Sky Captain/World of tomorrow - just some comments.
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Thursday, September 16, 2004 05:25
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Ok, who here has heard of this flick coming out in a couple of days? Has some big names, set in the 1930's, has a decent promo campaign going on here, AND a pretty neat web site to promote the movie... www.skycaptain.com ( man, that seems awfully blasphemous....hmmm ) Some of my views:
First, what is the studio ( Paramont, I think ) thinking about releasing a movie like this in Sept. It looks more like a summer fantasy/action pic, and here it gets released AFTER Labor Day here in the States.
Second, with no great,wide spread recognition for Sky Captain, would it be reasonable to compare this movie to our own BDM ?
I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that, from what I hear, 'versal is going to aim at trying to get folks who know little or nothing about Firefly - the t.v. show and make Serenity a movie that stands alone, kinda sorta like Sky Captain. If anyone's seen the previews for Sky Capt, how do you think they'll compare to what we'll see for Serenity
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Personally, I can't wait to see this film, been waiting for it for over a year.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Second, with no great,wide spread recognition for Sky Captain, would it be reasonable to compare this movie to our own BDM ?
If anyone's seen the previews for Sky Capt, how do you think they'll compare to what we'll see for Serenity
I don't see these two very different movies appealing to the same audience at all.
From what I've seen of the ads for Sky Captain it is a bunch of big name stars in a slick 'arty' 1940's version of the future...
frankly it looks so weird in the previews that I was going to have to wait several weeks to see what the word-of-mouth is before sitting thru 2 hours of what could be incredibly lame foolishness.
Of course Universal hasn't started to advertise Serenity, so we don't know how it will be presented...I hope they will play up the humor and action...
When Star Wars was first released in 1977 it was something new and different, no one knew who the 'stars' were or who the director was...
I guess I'm not making much sense here...
no one has a crystal ball
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embers wrote:
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 16:09
From what I've seen of the ads for Sky Captain it is a bunch of big name stars in a slick 'arty' 1940's version of the future...
frankly it looks so weird in the previews that I was going to have to wait several weeks to see what the word-of-mouth is before sitting thru 2 hours of what could be incredibly lame foolishness.
Well, I'm not trying to compare the 2 directly in the sense that they'll be confused w/ one another. I guess the BDM can be viewed in more of a Star Wars sense, and not for the artsy special effects that is so evident in 'Sky Captain .. '. Reading the rewviews for Sky Captain, it got very good marks for its acting and visuals. It did get a 9/10 rating , while another review called it the next Van Helsing. Go figure.
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I saw a preview screening of Sky Captain the other night.
My verdict: GO SEE THIS MOVIE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
If you have any love whatsoever for old classic sci-fi and adventure movies, you'll love this film. It's a gorgeous, stylish, fun movie that's packed with little easter eggs for fans of old movies, and it's the kind of thing I would have gone nuts over when I was a kid and I would have driven my parents crazy with requests for all the cool toys (which don't seem to exist yet).
Help this movie take over the box office this weekend -- go see it!!
John Bridges
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You are comparing apples and oranges. The are NO similarities whatsoever.
There are 2 stories going around regarding the delay:
Sky Captain was originally slated to be released the same time as Spider Man 2-The realease date was changed because they knew that no movie could compete with that.
The other being that they still had more work to do on the special effects.
Its that simple.
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I'm looking forward to it; it looks like a Captain Proton movie.
(Pity they couldn't get Robert Duncan Macneill to star. . .) 
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Count me in on the "I've been waiting to see this movie for months" group. It looks like a hoot, I have to say! As far as the big-name stars go, it's probably a case of no studios being likely to fund the incredible amount of CGI and other spfx UNLESS there were big names attached.
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I'm not really interested. As far as pure green screen movies go, the only one I really wanna see is Sin City.
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I would like to see Sky Captin, though I am much more excited about seeing a Japanese movie named Casshern (see trailer here http://www.casshern.com ) that looks similar to Sky Captin but has more of an anime style. Of course the BDM has the most excitement going for it for me 
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