My whiz-bang review for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is up in the usual place.
Didn't get to see Wimbledon, as it screened the same night as Sky Captain. It was an easy choice.
My review for John Sayles' disappointing latest, Silver City, should be up this weekend as well.
Oh my god, that movie was awesome. Several important comments:
1) As a filmmaker, you know you have hit a home run when a seven year old boy, who has been reasonably well trained in the etiquette of movie houses, stands up in the aisle of the theater and shouts OH NO, LADY, GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THAT GIANT ROBOT!
2) I think our military would be vastly improved by putting dominatrices in charge of it. I have no idea whose idea it was to not give Jolie a riding crop or swagger stick of some sort, but that person should be fired.
3) Speaking of Ms. Jolie, her beestung mouth appears to be deflating. This condition must be rectified immediately via infusions of collagen, stat, lest she look like Icarus' sister who, alas, flew too close to the sun with her wax lips.
4) Polly was an interesting sort of post-feminist spunky reporter character. She still does prototypical pulp female things (pouts over the attentions of the hero; screeches when menaced; generally does things that confirms girl-hatred in the hearts of small boys) yet she also does female hero things unique to a post-Friedan universe: decks bad guys, decks good guys, fails to devolve into a sex object.
5) Jude Law has the look of a Sky Captain, but he just doesn't project the right feel of a Sky Captain. He looks like instead of blasting giant robots out of the sky, he'd rather be agonizing about the ramifications of their invasion over a mochaccino at a poetry slam. He's just too frickin sensitive. Sky Captain can't be sensitive; that's not his job. That's why pulp heroes keep GURLS around!
6) Otherwise: wow. Awesome visuals. I loved the nods to Metropolis, King Kong, Godzilla, Frankenstein, Flash Gordon and Fu Manchu. Last night I watched The Italian Job and wanted to play a d20 Modern game; now I want to dig out Adventure! or Justice Inc. or something similar.
Saw it last month at a screening. Loved it! Will see it again. I don't disagree with the review at all.
OH NO, LADY, GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THAT GIANT ROBOT!
Curiously, I yelled the exact same thing. Only with a great deal more profanity.
Actually, I was waiting for Superman to take care of those giant robots.
The initial reviews (thanks, Pete!) are coming in for “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” and I am encouraged......
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This may be the first movie I take my son to where I am more excited about the movie than he is.
And that's not because of the Ilsa get-up, either. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it.