I was already a fan of Sam Raimi from the Evil Dead films when I first saw Darkman. I was living in NYC at the time, and I remember the posters and stickers plastered all over the place for weeks in advance, stating "Who is Darkman?" It was a cool viral way to promote an upcoming movie years before thay type of thing became common with internet marketing. Darkman was a ton of fun, and it was clear that Raimi was a big comic book fan from the look of the film. There's a great energy to the action and the cast featured Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand, two of my favorite actors. There were a few straight to video sequels featuring different actors, but they didn't capture the flair of the original, in my opinion.
Darkman was awesometacular.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen the sequels. At that time direct-to-video or direct-to-DVD was the kiss of death. In some ways it still kinda is...but some things show a quality...like the DC animated features.
It wasn't till seeing this back-to-back with yesterday's cover that I realized how visually similar Huntress and Hawkeye are. I see that you've already paired them in Ish 505. Perhaps we'll see a sequel to that team-up sometime?
ReplyDeleteI probably should - I mean, I did establish that they were brother and sister in that tale...
ReplyDeleteDarkman and Huntress, now that would be a violent team up. Another interesting team up would be Darkman and Nemesis, Black Orchid, Human Target or the Unknown Soldier. All heroes who use disguise.
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