Rate Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

[Mark Plemmons]

I gave it a 5, maybe I could have made it an 6 but the movie just did not do much for me. I think it tryed to put too much into into it, from every pulp source and lost something.

Unfortunately, I had the same reaction (and vote). Although I have to say that Sky Captain's last line was excellent, and might even bump the movie up to a 7 or 8 by itself.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

finally found a movie worse than the D&D Movie.

Let's not get carried away.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

finally found a movie worse than the D&D Movie.

man this is more hokie than the Hokies of VT.

I am sad to say that I have seen a lot of movies that were worse than the D&D movie...

(The Flesheaters... They Saved Hitler's Brain...Invasion of the Starpeople...The Monolith Monsters...Wing Commander...The Deadly Mantis...Red Planet...Mission to Mars...Gog...The list I fear goes on...)

The Auld Grump

 

[Laurel]

Finally saw it last night

So what did you think?

I gave it a seven.

I thought they really pulled off the feel of a time gone by.
The coloring, the dorky little sayings, and the use of contrasting shadows and light.

What pushed it down for me was the acting. It wasn't academy awards performace, but it got the job done. And it had to be none to easy to work off bluescreens the entire time!

Did anyone else stay through the entire credits hoping there would be that one last zing?..... No?..... I guess we were the only ones.....

 

[Desdichado]

I am sad to say that I have seen a lot of movies that were worse than the D&D movie...

(The Flesheaters... They Saved Hitler's Brain...Invasion of the Starpeople...The Monolith Monsters...Wing Commander...The Deadly Mantis...Red Planet...Mission to Mars...Gog...The list I fear goes on...)

Well, what do you expect if you're gonna hang around B-movies...

Although I really enjoyed both Red Planet and Mission to Mars -- they were like the kind of old-fashioned hard science fiction I used to read a lot of as a kid.

 

[Desdichado]

Did anyone else stay through the entire credits hoping there would be that one last zing?..... No?..... I guess we were the only ones.....

Was there?

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Was there?

Nope. I waited around as well, but nothing.

I give it a 7. I really liked the visuals, but found the acting not up to the quality that these actors are usually at. I did enjoy finding the little in-jokes and references to other pulp and comic icons throughout the movie.

 

[Pielorinho]

I gave it an 8, although I could also have given it a 9. It was an imcomparable moviegoing experience to me; I think that if I'd seen Star Wars in its initial theater run, that might've given me the same feeling, the same desire to shout "Gee whiz!" at the screen over and over.

Complaining about the lack of characterization in a movie like this feels like complaining about the lack of ray guns in Garden State. All the same, the movie's sparkling dialog didn't sparkle quite as much as I would've liked, and Polly was far more annoying than necessary, and it wouldn't have totally broken genre conventions if the plot had hung together just a little bit better.

Fix these shortcomings, and I would've given it a 10.

Still and all, this was a flawed masterpiece of a movie IMO. And this Kerry Conran or whoever has a staggering vision, and I'll definitely be watching for his second movie.

Daniel

 

[Gomez]

Still and all, this was a flawed masterpiece of a movie IMO. And this Kerry Conran or whoever has a staggering vision, and I'll definitely be watching for his second movie.

Daniel

It looks like his second movie will be Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars! I cannot wait!

 

[Gomez]

I am sad to say that I have seen a lot of movies that were worse than the D&D movie...

(The Flesheaters... They Saved Hitler's Brain...Invasion of the Starpeople...The Monolith Monsters...Wing Commander...The Deadly Mantis...Red Planet...Mission to Mars...Gog...The list I fear goes on...)

The Auld Grump

Hey I liked The Monolith Monsters and The Deadly Mantis!