Category Archives: 90’s movies
Prince Valiant
Prince Valiant 1997
I took a slight detour on my MCU catch up when I was asked by my friend Todd over at the Forgotten Filmcast to guest on another episode and his suggestion for a forgotten film to cover was the 1954 Prince Valiant movie as it was based on comic strip. While I initially excluded movies based on comic strips, I later decided to include serialized comic strips that tell a continuous story and still exclude comics that are all essentially stand-alone comedic strips, but I still haven’t fully dug into what that all entails. But Prince Valiant as a comic strip is the longest running continuous story comic strips which started in 1937 and is still running in a half page format today which is over 4,600 comics! Anyway back to the movie, when I actually went to watch the movie I found and watched the 1997 version of Prince Valiant thinking it was the version that he suggested. The day after watching it, I realized my mistake, but I thought the movie was crazy enough to warrant me talking about it so he graciously shifted to allow us to discuss this movie instead of the 1954 version. This movie has an interesting cast with several well known names and character actors, it did go to some bizarre places especially in the second half and it felt like it was trying to be a comedy but lean into it, which if IMDb trivia is to be believed, that’s because the studio took charge of the editing without the director and tried to make it less comedic. I can’t sit here and say that this was a great movie, but it was a lot of fun.
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Super Heroes The Movie
Super Heroes The Movie 1998
I was in the mood for an ultra low budget cheesy superhero film and there are still quite a few of them available on Amazon Prime. When looking at the trailer for this film apparently it was made in 1998 but the original copy was lost in a fire that destroyed the negatives, and just recently a VHS copy of the film was discovered so the producer made it available on Amazon. It’s probably most notable at this point because Lisa Guerrero plays Wonderful Woman and is now a lead correspondent on Inside Edition. The film overall is a pretty direct parody of Super Friends with all the heroes and villains named just a few letters off of their DC counterparts though for some reason they still call the Wonder Twins the Wonder Twins only changing their individual names to Zana and Jan. The special effects are atrocious, the costumes feel like they were either pulled from a costume shop or cut with felt and scissors. But it was hilariously bad and an absolute treat to watch.
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Graphic Horror: Dollman
Graphic Horror: Dollman 1991
I’ve had this movie on my list for a long time as well as its sequel slash crossover Dollman vs Demonic Toys because I’ve seen it on various comic book movie lists throughout the years. But after watching the film, I did a little bit of light research and found out that while there was a Golden Age comic book character named Doll Man, this movie wasn’t based on that character. And there was a comic book miniseries based on this character, but it was a tie-in that came out after or alongside this movie. But there was so much bizarreness that I just had to write something about it. Besides, this was the winner of my Patreon poll and if you’d like to donate just $1 a month, you can help decide what I review on this site as well.
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8 Man
8 Man: For All Lonely Nights 1992
This movie was chosen in part with the help of my patrons over at Patreon, and you can join in too for just $1 a month to help support me and this site. I have a vague memory of the 8 Man After anime OVA from when I was younger, though I’m not entirely sure if I actually watched it, or if I was just aware of its existence. 8 Man itself is actually an character that was originally created in the 60’s in manga before becoming an anime series and a made for TV film in the late 80’s before this live action movie. It’s also said that Robocop was at least partly inspired by this character, which makes sense as 8 Man was a police officer killed in the line of duty, resurrected as half-man half-machine with his memories of his former life erased. The name itself actually refers to the seven police districts in Tokyo, so 8 Man is basically the entire 8th district all by himself. This version of the story was somewhat interesting as a proof of concept, but aside from a recognizable voice actor in the English dub, it was pretty uninspired from start to finish.
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#90: Batman Forever
Or
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: Who Even Remembers This Bat?
Oh yeah, this film exists!
First Impressions
I remember watching this on TV when I was younger, but I don’t recall if it really made that much of an impression on me. I could clearly remember TLJ’s Two-Face and Carrey’s Riddler, as well as the major plot beats, but I don’t really have any moments from the film that jumped out when I tried to think about it. So, will a re-watch change that?
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Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget 1999
This movie was chosen as part of a monthly poll over on this site’s Patreon. For just $1 a month you can help choose one of the movies I review here as well as early access for certain articles. It helps cover the cost of running this site and will hopefully help expand it in the future. As for the film, I was a fan of the Inspector Gadget cartoon back in the 80’s when I was a kid but by the time the live action film had come around I was pretty much an adult and had outgrown it. Besides the fact that it looked like it barely had anything to do with the cartoon at all and just took the facade and made it into a cookie cutter live action Disney family flick. And that’s pretty much what this is. It has all the bits and pieces of Inspector Gadget aside from completely changing absolutely everything about Dr. Claw, but it barely resembles the whole of the cartoon and was not entertaining or well made at all.
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Graphic Horror: Cemetery Man
Cemetery Man 1994
I had heard about this movie a while back when I watched the Brandon Routh Dylan Dog movie, found out that they were basically based on the same character, and then promptly forgot all about it until looking it up again. There’s actually a weird and interesting connection between the comics and this movie. There was initially a novel called Dellamorte Dellamore which is also the Italian title of this movie. The author then went on to create the Dylan Dog comics which follow a similar style as the original novel and the main character of the novel shows up as basically the Italian analogue to Dylan Dog. When the comic was originally drawn, the artist drew inspiration from Rupert Everett and drew the main character to look like him. This movie then starred Rupert Everett as the main character who wore an outfit that resembled Dylan Dog.
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#41: Men In Black
Or
Don’t Be A Menace To New York While Chilling With Aliens In HQ
There’s waaaaay too many Will Smith references that we could start this one off with. Nah, forget it. Yo homes, to the review!
First Impressions
I recall going to see this film with a friend of mine, my family and his. We took the train there (since that’s a thing that you can actually do if you live in the UK), we watched the film and I’m moderately confident that I spent the majority of the train ride back talking about various things from the film. So I think it’s fair to say that I enjoyed this film the first time. Did it hold up? Let’s find out…
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BlokeBusting The Essentials #91: The Meteor Man
#91: The Meteor Man
Or
It’s a….. Middle-School teacher?
Given my (essentially) middle-class upbringing in the South East of England, I feel that I’m totally empathetic towards these characters!
First Impressions
The first time I ever heard of this film was when I was looking through the list of films that Bubba had put together. Watching the trailer didn’t really help either, since it comes from a time where you actually got a trailer that didn’t give away THAT much from a film. And I’ll be totally honest here and say that the majority of the cameos are totally lost on me. There were 2 that I knew (which I’m sure you can guess), Bill Cosby and Sinbad. Yes, that means I had no idea who the gang members were. Pretty much any of them. I’m not good with that realm of culture! Anyway, onto the main cast!
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BlokeBusting The Essentials #93: The Fantastic Four (1994)
#93: The Fantastic Four
Or
The Not-So-Invisible Movie
Ok. Well. Right. Erm…
First Impressions
So this film exists. That’s a thing that happened. I’ll admit that I first heard about this film maybe 10 years ago and I had never once actually considered watching it. I went into this viewing totally blind (outside of my general knowledge of the characters and setting from other sources) and I think I made the right call. So, let’s dive right in.
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Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights 