Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow

[Furtherman]

I saw this last night at a screening and after getting use to the look of the movie, it turned out to be a cool flick.

If today's movie technology was available in 1939, this would be the type of movies they made. There are nods to Lucas and Spielberg, but it is all in good fun.

Jude Law and Giovanni Ribisi are great. I wasn't too crazy with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, a bit of a drag I thought, but Angelina Jolie was awesomely sexy as usual.

Good mix of sci-fi and adventure.

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[LordJezo]

I want to go see it as well.

From what I read the main bad guy is actually a dead actor and all the clips of him are from different movies.

Anyone want to see it with me since all my friends thinks this movie looks stupid?

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[Mike Teacher]

There are nods to Lucas and Spielberg,


Yes, but the look and texture are one Huge Nod to a specific director. Even one of his specific films. Come On where are the film peeps. And if you have to look it up, thats cheating. Neener Neener.

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[badorties]

the look and feel reminds me of max fleischer's great superman cartoons


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[Furtherman]

From what I read the main bad guy is actually a dead actor and all the clips of him are from different movies.


None other than Sir Laurence Olivier.

As for Mike The Teacher's question, Badorites is correct of the Max Fleischer look. Especially the robots. I also felt there was homage to Fritz Lang, and his Metropolis.

Yesterday in Time Square, they had a giant 8 story balloon of one of the robots in this movie. It looked awseome as I turned the corner walking to work.

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[Tenbatsuzen]

Angelina Jolie drips sex. I currently have a sky captain wallpaper featuring her on my office computer.

Jolie + British Accent = instant viagara.



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[Mike Teacher]

I also felt there was homage to Fritz Lang, and his Metropolis.


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This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 9-17-04 @ 3:23 PM

[fiestygal]

angelina jolie STILL looks hot- even with an eye patch...arrrg!


yes yes i know she isnt a pirate...

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[Mike Teacher]

pirate?

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[TheMojoPin]

I always liked the Lang/Fleischer "look" that the Batman/Superman cartoons in the 90's had.

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[Mike Teacher]

Mojo thank you I *knew* there was something else that used a very 'Metropolis' look to it.

Amazing that we have what we do; over a quarter of the original film is still lost, an full, original print has never shown up, and this was not some ham-and-egger movie; this was an Epic. Scenes with 1,000s that arent CGI people, theyre actually 1,000s.

There's a DVD of the restored version that I took those stills from, and it's simply Amazing; but you see where they had to use the best film they had, which was bad. In other places; it's perfect. There's was a version with a 1980's artist Soundtrack; the CD has Pat Benetar, Loverboy, and Queen, to give you a time capsule of when That came out.

The video for Queen's 'Radio Ga Ga' shows scenes from Metropolis.

Beats me, but the movie has always been a fave of mine. Those are 1927 guesses at the future, and some of them are almost dead-on; scarily so.

This movie looks so cool.

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This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 9-17-04 @ 7:48 PM

[mdr55]

Movie was okay. Wait for the DVD or watch the matinee. It took like an hour for Jolie to appear. And the storyline was so so. But the girlbot kicked ass.

[fiestygal]

pirate?




yes pirates go ARRRG... nevermind

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[mdr55]

The movie Rocketeer was SOOO much better.

[Se7en]

That's a damn lie - Rocketeer sucked balls.

This was a fun flick. All of the reviews are right in saying that there isn't much plot to this, but then again this is essentially one big retro throwback to all of the great old sci-fi serials of the 1930s / 40s, which were never known for their intellectually stimulating plots in the first place.

Definitely worth the matinee price. Guys will probably enjoy this film a lot more than the women (it's got giant robots plus three attractive actresses), but it's still a good popcorn flick.

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[TheMojoPin]

That's a damn lie - Rocketeer sucked balls.

Awww, horseshit. You're just dead inside.

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[NewYorkDragons80]

The movie Rocketeer was SOOO much better.
The movie was very Rocketeerish in that it oozes nostalgia and is aviation-themed (Both of which make the movie seem like it was designed for me). But I think this movie kicked ass. The story line was pretty good and the visual and especially sound were stunning, but if you plan on seeing this to see Angelina Jolie, don't.

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[mdr55]

There were so many unanswered side storylines.

Like why was Frankie (Jolie) not interested in initially helping out Jude Law to get to the island for the sake of the world but when he told her that Dex was there Frankie didn't hesistate to help them.

And their clothes were burned because the clothes became contaminated when they went to the cave but the people themselves weren't exposed? Makes no sense.

[JustJon]

yes pirates go ARRRG... nevermind
It's never funny if you have to explain it....

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[Little Tony DeFranco]

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A CGI movie for film geeks, Zowie Willikers! Not that piece of horseshit "Van Helsing"...no dude. "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" is a real achievement on the computer animation front. Director/writer Kerry Conran (?) hits the target a few times in his first go as new wave Spielberg/Lucas clone. I would even say that he has the spark that has died in George Lucas' tired saga. "Sky.." is a tribute to Lucas films of yesteryear (20 or so), a send-up of old movies and comic books complete with kickass F/X and funny attitude.

The Big City is about to be invaded by huge robots (Gigantor, The old Superman cartoons by Max Fleischer) and sweet Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow gets paid) is a hotshot reporter out to get the scoop on missing scientists from around the world. All we need is a hero with a neat fighter bomber that can go underwater and has an island fortress and a genius for a sidekick....Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan (Jude Law doing Erroll Flynn) to the rescue. Polly is a tag along on a world trotting adventure to save earth from an evil scientist (dead legend actor Lawrence Olivier is used well).

It's a good movie and kids are going to eat it up but the script is hokey (in a good way) and you know the next line coming. The leads are fine but not much to emote with the meatless script. Giovanni Ribisi is Dex the sidekick guy (not a tard role?). Better on the huge screen than DVD and some movie geek references (yes, the old guy in Shangri-La looks like Yoda). I liked it! Where else are you gonna see Angelina Jolie play a guy named Frankie.


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[Yerdaddy]

I'd call it a rental. CGI and visual homages just aren't enough to carry a half-assed screenplay.

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[SilentSpic]

Seen it

predictable

wait for DVD...

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[angrymissy]

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[TheMojoPin]

Saw it a couple nights ago.

The visual style of the bluescreen technique and the "retro-future"-look was really interesting, but the script and story were just downright awful. Killed the whole film...the premise was the same "faceless robot/alien invasion" we've seen a thousand times at this point. The characters were dull, and the move just dragged on and on and on and on...

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[FMJeff]

Snooze Captain....

Wanted to walk out....someone write good script please...

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[Se7en]

Saw it a couple nights ago.

The visual style of the bluescreen technique and the "retro-future"-look was really interesting, but the script and story were just downright awful. Killed the whole film...the premise was the same "faceless robot/alien invasion" we've seen a thousand times at this point. The characters were dull, and the move just dragged on and on and on and on...


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No, the movie was the bore. "Sin City" is doing the same blue screen gimmick, and it already looks a thousands times better. I wanted to be entertained. This movie didn't do that.

Are you sure you were able to sit through this? I didn't catch any Christian nu-metal. Impressive. You're not as unspeakably lame as I thought.

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[NewYorkDragons80]

Wanted to walk out....someone write good script please...
Funny you should say that, because I found it appealing precisely because it was the first original script to come out of Hollywood in a LONG time that I actually enjoyed.

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[angrymissy]

Funny you should say that, because I found it appealing precisely because it was the first original script to come out of Hollywood in a LONG time that I actually enjoyed.


ugggg it was so so boring. The effects were cool but watching the dialouge was painful. If you want to see a well written movie, see Garden State, we saw that the night before this one and it was amazing.

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[mdr55]

To think that I could have seen Sean of the Dead preview........but I chose this clucker instead.

[TheMojoPin]

See? THERE'S a funny movie. "Shaun of The Dead."

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[furie]

this movie sucked! How could people give this a good review. The dialogue was trite, the sets obvious blue screens, and let us not forget the giant holes in the plot. The only good scene was when jude law punched paltrow right in the face.



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