Billy Zane in Purple Pants.
Polish up your crystal skulls, because The Phantom is the Greatest Movie EVER!
Review in a Nutshell: Under-appreciated and generally unloved, The Phantom contains just the right blend of adventure, humor, and comic book logic. Treat Williams steals the show as the villain, Xander Drax.
A new one! Nice. I was thinking your podcast was becoming a thing of Legend.
Ian Strope
January 11, 2009
Treat Williams is one of my favorite actors, Deep Rising and his run in the Substitute series should definitely be on the list of movies to be reviewed.
Firest
January 12, 2009
I’m with you there. Go Werewovles or Wolverines or whatever those kids were called in Substitute 3: Failure is Not an Option.
Ian Strope
January 12, 2009
You review in a nutshell should have shown love to Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa. That and you should tried to put up a screencap of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Eduardo M.
January 12, 2009
I’m detecting what seems to be a code, from the last and this ‘cast header
So far it’s Mo Pu PA
Hurm.
Steve Harrison
January 12, 2009
Oh man, I saw this movie in theaters as a kid. I also watched the Peter Chung-eriffic Phantom 2040 cartoon.
Andrew
January 12, 2009
You may be on to something Steve.I just hope its not some chant to release some ancient horror from before the time when time was time. I hate those things.
Eduardo M.
January 12, 2009
Your current spider fixation demands that you do an Arachnaphobia podcast in the future.
Dreg
January 12, 2009
It’s a shame the “classic era” comic book movie trend failed so miserably, as I thought it was fun while it lasted. But it seems like the failure of the Phantom, the Rocketeer, and more recent stuff like Sky Captain would suggest that as much as we film nerds love the golden era pulp and comic book aesthetic, no one else does.
By the same token, my favorite episode of The Tick is the one where they hang out at the old superheroes’ home, listening to stories about fighting The Terror and Joseph Stalin with his deadly Kremlin Dome missiles.
Keith
January 12, 2009
Ah yes! thank you Keith for mentioning the Tick’s adventures with Captain Decency and the Decency Squad.
Eduardo M.
January 12, 2009
Speaking of movies based on old superheroes, any love for the Shadow? It does have a Baldwin.
Andrew
January 13, 2009
Much love for the Shadow here, though I did think it jumped the shark a bit with the Shadow’s secret organization and it’s ridiculous rings.
The byplay between Baldwin and Penelope Ann Miller was a particular high point.
Firest
January 14, 2009
Hate to bring down the party but its been reported that Patrick McGoohan has died.
Eduardo M.
January 14, 2009
It’s been a bad day for nerds. In addition to Number 6, we’ve also lost KHAAAAAAAAN, with Ricardo Montalban dying at 88.
Firest
January 15, 2009
Enough of this filler! I declare 2009, the Year of Nic (Cage)!
Kidder
January 17, 2009
I also loved the Phantom movie, had some important things missing or twisted but a good job none the less.
Hears to the rumours of a new Phantom movie…
Jermayn
January 30, 2009