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Jul 18, 2021 8:25:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2021 8:25:25 GMT
Great movie, and surely one of the best made superhero flicks of the late 80s and early 90s, along with the Tim Burton Batman films and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Love the performances of Liam Neeson and Larry Drake, and how the film make such a good use of combining tragedy, drama, romance, action and horror so well.
Sadly, Neeson did not return to the lesser sequels, I guess by then, he had already become a huge and more serious movie star, more famous for dramatic parts than these action and over the top roles, but I thought he handled himself very well, as the tragic and sad figure of Peyton Westlake/Darkman, and in many ways the film and characters reminded me very much of the first RoboCop (1987) film, where you had these corrupt yuppie-villains who wanted to make a "better" city, by destroying the old, and instead ended up creating a very powerful enemy, but in the making destroying the life of an likeable everyday man, disfiguring him, both physically and mentally but one that would surely haunt the baddies for sure.
I guess Neeson returning to the action and advneture genre with the success of Taken into the late 00s, was somewhat of a surprise to many, as they probably only knew him mostly from dramatic roles and movies, but for those who remembers Darkman, I guess it was of no shock, and I am glad he did the action stuff so great, but if there one day was to be made another Darkman chapter (live action or animated) I would love to see if Neeson could return, either as an older Westlake/Darkman or through maybe a villainous part, that or a nice cameo.
Yeah. 'Darkman' was a great movie and it is one of my favourite superhero movies and I think it is very underrated. I liked Liam Neeson in the leading role too and I am glad he has returned to the Action genre now and we have enjoyed quite a few of his latest Action movies. Some might disagree but watching some of them I think he might have made a good James Bond but would be a little too old to replace Daniel Craig now. From what I heard about 'Darkman' there was some type of falling out with Sam Rami and the studio over the sequels and the direction they went in and Liam Neeson didn't like the script for the second movie so he turned down returning and I can't say I blame him 'cause the sequels were pretty bad in my opinion which was a shame 'cause I think Darkman would be more well known now if the sequels had lived up to the first movie and Liam kept doing them. It is funny you said you would like to see him return 'cause I did read an interview with him a few years back where he said he enjoyed the movie and would like to do it again if he liked the script and I think it is probably too late now 'cause he has been saying the next few movies he does are his final Action movies and he is going to retire from the genre 'cause he feels he is getting too old to do them but I wouldn't be surprised if they make a remake or reboot of it at some point in the near future 'cause of how popular superhero movies are now and it would be good if he made a cameo in it.
What did you think of 'The Crow' movies? I loved the first one and actually like 'The Crow: City of Angels' and 'The Crow: Salvation' but I wasn't a fan of 'Wicked Prayer' or the TV Show and if they bring it back again I would like to see more of the other graphic novels adapted like some of the latest ones instead of a remake of the one with Brandon Lee 'cause I don't think you can replace Brandon but there are a lot of Crows in the graphic novels including female ones like Iris Shaw who would be fun to see in live action.




