• Pinface
    • 1 year 6 months ago
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    		 Underrated and excellent comic based crime comedy and one of my fave comic based movies.

    I saw this movie in theaters when i was 8 4 times and i loved it, i had t-shirt, poster, movie magazine, cards, 2 toys and all that plus watched reruns of the 60's toon on Nick.

    This movie had a nice all star cast like Al Pacino who was hilarious as Big Boy Caprice, Dustin Hoffman was great as Mumbles as he did a Rainman-esque role, Mandy Patkin was terrific as 88Keys, Paul Sorvino is fine as Lips as he also was in Rocketeer the next year. And all that, plus i gotta say Madonna never looked hotter than in this movie as Breathless Mahoney and when she came out in that scene in that see-through dress with her tits nearly shown, holy shit! i became a man. lol.

    This was the Sin City of the 90s
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    • eddstarr88
      • 1 year 6 months ago
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      		 Ya know Pinface, when I think about all the classic Sunday newspaper comic strips, Dick Tracy seems like a natural choice for other venues like movies and television.

      But Dick Tracy has had an uneven response from the public, as live action or as animation. I was unfair to the 1990 movie because I'm not a Warren Beatty fan. Maybe if someone else had been cast in the role of Tracy, the overall response to the film might have been stronger.
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      • bassman21
        • 1 year 6 months ago
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        		 I thought it was OK. A little dated (1990) by today's standards though.
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        • Ghost of Vapor
          • 1 year 6 months ago
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          eddstarr88 wrote:
          Maybe if someone else had been cast in the role of Tracy, the overall response to the film might have been stronger.


          Agreed. Warren Beatty reminds me a great deal of Kevin Costner or Robert Redford, in that they seem to always play the same character with different problems.
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          • bklynbren
            • 1 year 6 months ago
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            		 I was 9 when the movie came out. Didn't really leave much of an impression but I do remember wanting a Dick Tracy Watch.
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            • yellow_submarine
              • 1 year 6 months ago
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              		 Saw it in theaters too. Although I had the toys and shirts and all that, I remember being not thrilled with the movie. Maybe it holds up okay? I haven't seen it since it was fresh on VHS.

              It probably fits in nicely if you marathon'd it with The Rocketeer, The Shadow and The Phantom.
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              • Pinface
                • 1 year 6 months ago
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                		 Don't forget Captain America The First Avenge which fits in nicely as well.
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                • yellow_submarine
                  • 1 year 6 months ago
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                  		 I don't necessarily agree. It's set in the same era, but it's a newer movie. If the 1990 Cap movie was worth watching at all, I might put it in there...but it's just terrible.
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                  • CruJonesIsTheMan
                    • 1 year 6 months ago
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                    		 No. Dick Tracy is good.
                    Don't pay any attention to the evil spirited and dead of heart. They're not worth your time.
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                    • Pinface
                      • 1 year 6 months ago
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                      		 Well the similarities between this and Sin City are uncanny! i mean they have film noir crime elements and both are based on comics plus the same style, coloring, make-up effects and all that.

                      Only Sin City is an adult film
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                      • yellow_submarine
                        • 1 year 6 months ago
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                        		 Yea, Sin City is very much Frank Miller's version of film noir. He said it's just a mix of everything he thought was cool, like cars, naked women and guys with trench coats.
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                        • TV1985
                          • 1 year 6 months ago
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                          		 Just watched Batman (1989) yesterday, and was thinking of watching Dick Tracy, since I was thinking about way back when, since both were big blockbuster hits for comic book movies.
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