Hello movie fans,
Yesterday I did something I rarely ever do, in a way that surprised me as much as it would most anyone in some way or other?, Your all asking yourselves what is Matt referring to right, well here is what I did I double dog dared myself to watch a movie I had NEVER EVER seen before. Yet here the answer comes from while at work all last week I saw we had a copy of "DARKMAN"on BlueRay on sale for ten dollars and I knew I had always wanted to see it since it was Sam Raimi the guy who directed all three Spider-Man movies first true big budgeted feature film. "DARKMAN" is a film about a guy named Peyton Westlake who is trying to figure out a way to using synthetic skin to hold together more than ninety eight minutes, when a gang led by Robert G. Durant while looking for incriminating evidence against them destroys Westlake's lab with him still inside. He is used as a victim of burns to be reintegrated into society after test are to be used to give him a human appearance again at the local hospital, while his lady friend Julie thinks he is dead, he escapes from the hospital to try and rebuild his work in a makeshift lab to hopefully know use his take on the synthetic skin to get vengeance on those who took everything he had. Only throughout the course of the film do you realize he is both like Batman and the Joker combined, he in the end does end up like the classic character in the Phantom of the Opera
by being a disfigured hero who only wants love but can't have it so he becomes a anti type hero like both Batman and Spawn known as DARKMAN. DARKMAN stars Liam Nesson better known more recently 
as Qui -Gon Jinn to Star Wars fans.
The other film I had happen to see was later in the evening called "FOOTLOOSE"
whom anyone born in the eighties or shortly after knows that this was a great starter film for stars such as Sara Jessica Parker whom is known for the HBO series "Sex in the City" and then possibly actor Sean Penn's brother Chris Penn, Lori Singer, yet most notably Kevin Beacon who played Ren McCormick who comes with his mom from Chicago Illinois to Beaumont Oklahoma. This movie came out a year after the then third installment of Star Wars known as "Return of the Jedi" in nineteen eighty four, this was also the time when music television more commonly known as Mtv. What was neat about "FOOTLOOSE" was it's a movie that put a soundtrack out before it's screening by the millions by the title of the movie track alone. I even remember having a audio cassette from as far back as ninety eighty five and had seen the movie at least five if not six times when it first came out on VHS that same year. I had also had a whole other copy of it on DVD before moving to where I live now. What I find very ingenuous about "FOOTLOOSE" is that in a big way it is about a town like a lot of American small towns where a simple thing isn't allowed, in the movie's case it's Public playing of music of any kind and Public dancing in which Ren has the help of the town's minster (played by John Lithgow) daughter to get the law revoked so that the teenagers can have their senior prom. Over the years since this movie was made I have heard that the law has been reinstated in that very town of Oklahoma. Now one question I have is why can't a kid just be that a kid for aren't they already learning way to much now to be ready for real life in the world everyday why should we as parents take away that freedom to be wondrous from them to early?, Why?
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