and it is criminal that Channing Tatum is not presently charming everyone's pants off in a superhero movie. I'm sure the Gambit movie is toast, but that's fine, because he deserves better than loving Gambit. The reason why Gambit failed: It not Tatum, it Gambit
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Sep 1, 2016 00:09
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Honestly I think he'd be a pretty good Captain Marvel.
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Sep 1, 2016 00:12
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Wheat Loaf posted:The bit where Tracy knocks out like ten guys with one punch? Hahaha, that's awesome. I've definitely got to watch this now. I'm not sure which I love more, ten guys with one punch or the guy back-flipping off the uppercut right after it.
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Rhyno posted:Honestly I think he'd be a pretty good Captain Marvel. It is a shame Patrick Warburton isn't 10 years younger. He'd be a great Captain Marvel. Perry Normal posted:I'm not sure which I love more, ten guys with one punch or the guy back-flipping off the uppercut right after it. I also like the bit just before it where a guy is (presumably) leaning on a Chinese stereotype in a laundry for protection money and Tracy just pops up from behind the counter like a jack-in-the-box.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It is a shame Patrick Warburton isn't 20 years younger. He'd be a great Captain Marvel.
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SlimGoodbody posted:I just watched both Magic Mike movies and it is criminal that Channing Tatum is not presently charming everyone's pants off in a superhero movie. I'm sure the Gambit movie is toast, but that's fine, because he deserves better than loving Gambit. Tatum opposite The Rock in the DCEU Shazam movie would be really good imo.
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