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Greg Field November 02, 2009 12:53 2 Thumb-ups
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Bad movie / good design

SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (2004): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346156/

It's not a particularly good movie, but it looks fantastic. Features 1940s style and some cool dogfights, as well as plenty of robots. Trailer:

Also well worth 6 minutes of your time is the short that the movie was based on:

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(null) November 03, 2009 03:26 Flag

Yes, I'd agree with all this, Sky Captain is a great-looking film whatever you think of the plot, it's trying to do something different from other modern sci-fi.

(And the plot isn't THAT bad, it's a lot better than the new Star Wars films for example.)

Jani Salomaa November 02, 2009 14:05 Flag

Seppo - wow! Did Kerry Conran ever steal liberally from that cartoon! Robot design, camera angles, newspaper closeups... that's way beyond "being inspired by" or " honoring" the original. It's outrageous robbery.

Seppo Hiltunen November 02, 2009 13:30 Flag

The movie and it's style is derived perhaps from the comics films like Superman from the 40's.

There were robots and the streets of the cities looked quite similar in those animations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z9sMoaaCTY