Top 10 Super Hero films

Top 10 Super Hero films Mar 26, 2021 11:40:11 GMT darkreviewer2013 likes this

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Post by stefancrosscoe on Mar 26, 2021 11:40:11 GMT

Mar 26, 2021 11:18:22 GMT darkreviewer2013 said:

TMNT '90 was once the most successful independent films of all time. I'm not sure when it lost that title. Like you, it introduced me to a very different take on what the turtles could be like. Despite being the story of four mutant turtles, it plays out like a martial arts movie and the themes of fatherhood and loss are surprisingly well handled. It's a deep movie with a lot of grown-up things to say masquerading as a kids movie. And Shredder is basically a cult leader here, taking advantage of impressionable teens and transforming them into a willing army of skilled bandits.

I was delighted to learn that the film was directed by a fellow Dubliner.

I believe it might have been The Blair Witch Project (1999), which tipped TMNT off the top of the ladder. But damn, almost a decade as the title holders, I was really surprised when I first learned that.

Oh yeah, the father and son stuff, the brothers being used to win with little problems, and all of a sudden, they have their whole life turned up side down. Their master and father kidnapped, being kicked out of their homes, even from the city, and then having to start over on their own, by learning how to deal with loss and defeats, and an uncertain future. But also how to overcome personal struggles as well. I guess now, much later, it all seemed rather "deep", at least compared to what many seemed to think of these popular films and tv-shows back in the 80s/90s, with having 4 overgrown ninja-turtles, who also were some big pizza-addicts, living down in the sewer. Cracking jokes, and kicking ninja-robots/funny mutants, every week. But the film treated them with such respect and care, and that is why we got scenes like this:

Also agree with Shredder, being more of cult-leader, but damn, the final fight scene, on the roof, that kicked some serious shell.
Love how well some of the martial arts/fighting stuff turned out, and probably more impressive later on, as those Turtle suits must have been quite heavy, to drag around in, all day.

About Steve Barron, I guess the superhero stuff, and him tackling that so well, might not come as a surprise, as he were involved with the first Superman (1978) movie with Christopher Reeve.
Must have taken a few notes and used it well, much later on.

Of his later or other work, I have only seen the romantic comedy, Electric Dreams (1984) and the later and poor (or so I thought), Coneheads (1993).
Surprised he did not get to work with bigger or better films, but I guess back then, superhero movies where not something which gained lots of rescpet in the industry, and probably was looked down at.

But I'll be damned, he sure directed some absolute classic music videos, back in the day. I mean that list is crazy. So many great ones, not just the obivous popular ones, like a-ha - Take On Me (1985) or the many Bryan Adams, The Human League, Dire Straits videos, but stuff like OMD and Maid of Orleans (1982), that is still a very impressive video.

Mar 26, 2021 11:18:22 GMT darkreviewer2013 said:

I convinced my mother to allow us rent Batman Returns in the early 90s. It was rated '15' in my country at that time. I was only 8 and my brother 5 and she was fairly strict about overseeing what we watched as kids. Jurassic Park was verboten due to its violence, for instance. I'd never seen the '89 movie. In fact, my only exposure to Batman at that point in time had been the campy 60s TV show. Burton's movie was a revelation. I fell in love with its gothic beauty. Wasn't until Christopher Nolan came along that anything came close.

Yeah, I remember catching a few of the Adam West 60s tv-episodes, before I finally got around to the Tim Burton films, and sure, that was quite something else.
I also loved the atmosphere, music, style, design and of course the whole blend of art deco, industrial and gothic all put together, to create such a unique city, which the Burton films turned Gotham City into.