SkyCaptainYou are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. On Tuesday Simon and I went to see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. And I really, really liked it. Which was a pleasant surprise. It's a well-made and entertaining pastiche of 30s and 40s science fiction about The Future. The characters are likeable and interesting, the dialogue is engaging and funny, and the giant robots are pretty. Simon didn't like it as much as I did. He is reading over my shoulder and complaining. Now he is complaining that I'm writing about him. He just said "This is getting horribly post-modern." Anyway, I recommend the movie. It is cool. Edit: Oh, and we saw I, Robot on DVD. Eh. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Overall I enjoyed it, although the dialogue was a bit dodgy in patches, and the "Logic is overrated! You need feeeeelings!" moral (as Simon put it) was irritating. Comment: Sky (by DrunkLove? on 2005-01-20 02:41:13)Didn't see Sky Captain when it came out over here - Roger was keen, but we never got around to it. Mind you, it has Gwyneth, who's usually not too bad. Oh, and say hi to Simon for me... Dunc Comment: Annoying female love interest (by FirstFallen? on 2005-01-20 08:50:24)The plot was good, the SFX soooo shiny, but the female characters sucked. Well, Gwyneth Paltrow's at least. She was useless, and irritating, and like "Oh, no, I broke a nail" kinda "heroine". Angelina Jolie, on the other hand, was her usual awesome kick-ass self. Mmmm, eyepatch. And Jude Law was, as usual, just delicious. There's a feast of Jude on at the moment, with Closer showing at Nouveau and another one on the commercial side that I forget. Yippee! :-D Comment: moohoohoovies (by d@vid on 2005-01-20 11:06:16)self-referentiality does not postmodernism make sky captain was a vastly superior pastiche to van helsing, which I loved, although that may be because VH was mostly an action movie with only a flavour of pastiche jo, I don't think gwyn was a break-a-nail heroine at all! she was certainly the protoganist, and a reporter who happened to be female (with a movie-long gag) I also saw I, Robot recently {eek} - crap CG, did you see the cars with no textures? {angry} (damn, no ill-looking smiley) nothing spectacularly original, but I thought it really did catch the spirit of the robot stories, see Dr Calvin's solution to a room full of potentially guilty robots, with the added twist of an actual homicide and associated wiseass detective I was surprised Will Smith didn't actually kiss Dr Calvin War of the Worlds! Hitchhiker's! Batman One! Serenity! |