30th anniversary for its theatrical release
Still the best comic-book movie of the 1990s. I'd rank it higher than Batman Returns, The Mask, the Crow, and Blade.
shareTotally agree. One of the most fun comic book movies ever made.
shareThey should do a crossover movie between this, The Shadow, and the Phantom.
shareThat would be a hoot. The 1930s and 1940s make excellent settings for these kinds of stories. And the period details (clothes, architecture, automats!) are always wonderful to look at.
shareYou've just described Dark City (1998), although that wasn't a comic-book movie.
Still love The Rocketeer after all these years!
Dark City is a gem!
Great retrospective essay:
https://www.tor.com/2017/05/25/that-magic-technique-dark-citys-influence-on-modern-sci-fi/
The production’s devotion to the harmony of the film’s atmosphere, through color palette, lighting, camera filters, set design, costumes, everything—is just spectacular, in my opinion. Even more so when you consider what a mélange of influences Dark City’s director Alex Proyas was drawing upon to create the film’s look. Everything from the stark German Expressionism of 1927’s Metropolis to the shadowy allure of World War II-era film noir to the grim urban despair of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil to the macabre moodiness of The Twilight Zone to even the demented stylizations of Tim Burton are in there, all blended together into something we instantly recognize but have never quite seen before.
Maybe as an update to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
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