anticipation for SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW goes here

Baron Muchausen was a great movie!

Maybe in the investment:flop ratio department though.

I went to see it tonight and didn't care much for it. It was too dark (for the wrong reasons, I thought) and the sound mix was a sea of mud. Too many plot holes, Law and Paltrow phoned it in, and Paltrow's character needed to be drowned in a bucket of piss. On the other hand, I liked Giovanni Ribisi's character and all the Art Deco design.

GIANT FIGHTING ROBOTS!

Plus it has Laurence Olivier in it!

You grump. Fashion spreads don't have killer robots.

when was the last time you picked up one of those newer fashion magazines? i can easily imagine kate moss + killer robots.

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speaking of which, I was glad that Code 46 was a bit of a disaster script wise for the same reason; i just sat back and *stared* at the beautiful cities et al. i was discomfited, though, by the disturbingly creepy relationship..

There's a reporter. There's always a reporter.

Seriously, who hasn't heard the formula comic-book story a million times over? Approach the plot of Sky Captain the way you'd approach a hot dog: don't look too close, don't think too much, and keep a drink handy to knock out the taste. You could fit an army of German tanks through the loopy logic and plot holes of this movie.

But if plot were the point of Sky Captain, you can bet it wouldn't have gotten out of the negative star ratings. The story is just an excuse for a bunch of animators and designers to say, "Looky at our shiny new toys! Look at what we can do!" like little kids riding without training wheels for the first time. Who needs physical sets anymore, anyway? On the internet, no one knows you're a dog; in movies, no one knows if you're a pixel.

But I won't dock credit where it's due: Sky Captain is the first of its kind, and the first toddling steps have to be applauded even if they don't necessarily keep the toddler upright. So maybe Sky Captain kinda fell on its ass a couple of times -- at least it was trying. And hey, other movies will learn from it (we hope), and then maybe the genre can grow up to suffer acne-flecked teen mishaps like Bakshi's rotoscoped Lord of the Rings and mid-life crises like Bela Lugosi's fatal final work, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

It won't win any awards except maybe for design, because -- much as I hate to admit it -- the design was friggin' AWESOME. But if you miss a good old-fashioned adventure (whatever happened to Indiana Jones? INDIIIIIEEE!) and you think watching an animated comic book might be good for a kick, then go ahead and spend your hard-earned money on a theater viewing. Rental is good enough to get the gist of it, but to really appreciate the feel that Captain was aiming for (judge for yourself whether or not it succeeded), you need to get the big-screen experience.

Summary: Funny-once. Matinee. Turn brain off before watching. Sit back and try to imagine the speech bubbles popping up beside each character in each frame. (Figuring out what random words would be bold in the comic form is good for a grin.) And remember to put the mustard on the bun first!

Why the "in the movie" qualifier?

I would recommend going to see this movie with a FIVE YEAR OLD BOY for maximum enjoyment effect.

Sky Captain has the intriguing combination of some incredible visuals and special effects, almost to the point of being surreal, and the worst dialogue of any movie I have seen in recent memory. The acting is pretty haphazard: Law is kind of boring, Paltrow is terrible, Jolie is surprisingly good.

About halfway through I realized the dark stylishness of it isn't so much for a spooky goth vibe (as I initially thought) as it seems to be a sortuv sepia-tone enhancement of the retro vibe of the whole thing.

Lukas' favorite thing was the robots with the wiggly arms.

nickalicious have you seen his girl friday or the front page?!

Its fake intrepid reporters who have no relation to real actual journo's (ie Lois Lane) that are really annoying.

everyone in his girl friday is annoying because they talk all the time and are totally self-centered. that is what makes it so beautiful.

The references were all cliches (vs. Indiana Jones where the adventure-serial references have a purpose).

Gwyneth Paltrow is the worst actress on Earth.

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Finally watched this after being intrigued for ages by Ebert's review and others like it. Flat and boring, I thought - everything paper-thin and the retro aesthetic very incompletely worked-out. Script was also suuuuuper lame; feel like an actual 30s/40s "ace reporter" character would have been given actually snappy, witty dialogue and charming exchanges with Jude Law, rather than just empty signifiers gesturing at the idea of a squabbling couple that will get together at the end. Angelina Jolie's character was also totally worthless and barely in the movie really. Are there people out there for whom this holds up? Are any of its defenders itt still around?

I still own the DVD but haven't been able to bring myself to watch it

Why did people hate gwyneth so much back in 04?

perhaps this holds a clue?