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Sky Captain and the Something of Something
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:46 am
by pinback
Extremely excellent and fun. Escapist entertainment at its purest and most enjoyable. A bit of confusing editing toward the end, as well as Jude Law being the wrong choice for the Captain are the only blemishes in a rollicking joyride of a good time! Every action cliche of all time included, but it's done with such a sense of glee and awesomeness that you're almost happy to see it.
***1/2 (three and a half ***1/2s.)
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:39 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Come on... this can't be any good. Nobody cares about retro airplane movies and just because Angelina Jolie is in it, it doesn't mean that you have to actually pretend to like it, you disgusting pervert.
Plus. Plus!! Jude Law AND Gwenthy Paltrow? Matthew McConaughey and Robin Williams were going to be in it until aliens from another world told the director that they'd have to put us out of our misery if any cast got to be that annoying. Hell they were debating on Kraktos as to whether or not to get involved with human politicks with Paltrow and Law.
There's no way this can be above one star. I refuse to admit it. I could see it and if I liked it I'd lie. Fuck you and fuck this review.
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:40 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
OK, I spelled Paltrow's name wrong. I'd like to say I care about that and that I respect the person enough to spell their name right after a lifetime of not having the same afforded to me, but I don't.
Zero out of five stars.
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:05 pm
by Roody_Yogurt
I saw this movie a couple months ago. At first, I thought the style of the film distanced me from the characters and plot. As the film progressed, though, bits of dialogue would catch me and I couldn't help think, "Hmmm, that sounded pleasantly odd." Eventually I had the revelation that wow, yeah, something really fun is going on here, and the film's ending nailed down that point.
So, yeah, I liked it.
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:59 pm
by bump chudder
yeah uhm.. but what about Schindler's List or Taxi Driver?
BUMP!
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:50 pm
by Lex
I haven't seen the film, but don't go YAWN at retro airplane shinanigans! Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge (not the vanilla "Crimson Skies" of yesteryear) is the best game on the Xbox for multiplay.
Next to mashed, but that's a multiple-system release.
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:48 pm
by pinback
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:There's no way this can be above one star. I refuse to admit it.
That's because you haven't seen Will Smith's cameo.
(Hundreds of flying robot monsters)
"Aw, HELL no." - W. Smith
Classic.
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:55 pm
by pinback
"Here. Enjoy this lavish feast!" - Babette
"Aw, HELL no." - W. Smith.
"Look how they massacred my boy." - Don Corleone
"Aw, HELL no." - W. Smith.
"...Rosebud..." - C. Kane
"Aw, HELL no." - W. Smith
"I'm laughing at the superior intellect." - Tiberius
"Aw, HELL no." - W. Smith
"WSH will then look up the specified COM object's CLSID from the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive in the Windows Registry." - Windows 2000 Scripting Resource Kit
"Aw, HELL no." - W. Smith
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:20 am
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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STEVE-DAVE
(not looking up)
Well, well,well, Walt Did you see who
it is! The local celebrities. Quick -
get them to autograph one of their
books so we can sell it for triple
it's value.
WALT
I'm not that in need of fifteen cents
right now.
They snicker and high-five one another. Holden rolls his eyes.
BANKY
You guys operate the smallest, ladies'
bridge circle I've ever seen.
WALT
For your information, we're playing
Crimson Mystical Mages - an
overpower card game. Not that either
of you would give a shit about
something as advanced as this -
there are no dick or poopie jokes
involved.
BANKY
(to Holden)
I don't think they're fans.
WALT
No, we're not. You're both a couple
of fucking no talents that got lucky.
STEVE-DAVE
And obviously your handlers or hangers-
on convinced you that your first comic
was good which it was not it was
thoroughly mediocre with a few spiky
bits of dialogue. And when you get
your foot in the door of the business,
what do you do! You turn out a piece
of shit like Bluntman and Chronic.
WALT
Tell him, Steve-Dave.
STEVE-DAVE
(off comic)
Bluntman and Chronic. Pah.
What was that thing the little stoner
pulled on the villain in the last
issue!
WALT
The Stinky-palm.
STEVE-DAVE
Stinky-palm. You give comics a bad
name I tell all my customers not to
buy it, to spend their money on a real
comic book.
WALT
Fucking one hit wonder, dime-store
Frank Miller's.
STEVE-DAVE
This is the reality at Comic-Toast -
you're not going to get your ass
kissed here, because both me and Walt
think you suck.
WALT
And me.
STEVE-DAVE
I said that.
WILL SMITH
Aw, HELL no!
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:02 pm
by chris
I finally got around to seeing this movie.
The visuals were cool, and I liked the 1930s style of the film. However, the story sucked massive ass. To think they went to all the trouble of making an almost totally CGI movie and using a script like that makes me weep.
I give it 1.5 out of 4 stars.