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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

I just saw this movie. It was fine. I wouldn't say it was great largely due to specifics in the film that ruin the effect. Here's a list of things that bothered me:

• Jude Law cheated on Gwenyth Paltrow?
• I'm not sure why he went out with her in the first place considering the fact that she's a whiney, manipulative hooker-lady.
• All of her film was ruined when they went into the uranium mine. So, all that fuss really was for nothing.
• The whole "old film" thing was totally superfluous and unnecessary, which made it really obnoxious that the film was so monochromatic and blurry.
• They tried to make it overblown but failed to hold that tack for the duration.

Personally, I love the stories about saving the world from a madman. I like it when the hero is so awesome you want to be him when the film is over. And his girlfriend is so awesome, too, that you want a girlfriend just like that when it's over. And the madman is SO mad that you hate anyone who even reminds you of that guy.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is not a film like that. I can't really tell if the makers are making fun of hero films or not, but they aren't able to pull it off successfully and the end result is a fair, but sometimes flat, imitation.