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Billy Zane as The Phantom (1996)

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Robert Duvall as Augustus "Gus" McCrae in Lonesome Dove (1989)

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"THE GHOST WHO WALKS. THE MAN WHO CANNOT DIE." -- HOW TO SLAM EVIL IN 1996.

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on assorted movie poster designs for "The Phantom," a 1996 action/adventure/superhero movie based on "The Phantom" comic strip, created by Lee Falk. It starred Billy Zane as the titular character and was directed by Simon Wincer. Paramount Pictures.

Sources: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0117331/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl (all found on IMDb).

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"You know, if I had a nickel for every time some piece of sh*t pointed a gun at me I'd be a rich man."

Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man (1991) directed by Simon Wincer

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Movie Review | Harlequin (Wincer, 1980)

Learning that the producers originally wanted David Bowie as the lead brings into focus why this didn’t quite work for me. The main character is supposed to be a seductive, destabilizing presence, and I could see how Bowie would work in that role, but I don’t think Robert Powell is nearly magnetic enough to pull it off. I realize that I have my straight man blinders on, because half the time you people go off about how hot a male character is it’s like Charles Grodin in The Lonely Guy, but I was not feeling it with Powell at all. I can see if David Bowie comes into your house dressed like a wizard you might be willing to hear him out, but Powell? Get him outta here! I’ll also note that I’ve always had a disdain for new age medicine types even before they became part of the current far right coalition, but I don’t think Powell was charismatic enough for me to overcome my bias.

I also think that in trying to give him an aura of mystery, the movie fumbles the pacing. Basically nothing much happens for the first two thirds and then the movie overloads in incident in the last half hour. Anyway I’m sounding pretty negative on this but I actually didn’t mind it, and I think the performances by David Hemmings and Carmen Duncan are quite good and the mix of occult and political thriller is too weird to dismiss, but I can see the ingredients for a great movie here so one so the one we do have feels disappointing in comparison.

I will say that this is given some grandeur by the terrific cinematography. Not to discount the work of the crew, but having watched the Ice Cube War of the Worlds last night, it does stand out how much better movies used to look by default. There are more pressing problems in the world, but we used to get movies in big epic widescreen and now we just get movies where Ice Cube yells at a computer.

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The Phantom (1996) Simon Wincer