Oh yes, I'm quite familiar about that Orwell. Maybe PB I never seen Moulin Rouge, it never interested Me or My Family but who knows later on
Remember when I said leave Captain America & The Punisher to Me a while back PB Well I just posted a special in My Marvel Topic that is heavy on the 1990 Captain America movie which is really a good showcase I just presented but now I'm going deeper here with My movie spotlight like I do on films I deem necessary
So I explain a lot of it in My Comic Scene Showcase about how I found about the film at this link --->
http://www.dctoyrevolution.org/post47067.html#p47067
When I seen it way back then in the great year of 1990 I was pretty excited about it cause I only saw Captain America in My April Comic and of course My ToyBiz Marvel Super Hero Figure which was way less than I had & saw of Batman. The feeling of the film as a 9 year Brandon just didn't hit him like Batman did. Could it have been because it was a limited theater release and I just saw it on video cassette or was it because I was still really adjusting to Marvel compared to DC It could be a mixture of both but it was probably the former because when I see a film at the show to it makes it so much more grander. Now as veteran of Marvel Comics and seeing the reboot of Captain America in the entire MCU I was always for him along with Captain Marvel. I look at this 1990 film as a forgotten predecessor that is really great on it't own in it's own right but really there's one factor to Me and that is the music which I will get to that at the climax of this spotlight. Here is the cool posters from the film. They have really good graphics and for a noob like a was at the time it was quite enticing because I knew who he was and I really wanted to get to know him like I did with Batman. I was really liking how his nemesis The Red Skull was looking too cause I was always for scary looking villains and this was the time when I was understanding real life war and thanks to Indiana Jones I knew who Hitler & the Nazis were too so knowing that The Red Skull was part of this terrorizing scheme it made it more exciting for Me
Here is another cool poster. Here is the 21st Century logo. It was produced by Menahem Golan of the Golan-Globus-Cannon Group whom made some of the most action packed films ever. The film is directed by Albert Pyun who directed 1989's Cyborg and 1991's Kickboxer II: The Road Back. I have spoke about him before in My MOTU Movie Topic because I really liked him. He was a great director, a genius of martial arts and I almost had the opportunity to meet him online years ago when one of his assistants was asking Me to buy his Director's Cut of Cyborg but I opted out on it which was really a stupid decision of Mine I have the original picture as it was in My Comic Scene Book which you can see that in My good showcase in My Marvel Topic
So the cast is really good yet quite different. We have Matt Salinger as Steve Rogers aka Captain America, Scott Paulin as Tadzio De Santis aka The Red Skull, Darren McGavin as General Fleming, Ned Beatty as Sam Kolawetz, Melina Dillon as Mrs. Rogers, Michael Nouri as Lieutenant Colonel Louis, Francesca Neri as Valentina De Santis, Kim Gillingham as Bernice Stewart/Sharon and Ronny Cox as President Tom Kimball. All of these were decent. Salinger really maximized his effort here as the hero. Now Paulin does a number with The Red Skull especilaly since they changed & twisted his character for the future on the timeline in the film so he isn't Johann Shmidt and his daughter isn't Sinthia either. You can always count on H0lliW3rid to change and alternate things from any given media It's strange we just talked about Ned Beatty He's quite unique here. McGavin was good and this was the first film i saw Nouri in. The late great Melinda Dillion whom recently passed away is pretty good as Steve's Mom, she was always likable, look how she was in Close Encounters of the Third Kind & Harry and the Hendersons. Now the thing is Ronny Cox just played Cohaagan in 1990's Total Recall as a major bad guy yet he's the President of the USA here...go figure
Here is an opposite look at when Captain America fights his arch rival. I did that so it would look logical instead of his accurate transformation.
Here is the Trailer, you can tell they wanted this to be big, at least on the scale of 89's Batman but really it seemed like people was more behind DC during this period of time. Did 86's Howard the Duck & 89's The Punisher have anything to do with it Possibly but look how it is now, since 2008, 15 years ago this year people are just craving Marvel Media over DC... My-o-My how the tables have turned
Here is the actual FULL LENGTH MOVIE. Now watch it whenever you want. Remember at the beginning of the showcase I said that music was a big factor Well I said before in My Composer Topic how the music in a film can make it or brake it...well this is a perfect example of what I mean. Mind you it's a not bad score by Blues artist Barry Goldberg but it just doesn't have the sound that the film needs and IMO that is the movie's biggest downfall. I've always said for decades that the music is the most important part of any film. I mean compare this to previous films how Danny Elfman did Batman 89, how John Williams did Superman or how Jerry Goldsmith did Supergirl...those legendary composers gave those films major personalty and it's all because of their music. Now much later on to the MCU, Alan Silvestri did a wondrous job on his Captain America & Avenger scores while Henry Jackman did an arguably even better approach than he did with his takes on the CA films his did It's all about the music. Still to this day the score for this movie hasn't been released and that's a pity because it may have helped appreciate it more by sound and when you see the film after listening to it I don't have a prob that they had a song at the end credits cause they played Prince at the end of Batman which really fits the tone of the film IMO, the one they chose for Captain America just really was plain and bland because it takes place in two time periods and should have been more. That's My biggest gripe of the 1990 Captain America... when you can watch it, listen and compare, you'll see what I mean
So there you have it. I hope you liked that. Your thoughts When I get to a special Howard the Duck & The Punisher Movie showcase in My Marvel Collection Topic which is really going to be a great one soon. I will do the same and post My take on those two films here in this very topic. Later