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Saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow last night, with two people who know the source material far too well. They will be reviewing it for Locus Online. I will just be saying a couple of fairly spoiler free things here.
First off, one of them said, at the end, "it was pretty swell, but it didn't transcend its source material like Indiana Jones did." To which I replied, pretty certain even without the encyclopedic knowledge of said source material my companions possessed, "I don't think it was trying to transcend its source material at all--" only to have that thought finished by my other companion, "--it was trying to be its source material."
My only other comment is that there should have been more Giovanni Ribisi and Angelina Jolie and less Gwyneth Paltrow, by which I mean more of Ribisi and Jolie's characters' and less of Paltrow's. There was a good amount of Jude Law, though there could easily have been more of him, but it's a PG movie.
A lot of the little set pieces were so predictable it was like waiting for the rest of the secret knock that everyone knows, but it was still, as quoted above, pretty swell.
First off, one of them said, at the end, "it was pretty swell, but it didn't transcend its source material like Indiana Jones did." To which I replied, pretty certain even without the encyclopedic knowledge of said source material my companions possessed, "I don't think it was trying to transcend its source material at all--" only to have that thought finished by my other companion, "--it was trying to be its source material."
My only other comment is that there should have been more Giovanni Ribisi and Angelina Jolie and less Gwyneth Paltrow, by which I mean more of Ribisi and Jolie's characters' and less of Paltrow's. There was a good amount of Jude Law, though there could easily have been more of him, but it's a PG movie.
A lot of the little set pieces were so predictable it was like waiting for the rest of the secret knock that everyone knows, but it was still, as quoted above, pretty swell.
