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Shoot me down, I enjoy this film every time that I watch it. It's rip-roaring, old fashioned, good fun. Am I alone in that? @SaintMark, you like pulp heroes such as The Shadow, what do you think of this film?
The Phantom was a big deal for me growing up, the Lee Falk/Sy Barry stories being my favourite period.
I'd love to see those pics, lol. I can just imagine Zane's face like "oh my god, what have I gotten into..... Well at least there are no nipples like Batman."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1438437/
It's from 2010, and apparently there's a scene where he's shown the 1996 Billy Zane costume and he's like 'there's no way in hell I'm wearing that'
:))
Ironically his actual costume manages to look even dumber!
Actually, it requires a lack of a gut. ;)
=D>
I'm no Phantom expert by any means but wasn't his outfit meant to be gray-- and the only reason it was purple was an error in print?
I quickly photoshopped this image:
It doesn't look bad at all! If not a little boring, I suppose. And not the best camouflage (admittedly better than purple though, lol)
The Phantom wears a black mask and a purple skintight costume. Creator Lee Falk had originally envisioned a grey costume and even considered naming his creation "The Grey Ghost" before settling on "The Phantom". It was not until the Phantom Sunday strip debuted in 1939 that the costume was shown to be purple, something that apparently was a printing mistake and Lee Falk himself did not approve beforehand. Lee Falk wanted the costume to be gray, but the colorist while colouring the strip decided that Phantom would look better in purple. Although this was never corrected, Falk continued to refer to the costume as grey in the text of the strip on several occasions after this, but finally accepted the purple costume. In a retcon it was shown that the first Phantom chose the costume based on the appearance of a jungle idol, and colored the cloth with purple jungle berries.
Publishers that printed color comics with the Phantom before 1939 chose costume color based on their own preference, and even later various publishers throughout the world picked different costume colors; e.g. – blue in Scandinavia (this was because the purple colour wasn't possible to print initially), red in Italy, Turkey and (formerly) Brazil, and brown in New Zealand. In one of the European nations the Phantom was never printed in a purple costume since it was the colour used for mourning.
Very good point, @Birdleson. Despite being a big fan of Batman, I fail to make that distinction.
I really enjoy this movie as well it speaks thirties action and while the Phantom is not quite my taste this rather more truthful, to the source material anyhow, rendition is miles ahead of the later made mini-tv-series with an update of the Phantom.
Started with 'Gravity' (2013) which I watched in 3D. I also saw it in 3D at the cinema but found myself enjoying it more this second time. I think it worked better at home with just me (and my cat!) watching it because in spite of the space-bound spectacle it's actually a pretty intimate film. The 3D worked wonderfully (and I'll even admit to flinching a couple of times as debris shot out of the screen) and the 5.1 was exceptionally good.
I followed this with an old favourite and bona fide classic: 'Dracula' (1931). I've loved this film for so many years and watched it over and over again, yet seeing it on the (relatively) big screen for the very first time was an amazing experience.
It's not quite in my top 10 comic book films, but it's still a film that I can put on, and just go with the flow.
I've wondered if I'd have enjoyed Gravity more in 3D. I'll never know. I appreciated it as a great technical achievement, even the sound stuff and all, but on the whole for me it was kinda meh. (And, well, Sandra Bullock always has been meh for me in anything.)
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This felt just a tad too long for me, but I did like it. The cast was very good - Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano... Lots of beautiful shots of people, places and scenery. And cows. An interesting, artistic look at people and life. Still thinking about it.
I also think he shot one cinemas more decent sequels with French Connection 2.
The chemistry alone is why I'm dying for a third one.