xp In Blockbuster, Tom Shone identifies Batman as the tipping point for blockbuster hype - the first movie where hype was successfully manufactured on a grand scale. I wish he'd included a bit about the soundtrack because I bet the conversation was pretty much verbatim as Dan said.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
i can still recall the shock and awe of seeing this commercial for this for the first time. my parents only got me to finally go to bed when it was clear they weren't going to play it again that night.
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I remember the shock and awe of seeing the soundtrack cassette
also hearing "The Future" and "Electric Chair" for the first time
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
and yeah, the hype for this was insane. i was too young to really live through star wars hype, but i don't remember anything being so...saturated for so many months before the thing premiered.
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
the amount of batman-related merchandise i bought in the spring/summer of 1989 was 0_o.
the first batman was before my time, but i remember watching it on tv as a kid and asking my dad why batman was wearing a turtleneck and glasses - i found it very confusing that batman would dress like a weenie
― ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥ ＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ ＡＮＤ ＦＡＣＥ ＴＯ ＢＬＯＯＤＳＨＥＤ (Princess TamTam), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
like i remember going to county fairs and shit and there being booths where people had made bootleg batman buttons where they didn't even get the symbol right and still selling out of them.
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
even carnies know a good thing when they see it, i guess.
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
My dad was such a Batman stan (since the 60s) that he bought the soundtrack. It's not the first Prince album I would have chosen to hear all the way through. Probably stopped me from going beyond his singles for a few years afterwards.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Adam West rules, you cretins
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone who didn't watch the early 90s Captain America on syfy last night really missed out. It was like the Room of superhero movies -- the female lead even looked like Lisa.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
morbs no one was even talking about adam west.
haha nicole i think marvel tried to bury that in the 90s? or maybe that was the fantastic four movie? they are both TERRIBLE in a room-esque way, yes.
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I still haven't seen the Corman Fantastic Four movie, I would love to see if it lives up to Captain America.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's very weird to me that they were so aghast at the 90s c.a. and f.f. movies and yet they let the dolph punisher movie run free.
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
this has nothing to do with anything but i will take any mention of dolph to post it
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
the Corman FF movie is hilarious
― No Broehner (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
To be fair I don't think Dolph's Punisher is any worse or more ridic than any of the other Punisher movies.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
i implore everyone to watch that youtube clip if they've never seen that movie
then i implore everyone to watch that movie
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
OMG WHAT IS THAT MOVIE?
― online pinata store (Nicole), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
dolph punisher is bad, but it's really just regular 80s cheese bad - the corman fantastic four was literally shot in a cave for no money
― ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥ ＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ ＡＮＤ ＦＡＣＥ ＴＯ ＢＬＯＯＤＳＨＥＤ (Princess TamTam), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
nicole, allow me to introduce you to the wonders of "showdown in little tokyo."
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am going to go check and see if it is on netflix on demand right now...
― online pinata store (Nicole), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's not. :(
― online pinata store (Nicole), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's on the bottom shelf of pay cable every now and again but i would recommend adding the dvd
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
will do
― online pinata store (Nicole), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
someone should let michael mann know that his movies look like dolph lundgren DTV flicks now
― ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥ ＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ ＡＮＤ ＦＡＣＥ ＴＯ ＢＬＯＯＤＳＨＥＤ (Princess TamTam), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
r.i.p. brandon lee its so sad he liked big dicks on men
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
dolph lungren has an advanced degree in engineering
i read that in the utne reader when i was in high school
― goole, Friday, 22 July 2011 16:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
so you know he can lay some pipe
― goole, Friday, 22 July 2011 16:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 July 2011 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i want to have a viewing party where we all watch dolph lundgren movies
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
then, ritual suicide pact
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Okay that Dolph clip.
Meantime:
Remember crowds going crazy for the trailer. And it was a good trailer. (Was there even music? I think that made it seem more flat out intense.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 July 2011 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
my reaction to that clip: o_O
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Friday, 22 July 2011 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's the "on a man" part that always gets me. so many questions.
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe he owned horses when he was younger
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
or was a slaver who specialized in pre-op M->F transsexuals
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
a decent screenwriter would have made the slaver connection more apparent
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dolph's appreciative "Thanks!" is being underrated here
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess I don't understand macho camaraderie because I don't think complimenting my partner on his dick size would come anywhere near my list of potential last words to exchange.
― PAJAMARALLS? PAJAMALWAYS! (DJP), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
i wish there was a clip of the sex scene between dolph and cassandra from wayne's world.
― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's like someone saw the asian porno from the beginning of videodrome and thought hmmm classy.
"Don't get killed" is their "As You Wish", isn't it.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
That Fantastic Four one from the 90s is bootlegged, right? I just watched the trailer again and it's definitely good for lols
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2011 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
(old guy voice) 9 year olds these days have no idea how good they have it, with comic book movies coming out every which way! i remember when i was a kid reading about the punisher movie or the fantastic four movie and being so excited...and then having to wait like three years for them to come out on video and then THEY SUCKED SO BAD.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 July 2011 17:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Marvel did a couple straight to television features that were kind of special. Hasselhoff as Nick Fury in one, and another one that was supposed to be the Generation X characters if I remember correctly.
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2011 17:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha every thread on ilx is about the 90s now huh
― stepmomster (Lamp), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
tylerw otm
― ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥ ＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ ＡＮＤ ＦＡＣＥ ＴＯ ＢＬＯＯＤＳＨＥＤ (Princess TamTam), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
thats the pernicious influence of strongoization at work
^^^this. man as a kid I just could NOT understand why there were not superhero movies coming out all the time, I was dying to see them. now they're everywhere. unfortunately the vast majority of them suck.
― No Broehner (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink