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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Year: 2004
Director: Kerry Conran
Rating: PG
Length: 106 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jude Law
Giovanni Ribisi
Michael Gambon
Bai Ling

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Closed Captioned
Gag Reel, Original Six Minute Film


Oh how I disliked this movie.... let me count the ways. 

Hey I like CGI and special effects as much as the next person but the entire movie?!?! The only thing that was real in the entire film was the actors and the clothes on their backs. Sure it's a sci-fi flick but it's hard to get into the moment with a digital backdrop throughout the duration.

Some of the technology was neat, like the invading war birds that flapped their wings and the floating 'carriers' adorned with the Union Jack were grand but then others robots of the invading forces looked like little more than giant toasters with arms and legs. 

I normally don't mind Gwyneth Paltrow but I hated her with a passion in this movie. I kept hoping that one of the giant robots would squash her Polly Perkins character and leave her as a bloody pulp of entrails! No such luck. Even the prospect of goggling Angelina Jolie was foiled as she might as well been wearing an Arabic hijab her body was so covered up.... even had a patch over one of her eyes!

I heard bad things about this movie so my expectations were low... apparently not low enough.

KC


Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on October 11th, 2010)

Casablanca, a review by Jon

1943
Casablanca
5 out of 5



There are two types of film fan in the world; those that need a synopsis of Casablanca, and those that do not. If you do, watch the film instead. You owe yourself that much.

(From Jon's Best Picture Oscar Marathon on February 7th, 2009)

Babylon 5: Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: A Psi Cop trainee kills his roommate and escapes to Babylon 5. Bester and two other trainees pursue and try to capture him.

My opinion: This whole episode was being told from the Psi Corps' point of view, most prominently from Bester's view. They even changed the intro for this episode and put the Psi Corps sign on the back end of the station. This episode was quite interesting but it showed egain, how ruthless the Psi Corps is and how both sides don't see each other as the same race (homo sapiens vs. homo superior)


Synopsis: Delenn secretly orders Lennier to gather proof that the Centauri are behind the attacks. For this he takes a post upon a White Star ship as a Ranger trainee (which he in fact is). But to find this evidence he has to take an enormous risk. Meanwhile Londo offers the post of the Centauri Ambassador to Vir Cotto when Londo decides that Vir is ready.

My opinion: It was great to see Vir getting enraged like that. I also liked the reluctance with which G'Kar sees himself as some religious leader, especially when he's asked "What is the Truth?" and "What is God?".


Synopsis: Lennier has picked up on a trail, but he is alone in his fighter and the chances of being found and coming out of this alive are small. But finally he finds the proof that he was looking for. Meanwhile Londo is fed up with the information that the Alliance Council will falsely blame the Centauri for the attacks.

My opinion: If Londo only knew what he was going into. It was interesting to see whether or not Lennier would make it out alive, there are only a few episodes left and they could've easily killed him. But they haven't - yet.


Synopsis: A Council meeting is held and all the evidence against the Centauri is presented. The Alliance decides to build up a blockade on all jump points into Alliance space. As a consequence the Centauri who still deny of being responsible resign from the Alliance and send warships along their transporters. Sheridan tries to prevent a shooting war but he relies on a person that has become unreliable.

My opninion: Michael screwed it up badly this time. He may have prevented that encounter but he was too drunk and now there's war again. In the new Rambo movie there is a line said by him that was supposedly cut: "Old men start wars. Young men fight in them. And all others get killed. War is natural. Peace is an accident. We are animals." Unfortunatly that seems to be true and it saddens me.

(From Babylon 5: Marathon on February 2nd, 2008)