Pure 1940's b-movie goodness, right down to the giant robot's eye lasers even make those "beee bwewwww" noises when fired! The movie is a culmination of every single cheesy thing that made b-movies so great... ray guns, jetpacks, big improbable machines, and wrapped it up with great characters and hilarious dialogue
And the ending rocked, it managed to make the entire thing worth it with just two words 
I approve of this film Vorago fucked around with this message on 09-18-2004 at 04:35 PM.
I thought it was a great homage to both old pulp comics from the time, and those old adventure movies. The characters were great, the lines were snappy, and Frankie kicked ass. I loved her. I didn't think I was going to like Polly, but they pulled off the hard-as-nails female reporter without having to use her as a foil for everything that could go wrong. Did I mention the eyepatch Navy captain rocked? Hehe, I loved it, and that will definitely be one going into my DVD collection.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
I just got back from this movie about 9 minutes ago, I want my money back =(
Unfortunately it just had nothing to offer... too corny but I guess that may of been the point. My buddy fell asleep 20 minutes in... that was the most amusing part for me... That and the part where you see the strap from Ms. Paltrow's garter belt... Rrrroow.
such as wizard of oz. when they showed all the newspapers of the cities being atttacked the one for japan had godzilla.
the venture was a ship in some movie i forget but you clearly see the titanic in the background
the log the crossed in the "lost world" was right out of the orginal king kong
im sure there was others i missed
What I was worried about was that Totenkaupf was making an atomic bomb when they discovered the radioactive mine. I thought "Gee, has Polly been carrying around enriched uranium all this time?"
Was actually kinda relieved it was just genetic material
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A sleep deprived Jania Arindelil stammered:
Uh, the film bag got destroyed. She had her camera on her person the whole time, that's where the pictures came from.
How ever being in the mine would have exposed the film, thus ruining it. Even the stuff in the Camera
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Peter painfully thought these words up:
How ever being in the mine would have exposed the film, thus ruining it. Even the stuff in the Camera
i agree, but i don't think realisim is relevant for that movie
You guys are worried about the fact that they overlooked the effects of radiation on film, in a movie named "Sky Captain And the World of Tomorrow."
It could've been Tomorrow-Film, and thus immune to radiation!
/geekness off
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Nae had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
I thought one of the coolest little touches was when they were landing on the floating airbase of Frankie's, they told them to land in landing strip 327. That is the same number as the docking bay on Cloud City where the Millenium Falcon was told to land./geekness off
And the feel of Star Wars was, by Lucas' own admission, largely based on the old pulp comics and serial sci-fi stuff he saw when he was a kid. I really like that it comes full circle like that. Like an homage to the whole lineage.
Ever since I saw Disney's Atlantis (and here come the anime geeks...), I've been thinking that it would be fantastic if some company or another really did a serious job of doing at least one movie (and I wish more) based on that era of pop culture. So much of what we take for granted today in popular fiction today was based off of things from that era, or you can trace the lineage back to that time.
I was really happy with Sky Captain. It's easy to forget today, in the era of anime, that the United States is where a lot of the "big robots" culture originated. Anime borrowed a lot from the penny dreadfuls of the late 19th century into the pulp comics of the 30's, many of which involved giant robots and impossible flying machines and so forth. Then when you see it in anime, people think that's where it came from...it's not. It's being disrespectful to the entire genre to not look back to the origins.
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
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Nae had this to say about Pirotess:
I thought one of the coolest little touches was when they were landing on the floating airbase of Frankie's, they told them to land in landing strip 327. That is the same number as the docking bay on Cloud City where the Millenium Falcon was told to land./geekness off
Also, if you watch Independence Day, the hangar in Area 51 pays tribute to Star Wars by having a giant "R" on one side of the hangar opening and a "2" on the right side.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael's fortune cookie read:
A bunch of cool stuff.
Yeah I totally agree with you! I love the old sci-fi movies, Flash Gordon and things like that. I love most old movies anyway, but being a sci-fi lover, watching this film really made me nostalgic.
I was looking forward to the movie for a year and I was not disappointed. The things that everyone else said they didn't like, I found touching and pure. The scene changes were the only way I could see them being. I loved the "colorized" black and white, it gave the movie an almost film noir air.
And duders.. don't be so concerned about the realism of her film and the radiation.. I mean ffs.. there were freaking dinosaurs in the movie yet I don't hear you scream "OMG REALISM THEY CAN'T DO THAT!!"
lolerz
