The hero swinging in to save his girlfriend from being dropped to her death at a construction site while a cackling madman tries to kill them. This really was Sam Raimi’s audition for “Spider-Man”.
@@theholymackerel072 Also The Shadow, the other property he wanted to adapt. Kind of fitting also that the composer for this film also did the Batman 89 film, Danny Elfman.
such an unarguably great film. Every stupid over the top thing that happened was a conscious decision by the director and that's what made it phenomenal.
One of my favorite movies. Cheesy, campy, and very goofy at times, but I love it. A bittersweet ending, and one that sticks with you. "Peyton is gone."
Funny thing is Sam Raimi wanted to do The Shadow film but wasn’t able to do it, so he created Darkman which gave off the same sort of vibes as The Shadow
Sam Raimi did say he wanted to make a Batman movie but couldn't get the rights so he created Darkman instead. But the way this was all shot, I'm like what would his Batman look like if he made it back then?
I don't think it would be too dissimilar to Tim Burton's film. I don't think one would be better than the other, just a measure of depicted preference.
@@Billy-bc8pk Each director has their own vision for their product. I'm just surprised that Sam didn't get his best friend Bruce Campbell a role in the film. Sam Rami is Bruce Campbell's best friend from College.
@@michaelbenjmitchell1 Actually, Sam wanted Bruce for the lead role, but the studio execs said they wanted someone a bit more mainstream, and Neeson was coming off a few more recognised projects like Next of Kin, and some such. But this film would have been wild with Bruce as the lead; I definitely could have seen him pulling it off.
@@Billy-bc8pk Bruce was definitely a under rated actor. Evil dead was both Bruce and Sam's project that they came up with in College and filmed during college. I bet Sam originally was going to have Bruce play Sam's version of Batman.
It was "The Shadow", not Batman which is the character Batman was based on. You can see this if you watch the 1994 film "The Shadow" back to back with Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins".
Is it just me or did the 80s have a strange obsession with the villains falling to their death? I mean Dick Jones fell from a window in Robocop, Hans Gruber also fell from a window in Die Hard, the Joker fell off a ledge in Batman '89 and now, Louis Strack Jr. falls from building here in Darkman.
I’d argue this is part 2 of the revenant Trilogy Including Robocop, Darkman, and The Crow: Hero is “killed” by psychotic gang run by evil corporate villain, “resurrected” (Some Literally) with special abilities, kills each bad guy one by one before killing big bad, each has an archetype villain, but each has similar yet different endings.
I love this movie too much, I used to watch it two or three times a day when I was younger, then I started doing other things and forgot about it, but man am I glad I found this masterpiece again
Colin Friel's he's terrific in his role, but even though Strack is kind of the main antagonist in the end, people only remember Durant.Strack is never mentioned in either of the sequels. He's not even in the Darkman Nintendo game. You fight Durant at the construction site instead of Strack.
@@theholymackerel072 Gave a whole new meaning to Dark Knight. BTW Speaking of Batman the comic got it's inspiration from the Shadow Radio series and comics.
I miss the edgy 90s antiheroes and hope we get a new Darkman film set in the present day. Not every superhero should be a boyscout with spandex tights and a no-kill rule
Westlake probably could've not dropped Strack and let a court decide his fate. But Strack probably had an army of high-powered lawyers who might've been able to dispute any charges brought against him, buy himself a not guilty verdict and he'd be out probably doing what he did before; Destroying old buildings, forcing people out of their homes and hiring somebody to burn the buildings to the ground if they refuse to vacate. So I guess you could say Westlake did the city a favor by dropping Strack.
ok.. so when i learned sam raimi directed this film.. so many pieces came to mind. His brother being in the film, the campiness of the acting, the angle shots of the fight, the shot of the bolt zipping through the air... everything reminiscent of Hercules and Zena when they do their fight scenes.
Darkman lets go of his leg at 6:42. Sound of impact happens at 6:52, so a fall time of ten seconds. Free fall calculator puts an object falling from 650 ft. as taking 6.357 seconds. So it actually took longer than it really would have.
Great villain. He's not just a suit, but a self-made man. Having him be so carefree on the beams and his motivations to build something, even if it means killing those who get in his way.
He should come back he's done multiple movies action revive his role. Also he's more experienced in fighting now than he was before it even will be a better movie.
I like how this movie had the balls to not only have the hero kill the main villain, but the fact it's acknowledged as well. I'm so sick of stories where the hero will go through so many trials and antagonists, leaving death in their wake either directly or indirectly, and then they're like "I can't kill this guy. Sure, he's the one behind everything, I killed his henchmen without a second thought and he directly bombed that orphanage, but I'll lose who I am if I do." And it's not even that this movie glorifies Darkman killing the villain, it's acknowledged that he's letting go of his humanity. It's a really interesting theme I wish more movies would explore.
So I feel like Darkman shoukd have worked for the dude, gotten Julie, gotten rich, had the dude change his will so everything goes to Darkman THEN kill him. You get it all and the dude still dies in the end.
Sam Raimi said that Universal constantly screwed with the edit of Darkman, wanting to delete the rage montages where the camera perspective flew through Peyton's tortured brain. Raimi and Tapert secretly edited those shots back in the night before the release print was sent out for duplication. One scene that was cut was the main villain dumping a briefcase of gold Krugerands onto a bed and rolling around on them naked.
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I just love it when he says "I'm learning to live with a lot of things"
After he let's go of the guy
@@gregelliott5016 yeah thet
Fun fact: that's not actually Liam Neeson saying that, it was Bruce Campbell dubbing.
What does he mean, He's beginning to learn with alot of things?
What does he mean by that?
The hero swinging in to save his girlfriend from being dropped to her death at a construction site while a cackling madman tries to kill them. This really was Sam Raimi’s audition for “Spider-Man”.
Actually, this was his “F-you” to the studios for not letting him make Batman. This was his altered Batman script.
This was released way way before he made Spider-man but if anything Sam Raimi threw some Evil Dead tributes in it
Kinda glad it's not Batman
@@theholymackerel072 Also The Shadow, the other property he wanted to adapt. Kind of fitting also that the composer for this film also did the Batman 89 film, Danny Elfman.
Raimi used similar special effects for Peter's Spider-sense in the Spiderman movies.
This is how you make a hero. You do your own based off of other heroes but give them something no one saw coming. Thank you for posting this video.
What does that even mean? lol.
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@@mariopadilla1445 Darkman was based on a rejected Batman script.
@@mariopadilla1445never heard of Inspiration? This is like common knowledge are you lost?
That henchman screaming like Bruce Campbell always kills me, i fucking love this movie so much lol
Have you seen the second and third movie?
@@gregelliott5016 no tbh, the fact Raimi and Neeson are not involved on those turned me off from them.
@@The-Deadite I didn't mind them. They weren't as long as this movie or even longer on time
Probably was Bruce's screaming.
I think Bruce might've been dubbed over that guy.
such an unarguably great film. Every stupid over the top thing that happened was a conscious decision by the director and that's what made it phenomenal.
This is one of the best R rated superhero movies ever!
I don’t like how Deadpool took credit from this.
There's 3 Darkman movies. Arnold Vosloo played Peyton in 2 and 3
The two sequels were boring, but the music by Randy Miller in 2 and 3 was good though.
Too bad this movie didn’t get a remake, The crow? Doesn’t count it’s a trash 🗑️
The only reason it's R-rated is because the US rating system is a mess
One of my favorite movies. Cheesy, campy, and very goofy at times, but I love it. A bittersweet ending, and one that sticks with you. "Peyton is gone."
Facts.
only Ash Williams remains
Quite an original superhero created by Sam Raimi. I liked the fact that the final boss was not Durant but his yuppie employer who didn't fear heights.
5:44 looks like this is what got Raimi the Spiderman job.
6:49 - “I’m learning to live with a lot of things.”
Especially with having to learn to speak without lips
Caught me as well...
Why repeat what we've all just watched 🙄
“I’m learning to live with a lot of things.”
So true about life in general.
6:14 Never underestimate your opponent when he has nothing left to lose.
Atypical 😅
Probably not the best idea to have an evil villain monologue while engaged in a fistfight on steel construction beams
😆
Ha ha
HIGH STEEL!!
If if evil villains were smarter, they probably wouldn't be evil villains.
Darkman was a mix of Batman, Phantom of The Opera and Spiderman.
Yup
Most definitely.
The Shadow
And a bit of The Shadow.
Funny thing is Sam Raimi wanted to do The Shadow film but wasn’t able to do it, so he created Darkman which gave off the same sort of vibes as The Shadow
I always liked how the evil corporate guy was the one to go toe to toe with him in the final fight.
How in the hell does Darkman pronounce certain words without any lips?! I swear that cracks me up every single time, haha.
I'm sure he had to learn how to pronounce certain words without lips. Like he said, "I'm learning to live with alot of things"
@@gregelliott5016some sounds are phonetically impossible to speak without lips
@@Diesalot-sc9qz I know
Agreed. They have to address that if they decide to do a sequel. Or a reboot.
@@Artisan1979they did a sequel. There's 3 movies. Arnold Vosloo played in the other 2 movies
"I'm learning to live with a lot of things" one the best quote ever made in cinema.
This is my favorite scene from the whole movie!!!
1:43 one of the best lines in movie history.
"You truly are one ugly son of a bitch" I agree, its the best line in not just movie history but in the world ,
Sam Raimi did say he wanted to make a Batman movie but couldn't get the rights so he created Darkman instead. But the way this was all shot, I'm like what would his Batman look like if he made it back then?
I don't think it would be too dissimilar to Tim Burton's film. I don't think one would be better than the other, just a measure of depicted preference.
@@Billy-bc8pk Each director has their own vision for their product. I'm just surprised that Sam didn't get his best friend Bruce Campbell a role in the film. Sam Rami is Bruce Campbell's best friend from College.
@@michaelbenjmitchell1 Actually, Sam wanted Bruce for the lead role, but the studio execs said they wanted someone a bit more mainstream, and Neeson was coming off a few more recognised projects like Next of Kin, and some such. But this film would have been wild with Bruce as the lead; I definitely could have seen him pulling it off.
@@Billy-bc8pk Bruce was definitely a under rated actor. Evil dead was both Bruce and Sam's project that they came up with in College and filmed during college. I bet Sam originally was going to have Bruce play Sam's version of Batman.
It was "The Shadow", not Batman which is the character Batman was based on. You can see this if you watch the 1994 film "The Shadow" back to back with Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins".
Is it just me or did the 80s have a strange obsession with the villains falling to their death? I mean Dick Jones fell from a window in Robocop, Hans Gruber also fell from a window in Die Hard, the Joker fell off a ledge in Batman '89 and now, Louis Strack Jr. falls from building here in Darkman.
It’s a popular way to die. Think of all the main James Bond villains who went out this way lmao.
How bout Charles Rane in Passenger 57 (1992). Or how bout the Alien Queen (but in space, which way is down?) See ya at the party, Richter.
Gravity is a bitch.
I’d argue this is part 2 of the revenant Trilogy Including Robocop, Darkman, and The Crow: Hero is “killed” by psychotic gang run by evil corporate villain, “resurrected” (Some Literally) with special abilities, kills each bad guy one by one before killing big bad, each has an archetype villain, but each has similar yet different endings.
Cheap to shoot and could leave doubt of death for sequel
The makeup effects in this film is really good.
They didn't have to do much with makeup on Durant for this scene
I can't believe this was 1990. Dick Tracy was so wholesome to this
Fucking a brother
Both this and Dick Tracy came out the same year.
@@CraigMcfly1985 I know. I grew up with Dick Tracy. This is just screwed up
@@petersmithyy4556 I loved Dick Tracy, and Madonna in that film was absolute fire!
I love this movie too much, I used to watch it two or three times a day when I was younger, then I started doing other things and forgot about it, but man am I glad I found this masterpiece again
Colin Friel's he's terrific in his role, but
even though Strack is kind of the main antagonist in the end, people only remember Durant.Strack is never mentioned in either of the sequels. He's not even in the Darkman Nintendo game. You fight Durant at the construction site instead of Strack.
He did a good job playing Elsa Pataky's dad in the action film interceptor. Badass Netflix flick.
He was also the cop who went crazy in Dark City. Really underrated Aussie actor.
For some reason, I find the henchman falling to his death at 4:49 funny. I don't know why.
and the way Strack doesn't give a shit 😂😂
@@Stalingrad_Burger_Czar Yeah, he just shrugged it off like "Ehh, he's a nobody."
I totally forgot about this movie! One of the earliest modern superhero movies with Batman and The Crow!
This was supposed be Raimi’s Batman script and he altered it.
@@theholymackerel072 Gave a whole new meaning to Dark Knight. BTW Speaking of Batman the comic got it's inspiration from the Shadow Radio series and comics.
Strack would get along well with Dick Jones from robocop and Robert G Durant with Clearance Bodicker and Darkman with Robocop
And Jack Napier/joker with Carl Grissom in the 1989 Batman as well as big boy Al caprice in dick Tracy.
And max shrek with Oswald Copplepot as well defo max shrek with Carl Grissom
Danny Elfman superhero music scores are the best
😂😂😂
I always loved the detail that the Villain was toying with him the entire time.
Sam Raimi's Beauty and the Beast
Or The Phantom Of The Opera.
6:49 Dr Peyton Westlake AKA Darkman: I'm learning to live with a lot of things
And learning to speak without lips
Better than any of the MCU or DC crap.
😂😂😂
I miss movies like these, Darkman and the Shadow still are my favorite movies.
Homie was straight face changing in here!!!!!!!! 😂
I like how her body can somehow go through the piece of metal that catches on the handcuffs lolol
The ADR from Stracks lackey is clearly Bruce Campbell.
also from earlier in the movie when Peyton throws the guy from the helicopter
I gotta watch the whole movie, this looks too good.
Darkman walked so Deadpool could run.
Casting Bob Costas as the villain was pure genius.
Lol
Love the music at 5:57 epic!!
for me it got epic at 5:47
Danny Elfman never missed.
@@viewmaster617agreed!
"You're going down burn head" 😂 Loved Darkman when i first seen it and is Sam Raimi comic book brilliance.
5:52 I laugh when Strack is so evil and joyful at shooting at Darkman 😂
I miss the edgy 90s antiheroes and hope we get a new Darkman film set in the present day. Not every superhero should be a boyscout with spandex tights and a no-kill rule
I’m impressed they cast an Aussie as the lead villain. He’ll always be Ray Gill to me.
3:48 big strongest trumpets of elfman
I hear it in sleepy hollow
Elfman is a collaborator of directors tim burton and sam raimi
He was the worst shot with that nail gun. 1 hit in the hand with about 30 attempts, some at close range!
3:07. Like he told Batman: always mind your surroundings.
This scene gives me major vertigo every single time. DAMN this is a great film.
I’ve never actually sit down and watched this movie but my granddad used to to watch the hell out of it..
*In the end he becomes a good looking Bruce Campbell walking on a zebra crossing!* 🤓
We need a Darkman remake. We can even keep Liam Neeson. He's still spry for his age.
Extremely good makeup for the time. Still stands well today
Westlake probably could've not dropped Strack and let a court decide his fate. But Strack probably had an army of high-powered lawyers who might've been able to dispute any charges brought against him, buy himself a not guilty verdict and he'd be out probably doing what he did before; Destroying old buildings, forcing people out of their homes and hiring somebody to burn the buildings to the ground if they refuse to vacate.
So I guess you could say Westlake did the city a favor by dropping Strack.
no justification necessary.
Strack would have gotten away with what he did
@@gregelliott5016 Yup, exactly.
@@samsticka he wouldn't have been any different from Peter in Darkman 3
If Ronnie James Dio had been cast in Larry Drake’s role, he could have been DioDurant.
I didn't know two face was a superhero too fun fact 🤣
False 😂
Guess he didn't land on his feet that time.
😂😂 😆😆
You think he felt anything?
So this is from where resident evil got their iconic zombie
How did Julie's tied hands get around the rebar while she was falling? Wouldn't her feet or groin have hit it first??
Maybe it was the way her arms were up
Shhh
Likely as she was falling she threw her arms back and it caught the rebar, quite by accident.
Великолепный фильм и харизматичный герой. И необычная дуга героя - не восход, а превращение в монстра.
Maybe this is where my fear of heights started.
ok.. so when i learned sam raimi directed this film.. so many pieces came to mind. His brother being in the film, the campiness of the acting, the angle shots of the fight, the shot of the bolt zipping through the air... everything reminiscent of Hercules and Zena when they do their fight scenes.
Xena... and Darkman looks straight like a creature from Evil Dead...
That was a really quick fall for 650 feet lol.
Darkman lets go of his leg at 6:42. Sound of impact happens at 6:52, so a fall time of ten seconds. Free fall calculator puts an object falling from 650 ft. as taking 6.357 seconds. So it actually took longer than it really would have.
Well he was upside down, so gravity would have used his upper body weight
@@gregelliott5016 So, what, quicker or slower than 6.357 seconds?
such an underrated movie.
5:26 this skull like form is similar i saw in christopher walken sleepy hollow
Darkman was and always will be a super heroe badass😎👌
Such fond memories.
Great villain.
He's not just a suit, but a self-made man. Having him be so carefree on the beams and his motivations to build something, even if it means killing those who get in his way.
2:59 So you're into real estate and you're also a pimp? Who the hell are you kidding?
He should come back he's done multiple movies action revive his role.
Also he's more experienced in fighting now than he was before it even will be a better movie.
1:50 This from the apathetic guy that admitted to killing his late wife for deeds. Even joking about it.
Got to give em their dues, that was really well done.
I like how this movie had the balls to not only have the hero kill the main villain, but the fact it's acknowledged as well. I'm so sick of stories where the hero will go through so many trials and antagonists, leaving death in their wake either directly or indirectly, and then they're like "I can't kill this guy. Sure, he's the one behind everything, I killed his henchmen without a second thought and he directly bombed that orphanage, but I'll lose who I am if I do." And it's not even that this movie glorifies Darkman killing the villain, it's acknowledged that he's letting go of his humanity. It's a really interesting theme I wish more movies would explore.
Strack at 6:28 - "I know you too well."
How does he even know Darkman at all? They had never met before.
3:31 Physics be damned!
For the love of god I want Liam Neeson to reprise his role as Darkman
Dark man is a legend 6:51
I liked this movie cause it was the closest thing we were ever going to get as far as a superhero movie goes, at that time
One key thing about villains: They talk too much and they’re full of you know what
Shit
Pretty much. Guy thought he could get through with "kill me, and you'll be like me" without realizing Darkman has a body count.
He looks like Two Face from Batman
He doesn't
"I'm learning to live with a lot of things." - The guy that's already been murdering people for most of the film.
90s badass
My favorite part is when Darkman said "Its Darking Time" and proceeded to Dark Durant off the side of the DarkTower
Yeah... those "spikes" at the end of the shot 1:25 look so dangerous.
You’ve obviously never been impaled by rebar
That soundtrack reminds me of spiderman lol
Same composer Danny Elfman
Name the artists
Darkman needs to return as a Netflix
Series.
Nope
They won't do it better
@@glensmillie5101 they'll gender
Change darkman into darkwoman.😂
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 whoa buddy......
Dark woman......
Hang on a minute!
There's already plenty of those!.
What you talking about?
@@glensmillie5101 or darkgirl.
They better not go there or fans
Would riot.
@@glensmillie5101 🤣
This movie was 17 years old at the time Spider-Man 3 was released. Now Spider-Man 3 is 17 years old.
If Sam Raimi had done a Batman film his Harvey Dent/Two-Face would've looked terrifying like Darkman.
Lurking in the Dark
a Man looks for a way
To somehow carry on
And reclaim the light of day
99 minutes at a time...
So I feel like Darkman shoukd have worked for the dude, gotten Julie, gotten rich, had the dude change his will so everything goes to Darkman THEN kill him. You get it all and the dude still dies in the end.
I guess Peyton didn't care about getting rich
It's not about money
Amazing was a good 👍
1:32 Oh look, Chekhov's rebar
3:43 Had this happened in real life, her wrists would be broken now...
DARKMAN DARKMAAANN ....😂 NOW ME THE DARKMAN😊
0:53 Horrifying thought. Robert G Durant as a father. Creepy.
Awesome 👍
Durant: For justice, Peyton...?
Darkman: No. For me.
I love the one actor who also played dr giggles
Larry Drake was amazing
Sam Raimi said that Universal constantly screwed with the edit of Darkman, wanting to delete the rage montages where the camera perspective flew through Peyton's tortured brain. Raimi and Tapert secretly edited those shots back in the night before the release print was sent out for duplication.
One scene that was cut was the main villain dumping a briefcase of gold Krugerands onto a bed and rolling around on them naked.
Main Villain: You can't kill me, you don't have it in you!! HAHAHAHA
MC: Uhhh didn't i just killed all your men?
Main Villain: ....Oh Sh...
He should of realized that trying to tell Darkman that he "can't drop him" was wasted breath.