Re: The Spirit teaser--It's not on its way, it's here.

On Apr 25, 8:59 pm, argento32 <aaronpyn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Being a movie freak and a comic geek I have to sound off on the
> recently films mentioned in this thread. No matter how much money a
> movie made if you enjoyed it that shows its real success anyway movies
> today should really include there dvd and foriegn sales gross as well
> since North America is far from the be all of movie viewing.

OK, I mentioned the box-office because to demonstrate the lack of
mainstream appeal of the films in question.

The foreign and DVD grosses weren't available from the source I used
and films from the mid-ninties weren't big DVD successes like films
today.

> The Phantom, this little movie had promise, it stayed fairly faithful
> and chose Billy Zane a great choice for the character.

Magic rings?  Kit running around with no mask/glasses on?  The Phantom
flying a plane from the outside?

> The Saint, starring Val Kilmer, isn't a comic property its based on a
> book series by Leslie Charteris.

I thought The Shadow was a pulp series or a radio series?

> All that being said I think we can all agree Catwoman, Elektra and
> Captain America were all utter crap films...

Only saw the first 40 or so minutes of Catwoman and none of the
others.

> Now does anyone remember the Marvel tv movies of Dr Strange and the 2
> Captain America tv films with reb brown?

Remember seeing them or remember they exist.

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