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I'm amazed no one mentioned how annoying Gwyneth Paltrow was in the movie. She's worse than Jar Jar Binks.

Why the "in the movie" qualifier?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha okay she was ESPECIALLY annoying in THIS movie.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 19 September 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i like gwyneth p.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I dont think the movie was show offy in the way jude makes it out to be. Originally it was just the director doing all of the effects work himself. I think the whole approach was 'hey paramount, Ill make you an all cgi movie, just give me 20 million and 5+ years and it'll be sweet.' I think paramount commited to having it released now and in doing so, they kinda screwed the pooch and had to hire every single effects house ever to finish on time. but this is just LA bullshit rumor mill and I could be wrong.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, the plot is simple, familiar, and tiresome. Yes, Gwyneth Paltrow's character (the 'intrepid reporter') is annoying (when has there ever been an 'intrepid reporter' character who wasn't?). The visuals are absolutely STUNNING, and it is a total good time. I think it would've faired better having been released in the summer though. Giovanni Ribisi & Angelina Jolie (with fake British accent and eyepatch [Lara Croft + Momus?]) were KICK ASS.

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

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw this at a midnight showing on Saturday and loved all the cheesy retroness. Giant Robots! Tibetan monks! It seemed like no actors in the movie took it very seriously, which I think was the best attitude to have. I did giggle though everytime they said "Totenkopf," I'm not sure why.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

What I said on the Jude Law thread:

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.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

The dialogue was SO BAD that it provided a level of entertainment all it's own. The difference I think between Sky Captain's crummy, predictable dialogue and, say, that of Star Wars or something, is that it seemed most of the cast of Sky Captain EMBRACED the corniness of it (except for Gwyneth Paltrow who seemed like she was actually TRYING).

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 (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought many parts of this movie were visually beyond beautiful. It makes me think, why doesn't Hollywood take better advantage of its potential more often? I loved the Metropolis look. I could have done without the gross deformed experiment that asked Jude Law to kill him though.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

It actually kind of reminded me of a Guy Maddin film for a while, especially having the acclimate yourself to an older visual aesthetic at the beginning.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link

The next movie they make like this should NO dialogue and just have frantic pipe organ music.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone actually think this shit looks good? it just looks visually awful. like a barbara walters interview set

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link

havent seen it yet, but from the few seconds of a clip it looks bad. and it shouldnt be. this type of jules verne futurism should be R rated. more bladerunner, less family fun

― kephm, Monday, 20 September 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

when has there ever been an 'intrepid reporter' character who wasn't?

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

― amateur!!st, Monday, 20 September 2004 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean, hildy johnson is annoying, sure--everyone in his girl friday is "annoying," strictly speaking--but in a wonderful, life-affirming, totally outrageous and fun way.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 20 September 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely Hildy isn't annoying because she no longer wants to be an intrepid reporter. (Though cannot help herself).

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

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

was lois lane a reporter? i never read superman comics.

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.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 20 September 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

okay, i liked the movie. and this is really hypercritical of me, but i think someone should have caught this mistake---the movie is set in the '30s, but g. paltrow's character references "WWI". they didn't call it WWI until WWII, and someone should have realized it.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe in this alternate universe they already had another war in 1923 or something

― amateur!!st, Monday, 20 September 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, is there any real reason that one scientist had a tiny elephant in a jar? I thought that would come into play later, but maybe it was just an homage to The Amazing Colossal Man or something.

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

And EVERY SINGLE TIME they had a shot of the rocket being loaded with animals it was the EXACT SAME elephant/chimp SFX; I know blah blah 'self conscious camp' but these are the things of drinking games

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

ha ha

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

The reviewer at Entertainment Weekly had it right: When Jolie delivers the line "Alert the Amphibious Squad," it's just absurdly thrilling in a totally geeked-out way. Like little else in the movie, in fact.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

One thing I wasn't clear about: when Dex leaves the map for them, the dialogue seems to suggest that he hid it somewhere, but I couldn't tell from the visuals, which looked like they just found it on the ground. Or was I watching it wrong?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 3 October 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

It was stuck to the underside of a beam with the bazooka joe gum. The shot is pretty tight though, so it's not terribly obvious.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

his airplane had incredible range, they couldn't even fly to berlin and back from london but he made it all the way to nepal from new york. candidate for worst movie of the year.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I must see it now.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG this was terrible. The visuals are annoying, ugly and ridiculous, never remotely beautiful. Enough with the soft-focus to make your cheapo CGI look like an aesthetic choice! All the shots with people were lame, they were all so obviously planned to fit into the CGI-scape - why not just go all the way and make this completely animated?

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

Gwyneth Paltrow is the worst actress on Earth.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

The concept reminded me of Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher, an animated short I missed at the Asian Film Festival.

http://www.woohoopictures.com/

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/catwank/skycaptain.jpg

― Catty (Catty), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Hahah, if only.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

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?

― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 April 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link

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

― glandular lansbury (sic), Saturday, 30 April 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link

Why did people hate gwyneth so much back in 04?

― Treeship, Saturday, 30 April 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link

perhaps this holds a clue?

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 30 April 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link

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