Category: Cinema

Sky Cap­tain and The World of Tomor­row is just like most reviews you’ve read of it. 100% pulp. Grant­ed, it has that fan­boy­ish nos­tal­gia for the gold­en age of sci­ence fic­tion, and it works in the retroart­de­co hip­ness that has been pop­ping up late­ly, so pulp should be expect­ed. Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Bur­roughs don’t hold up so well in the 21st cen­tu­ry. Or more to the point, you can’t make a sci­ence fic­tion movie that hap­pens 70 years in the past.
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