Hey, any movie with giant metal robots, P-40s, and dirigibles can’t be all bad.
Brian
Dirigables, or Zeppelins?
Zeppelins *are *dirigibles–but not all dirigibles are zeppelins.
Exploding airships! Giant Flying Killer Robot! Intrepid Aviators!
There is no way this can be bad.
Yes, there is. All they have to do is think exactly like you just did.
I’ve always suspected you of being a Dirigible-Sympathizer, & now I have ]i]proof*!!
Tell it to the FBI, my Inflatable Comrade! 
Heh, somehow I feel like I’m gaining insight into George Lucas’s mind. “My new movie has a pod race! And giant fish! And Jamaican aliens! And computer-generated aliens galore! There is no way this can be bad!” Of course there is. It could be a humongous cheese-fest.
True, it may be a cheese-fest, but one of the reasons I have high hopes for Sky Captain is because it appears that the filmmakers are actually playing it straight. And as bizarre as that sounds, I think it’s exactly the right way to go. Too often “retro” style movies tend to look down on their own source material and play it all tongue-in-cheek, as if to constantly remind the audience “We’re hip to this old-fashioned cheesiness, folks!”
One of the best things about the old cliffhanger serials was that, no matter how absurd things got, they always played it straight, as if the future of the galaxy really *did * depend on Flash defeating Ming, or whatever. Yes, there was humor, but not the *wink-wink, nudge-nudge * kind. That’s one of the reasons the Indiana Jones and the original Star Wars films succeed in capturing the old “serial feel” so well – while they have their share of humor, the films respect the characters and take the story seriously within their respective universes.
I’ve read that **Sky Captain ** does this as well, and that’s a good sign.
And maybe… Just maybe…
1920’s style death-rays!
::runs and hides!::
Bought the book today on my lunch break. If I get off the computer I might have it read tonight.
So far, as geektastic as I had hoped.
Under-delivered???
My God man…The Rocketeer had a Zeppelin, Gee-Bee racers, a Broomhandle Mauser, Nazis, Jennifer Connelly, and a bitchin’ autogyro.
What more could you ask for? (And don’t say “a plot”)
The world needs more autogyros…
Yes, the autogyro has a certain indefinable something that helicopters and planes lack.
Three words: Jennifer Connelly naked.
For some reason, the title of this movie reminds me of the pilot to Futurama.
Me too. I suspect this is because they draw from the same science fiction pulp and radio and film serial sources.
This movie could be either really great or really bad. I hope the former. All it needs is an autogyro and rocket packs. Not to mention some cool wrist radios.
Something inherently cool about 1930’s sci-fi. I don’t know why.
Yet another adaptation of existing material that has already found an audience counts as a “chance”?
Yes, that’s the point.
Oh God! :rolleyes: If you want a story, try the library. Movies’ main draw are MOVING PICTURES.
Look and feel of what old movies? Movies never looked like that before! They’re just wearing old-timey clothing. It’s called a period piece.
Yes, it does. It might not count as “originality,” but it still counts as a “chance.” A movie needs a significantly larger audience than a book to be successful, especially when it’s something as F/X intensive as this movie appears to be. It seems to me that the studio is taking a considerable risk in the assumption that, in scaling a book up to movie size, the interested audience will likewise scale up.
You don’t see a lot of movies, do you?
I assume you’ve never seen any of the old Republic serials? The name Flash Gordon ring a bell?
A period piece? Huh. Somehow, all the history classes I took managed to overlook the period in history where the Earth was invaded by giant robots.
…no. 