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Posted on: 2011-07-11 10:23 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Legends of the Superheroes makes that seem like a lost masterpiece by Mozart. Imagine combining the camp of the Adam West-Burt Ward Batman TV show with the seriousness of Hanna-Barbara's Superfriends animated children's program. You cannot look away!
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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
Like the 1975 Superman:The Musical.
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Please let us not forget the greatness that was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America_(1990_film)
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Captain America appeared in two 1979 live-action television movies that aired on CBS: Captain America, which aired January 19, 1979, and Captain America II: Death Too Soon, which aired November 23, 1979, both starring Reb Brown in the title role. The character differs significantly from the comics in both his origin and his operations. For instance, Steve Rogers is a character in contemporary times whose father was a 1940s government agent. The very patriotic attitude of Steve's father earned him the nickname Captain America, and his father is spoken of as having been murdered. Rogers, a former Marine now making what little living he makes as an artist, was inspired by this story to sketch a super-hero. After receiving potentially fatal injuries in an accident, he was administered an experimental chemical called the FLAG—Full Latent Ability Gain—formula (at one point referred to as a "super-steroid") which not only saves his life but also enhances his body with heightened strength and reflexes. These new abilities lead Dr. Simon Mills (Len Birman), the research biochemist and intelligence official who had told Rogers about his father, to recruit him and give Steve a costume based on his drawing. As Captain America, he also makes significant use of a specialized reconstruction of the van he has been driving, out the rear of which can be launched a modified motorcycle. Its functions include a rocket thrust for a fast start out of the van, a jet boost for increased speed, a setting to allow the bike to be ridden with less noise for stealthier movement and a hang glider structure which can allow the bike to glide to the ground with some forward momentum, although it must be jettisoned upon landing. The bike has a round windshield, described as being made of "Jet-Age plastics," with concentric circles that alternate between red and transparent around a centered star, blue in color. He is able to detach this, and he uses it as his shield when he goes on foot. At the end of the first movie, Rogers briefly appears in a redesigned costume—more accurately a uniform—that bears a stronger resemblance to the uniform Captain America is seen wearing in the comics, and he wears this uniform in the sequel.
In Captain America II: Death Too Soon, Brown's Steve Rogers is first shown sketching a portrait of a Mrs. Shaw (Susan French), who complains to him about a gang of muggers who have been stealing the proceeds from cashed Social Security checks; she denies having cashed hers. He bids her do this in order to set a trap for the muggers, and springs the trap as Captain America. In the meantime, a free-lance revolutionary terrorist calling himself General Miguel (Christopher Lee), planning to fight an unspecified war, kidnaps a Professor Ian Ilson (Christopher Cary) and forces him to resume his research in manipulative gerontology. Ilson has managed to formulate both a chemical that accelerates aging and the antidote to the same chemical, and Miguel, posing as the warden of a prison in Oregon near Portland, plans to use the chemicals in question to hold Portland hostage for a multi-million-dollar ransom. Ultimately Brown's Captain America and Lee's General Miguel directly clash face-to-face, and when Miguel throws a glass bottle of the aging accelerant into the air, hoping it will shatter against Captain America's body, the Captain throws his shield into the air, where it shatters the bottle in such a manner that the aging accelerant splashes Miguel instead, aging him literally to death in less than a minute. The telefilm was directed by Ivan Nagy.
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Originally Posted by Blue Lava
Please let us not forget the greatness that was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America_(1990_film) and (taken from wikipedia) Captain America appeared in two 1979 live-action television movies that aired on CBS: Captain America, which aired January 19, 1979, and Captain America II: Death Too Soon, which aired November 23, 1979, both starring Reb Brown in the title role. |
And raise you Riddler's VPL:
(Remember, kids, this is not amateur cosplay. These are paid SAG card-holding actors wearing professionally desgined and produced wardrobe costumes.)
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(Remember, kids, this is not amateur cosplay. These are paid SAG card-holding actors wearing professionally desgined and produced wardrobe costumes.)
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This is the funniest post so far today IMO
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I see Pat Carroll listed in the cast (as Hawkman's mother) and I knew that name immediately. She is most famous for voicing:|
Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Legends of the Superheroes makes that seem like a lost masterpiece by Mozart. Imagine combining the camp of the Adam West-Burt Ward Batman TV show with the seriousness of Hanna-Barbara's Superfriends animated children's program. You cannot look away!
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There's also the bootleg Justice League America and Fantastic Four movies
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There's also the bootleg Justice League America and Fantastic Four movies
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*see :23 second mark.
Can't forget Highlander 2: the Quickening (also referred to as the Sickening), Highlander 5: the Source (worse then HL2), Star Trek 5 (not entirely Shat's fault as the studio did want a rush job), the Star Wars Holiday Special,........the singing exploits of both Shatner and Nimoy.....
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In regards to this Superman musical, I still can't believe how they made all the songs 70's disco.
Now I can't stop listening to this soundtrack.
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The costume in that was pretty good, even if the story and movie itself sucked. I remember thinking what a great costume it was, and what a shame he didn't wear it more during the rest of the abysmal movie.
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Originally Posted by Blue Lava
Please let us not forget the greatness that was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America_(1990_film) |
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I liked the 1990 Capt America film, it wasn't all that bad for a spaghetti comic book movie.
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But why settle for this as the Red Skull (left) when you can have this (right)?|
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
I liked the 1990 Capt America film, it wasn't all that bad for a spaghetti comic book movie.
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I still hope that Hugo Weaving (agent smith)as Red Skull has a henchman or agent named Anderson....
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
But why settle for this as the Red Skull (left) when you can have this (right)?
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Amazing what 20x the budget and 20 years of computer and practical effects can do.
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
But why settle for this as the Red Skull (left) when you can have this (right)?
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You said. That picture is practically and apples/oranges comparison.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Amazing what 20x the budget and 20 years of computer and practical effects can do.
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I don't want to belabor the 1990 movie too much since it was certainly an improvement on the 1979 one, but the simple fact is that the upcoming Captain America's art direction decided to follow Jack Kirby's origin design, particularly the brow, cheek bones, and nose (or lack thereof), plus Hugo Weaving knows how to grimace. The 1990 version just looks like a burn victim the color of a tomato.|
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Amazing what 20x the budget and 20 years of computer and practical effects can do.
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The two types of problems with these various adaptations in this thread are that either the art direction decides to depart from original character design without considering why they worked in the first place or lazily translates them unchanged without worrying about what they'll look like in a different medium than the four-color comics page.
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Wait, wait, hang on. Is that a HYDRA logo? Movie Red Skull still isn't a proper Nazi? I suppose it's better than making him Italian, but seriously, what are the movie people afraid of here? Being banned in Germany?
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
But why settle for this as the Red Skull (left) when you can have this (right)?
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I think they are spinning Hydra as the Nazi super science branch.
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If I recall correctly, HYDRA was started by Baron Wolfgang vonStrucker with some assistance from the Red Skull and Red Skull has been in control of his own branches of HYDRA both during and after the war. |
Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Wait, wait, hang on. Is that a HYDRA logo? Movie Red Skull still isn't a proper Nazi? I suppose it's better than making him Italian, but seriously, what are the movie people afraid of here? Being banned in Germany?
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Baron Zemo, Strucker and the Red Skull all worked with each other during the war, though if memory serves the Skull was the higher ranked of the three in the eyes of Der Fuherer.
Think I'll dig up my old Captain America Comics and go thru them before the movie hits. Nostalgia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKkXya8jDoQ
I know Green Lantern got some dismal reviews, Daredevil wasn't amazing, and Halle Berry's Catwoman was consider epic-fail - but remember, it could always be worse.
Like the 1975 Superman:The Musical.
Oh, and you can buy the cast album here. (Haven't checked to see if it is available on iTunes)