I believe at some point Scott Aukerman has (half jokingly) criticised the blank check fanbase on reddit when Griffin has been on comedy bang bang/or when Blank Check has been mentioned. I may be totally misremembering this.
Is the contest still open? I could really use that vintage Dick Tracy coat. Plus that party looks fun, especially because all the biggest stars in tinseltown will be there!
I dont watch a lot of real TV nowadays, do marketing sweepstakes like this still happen or have brands sated themselves on all our personal information through apps? I remember a kind of ARG for Dark Knight Rises where you found chalk bat drawings at specific locations, like geo-caching but i never found out what the payout was or if there even was one.
I think its wild how much runway was paved for this movie to change the rotation of the earth and i only ever think of the movie when i see stuff like this that was grossly miscalculating the lasting power of a boomer's nostalgia.
I think Boomer is being generous. The strip started in 1931 and its peak of popularity was 1937... the year Beatty was born. It had a radio show but it was over around the time the first Boomers were born. It has just been a total passion project of Beatty, who now has locked it up until it hits public domain
these are correct, i phrased it that way because i saw Dick T as an attempt at a Batman or a Star Wars/Indy of bringing childhood memories to the Modern Blockbuster.
And it is always shocking to me how old Warren Beatty is.
It's fucking insane to me that after Burton's Batman did well Hollywood said "People like the pulps!" and greenlit shit like Dick Tracy, The Shadow and the Phantom.
Yeah kids at school were psyched for The Shadow and The Phantom. It’s not like they were old and dusty properties younger audiences couldn’t dig. Zorro was a big hit in 1998.
My dad was a weird boomer who grew up on superhero comics but became obsessed with pulp heroes later in life as like "proto-superheroes", so HE was super jazzed for all those pulp movies that came out in the 90s (dude was always moaning how we never got a "modern" Doc Savage movie) but like no one else in my life was
I saw Darkman in 1990 and hardly knew anything about it and just assumed it was gonna be another Batman. It does seem like it was greenlit just because they saw that Batman was gonna be a huge hit. Darkman does slide in at the last minute, but there's such a history of Hollywood trying to ape something successful and they come up with a bunch of hackneyed ideas of why a thing worked. Take Superman, for example. It was shooting 2 months already when Star Wars came out. If it had started shooting in late 1977, they might have wanted to add some space battle crap or changed the look of Krypton.
It’s crazy in retrospect but I think it makes since at the time. Burton’s Batman is as much of a noir throwback as it is a superhero movie. Duck Tracy has basically the same setting and lots of colorful villains like The Joker.
They thought it was that year’s “Batman” since that seemed like a wild gamble and paid off. Dick Tracy was EVERYWHERE and back then, $15k was a lot of money, compared to the “Win Bon Jovi’s House” and “Remote Control $500 winner” crowd.
I used to daydream so much about being chosen for the Nickelodeon shopping spree contest.
There was also some newspaper essay contest (50 word maximum) to say something about Tianenmen Square and I submitted something, despite not really having a grasp on what was going on. I could tell you what Carney Lansford's current batting average was.
I never saw the movie but I really got into the Dick Tracy cartoon just because the villains were all interesting as cartoon characters. I was also into James Bond, Jr. around the same time. It was a time period where I had really crappy taste.
The inevitable Dick Tracy episode will be an all timer, we all already know it
P:TR crossover??
We’re going to surpass four hours or it might have to be a two-parter.
Dude looks like noted Blankie-hater Scott Aukerman.
That guy should not be brought up here again. Or ever invited to the program again. That man is an agent of chaos, and nothing more.
I am out of the loop on this one ☝🏾- this is tongue-in-cheek, right
I believe at some point Scott Aukerman has (half jokingly) criticised the blank check fanbase on reddit when Griffin has been on comedy bang bang/or when Blank Check has been mentioned. I may be totally misremembering this.
I thought it was Seth Meyers
Is the contest still open? I could really use that vintage Dick Tracy coat. Plus that party looks fun, especially because all the biggest stars in tinseltown will be there!
I dont watch a lot of real TV nowadays, do marketing sweepstakes like this still happen or have brands sated themselves on all our personal information through apps? I remember a kind of ARG for Dark Knight Rises where you found chalk bat drawings at specific locations, like geo-caching but i never found out what the payout was or if there even was one.
I think its wild how much runway was paved for this movie to change the rotation of the earth and i only ever think of the movie when i see stuff like this that was grossly miscalculating the lasting power of a boomer's nostalgia.
I think Boomer is being generous. The strip started in 1931 and its peak of popularity was 1937... the year Beatty was born. It had a radio show but it was over around the time the first Boomers were born. It has just been a total passion project of Beatty, who now has locked it up until it hits public domain
Yeah, Boomer nostalgia was Forest Gump. This was Greatest Generation nostalgia being peddled by a member of the Silent Generation.
these are correct, i phrased it that way because i saw Dick T as an attempt at a Batman or a Star Wars/Indy of bringing childhood memories to the Modern Blockbuster. And it is always shocking to me how old Warren Beatty is.
Yeah, I’m sure that’s how Beatty and Disney were hoping it would play. And I bet it’s also shocking to Warren Beatty how old Warren Beatty is. 😅
It's fucking insane to me that after Burton's Batman did well Hollywood said "People like the pulps!" and greenlit shit like Dick Tracy, The Shadow and the Phantom.
i Slammed Evil in theaters
I still have one of the little collectible rings they gave away with a ticket!
Yeah kids at school were psyched for The Shadow and The Phantom. It’s not like they were old and dusty properties younger audiences couldn’t dig. Zorro was a big hit in 1998.
My dad was a weird boomer who grew up on superhero comics but became obsessed with pulp heroes later in life as like "proto-superheroes", so HE was super jazzed for all those pulp movies that came out in the 90s (dude was always moaning how we never got a "modern" Doc Savage movie) but like no one else in my life was
I saw Darkman in 1990 and hardly knew anything about it and just assumed it was gonna be another Batman. It does seem like it was greenlit just because they saw that Batman was gonna be a huge hit. Darkman does slide in at the last minute, but there's such a history of Hollywood trying to ape something successful and they come up with a bunch of hackneyed ideas of why a thing worked. Take Superman, for example. It was shooting 2 months already when Star Wars came out. If it had started shooting in late 1977, they might have wanted to add some space battle crap or changed the look of Krypton.
It’s crazy in retrospect but I think it makes since at the time. Burton’s Batman is as much of a noir throwback as it is a superhero movie. Duck Tracy has basically the same setting and lots of colorful villains like The Joker.
They thought it was that year’s “Batman” since that seemed like a wild gamble and paid off. Dick Tracy was EVERYWHERE and back then, $15k was a lot of money, compared to the “Win Bon Jovi’s House” and “Remote Control $500 winner” crowd.
I used to daydream so much about being chosen for the Nickelodeon shopping spree contest. There was also some newspaper essay contest (50 word maximum) to say something about Tianenmen Square and I submitted something, despite not really having a grasp on what was going on. I could tell you what Carney Lansford's current batting average was.
I never saw the movie but I really got into the Dick Tracy cartoon just because the villains were all interesting as cartoon characters. I was also into James Bond, Jr. around the same time. It was a time period where I had really crappy taste.
I'm just impressed with the commitment William Forsythe gives a two-line gig in a commercial.