wiking85 0 Posted January 15, 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocketeer_(film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102803/ Â Classic bad movie! Share this post Link to post
Skeevins 322 Posted January 19, 2013 It's not Citizen Kane, but I always thought of it as a classic superhero movie. Or at least one of the earliest superhero movies to do it right. 1 Share this post Link to post
PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138 Posted January 19, 2013 It's not Citizen Kane, but I always thought of it as a classic superhero movie. Or at least one of the earliest superhero movies to do it right. Watching this again after "Captain America", you can see that Joe Johnston (who directed both films) was sort of ahead of his time as far as being able to pull off a period comic adaptation. I think it was pretty influential, but it may not have seemed that way at the time because the films most similar to it that followed, like "The Shadow" and "The Phantom", weren't very well received at all. Slam evil! Share this post Link to post
Skeevins 322 Posted January 20, 2013 Superhero movies work best when they have a genre outside of "superhero movie." This was a WWII espionage movie that starred a superhero. Share this post Link to post
