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Morningrise 
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:23 |
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More than 15 years-old superhero movies. I didn't include big names such as the Superman, Batman, Robocop movies on purpose. Let's just stay with the "underdogs" (although this term isn't fair to same of the names included either). Which one's your favorite?. Choose one from the list or mention another if it isn't there.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:24 |
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I'll go with Darkman. Sam Raimi rules.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:25 |
Swamp Thing and Ninja Turtles - classics. I used to watch Ninja Turtles all time when I was younger, both the anime series and movies. Hilarious fun. 
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:42 |
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I enjoyed the Rocketeer. I watched Barbarella thinking it would be campy fun, but it is actually so bad as to be unwatchable.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:46 |
I accidentally voted for Rocketeers instead of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!! That movie was a classic  I wouldn't really consider Super Mario Bros. as a superhero, but I don't think anybody's gonna vote for that anyways 
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:49 |
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Surely my vote is obvious.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:49 |
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^Courtney Cox was in that movie. Isn't that weird?
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:52 |
 thellama73 wrote:
^Courtney Cox was in that movie. Isn't that weird?
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See, not to me. Monica will always be...
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Damn, now what was her name?
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:52 |
Ah ha! Julie! 
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:54 |
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1997 is old, eh? I want to kick you in the Cadburys.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:55 |
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I was eleven when Friends came out. A step-cousin of mine had a Friends poster in her bedroom. I said, "Hey, it's Courtney Cox!" to which she replied, sultrily, "Ooh, you like Monica!"
I was like "Wtf, no, that's the chick from the He-Man movie. Now leave me alone so I can destroy Grayskull. Thank you."
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 21:03 |
Dolph's `Punisher' all the way! I'm a lifelong collector of the Punisher comic books, and it's one of my favourite 80's action flicks, in many ways still the best Punisher flick of the three! Lundgren nails the role in some scenes, and the fights have a rough and nasty knock-down slugfest tone to them!
I have a lot of love for Billy Zane's campy Phantom movie - after all, Australia has kind of adopted the Phantom as one of our own!
But.....I have TOO much love for Van Damme's craptacular technicolour `Streetfighter'! Hollywood excess at it's worst, but so charming and full of endless quotable lines:
"Now who wants to go home, and who wants to go with ME!" 
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 21:03 |
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 21:13 |
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
But.....I have TOO much love for Van Damme's craptacular technicolour `Streetfighter'! Hollywood excess at it's worst, but so charming and full of endless quotable lines:
"Now who wants to go home, and who wants to go with ME!" |
Ah, but the late Raul Julia:
"But for me, it was Tuesday."
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 21:15 |
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 21:20 |
Epignosis wrote:
Ah, but the late Raul Julia: "But for me, it was Tuesday." |
HA! Hell yes! Julia just gets endless killer/clunker lines! There's some suprisingly clever stuff mixed in there too, like the whole bit about the Pax Bisonica!
How about this gem:
Raul Julia - "You've made me a very happy man...."
Van Damme - "And now, I'll make you a dead one!"
Also points for his rant at the end about "For I beheld Satan, as he fell from heaven, like LIGHTNING!!!!!" lol!
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 21:30 |
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Ah, but the late Raul Julia: "But for me, it was Tuesday." |
HA! Hell yes! Julia just gets endless killer/clunker lines! There's some suprisingly clever stuff mixed in there too, like the whole bit about the Pax Bisonica!
How about this gem:
Raul Julia - "You've made me a very happy man...."
Van Damme - "And now, I'll make you a dead one!"
Also points for his rant at the end about "For I beheld Satan, as he fell from heaven, like LIGHTNING!!!!!" lol! |
Such a fun, irreverent movie to someone who grew up with the SF series.
OK...series...most of them were 2s, but they eventually got to 3...
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 21:43 |
Epignosis wrote:
Such a fun, irreverent movie to someone who grew up with the SF series.OK...series...most of them were 2s, but they eventually got to 3... |
Yep, it was an interesting take on the franchise! I love the film, but by comparison, the first `Mortal Kombat' totally nailed it! Great flick, endlessly rewatchable!
Oh, and a favourite quote from the first Punisher flick:
COP: "What the hell do you call 125 murders in five years....."
PUNISHER: "Work in progress..."
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 21:51 |
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Such a fun, irreverent movie to someone who grew up with the SF series.OK...series...most of them were 2s, but they eventually got to 3... |
Yep, it was an interesting take on the franchise! I love the film, but by comparison, the first `Mortal Kombat' totally nailed it! Great flick, endlessly rewatchable!
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Loved Kano!
"But what I saw was not a fair fight! So he freezes this guy- and then he explodes! Ah could see 'is guts and everything!"
Goro: "Disgusting!"
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 22:03 |
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"Loved Kano!" |
"Mwah! Did you miss me, baby?!"
One thing I noticed when I watched `Masters Of The Universe' and `Red Sonja' back to back recently was just how stunning the proper old sets and costumes were. Skeletor's throne room was exquisite!
And they've both aged better than most modern multi-million dollar CGI/greenscreen crapfests!
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Some Old Superhero Movies
