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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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