You know, it's very rare when a movie like this comes along. I etremely enjoyed this movie. I thought it was a very unique look at old movies, and did it's job very well.. it was entertaining, and it was like going back in time and watching an old a** movie. I remember one scene that I was very partial to. At the beginning, it sows people holding down a blimp with ropes, and it switches to a wider view of it and the people look like carboard cut outs that arn't moving. I thought this looked awesone, cause it really captured the feel of the time era. (not cause people didn't move int he 30's, but cause it looked like an effect they would use from back then)

The only down side tot his moive, is the wide variety of ignorant people that will enevitably watch it, and make it bomb at the box office.

I could tell after watching it, it isn't a movie that the hayseed common folk would enjoy for several reasons.

1. This movie was done to look like a really old movie, so it was near black and white.

- the "in crowd" won't enjoy this aspect

2. the movie was done using almost all CG... even things that didn't need to be CG... for instance cars driving down the road, and people running around in the background.

I thought this was awesome looking, cause it gave it that old cartoonish feel...

-again, people are already bad mouthing it on [url]www.imdb.com[/url] cause of this... some people are just downright stupid and have no vision... anyone with a brain knows that it's not cause they "couldn't afford an old car, or extras" it for the art... which is what movies are supposta be about.

3. There were things that happened in this movie that couldn't happen in real life

That's ok, cause it's not taking place in "real life"

-people are having a hard time understanding this also.

4. I think one of the best parts is when the giant robots start shooting lazers from their eyes, and it sounds like the exact sounds from war of the worlds.

I really enjoyed it.. not much I can really say bad about this movie at all...

i've never heard of that movie

I might wait a week or two to go see it, but I do plan on seeing it. I have yet to hear a single person badmouth the movie, but than again my area's most vocal local critic hasn't done her reviews yet, but I don't trust her opinion anyway.

I need to get back in touch with going to the movies, I still haven't seen Garden State or Hero yet

It just looks really... Lame.

I relly don't understand why someone would make a movie look like crap just to take you back to THE ERA!



Err, ignorant people? A movie is meant to entertain people. Many people haven't seen old movies from the 30's-50's or whevener because even if they were awesome back then very few of them stood the test of time, and looking back on them now most people will say they just suck because of laughable special effects, poor acting, etc.. with the exception of a few critics.



Stupid? If a person see's a movie with robots that could have been made in Milkshape by a kid with a few tutorials, with a junky plot and subpar acting, you think they are going to be happy? I don't. The only old-new film that I liked was 'The Man Without a Face' then again that didn't have 90% overly cheesey CGI in it...

Obviously then SAJN_Master is an idoit...

Oh right, I'm just not artistic and sophisticated enough to enjoy a film that looks like purposly cheesey trash that an 18 year old made for his college project at RISD.

i wonder if SAJN even saw the movie

it looks like i will enjoy it...

SAJN_Master is an idoit...

I agree. I enjoyed the old "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers" serials as much as the next guy, but I don't think they'd ever work as a feature-length film. I'll wait until DVD for this one, it may ruin the experience because such a film SHOULD be viewed on the big screen, but meh, doesn't interest me much.

I've been looking forward to this movie since I saw the previews.

I was talking about going to see it a couple of weeks back and my friend who was trying to make fun of me for looking forward to it said "You probably even liked The Rocketeer when you were younger, didnt you?" and I was like .... ya, that was one of my favorite movies. I just think that it's a very different movie than what most people think movies should be.

Like Spiral said, they did things certain ways just to give it that feel.

According to [url]www.skycaptain.com[/url] it's set in Gotham City for all you Batman nerds.

And it's gotten decent reviews at [url]www.rottentomatoes.com[/url]

Watch me try to defend the film without seeing it and then hate it when I do go... tomorrow.

"idoit"? Twice? .'/

I thought so too from the trailers, but it's gotten really good reviews.

Seeing it tonight, and am really looking forward to it.

Same here, only with a 21" monitor, big screen isn't that much of a problem.

Hero is frelling awesome.

I just have one thing to say:

The robots, you know, the big metal things?
They flap their metal wings.
The robots flap their wings.

That is all.

Quoted for truth. I loved that movie

Yeah, that's what I thought. It seems to be a fusion of the world war era and technology that wouldn't appear for another half of a century.

The previews look slightly lame, but I'll go see it anyways cause it actually looks original instead of just some other action movie.

in all honesty... the movie does look pretty lame for it's SE's... but hell what other lame-looking moveis were good? Spaceballs... UHF... RAMBO!!!!!... Doom House 2000... Scary Movie... Broken Lizard's Club Dread... the list goes on

I hated all of those but Spaceballs, and that was TRYING to be horrible.

JediKirby

UHF rocks dude

I'll probably wait for it to come on DVD. It has received some good reviews so far, but it's not something I would really want to see.

You have problems if you didn't find UHF to be even SLIGHTLY funny.

I think somebody needs to drink from the fire hose.

Phoenix wins.

I didn't catch the 'UHF' in that phrase, and I'm not exactly sure what it stands for.

Its the name of the movie. Wierd Al was in it.

If you haven't seen it, you are missing out. You are missing out BIG TIME.

Yep, I think the movie's theme is supposed to be a blending of 50's Sci-Fi and WWII themes. I think the only way anyone is going to enjoy this film is to keep that in mind when they watch it. God knows that if I only knew that Starship Troopers was supposed to be cheesy intentionally, I might have enjoyed it instead of hating it.

The trailor where the p-40 goes under water made it just to stupid.

I still hate that movie.

That makes sense now, it seemed like I recognized a lot of the nuances, but I couldn't place them.

But it was a fairly good movie if you went in knowing it was supposed to be a 30s sci-fi thriller, and I liked the artistic style they went with.

Sky Captain was great. That's all I'm saying. Drac agrees, too!

Before seeing the film:




After seeing the film:

So SAJN liked it. Good good.

I really need to see it...meh

Yeah. I'll admit it I was WAYYYYYYYYY to quick on the trigger, but they really should have shown different clips in the trailer. The trailer makes the film look cheesey and bleh, but when you see the film it all makes sense.