From: msr@kepler.unh.edu (Mathew S Reno)
Subject: Re: Darkman - Crap (YES!)? Not hardly!(If you say so)
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:20:46 GMT

In article <ytpjwbl@lynx.unm.edu> lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
>msr@kepler.unh.edu (Mathew S Reno) writes:
>
>>> It was just a movie.  It doesn't have to be "acceptable". 
>>
>> Like hell. If a company is going to make a really cheesy movie, they
>> should warn the consumers. 
>
>Excuse me?  Hello!  Darkman is a SAM RAIMI MOVIE!  What more warning do
>you *need*?  Raimi isn't exactly known for his sensitive character-driven
>adult dramas. 

So. Just because some of the movies he has have been off the wall, doesn't mean
that every one will. Look at the movie GHOST. It wasn't really a comedy but
look who directed it. I try not to sterotype directors. Maybe I should. I did
not know who directed it at the time and I think that it really shouldn't
matter. If they're trying to pass it off as an serious action flick, then it
should be. 

>If you don't like movies for movies' sake and go into a movie cold, then
>you don't have much room for complaint when you're disappointed. 

I'm not sure what you mean by "cold". I saw the trailers and expected a good
movie with lots of excitement and action with good acting. I had no opinions
about the movie based on the trailers and word of mouth. I went into the movie
expecting only to be entertained, as I expect with any movie, and when I was
not, then I became dissapointed.

>> You have to admit the edits were not done with too much care (In some
>> cases too much!) 
>
>I didn't have any problem with the editing of the movie.  They used a lot
>of hyperbolic off-the-wall film technique, but lots of us *enjoy* that
>kind of thing from time to time.  That's a large part of Raimi's appeal to me. 

I enjoy a nice fade or some tricky edits, but I believe (and all the people
I've talked to) that this was overdone in DARKMAN. It just started to distract
me. I'm not really ing only refering to the fades (which many were done at  
poorly chosen times) but the edits. If I notice an edit, which I did many times
in this movie, I get distracted and enoyed. If a reasonable large budget movie
can't edit together a movie without making the edits noticible, then there is
something wrong. 

>>> _Darkman_: it was corny, but fun.  It scares me that such a movies as
>>> this could cause one to say it was unacceptable, and he got sick... 
>>
>> I think it had the potential to be a good movie. The idea was original
>> and with a better director an set of actors it could have been a good
>> movie. 
>
>With a "better" director it would have been a *boring* movie -- why do
>you think that so many comic-book movies have gone direct-to-video
>or been unreleased completely?  Raimi has a feel for the frantic,
>cartoonish pacing that this kind of material desperately needs.

I really don't think you can say that another director would have made a boring
movie. But what's done is done.

>Now I'll admit that I would have liked to have seen Bruce Campbell playing
>lead all the way through instead of just for one shot at the end, but Liam
>Neeson did an amazing job with the script too.
>
>--
>Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

Well, I'm done picking at this movie so if you want to continue argueing about
this moive, you'll have to find someone else. There's not much point in 
cluttering up space on the net with a few people opinions of a movie. Some
people like it some don't. I don't and I've stated just a few of my reasons.

---Matt 
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