DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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That would be the late 19th century.
Mine is…but then again, I’m 22,734 years old…or am I?I'm thankful that my knowledge isn't restricted to things from within my own lifetime.
I'm thankful that my knowledge isn't restricted to things from within my own lifetime.
When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, reruns of TV shows from the '50s and '60s and movies back to the '30s were staples of daytime TV, so it was easy to become familiar with culture from before one's own time. These days, you generally have to actively seek out things to watch, so it's harder to become aware of things outside your current range of knowledge. Well, a lot of streaming services have live channels now, so I guess it's still possible to just browse around and stumble on something old, but there's so much competition from other media that it's still harder for something to stand out.
Right now, you can search and find almost any American TV series recorded since the mid-to-late 1960s on some streaming channel, in two minutes or so. They're not always complete.
I watched the pilot to The Wild, Wild West the other evening. Victor Bueno playing a Mexican revolutionary disguised as an opium-smoking Chinese merchant. WTF?
Sorry for the spoiler, there.
I watched the pilot to The Wild, Wild West the other evening. Victor Bueno playing a Mexican revolutionary disguised as an opium-smoking Chinese merchant. WTF?
Sorry for the spoiler, there.
We had something similar in Canada, but with fewer American shows that were available in Canada there were fewer options. I remember there were Saturday afternoon movies that would run "creature features" regularly so I was able to see things like the original King Kong, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Plan 9, and Gorgo but there were still a lot of gaps left. I was able to watch Bonanza and Gunsmoke, Star Trek and The Man from UNCLE, but I missed out on a lot of older movies.
When Netflix first started streaming, I was thrilled to see the old series and movies they had available. At the time, I was thrilled that it was possible the entire back catalogue of movies and television would soon be available to stream. Was I naive.
Back when I was growing up, there were a couple of stations that would run movies regularly in the afternoon, from 3-5pm, before the local news.
Stanley Kramer, who retired to Puget Sound, hosted a show where he would introduce movies, and give bits of insight/trivia during the breaks; then on the NBC station, they would run anything from the 30s through the 70s and do theme weeks. They ran all five Planet of the Apes movies, the Abbott and Costello monster team-ups, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, etc.
Stanley Kramer, who retired to Puget Sound, hosted a show where he would introduce movies, and give bits of insight/trivia during the breaks; then on the NBC station, they would run anything from the 30s through the 70s and do theme weeks. They ran all five Planet of the Apes movies, the Abbott and Costello monster team-ups, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, etc.
You didn’t know about the 70’s Spider-Man?
I've only heard about the Japanese one through Tokusatsu and thought it was a bad portrayal that didn't make sense compared to the original source material.
I didn't even know about the 70's American one until it was brought up on this forum.
Remember, both of them aired before I even existed.
It's more like they took the basic premise and reinterpreted it to fit the conventions of Japanese superhero fiction, which were more recognizable to their audience than American superhero tropes would have been. An authentic adaptation of Spider-Man would've seemed as strange to 1970s Japanese audiences as Supaidaaman seems to American audiences.
If you say so, I could see the Japanese Protagonists swinging around down town Tokyo in the 1970's and fighting bad guys.
I don't know why he needed a Super Robot or to fight Giant Monsters.
Kamen Rider existed by that point, and Kamen Rider Ichigo didn't fight Giant Monsters in a Super Robot back then.
I don't understand why the production staff felt the need to give Supaidaaman that feature.
Below are Boxofficetheory's expectations for some upcoming blockbusters this summer:
Note: this isn't derived from a poll of the goofs in the Boxofficetheory forums.
Note: this isn't derived from a poll of the goofs in the Boxofficetheory forums.
Presumably because giant robots and monsters were popular in '60s and '70s Japanese TV. Toei Animation's Robot Romance Trilogy (as it's known) was popular at the time, and I think that was part of what influenced Toei to experiment with giant robots in their live-action shows. Since Spider-Man was an untried commodity in Japan, it made sense that they'd want to pair it with a story element of proven popularity to draw in the audience.
And it's a good thing they did, because after Toei tried it out in the Spidey show, they evidently liked it well enough to add a giant robot to the Sentai franchise a year later, creating Super Sentai as we know it today. (That first giant-robot Sentai, Battle Fever J, actually started out as a proposal for a Captain America adaptation.)
Is that why Battle Fever J structured their Rangers after Countries?
The early years of Sentai must've been really wild on set as to what kind of crazy ideas could get proposed.
I was thinking earlier about who would have been a good Guy Gardner if a Superman/Justice League movie had been made in the 80s, during the Giffen/DeMatties era and it took a while before I settled on Don Johnson. I think he could have had the right amount of swagger to pull it off.
Could see him as Green Lantern too
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