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The Nextlander Watchcast 081: Darkman (1990)
🕑 Added 2024-02-26 22:54:38 +0000 UTCWe're closing out February with a Vinny pick, and one of the most delightfully weird and gross hero movies of the '90s in Sam Raimi's not-quite-a-Batman, Darkman!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 81: Darkman (1990)
(00:00:19) - Intro.
(00:09:03) - Getting into Darkman's production, and the cast.
(00:20:40) - The direct-to-video sequels, and how well the movie did in theaters.
(00:27:05) - The killer intro.
(00:31:47) - Peyton Westlake's previous life, and the memo of doom.
(00:43:39) - Peyton becomes the Darkman.
(00:48:33) - Break!
(00:48:54) - We're back, and we're dissolving into funerals and burn units.
(00:57:50) - Rebuilding the lab.
(01:00:40) - Strack puts the moves on Julie, and Darkman kills Ted Raimi (more like Dead Raimi!)
(01:08:01) - Darkman has a plan.
(01:17:34) - Revealing his new face to Julie.
(01:20:39) - The ol' Double Durant.
(01:25:32) - The carnival scene.
(01:31:41) - Strack reveals his true intentions, and Durant's "demise".
(01:38:00) - The final confrontation with Strack.
(01:49:36) - Final thoughts.
(01:54:59) - Plans for next month.
(01:59:53) - Outro.
Comments
Yorick
I think the skin surviving in the dark was meant to place a time limit on Darkman while still allowing him to store masks indefinitely for future use.
Michael Jacobson
Glad to hear its genuine popular love for Darkman 1. I was afraid I was clouded by the oddities that are Darkman 2 & 3 that the original was the same. I got weirdly intrigued by the sequels when they were played on Showtime or something like that. I have the Darkman trilogy 2-disk DVD set. The sequels certainly are something. Return of Durant has him wanting to develop and sell laser riffles (everyone already has cheap and easy access to regular guns so there's no money in it). And The Darkman The has the big bad wanting to harvest the source of Darkman's physical strength (with the help of a doctor who worked on Darkman) and there's a "roid rage" war on drugs thing to it. They were made back-to-back and was originally intended to have Return of Durant be the 3rd but for whatever reason they swapped their release order around. Also the shared intro to both where new Darkman narrates his past (sometimes with Liam Neeson footage, sometimes with Arnold Vosloo re-creating the scenes) has a real "Darkman the TV series" intro vibe.
