Current Events > was that 1990 Dick Tracy movie any good?

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i had the sega game

It was crazy because people were obsessed with it at the time and it had a great cast and then poof, you hear nothing.

Only watched it once, when I was a kid, and I don't remember much about it, so I watched the trailer for it just now and holy shit, it's a Disney movie.

I remember liking it but also remember nothing about it.

Go suck an egg!

I had a bootleg VHS that also included Heavy Metal for some reason.

I thought it looked cool, wasn't old enough to follow it. Sure as hell wasn't old enough for Heavy Metal.

no

I couldn't tell you. I know I saw it in the theater as a kid, but remember absolutely nothing about it.

I recall liking the movie, but I cant remember if it was good. I havent watched since the time it came out

It's enjoyable. Apparently Beatty still has the film rights to the character, which is why we've never seen a new film because nobody wants a Dick Tracy movie with a 90 year old Tracy.

I remember it being really good but I have not seen it in over 30 years probably

I do agree that it should have had a sequel. It's insane that it didn't

I rewatched it a few years back after being obsessed with it as a kid. What really struck me was just how dry the movie was overall. To draw comparisons to the other prominent cartoon / comic noir crime flick of that era, Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out two years earlier and was just oozing with humor and charm from top to bottom; meanwhile, Dick Tracy has a couple of gags, Al Pacino hammed it up a bit, and plenty of the characters certainly looked funny, but overall it played things just a little too straight and seriously, which really clashed with the over-the-top visuals and deliberately cartoonish character designs.

Put that property in the hands of someone like James Gunn nowadays and it'd be a smash hit, but apparently Warren Beatty is sitting on the rights until he dies, so...*shrugs*

I remember people freaking out at the time because it is PG and Madonna wears a see through top at one point

It's one of the best comic adaptations ever, imo.

masterpug53 posted...

overall it played things just a little too straight and seriously, which really clashed with the over-the-top visuals and deliberately cartoonish character designs.

I feel like that's pretty accurate with the source material. Funny designs and a few goofs and gags here and there, but at its core was a fairly hardboiled good guy vs bad guy cop action strip with some charm.

Never fully seen it, always wondered its blindspot with comic adjacent movies.

At the time, Mad Magazine was still common and reprinting their old Dick Tracey satires, so the old comics had not completely disappeared from the gestalt.

It was ok. Watching all the cartoonish badguys being riddled with bullets was kinda funny.

Saw it before but like others in this topic I don't remember anything about it.

Its a good movie.

I really enjoyed it.

The TV special Beatty did years later to retain rights was bonkers.

dameon_reaper posted...

It was crazy because people were obsessed with it at the time and it had a great cast and then poof, you hear nothing.

That was when movie marketing seemed to be done proper. Happy Meal toys, commercials, radio ads, billboards, more toys, cartoons, etc.

Maybe its still the same but Im no longer the target demographic?

I dont think I ever saw the film. I had the game on Atari STe. It was quite hard, from what I remember.

It's pretty good. Very stylized graphically but a straight forward cops against gangsters type of story.

JohnEtrav posted...

That was when movie marketing seemed to be done proper. Happy Meal toys, commercials, radio ads, billboards, more toys, cartoons, etc.

Maybe its still the same but Im no longer the target demographic?

We all wanted that walkie talkie wrist thing as a kid i remember.

Great movie IMO. Al Pacino was terrific. And Dustin Hoffman as Mumbles, oh man.

I think I liked it first time i watched as a kid then I thought it was boring the next time. Haven't seen it in a very long time.

I thought it was alright.

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Villain_S_Fiend posted...

It's one of the best comic adaptations ever, imo.

This and probably the only comic book movie that looks like a comic book

https://youtu.be/1MCBUQwqd_0?si=HXFnstL5GV0dBO8d

That shootout scene. No words, just bullets and explosions

Fun Fact: Tons of people wanted another crack at Dick Tracy, but Warren Beatty kept hold of the rights and snuck around the rules so he didn't have to do anything with them.

Saw pieces of it once as a little kid and just wondered why everyone was so ugly.

McDonald cups. I don't remember why, but we cared about them very very much.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/fdc32df4.jpg

I read the strips in the newspapers back in the 80's. It was a comicbook movie, those were super rare.

masterpug53 posted...

I rewatched it a few years back after being obsessed with it as a kid. What really struck me was just how dry the movie was overall. To draw comparisons to the other prominent cartoon / comic noir crime flick of that era, Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out two years earlier and was just oozing with humor and charm from top to bottom; meanwhile, Dick Tracy has a couple of gags, Al Pacino hammed it up a bit, and plenty of the characters certainly looked funny, but overall it played things just a little too straight and seriously, which really clashed with the over-the-top visuals and deliberately cartoonish character designs.

Put that property in the hands of someone like James Gunn nowadays and it'd be a smash hit, but apparently Warren Beatty is sitting on the rights until he dies, so...*shrugs*

I had a similar experience except it was just last week that I watched it. It was amazing to me how much this movie paralleled 1989 Batman, right down to the Danny Elfman music, even though I lived it when I was a kid. Watching it through that lens was really interesting.

I liked it. The soundtrack by Madonna was actually really really good, and I mean the album, not just the songs she does in the movie (although there are crossovers)

It was alright. The Sega Genesis game was awesome.

Ryven posted...

We all wanted that walkie talkie wrist thing as a kid i remember.

My dads 83 and I was up helping him take some stuff to the dump not long ago when my mom called and I answered on my Apple Watch. After the call he mentioned that Dick Tracy wrist thing and how he never thought hed ever see the day. Lol. I maybe use about 2% of what this thing is capable of doing.

It was good in a sucky way.
Or sucky in a good way.