# Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 29, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726 "2004-05-29T23:49:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/61 "2004-06-03T08:10:26Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Three words: Jennifer Connelly naked.
Surely that would be asking for one word? We already have “Jennifer Connelly”.
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### Author:  [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/62 "2004-06-03T11:39:13Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Three words: Jennifer Connelly naked.
Ok Tuckerfan this is insulting. I saw that movie the year it was released (I think it was 1990). True, I was just 9 years old, but I can’t remember Jennifer Connely naked, I would remember that kind of thing even if I saw the movie in a drug induced coma. Besides it was a Disney movie, Donald the duck would never expose a “priest helper” (how do you say monaguillo in english) like me to nakedness. In other words, cite? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/63 "2004-06-03T12:26:47Z")
> [@Estilicon](#):
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> In other words, cite?
He was saying that was the only thing that would have made the movie better, not that it happened.
> [@Estilicon](#):
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> “priest helper” (how do you say monaguillo in english)
“Plaintiff.” :eek:
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/64 "2004-06-03T13:24:35Z")
> [@Estilicon](#):
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> Ok Tuckerfan this is insulting. I saw that movie the year it was released (I think it was 1990). True, I was just 9 years old, but I can’t remember Jennifer Connely naked, I would remember that kind of thing even if I saw the movie in a drug induced coma.
Someone asked what more you could want. Tuckerfan answered with something more he could want. Does that not suggest to you that the movie _doesn’t_ have naked Jennifer Connelly?
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### Author:  [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/65 "2004-06-03T13:51:04Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#):
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> So was _Citizen Kane_!
As was _Donnie Darko_.
_bamf_
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### Author:  [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/66 "2004-06-03T13:55:20Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Three words: Jennifer Connelly naked.
You could watch _Requiem for a Dream_, if that’s what you’re looking for. If you’re in therapy or on medication for depression, however, please forgo that experience.
_bamf_
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/67 "2004-06-03T13:56:29Z")
Or if you have any desire to retain a positive outlook in life.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/68 "2004-06-03T15:46:27Z")
> [@Shirt Ninja 13](#):
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> You could watch _Requiem for a Dream_, if that’s what you’re looking for.
She’s appeared naked in several other films, and in most of them the scenes aren’t intercut with a guy having his arm graphically amputated.
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/69 "2004-06-03T16:07:15Z")
**Pizzabrat** You’ve never seen Buster Crab as Flash Gordon? You’ve never thrilled to Commander Cody fighting Radar Men from the moon?
**Shirt Ninja**
Y’know, some of us _liked_ Donnie Darko.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/70 "2004-06-03T16:25:17Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> **Shirt Ninja**
> Y’know, some of us _liked_ Donnie Darko.
Well, yeah, dude. That’s why he’s putting it on the Kane side of Kane vs Manos - although personally I wouldn’t put Kane on the Kane side.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/71 "2004-06-03T17:36:42Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> **Pizzabrat** You’ve never seen Buster Crab as Flash Gordon? You’ve never thrilled to Commander Cody fighting Radar Men from the moon?
**Pizzabrat** may not, but I’ve seen them, **and** _Zombies Of The Stratosphere_, **and** _Captain America_, **and** _Zorro’s Fighting Legion_, **and** my all-time Republic Favorite…
_Radio Ranch–AKA The Phantom Empire_
starring Gene Autry!
Cowboys & ray guns–ya gotta love it! GO GENE! GET THEM SUBTERRAINIAN OWLHOOTS!! YEE-HA! 🆒
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/72 "2004-06-03T18:00:02Z")
> [@Estilicon](#):
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> a “priest helper” (how do you say monaguillo in english)
Probably Altar Boy.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/73 "2004-06-03T18:16:53Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> **Pizzabrat** You’ve never seen Buster Crab as Flash Gordon? You’ve never thrilled to Commander Cody fighting Radar Men from the moon?
Buster Crab sounds like a character from _The Little Mermaid_. I think you mean [\*\*Buster Crabbe](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185568/)\*\*.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/74 "2004-06-04T00:21:21Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#):
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> …no. ☹
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you don’t read the thread before posting to it.
> [@The OP](#):
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> A full-length motion picture tribute to the Republic Science Fiction thriller serials!
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/75 "2004-06-04T01:04:52Z")
So I finished the novelization. The robot invasion of New York is over in about the first third. The rest has Sky Captain and Polly racing against the clock to find Dr. Totenkopf’s hidden lair before his fiendish plot results in the destruction of the Earth.
Pretty cool. Dr. Totenkopf’s super-science isn’t limited to cybernetics; exotic locations and untrustworthy minions, but no autogyro. Bah.
There is a hand-held Sonic Atomizer which acts a lot like a 1930s Style Death-Ray, so it’s not a total washout.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/247726/76 "2004-06-04T14:19:07Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> So I finished the novelization.
So, you posted unprotected spoilers. Thanks, dude.
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