Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

[K]

Is the worst movie ever.

Seriously, it's horrible. It just went from one useless and meaningless plot point to another.

I mean, you know how usually when I see a movie I come in here, and make a post about how one little plot point bugged me.. this whole movie bugged me. Where to start?

Ok the lead flying robot thing is getting a command signal from somewhere, and then relays it to the other flying robots. Ok, cool.

Kipper, or whatever his name is, needs Sky Captain to stay close to the lead robot so he can trace where the master signal is coming from. Fine.

Kipper traces it to tibet, or wherever they go. Fine.

What do they find in tibet? Nothing.

Some old guy with uranium poisoning who happens to have a clue to where he's gone.

So where was the signal coming from?

Another thing that annoyed me, Sky Captain is fighting Darth Mau.... sorry, unnamed robot woman. Gwenyth knocks the bitch out cold, they get into the rocket with one second to spare and it blasts off and everyone forgets about her.

SUPRISE the robot actually apparently has wierd teleportation abilities and ends up inside the rocket. Duh.

Also, if he can condense the human genome into two small viles.... why did he need living samples of every animal?

Wouldn't the force of hitting water at about seventy miles an hour rip the wings from the fuselage?

If I was a crazy scientist building a big rocket, the first thing I would do would be to construct a big statue of me holding a sword for no reason.

Bullet holes in the plane? Don't worry about it, we'll be underwater soon where holes in the plane don't matter.

Sky Captain: How did you get away from your captors, an army of super intelligent robots

Kipper: We sneaked away when they wern't looking

Sky Captain: If only we knew how to shut down this rocket!

Kip: Well it just so happens I have some blue prints in my sock for no reason.

Gwenyth: I suffer from short term memory loss, so I need to keep reminding myself how many pictures I have left.

Edit:

Kip Or Sky or Someone: Once the rocket reaches 100km, the Earth will be incinerated

Everyone in the Cinema: How?

Kip Or Sky or Someone Don't ask stupid questions

If this mad scientist wanted to create a new Earth, exactly as it was... why does he need dinosaurs and giant chickens and tiny elephants?

Edited October 2, 2004 by Iwc

[SeanDMan]

Bwahahahahaha

It is a horrible movie, isn't it? :thumbsup:

[K]

why did the flying robots explode about ten feet above the surface of the water when Sky Captains plane dived in flawlessly?

[SeanDMan]

Not only that, he went almost straight down, that would have destroyed any plane in the world, never mind the fact that the hull was already shit with all the bullet holes in it.

[apsham]

Quit asking questions, you're ruining the alternate universe.

[Lowerdeck]

The previews looked like it was garbage. What in the hell was your motive of seeing this?

[Ananas]

Bah, I really enjoyed it. Whatever plot holes may exist are more than made up for with the exeptional visuals. A superb cast doesn't hurt either. It was an example of really good classical storytelling along the lines of Indiana Jones.

[Herr Matzat]

i knew all of this by ust whatching the trailer, therfore i never wasted my time on this pice o crap and am a lot cooler than IWC, to the math.

[K]

That guy didn't just compare Sky Captain to Indiana Jones did he?

[MalaCloudy Black]

Why I believe he did, Keith.

Blasphemous >_> !

[apsham]

Harrison Ford is spinning in his.... bed. May Indiana Jones 4 silence you.

[Guest Ringmaster]

Bah, I really enjoyed it. Whatever plot holes may exist are more than made up for with the exeptional visuals. A superb cast doesn't hurt either. It was an example of really good classical storytelling along the lines of Indiana Jones.

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[K]

Don't get me wrong, filiming an entire movie on a blue screen is an awesome concept, and most of it was a work of art...

It was just a shitty movie, with no plot, was inacurate, contradicted itself at every turn, and just generally made no sense whatsoever.

[Ananas]

First of all, I compared it to Indiana Jones in terms of its storytelling, not quality. Secondly, visuals are not the only thing this film has going for it, that's just the most obvious quality. The performances are superb, the dialogue was sharp, and the movie was well paced. To each his own though.

[K]

Aeroplane plunges into the ocean at about a hundren miles an hour. The propellors retract, three robots explode above the surface. What does Penny Pringle say?

"We're underwater"

Sharp dialogue at its most sharpy

[Ananas]

Aeroplane plunges into the ocean at about a hundren miles an hour. The propellors retract, three robots explode above the surface. What does Penny Pringle say?

"We're underwater"

Sharp dialogue at its most sharpy

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[K]

Actually my point above was that saying you're underwater, when it's plainly obvious that you're underwater is not sharp dialogue.

[punky]

I don't see why anyone would want to go see this movie in the first place. It's just like the Wild, Wild West where they're supposed to be in the past and they have freakin' robots and shit.

[Guest Ringmaster]

The dialogue was basically the writers trying to parody the 40s film noirs, but adding some sort of modern twist to them that made them a lot less appealling.

don't see why anyone would want to go see this movie in the first place. It's just like the Wild, Wild West where they're supposed to be in the past and they have freakin' robots and shit.

[SeanDMan]

I don't see why anyone would want to go see this movie in the first place. It's just like the Wild, Wild West where they're supposed to be in the past and they have freakin' robots and shit.

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Wild Wild West was pretty stupid, mass marketted Hollywood Shit.

But movies like this fit into a genre called Retro Future, where there is a retro element, the World War Two Zepplins and Planes, and clothes, and such, mixed in with a futurusitic element, in this case, the robots. It's a standard fare in post apocolypse, seeing a world revert back to old school, but with futuristic reminders of what was once before.

Still, it's not a very good movie.

[Guest John Cena]

It was painful, literally, for me to just watch the trailers. It just looked so bad, a bad comic, just bad. Good thing I didn't see it

[punky]

The dialogue was basically the writers trying to parody the 40s film noirs, but adding some sort of modern twist to them that made them a lot less appealling.

don't see why anyone would want to go see this movie in the first place. It's just like the Wild, Wild West where they're supposed to be in the past and they have freakin' robots and shit.

That's a bad reason not to see a movie. Suspension of belief > *.

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