tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post1612822720954217136..comments2024-03-27T10:27:59.266-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: 25 Years Ago Today: The Shadow (1994)John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-35922783514255617302019-07-05T13:13:53.782-04:002019-07-05T13:13:53.782-04:00I remember seeing this movie and thinking, "I...I remember seeing this movie and thinking, "If they made a Shadow movie, surely we'll see a new Doc Savage soon!"<br /><br />* crickets *Monchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132341373842481242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-44366399874259629892019-07-03T11:32:57.021-04:002019-07-03T11:32:57.021-04:00Captain America: The First Avenger is a period pie...Captain America: The First Avenger is a period piece, and was a big hit. (Though I think being part of the Marvel brand helped a lot.)<br /><br />I'm not much of a superhero fan, but I think The Rocketeer is the best comic book movie ever made. It's rare for a film of that genre to have so much heart and such sweetness. It's irresistible.<br /><br />The Phantom is also awfully good, and unjustly maligned. I wish comic book movies were more like The Rocketeer and The Phantom than Iron Man II....<br /><br />I realized that The Shadow is deeply flawed, but the stuff I like about it, I like a great deal. (It helps that's I've loved the character since the 70s.)<br /><br />Always amazed that Sky Captain and John Carter did not start franchises...<br /><br />I think of the failure of all of these films as part of the zietgiest that has been with us since the Sixties: that anything that represents or celebrates the pre-Sixties world is somehow suspect. Also, since the Sixties, we have been suspicious of any cultural artifact that is older than the milk in our refrigerator.<br /><br />(Yeah, Indiana Jones and Capt. America buck these trends, but I think what brought people in were Spielberg/Ford and Marvel; without that cache, I suspect that these films would've had a harder time of it.)<br /><br />Interesting about Dick Tracy. I've always thought it was easy to like and impossible to love.Bobnoreply@blogger.com