Post by stefancrosscoe on Jun 7, 2017 11:00:24 GMT
Robert Durant was indeed a memorable bad guy henchman, and thanks to hearing lines repeatedly from him and Peyton pretending to be him, I still remember some of them ("That would be...just fine."). The helicopter scene with him was memorable, as were lots of other scenes in the movie.
There was a lot that set this film apart from other superhero movies, and I hadn't even known when first watching that it wasn't based on any comic. It's probably the Sam Raimi movie I like best (of the ones I've seen).
By the way, have you seen any of the sequels? I know, they have a pretty lousy reputation, but I kind of like them, as they came with the same tone/vibe, maybe not as violent or memorable, but Arnold Vosloo held his own, and it also did came with some cool bad guys, including a impressive return of Durant, specially after what happend with his helicopter in the first one.
Darkman reminds me a bit of Robocop, where two ordinary guys get their lifes completely destroyed in a gruesome way, and by very similar kind of bad guys, and are both left to die, only to return with incredible powers/gift, and they even have that same corporation/yuppie thing going, where OCP wants to rebuild Detroit City into Delta City, tearing down the old and building a new, of course not mentioning that the people in the old part of town is gonna be forced out of their homes, and with Darkman we have a similar egomaniac yuppie, who wants to create a new city and destroy the old, plus the sadistic hencman in both Clarence Boddicker/Robert G. Durant.