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Another thing about Fifth Element, it was the best of the post-Star Wars neopulp pieces, which I’d say include what?

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Flash Gordon, The Shadow, The Phantom, and Green Hornet as the literal serial reboots

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Buckaroo Banzai? (Spaceballs?)

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the Burton/Elfman Batman? (Raimi’s Darkman?)

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Romancing the Stone? That drew at least half its power from the general “long ‘80s” movie zeitgeist of reconciling female autonomy with patriarchal inevitability (c.f. Ghostbusters, Frozen Assets, etc.)

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actually Bruce Willis did a lot of that - adding that was one of the big innovations of the Die Hard lineage that turned out to be the reliable action format of its age

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yeah I guess Pulp Fiction really was the important movie of the '90s

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(I mean Indiana Jones yeah - too obvious, or not enough post-, I can’t tell)

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