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I'd seen this advertised on Netflix I think, but it's no longer streaming there, just haven't gotten around to seeing it, though the premise does sound interesting.

For those interested here is the invisible Shadow figure that had been made, and the rest of the toyline was just various versions of The Shadow and a few different ninja characters. And of course this being a shitty line of toys based on a shitty movie in the 90s, there is a vehicle that was never featured in the movie.

2 possible 3 appearances: Nils Allen Stewart - Barb Wire, The Shadow as an actor and did stunts for Daredevil. If you don't recognize the name here's his pic.

THREE QUESTIONS: When Alec Baldwin came back to America, how did no one ask him about the multiple tattoos across his hands from when he was an opium lord, or did he somehow have access to a early version of tattoo removal? As for Penelope Miller, since she is apparently immune to The Shadow's jedi mind tricks, how come she can't see the invisible building like normal since it is basically the same type of magic being used? Since beryllium spheres are a huge part of this movie does that mean that this movie is in the same universe of Galaxy Quest where the entire ship is powered by giant beryllium spheres? As we all know, people love seeing your beryllium sphere. As for the henchmen of this movie, I loved that basically from a period of about 84-95 you had a handful of guys who were in EVERY action movie as the henchmen. You had the guy who played Endo in Lethal Weapon in the opening scene, one of the hatchet men from Big Trouble in Little China, the white mongol who has been in everything from Barb Wire to Hard Target. This would eventually lead to a late 90s change where Danny Trejo and Thomas Rosales Jr., among a few others who were then featured as the go-to henchmen.

See I like Miller when he's leashed, because he can legitimately do fantastic work. Yet when he's on his own, you never know what you're going to get. You can get great (Ronin and Sin City for what it was portraying) or you can get absolute shit (Holy Terror). To me, Miller falls in the same category as Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, and Gail Simone, in that if they are reeled in they can do amazing work that flows smoothly and is incredibly enjoyable to read. Yet when a publisher let's them do their own thing, they basically go fucking nuts and make something only hipster basement dwellers will like while calling it avant garde or above the intellect of the casual reader. If you want an example, read Moore's first three volumes of the League of Extraordinary Gentleman, I count the Black Dossier as volume 3 which are amazing books, and then follow it up with the Century trilogy that was a part of the same series but released by an independent publisher where the characters literally fight Harry Potter who turns into a giant and shoots lightning bolts out of his dick who is then killed by Mary Poppins. I am dead serious.

I have to wonder if someone has sent condolence tweet to James Adomian about the person he impersonated dying, as what happened to Paul F. Tompkins when Huell Howser died and PFT had to explain to the person that it was the wrong impersonator.

Damn I tried finding a gif of Baldwin changing into the Shadow while Peter Boyle watches him from the rearview mirror, and I was surprised at the dearth of gifs for this movie. Mostly I got gifs for What We Do In The Shadows and the Dark Shadows movie, I had to enter the movie year to further limit it and the ones available weren't very good.

I legit thought they had another Baldwin playing the Shadow, because he looked heavier along with a different nose and darker eyebrows.

Just go and worry about it later.

But there were so few, especially for a second-in-command role, you can never have enough Curry unless it's in your food then you run the risk of a burning ring of fire.

I honestly think Oscar Isaac was channeling Hulk Hogan for his dialogue and I was amazed by the people that they were able to get for this. Isaac I get because he has done a few movies for A24, but getting Wahlberg and Goggins is a head scratcher. Isaac was easily the best part of this because he does great as a menacing person. My main question was how does Garret Hedlund's mistress live in that big of a house when she's a lead in some off-off-broadway play in a theater that holds maybe 20 people and the set design entails a blue curtain and a brown mattress cover?

Yeah I think that was Kane Hodder, and the Djinn ends up turning him into a glass door or something. Then he drowns Tony Todd in a magician's trick if I remember right.

Holy shit, when Ian McKellan is about to give his fusion bomb or whatever it is to the bad guy's henchman and Baldwin distracts him with his ominous laughter, I could have sworn the henchman said "Gandalf?" while looking at McKellan. That would have made this movie truly psychic. And I'm pretty sure Penelope Ann Miller gave an O-face when she realized Baldwin was the Shadow.

Holy shit The Shadow is great two minutes in as it reveals Alec Baldwin looking like what I assume Cris Angel will look like when he lets himself go, as a Tibetan opium kingpin. Then rather showing a training montage of his getting clean and learning to cloud minds, it is given to the viewer in text. The fact that the location of his drug den was labeled "Opium Field, Tibet," makes me all the more hopeful this movie gets crazier.

Sorry didn't mean to make it seem like that, was just saying he was an unwitting victim of that whole debacle. At least there is a little big of shining hope with Death Stranding, though Del Toro didn't attach himself to that game while Kojima and Norman Reedus decided to partner up again. It just goes to show the stupidity of Konami for cancelling that game, as it was easily the most anticipated horror game of last year, after the success PT was. Now you have Capcom going a similar route with their teaser for Resident Evil 7, which is scary as shit, and games like SOMA that rely on psychological horror and the fear of what hides in the dark to terrify the player, to much success. My only fear for Death Stranding is that Kojima is allowed to go full Kojima, and the game will just be batshit crazy rather than good. The Silent Hill games were his most grounded titles, which is really saying something, but if he gets weird like how he does in the Metal Gear Solid games, the game might be a slog to get through.

I'd do a double feature with the first one as that was basically an attempt by the studio to make the monster an icon by having it kill a bunch of actors from other horror movies like Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, just to name a few. What's funny about this series is that the third and fourth movie were made by a different production crew, and were a mix between straight-to-video horror and softcore porn.

But the Silent Hill thing wasn't his fault, that was all about Konami being dickholes, though Del Toro did try his hand at a video game a few years ago and it really never got off the ground outside of a great teaser trailer. To me, he is today what Robert Rodriguez did after the first Sin City came out. It got rave reviews and did well at the box office, even nominated for the Palm d'Or, so everyone was clamoring for a sequel, which shouldn't have been hard since he was literally using the comic books as the screenplay. Yet he started lining up movies like an unnecessary Spy Kids sequel, numerous attempts at a Red Sonja and Barbarella remake for his then girlfriend Rose McGowan, the Machete movies, and that horrible Shorts movie. By the time he got around to making the sequel that people actually wanted, a couple of the main actors were unable to make it due to schedule conflicts (Clive Owen), pregnancy (Devon Aoki), or had died (Brittany Murphy and Michael Clark Duncan). He front loaded himself with all of these vanity dream projects that either never got off the ground or were failures, only Machete made a profit and was well received while Planet Terror was enjoyed by critics, that the follow up was basically an after thought. Del Toro isn't at that level yet because he's not like Rodriguez in that he announces dozens of jobs at once and can't handle the expectations of delivering on those jobs.

The only thing Crimson Peak was missing was the Ron Perlman Factor. Really needed him to do a non-accent in Victorian England.

This movie is a gif factory of crazy Cage. I almost stopped the movie once Cage was gone, but then all of a sudden there's Charlie Sheen dressed up like Hugh Hefner and doing a Rod Serling impersonation and a guy with a robotic crab hand. This movie HAS to be done.

So did he say incest?

Currently at 261 with 207 being new. I'm trying to reach or get close to 365 new by October when I start my month long horror binge. Most of the new ones I've watched have been really good, namely Kill Your Friends which is on Prime right now and is a British version of American Psycho set in British recording industry in the late 90s when Britpop was huge. Another is Green Room starring Anton Yelchin and Patrick Stewart in a tense thriller about a punk band trying to break away from Skinheads trying to kill them after they witness a murder.

See I loved Crimson Peak as a gothic romance, which sadly was not how it was portrayed in US trailers, but rather a horror movie, though I admit that I can barely get through Tom Hiddleston's eye scene. I am going to watch The Shadow today, and at most have only seen maybe three minutes of it on TV so that isn't the best barometer, but I'm sure it's leaps and bounds better than The Spirit which is basically Frank Miller going "what if The Spirit was in Sin City?" I can't even sit through it all the way and I've tried on a few occasions. Hell read the wikipedia for the movie and you'll feel like your brain is melting, which means it would be perfect for the show. The only positive from that movie is that it led Gabriel Macht into doing more serious roles like Suits, which is a fantastic show.

Aren't studios doing that as well to get tax write offs in various Asian markets? I remember there being something about Iron Man 3 shooting exclusive scenes featuring an Asian actress that were only going to be shown in the Chinese version of the movie.

Nice Guys further proves that Shane Black can make the best "non-Christmas but set around Christmas" movies ever. The amount of detail that they put into recreating 70s era LA was incredible, which he actually talked about on a recent episode of Doug Loves Movies. He came off as a bit pretentious at times but it only added to the idea that he really loves making quality movies.

CGI in the sense of green screen for certain parts mixed with 80s stop motion. Snakeman was very Clash of the Titans.