Just saw this in Cinefex! Looks like a cool movie. Jude Law in another sci-fi flick.

It'a too bad the film has been delayed untill fall.

It looks like a fun campy flick, but a September release doesn't bode well. Sounds like the producers think it's a throwaway.

AWWWW!! I thought it was coming out in the next week or so! Maybe
they thought Spiderman would steal some of it's thunder... :(

I saw an hour long presentation on Sky Captain at Wonderfest. Both the producer and director were on hand and I think they both have plenty of confidence in their product. I imagine it's the studio and marketing department.

The eight minute clip they showed was amazing. I'm not easily impressed, but it blew me away. Still, I had a hard time explaining just what it was and describing the original and unique look. It's very dark and noirish visually and the story, based on the eight minutes I saw, is pure Indiana Jones.

I'm sure the marketing guys are going crazy trying to figure out how to sell it to the masses. I suspect that's the major reason for the delay. To us genre fans, it's a slam dunk. To the average filmgoer, I think it will be a big question mark.

It's definitely got my 10 bucks when it comes out. Hmmmm.....maybe my 12 or 15 bucks when it finally sees the light of day!

I'm sure the marketing guys are going crazy trying to figure out how to sell it to the masses. I suspect that's the major reason for the delay.
I suspected the delay was caused by a heavy FX load but the recent test screenings indicate 95% complete FX so a summer release was doable.
To us genre fans, it's a slam dunk. To the average filmgoer, I think it will be a big question mark.
That's the gist of a couple of test screening reviews.

See the trailer, read the synopsis, get to know Sky Captain, Polly Perkins, and Franky Cook:

http://skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow.com/

click on MENU, lower right of screen.

- GJS

P.S. Hey, it takes place in Gotham City ( and looks like it was lifted sraight from a Fleischer Superman cartoon ) what's not to like?

OK, I'm running a little behind on things...I just read the Cinefex article as well, a very ambitious first film by Kerry Conran. Interesting look to the film as an homage to the serials and film noir of the 30s and 40s. I'm looking forward to it.

Reporter Polly Perkins? Wasn't that Underdog's girl friend?

Actually, I'm looking foward to seeing this. Looks interesting.

Reporter Polly Perkins? Wasn't that Underdog's girl friend?

Actually, I'm looking foward to seeing this. Looks interesting.That would be Polly Purebred. 'Sweet' Polly Purebred...

- GJS

I've only seen the online teasers and trailers and Just seeing the Zepplin flying into the city during a snow shower was enough to get my heart and hopes up and that was the firslt 5 seconds into it!! The reat made my eyes, brain and mouth DROOL!!

I will see it...oh yes...I will.... :thumbsup:

Hey guys,

Follow the link below to check out this new trailer, and a neat clip from the actual film. Look closely at the clip and you will see some interesting historical items, and a few items from movie history.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow/

Anyway, I think this movie will turn out to be the sleeper of the late Summer, or Fall movie season. :wave:

There is a film clip that shows the P47 fighter they are using is a flying sub!

;)

It's a P-40. I had a little trouble with a piston engined plane maneuvering extremely well underwater but I expect there's more to the story.

Apart from that, the film has promise.

JIm

That would be Polly Purebred. 'Sweet' Polly Purebred...

Well, I thought it was 'Sweet Polly Underwear' but I was obviously very confused. :devil:

'When Sweet Polly's in trouble I am not slow,
It's hip, hip, hip, and away I go!'

I just read about this movie. Laurence Olivier appears in it, in a major part.

Uh, he's dead Jim.

Apparently he's so perfect for the part they have brought him back to life with computers. ( he did a much better reading than Alec Guiness or Richard Burton.)

The whole movie is CGI. Anything not touched by an actor is digital. Great, if it works.

I agree that the studio is somewhat perplexed as how to sell this to the masses. That may be why the Indians Jones music is on all the trailers I've seen, hoping people make some kind of mental connection.

Trailer I saw used the Stargate theme.
I wish they'd just release the damn thing, I wanna see it!

The trailer actually starts out with music from Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within.

As the first robot foot slams down, the music changes to that of Stargate.

Hell, It's Got Angelina Jolie in it that gets 3 Stars in Our Book right there!!!lol



JOHN/LONFAN

IGN claims they have an 'exclusive' clip
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/545/545719p1.html

Locked in on the trailer the other day. wife sez "oh God, another Angelina Jolie movie, I suppose you're gonna want to go see it". I sez " Now baby, I was just looking at the P-40 Warhawk, have always loved that plane"...... I don't think she bought it!

I've seen it; the whiz-bang visuals held my attention for about 20 minutes, then I got bored. There isn't one interesting, amusing or original idea in the entire film. If you like "Alien vs. Predator" you're sure to like SkyCap.

Tell her it's a Jude Law movie, and Angelina only has a small role in it.

Tell her it's a Jude Law movie, and Angelina only has a small role in it.

Nothing small about Angelina or her roles...

I've seen it; the whiz-bang visuals held my attention for about 20 minutes, then I got bored. There isn't one interesting, amusing or original idea in the entire film. If you like "Alien vs. Predator" you're sure to like SkyCap.
uh, by that reasoning, Steve Iversen will like it!;)

If Steve Iverson says its ok....well by golly its gotta be just hunky dory for all of us! :) ;)

Its looks pretty darn cool to me! I think I even saw a B-24J in one clip?

It's a P-40. I had a little trouble with a piston engined plane maneuvering extremely well underwater but I expect there's more to the story.

Apart from that, the film has promise.

JIm


I'm a huge P-40 afficionado so I'd like to see the movie. Although, I'm a bit curious what the heck they're doing underwater! Oh well, it's just a movie, eh?

I expect things like that were typical of pulp sci fi in the 30s? Airplanes with underwater modes and such?

just from the ads, i think its going to be a bomb. remember the big budget rocketman movie, and how the crowd stayed away in droves?

just from the ads, i think its going to be a bomb. remember the big budget rocketman movie, and how the crowd stayed away in droves?
"The Rocketeer" had the horrible luck of debuting the same week as "Terminator 2". Disney pretty much threw in the towel after the first week and didn't promote the film after that. "The Rocketeer" deserved better.

Indeedy. I loved Rocketeer, both the film and the comic (and what ever happened the Dave Stevens, anyway!?). I have the film on laserdisc, and enjoy watching it every now and then. Not only for the GeeBees (more than actually ever existed!), but for Jennifer Connely at her most glowing.

I love the Rocketeer movie as well -- lots of serial type fun.

But then again, I loved the movie, Chaplin as well. I thought it deserved to sweep the Oscars. I suppose I'm just a misfit. :(

Check out the bulletin board on SKY CAPTAIN on IMDB.com. There are people who just don't get the movie ("If it's set in the '30s, why are there giant robots?" :rolleyes: ), and they seem to have a surprisingly hostile reaction to it. I have a feeling the movie's popularity with be narrow but deep. It will have relatively modest success, but those who see it will really love it. Personally, I think this is a good thing. I'm getting a little tired of movies which everyone sorta likes.

As for CHAPLIN, I think Robert Downey Jr. should have definitely won the Oscar, but the movie itself suffers from Richard Attenborough's typical ham-handed, hokey story-telling. There's something seriously wrong when a movie about Chaplin depicts THE GREAT DICTATOR as the pinnacle of his career. And the scene where he comes up with the idea for the movie made me want to throw things at the screen.

As for CHAPLIN, I think Robert Downey Jr. should have definitely won the Oscar, but the movie itself suffers from Richard Attenborough's typical ham-handed, hokey story-telling.

I liked the old fashioned sort of story-telling. Just as the editing and story-telling in Ed Wood was reminscent of the old style, it is refreshing and very much watchable (as opposed to the 'edgy' sort of modern editing) and seemed to fit the subject matter better.

I think The Great Dictator was chosen as a turning point because it marked the beginning of Chaplin's decline. The irony was evident in Chaplin's pointing out a great evil and the forthcoming war and being spat upon for it. It was an adaption of reality to the story-telling needs of the movie. There might have been a better choice.

Unfortunately, I expect it to be a box office failure as well - which is not the same thing as expecting it to be bad. Simply, audiences seldom if ever take to concepts like this. The Rocketeer was not quite the same thing, I think, in that it was not an alternate universe created from whole cloth but an extremely clever homage to the real pop culture of that period, set in the real world.

BTW, if anyone ever gets hold of a good copy of the original Rocketeer comic and wishes to sell it, please keep me in mind! I'd love to finally see it.

What I'm seeing in the trailers for Sky Captain is a film of great visual artistry and some very hammy dailog and acting that is either an exuberant and deliberate expression of love for the serials of old or was written by someone oblivious to the corniness of it all. Witty or hamhanded? We shall see. I look forward to finding out.

It is the first all digital movie, so they say. I 'll have to see it just for that. However, it seems that the more Productions worry about special effects the less time they have to work on the script. The first star wars had no budget so Lucas had to use script, while lately it is full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

just from the ads, i think its going to be a bomb. remember the big budget rocketman movie, and how the crowd stayed away in droves?
Rocketman (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120029/), there's one I missed. Sadly, no DVD yet. ;)

Burning out his fuse up there alone?


Jeff, I have all the Rocketeer comics (I hope). And no, theyre' MINE! ALL MINE!!!! I just wish Dave Stevens had finished the damn story before giving up.

More stevens art here:
http://www.davestevens.com/

http://www.davestevens.com/img/art/zoom/bpspicyadv.jpg

Check out the bulletin board on SKY CAPTAIN on IMDB.com. There are people who just don't get the movie ("If it's set in the '30s, why are there giant robots?" :rolleyes: ), and they seem to have a surprisingly hostile reaction to it. I have a feeling the movie's popularity with be narrow but deep.
Don't forget, though, that you're much more likely to read complaints than praise about anything online.

Qapla'

SSB

It is the first all digital movie, so they say.They need to check their resources more diligently. What exactly are they refering to when they say "all digital"? On the format it's shot? Nope. SW:TPM was shot on digital tape. The "reality" you see on screen? Nope. What about "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within"? There were no humans in that movie. Heck, you could even go as far back as Toy Story! No humans in that either. They need to be more specific.

The Phantom Menace was actually shot on film and scanned. Only selected scenes shot on digital HD video.

<< Not only for the GeeBees (more than actually ever existed!) >>

Actually, SOME of the Gee-Bee's were missing. The "Z" was gone by about 1931-2, and the R1 & R2 were both crashed, but several "Y" and "E" types were around, and an R1-R2 was in Mexico. Gimme a Monocoupe 110 Special, or Travel-Aire Mystery "R", or even a Hall Bulldog - Cool looking but stink-o performance.

Ah, but I'm talking specifically about Cliff's Gee Bee Z in the film. There was only ever ONE GBZ which had a well-documented ownership and career. Cliff flies a GBZ in Rocketeer - which he claims they built from scratch despite it being identically marked to the real one. So that's TWO GBZs in existance as the movie starts. Then Hughs gives him a new blue GBZ at the end of the film. That makes three times as many GBZs as ever existed. See what I'm sayin'.

So you're saying that a movie about a guy with a rocketpack, a beautiful girlfriend, and nazi spies, might not be technically accurate.

I'm also pretty sure the LAND part of the HOLLYWOODLAND sign wasn't destroyed in a zeppelin crash. And I can't find a listing for "Neville Sinclair" on IMDB, despite the fact he was supposedly a big movie star at the time.

^These are some of the details I love about this movie, though. There was a book that came out a couple of years before the movie that claimed Errol Flynn was a Nazi spy. The inclusion of "The Creeper" character who was made up to look exactly like Rondo Hatton was brilliant. Even the animated propaganda film showing an army of Nazi Rocketmen invading the U.S. was spot on.

So you're saying that a movie about a guy with a rocketpack, a beautiful girlfriend, and nazi spies, might not be technically accurate.
EXACTLY! :lol:
Hey, it may be fiction, but it lives in our world. I also fault Independence Day for using a squadron B-2 bombers before the second one was actually built, and The Hulk for using operational Comanche helicopters when there aren't any and never will be. It's all part of the suspension of disbelief. I can buy the fiction of the experimental rocket pack's existance, but I KNOW there was only one Gee Bee Z.

That's nothin'. Remember the cheapie "Hangar 18"? Space shuttle flight, a ufo on autopilot hits one of the astronauts on eva then crashes to Earth, the government cover up the ufo's existence by framing the other two astronauts for negligence on the colleague's death.

"Based on a true story". We didn't even have a shuttle that had left the atmosphere yet. Suspension of what, again?

"The Rocketeer" had the horrible luck of debuting the same week as "Terminator 2". Disney pretty much threw in the towel after the first week and didn't promote the film after that. "The Rocketeer" deserved better.

Let me throw some other titles at you then: "The Shadow", "The Phantom", "Dick Tracy"..... audiences really dont like that 30's/40's timeframe for their fantasy films......

i think their reaction is going to be the same as mine upon seeing the ads: "oh, cartoon classics again. ho hum". the novelty of computer animation wore off long ago.

it might not be as big of a bomb as "gigli", but i'll be very surprised if its not of similar megatonnage