Well, some days before I wanted to go to the cinema I read the first reviews about it…. and they were… quite… bad!
One aspect especially annoyed me to read: The extremely limited screen time of the women in their costumes.
I decided not to watch the movie in the cinema back then.
By now I have watched the movie… and yeah… it is indeed disappointing, and the marketing before it was misleading… at best.
But more on that later…
I edited all the scenes with the women in costume and mask in one video!
Preview:
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Here is the video:
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Yeah… that is it. A little over one minute… a real shame! 🙁
As I had seen the promo pictures with the women in costume… I really feel cheated and betrayed.
And the worst part: Both scenes with them, aren’t happening in the movie for “real”.
The first scene is a nightmare that the bad guy always has (well, I would love to have such “nightmares” ;-)) and the second mini scene is a vision from Madame Web.
So, we have a pretty boring movie with little interesting action and barely any screen time at all with the masked ladies.
And not surprisingly the movie flopped big time… what a missed opportunity …once again.
3 more scriptwriters that should be thrown into the movie dungeon for such a horrific job.
Plus the folks who greenlighted it.
Even with the bad critics, I watched the movie for 2 reasons:
Spider-ladies … and… Sydney Sweeney
But everything else… isn’t interesting or well done, so… I certainly won’t watch the movie a second time.
I could write a lot more about this movie… but well… I already spent enough time on it.
Damn, I really hope that there will be a good movie or TV show with a masked woman in the lead role… soon.
The last years offered verrrry little in that regard.
In this one “Supergirl” (in her Spider-girl costume) saves the day but encounters some problems afterward!
An epic, bizarre self-unmasking battle is the result 😆
Preview:
She saved the day once more!
Well, something is wrong!
Her mask!
The epic self-unmasking battle goes on…
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
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This is a very early episode of “Supergirl” where she runs around in a costume that looks a LOT like the early “Spider-girl” costumes from the comics and animated TV shows.
Quite bizarre already.
But what then happens inside her home is ….also… quite bizarre and pretty unique.
A heroine who desperately tries to unmask herself over and over again… That is quite a very rare situation!
Her mask is magic and the source of her superpowers. Most of the time…not always… it is secured in place by some kind of force and bad guys have a very, very hard time to unmask her.
Which is quite great by the way 😉
But from what I understand her mask has also some kind of own will or something like that.
I guess it wanted her to stay in her Supergirl/Spider-girl costume 😉
Really odd how she gets thrown around/jumps around the room 😆
Of course, the CGI with the magic mask looks quite bad (#blurry), but the sound effects are nice.
And it’s a nice reversed situation.
Normally masked superheroines don’t want to be unmasked and here she wants to unmask herself but has such a hard time.
Thanks a lot (again) to the one who recommended me this one a while ago!
This bizarre Superheroine show is quite a rollercoaster.
It has 129(!) episodes, which are available on Youtube!
A masked superheroine in different costumes and solid masks is the lead character!
It has a lot of secret identity issues incl. unmaskings and unmasking attempts!
It even has a masked villainess that is in many episodes!
Sounds fantastic? Well yes…. BUT…. there are also some problems.
More on that later on…
Preview:
Supergirl!?!
And a masked villainess!
She is pinned down and someone is reaching for her mask!
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
I combined scenes from 2 episodes for this one. One episode ends just after the villainess unmasked herself and we see Supergirl’s shocked face. #cliffhanger
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Here are the problems the show has for me:
– Obviously, the language issue if you are not familiar with it… no dub or subtitles are available
– The playlist of this show has 129 videos with episodes but they are …often… not in order… a total mess
– It’s a soap opera, a really over-the-top soap opera… that you can realize very quickly without understanding a word 😆
– Really bad CGI and a total overload of superpowers
– some really annoying characters like a magic micro-mini-human
But, it also has a lot to offer 🙂 (as mentioned above)
Now to the scene itself:
Supergirl knows who the villain is, I think she was/is in love with him as he was turned into this evil character.
So he is shocked to find her under the mask of his enemy… Supergirl.
He wants to protect her so he carries the unmasked Supergirl away before the villainess can find her.
It’s been a while since I watched (skipped through) these episodes and the language issue makes it a lot more difficult to follow the crazy storyline.
I like the struggle with her and that he unmasks her, even the camera should be more focused on her face.
But I certainly love the expression on her face as she realizes in terror that he unmasked her.
She should have put up more of a fight… but I guess the way she got smashed against the tree was still affecting her big time.
I love how the guy is tossing her mask on the ground as he isn’t exactly happy about finding out that his love was Supergirl the whole time.
All in all, a really interesting scene.
In other episodes, she is wearing a costume that makes her look like a version of Spider-girl, also really interesting!
And the mask is actually the source of her power, as soon she puts it on she turns into the superheroine.
That means an unmasking leaves her powerless AND destroys her secret identity, quite a combo.
I guess I could make …at least…. 5 more posts with scenes from this show.
I will think about it….
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The hint where to find the playlist with the other episodes can be easily found in the video 😉
If you know Carmen Electra from Baywatch and B and C movies….this sounds like an awesome thing!
Carmen Electra was a gorgeous babe in the 90’s and still looks very hot in the 2000’s as well.
There are some animated TV shows and the pretty new “Spider-Man: A new universe” movie with Spider-girl, Spider-woman and Spider-Gwen.
But in terms of “real” movies and TV shows there is nearly nothing so far.
One exception was this short appearance of (a version of) Spider-girl in this movie.
Preview:
These old guys are enjoying the view
Suddenly she transforms….
….into Spider-girl!
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And here is the video:
…sorry, had to remove it…..you are too late…
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(I edited/shortened the scene slightly to remove two rather…..really, really, really low level jokes….)
Well…yes, it’s a good scene….but it has some flaws also.
Let’s start with the good aspects of the Spider-girl scene.
The idea of putting the stunning Carmen Electra in a tight Spider-girl suit……is pretty awesome! 😉
I really like the boots and the suit is good, even the net structure looks a little….cheap.
It’s great to have such a woman in a full face mask….BUT the front part of the mask looks pretty awful and they cheated big time in this scene!
The front part of the mask is SADLY just a piece of material that is fixated on the rest of the mask. It looks really cheap and ruins the unmasking.
The scene would have been so much better if she would actually rip open a spandex/latex Spider-mask to reveal her face! I really like to see masks getting damaged and/or ripped. But they choose the very easy way and ruined that unmasking…in my opinion.
However, Carmen does look great in that costume and I wish the scene would have been longer and in a movie that isn’t a comedy.
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The scene can be found in this movie (with more Carmen Electra):
One year after my last post about his art it’s time to present my favorite artworks from BluLIve from the last 12 months.
He presents a lot of celebrities under cowls and full face masks as well. And he also shares my interest in masks with battle damage as well. 🙂
Here are my selected favorites from the last 12 months:
Margot Robbie as Batman!
A Catwoman
3 different Batwomen with mask damage!
3 different Batwomen with mask damage!
3 different Batwomen with mask damage!
Another good Batgirl version!
Wonder Woman as Spider-girl 🙂
That woman + that cowl = GREAT!
Damaged, but still covered well enough…
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The first picture shows pretty much how a real mask/cowl for a heroine should look like in my opinion. And if you combine….this mask with that costume….
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….that would be the perfect combination for me. It is really difficult to make a costume that I would like better than that one.
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Here is the link to his Deviant Art page, check it out to see all his work:
Over the years I read a lot of comics. Of course mainly these with masked heroines in it 😉
I posted some of these covers together with pages from the story. Now it’s time to show some of my favorite cover artworks with masked heroine in some sort of peril.
Some of you may have seen this on the old TOYM site, but I think this one needs to be reposted here 😉
Here we have a trailer to a SpiderGirl movie! There won’t be a movie to it, because it was made for some kind of trailer contest, but the trailer is worth watching!
Some thug unmaks SpiderGirl! 🙂
Preview:
Hair coming out of the mask? It’s SpiderGIRL!
But she has some problems with this thug….
…he yanks at her mask!
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And here is the video:
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Rare enough to find some bad guy who actually wanna unmask the heroine….I love it!
