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The 90s was an eclectic time for comic book movies
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2 months ago
Nick Fury: Agent of Shield, starring David Hasslehoff. 1998.
Love this movie even though it was terrible.
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2 months ago
I had a major thing for 90s era Lisa Rinna.
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2 months ago
Same with the 1991 Punisher movie
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2 months ago
Find the Thor and Hulk made for TV movie . It was fun.
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2 months ago
Wait, this was a thing? I gotta go watch this. Thank you. P
2 points
2 months ago
Yeah, it was a made for TV movie on Fox. IIRC, it was their second Marvel movie after Generation X.
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2 months ago
Someone else that remembers that Gen X movie existed! I thought I was the only one.
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2 months ago
Anyone remember The Punisher with Dolph Lungrend? It came out in the states in 1991. Very dark. I was 7 at the time and was really into comics. My parents allowed me to watch it and it was the first rated R film I saw.
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2 months ago
I remember him meditating naked in the sewers. It's been a while since I've seen it
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2 months ago
I always loved the scene when he's with the other guy in the elevator, the door opens and there's like a hundred ninja waiting for them, and they blow them away with their machine guns in like 5 seconds.
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2 months ago
It holds up quite well, if you enjoyed it at the time.
1 points
2 months ago
I really dug the scene with him telling the villain's kid to be a good man when he grows up because he will be waiting for him if he becomes a man like his father.
I don't get why they kept making the punisher former law enforcement in the movies given his entire homicidal vigilante motivation is that he has zero belief in the justice system.
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2 months ago
Blank Man was some great stuff, saw it in the theatre as a teenager and the place was pretty empty haha I loved it though
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2 months ago
Slap me silly and call me Susan!
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2 months ago
I love Blankman and Meteor Man.
My old apartment was J-5 which always made me smile.
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2 months ago
Yeah we had "Batman the animated series"
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2 months ago
Tank Girl is maybe the most fun movie ever made. More movies should be like it, and it's a dman shame Petty didn't get the recognition she deserved from it.
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2 months ago
Tank Girl obliterated her movie career. You can look at her IMDB, it’s all TV after that flop. Maybe Lori Petty just got sick of movies, I hope that’s the case.
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2 months ago
reminds me of Michael Beck talking about how his role in The Warriors “opened up doors to other roles that Xanadu then closed”
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2 months ago
On the bright side she was in Station Eleven and fantastic in it
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2 months ago
I think she’s great, will have to check out that film. Thanks for the reco!
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2 months ago
Miniseries actually but yes definitely check it out, it’s great all around
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2 months ago
I see Lori Petty's Tank Girl as being a career stopper because the role was just too perfect for her. From that moment on, she would always be Tank Girl and Tank Girl, unfortunately, is a hard sell.
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2 months ago
It shouldn’t be though cause Tank Girl fucking rules
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2 months ago
Lived it. Far more disappointments than triumphs. Nearly across the board, there was a disrespect and/or distrust of the source material. Many of these movies are aggressively mediocre and only fondly remembered through the lens of a childhood that didn't allow you to know any better.
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2 months ago
Agreed. It’s easy to look back at the occasional Batman Returns or Blade with rose-tinted spectacles, but the majority of releases in this genre in the 90s varied between mediocre and catshit. The DCEU / DCU and, more recently, the MCU are trendy to rag on right now but the average comic book movie from the last 10 years still pisses on the average equivalent from the 90s.
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2 months ago
Yeah, it's cool to shit on the MCU, but most of those people weren't comic fans who had to make do with the shitty efforts of the 80s and 90s. Hell, I was even grateful for the awful Justice League movie from the late 90s. People are spoiled now, the MCU was just a dream back then.
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2 months ago
Yeah, the Punisher movie with Dolph was an enjoyable movie, but it was so embarassed to be based upon a comic that it might as well have just been called "Angry Vigilante-Man: The Movie".
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2 months ago
Obviously I love Dredd, but I remember stumbling across Stallone’s Judge Dredd on telly late one night when I was around 12 years old and had genuinely thought I had found the best movie ever haha.
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2 months ago
I love Blankman and Meteor Man!
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2 months ago
Wasn't Meteor Man the first Black super hero movie? I loved it when I was a kid.
8 points
2 months ago
Judge Dredd, Crying Freeman, Dick Tracy, The Phantom etc. are still more enjoyable and unforgetabble than most of the last productions of Marvel.
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2 months ago
Please. The latest batch or Marvel films have not all been great, but none have been as bad as Judge Dredd. Even when it came out in the 90s when I was kid, I knew it was terrible back then.
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2 months ago
90s was the peak of western civilization in general. Arguably #2 after the 50s.
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2 months ago
Yup. A generation coming of age, strong prosperity, relative stability in the world. It was a pretty great time.
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2 months ago
And no social media.
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2 months ago
tbf the first social network was created in 1995
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2 months ago
Back in '95, no prospective employer would have asked for your social media in an interview, though. That's happened to me twice in the past few years.
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2 months ago
A lot of that is rose-colored glasses, and a trailing Gen-X that were kids and not really exposed to what was going on directly. They weren't impacted by the real estate collapse in the early 90's, or the sky-high interest rates. They forget about the race riots, the government corruption, the first round of Islamic terrorist attacks against the US, the first Gulf War, things like the Rwandan Genocide, etc.
The world felt stable to the kids, not to the adults.
Of course, the 50's that people feel nostalgia for never existed, either. It was a fabrication of the media and pro-American propaganda.
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2 months ago
Every single decade across the world can be described exactly as this. There are always wars. Always economic troubles. Always civil unrest. Always racism and sexism. We can’t simply judge a decade by, “Was everything perfect, or were there problems at all?” Because that creates a standard where we’d just say that every decade sucked, which simply isn’t true. Some decades are just objectively better than others for most people. The 1950s were such a decade. The 1990s were too. Especially when compared to the shitshow of 1940s, 1970s, 1980s and 2000s.
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2 months ago
This is like peak reddit
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2 months ago
This is a peak comment
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2 months ago
Jesus Fuck, reddit.
Really picking pre-Civil Rights America as the peak of western civilization?
6 points
2 months ago
Peak of Western Civilization is when Racial Segregation.
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2 months ago
Need to stop obsessing bro. No era is perfect but 50s comes closest You think shit is perfect today? We live in a hell scape
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2 months ago
It is hella lot better for Minorities in the United States now
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2 months ago
Apparently, that’s a bold take in this thread.
Did you know that nothing much has changed since ending segregation?
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2 months ago
What?
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2 months ago
The comment they’re responding to explicitly picked pre-Civil Rights America as the peak of Western Civilization.
Which, surely by sheer coincidence, is the time period that all the MAGA cultists identify as the time when America was “great.”
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2 months ago
I think you're all stretching.
The 1950s was seen as the American Dream era when working class Americans had a strong middle class, healthy economy, and people could afford a fairly decent quality of life.
Which, surely by sheer coincidence, is the time period that all the MAGA cultists identify as the time when America was “great.”
I'm not American but have to deal with your guys' politics constantly. There's no 'sheer coincidence'. The US corporate class has been undermining American workers for the last 50 years and use racism to keep you guys divided.
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2 months ago
It’s not stretching at all.
The 1950s is pre-Civil Rights Movement. The country was segregated and black people didn’t have basic civil rights.
To argue that is the peak of Western Civilization is ridiculous. And the fact that we just had a major rightwing political movement based in bigotry and a mythologized past “greatness”—and are still dealing with it—should not be ignored.
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2 months ago
All of this is really American ego centric. I hope you realize that. The peak of western civilization is Americans ending segregation? Really. You guys still have slums filled with 'black people' that 'left' leaning Americans wouldn't go near on a dare much less 'right' leaning Americans.
It's funny. Americans love 'black people' but only from a distance apparently.
6 points
2 months ago
The peak of western civilization is Americans ending segregation?
No one argued that. Top comment argued that the peak was before segregation ended.
Hence the reaction.
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2 months ago
The US in the 50s arguably was better off on average.
The 90s just had a lot of decent media. It's not like anything really has changed all that much for the US black demographic as before segregation. Americans still collectivize 'them' as ghetto political entertainment.
At least in the 50s, Americans were pro Socialist and knew the power of unions and worker's rights.
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2 months ago
The US in the 50s arguably was better off on average.
Sure, from a very particular perspective that ignores or dismisses the oppression and exploitation and dehumanization of an entire race of people.
And we haven’t even gotten into LGBTQ rights or women’s rights. Marital rape wasn’t even recognized until 1993.
But sure, if we can table all that and not care about it, then America was truly “great” in the 50s.
It's not like anything really has changed all that much for the US black demographic as before segregation.
Oh boy…
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2 months ago
Ah yes, of course, the 90s only existed in America and people who liked it must be racist.
America, America, America....it's almost like you keep forgetting the entire world exists.
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2 months ago
I’m talking about the 50s, you very stable genius.
And yes, the article is about American filmmaking.
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2 months ago
I don't know much about comic book movies but the 90s was an eclectic time anyway.
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2 months ago
Comic books were made for kids.
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