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Just rented this. Fussbett is entirely correct in the ridiculousness far surpassing the point you can handle it anymore. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was actually a better "retro high tech" movie. Remember that horrible Venice sequence where every kind of logic went out the window and things just got progressively more silly: giant sub lurking through canals of Venice, city population of 100 gathered in one square, car driving past ten thousand henchmen scattered across ten miles of city, buildings all collapsing into each other in domino chain reaction, stopping the buildings by calculating one KEY building that can be destroyed to stop the domino effect and launching a radio guided cruise missile from the sub into it?
Sky Captain was the Venice scene the entire time, only less ugly and cheap looking. In between trying to "pay tribute to" (ripoff) as many scenes other adventure movies that you can think of, including Inidanda Jones's plane trips across maps, King Kong's island, and Star Wars' Darth Maul. The director gets bored with the stylized comicbook feel and just ditches it halfway in.
Something with these retro high tech movies though, they need to learn the difference between cool, ridiculous, and impossible beyond suspension of disbelief. I will buy a prototype car in 1899. I will not buy radio guided cruise missiles in the same period. I will buy a giant sub. I not buy wireless radio. I will buy helicarriers and giant robots in the 1930's, but not hover craft/platforms/robots, airplanes that convert to subs (and can survive the 300mph impact into water, as well as having room left over for grappling lines and a payload of sticky bombs), communicating via radio underwater (impossible), and a dozen other things.
Props though to Omid Djalili for playing nothing but the haggling mideastern merchant.
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow by Funkula 09/17/2004, 7:50pm PDT 
all of the previews for it look really fucking gay NT by whydirt 09/17/2004, 10:01pm PDT
Anguhuhuhglalughalina Jolughahguahie can make me feel gay anytime NT by Construction Site Guy 09/17/2004, 10:18pm PDT
Can I get a count of how often I'm going see her onscreen by the way? NT by Worm 09/18/2004, 12:13am PDT
A count of what? Will you never stop? by Chet 09/18/2004, 4:27am PDT
Re: A count of what? Will you never stop? by Worm 09/18/2004, 8:09am PDT
Re: A count of what? Will you never stop? by FoK 09/18/2004, 8:44am PDT
Platrow? by Dogface versus Angelina? You suck 09/18/2004, 9:01am PDT
Psh, more like Pwynneth Galtrow NT by Joseph Spooner 09/18/2004, 9:30am PDT
Attempting to rise above the frothing gay for a moment by Funkula 09/18/2004, 10:56am PDT
Jude Law :( by FABIO 09/18/2004, 5:13pm PDT
Re: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow by laudablepuss 09/20/2004, 1:51pm PDT
Terrible by Fussbett 09/26/2004, 4:40am PDT
You forgot to mention the part where the action scenes were boring by Rafiki 09/26/2004, 12:06pm PDT
nope, definately terrible by de facto FABIO 07/25/2005, 3:06am PDT
oh, and anyone who thinks it's the new star wars is utterly insane by de facto FABIO 07/25/2005, 3:08am PDT
Re: nope, definately terrible by Mysterio 07/25/2005, 6:58pm PDT
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