What's this crazy movie called?

February 28, 2008 7:23 PM

Asking for a friend: can you help name this ridiculous superhero movie about some guy exposed to radiation?

OK, so a friend of mine remembers watching this movie as a little kid, but can't remember what it was called. From what he can remember, it's about some guy who gets exposed to radiation of some kind while on an island. After he gets exposed, he gets super powers which allow him to run really fast and other superhero-like stuff. When he gets exposed there may have been a color-inverted shot of a rocket exploding or taking off. But, if he sees a certain color (maybe pink?), he loses his powers. At the end of the movie, the Gov't just removes every pink object from the world so the guy wont lost his powers.

This would probably have been made some time in the 80's, though I guess late-70's is possible too. This is something I'd usually know about but I'm drawing a blank here, I've definitely never seen it but it doesn't even sound familiar. Can anybody help us out?

posted by Venadium to media & arts (7 comments total)

Super Fuzz!
posted by LoriFLA at 7:31 PM on February 28, 2008

Wow, that was fast! Thanks!
posted by Venadium at 7:37 PM on February 28, 2008

Absolutely Super Fuzz! and the color was red. My coworkers and I had this very same discussion more than 10 years back. I emailed the IMDB crew and they confirmed.
posted by toomuch at 7:39 PM on February 28, 2008

I have to give my husband the credit. I asked him, he knew right away, described the entire plot, says it's a great movie he loved as a kid.
posted by LoriFLA at 7:42 PM on February 28, 2008

http://ask.metafilter.com/78421/Cant-remember-the-title-for-an-old-superhero-movie

It's an oddly popular movie that a lot of us just couldn't remember the name of.
posted by krisak at 8:45 PM on February 28, 2008

Finally a question I could have answered if I saw it earlier. I even have the DVD (a kind gift from my brother). This was in heavy rotation on HBO back in the day.
posted by genefinder at 7:28 AM on February 29, 2008

Has it held up?
posted by ph00dz at 8:19 AM on March 2, 2008