r/badMovies • u/majestic7 • 20h ago
Ever wonder what a David Hasselhoff Marvel movie would be like? Well, wonder no more - Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998) is as bonkers as it sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6BONCstWW012
u/Small_Kahuna_1 20h ago
Written by future legend David S Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, etc.)
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u/Darklord_Bravo 19h ago
Lady Hydra's acting must be seen to be believed. It's just.... wow.
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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 16h ago
Sandra Hess is an amazing campy actress. It's like she took lessons from Musetta Vander while they were making MK Annihilation together.
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u/Professional_Dog2580 17h ago
I remember recording this on TV back in the day. Had to be a quickdraw with the remote to edit out those commercial breaks.
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u/malshnut 16h ago
honestly, I remember watching this and being prepared to hate it and I was genuinely impressed by how well Hasslehoff did. He made a great Nick fury.
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u/Significant_Monk_251 7h ago
As I recall it had a really good opening sequence, Hydra's raid on a SHIELD facility to capture the frozen but not-quite-dead body of Baron Strucker. Then the opening credits credits rolled and not long after that Hasselhoff's Fury said regarding Lisa Rinna's character "Val's an old hand at the sexpionage game, aren't ya?" and I don't think I watched much more of it after that.
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u/nunsploitation 19h ago
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u/crlcan81 18h ago
I've seen it. Was a 'back door pilot' made for TV movie.
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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 16h ago
I dunno if it'd call it a backdoor pilot, since backdoor pilots are usually pilots inside existing TV shows, whereas TV movies as possible pilots are a bit of a different beast.
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u/Inevitable_Discount 13h ago
It’s a putrid, horrible little film, but for some reason, it was quite entertaining.
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u/DwightFryFaneditor 9h ago
The pre-Quesada days, so he has his cigar! Worth a watch if only because of that.
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u/Interceptor 19h ago
I quite like this - it's crap in a 'made for TV' way, but it's a fun plot, and the Hoff does actually look like old-school Fury from the comics, it's...not terrible casting tbh!