Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow *spoilers*

[Maxwell]

It definately would, but they might have run out of budget.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Eh. Then maybe they could have cut Angelina Jolie and used someone else who would be more worth the salary.

[Dex1138]

There's no arguing more dogfighting almost anywhere in the movie wouldn't have been worth it. I suppose if it'd been Sky Captain and His Crack Pilot Corp there would have been. Who knows, maybe there was but it got cut from the final film?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

if you buy the DVD (when it comes out) you let me know if it's in the cut scenes. If so, I'll consider buying it myself.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I went and saw the movie today. I enjoyed it.

How much was cut out of it? Last week I saw a thing on TV talking about the making of, and it said there was (and showed some clips of) a whole movie done ahead of time in stick figures so that the actors would know where to move for each scene on the bluescreen. Sounded like the story was a pretty complete entity. The stick figure version would be a pretty cool extra for the DVD.

I don't really have many movies to compare this to. Flash Gordon comes to mind. Anything else? I haven't really seen any 40s flicks like the serials my Mom watched as a kid, except for some things on MST3K.

[Dex1138]

Don't know if there were an cut parts, we were just theorizing why they didn't scramble some planes when the wing-flappers attacked the base.
And for other movies, I'd recommend Disney's Rocketeer, which is IMO the best recent "pulp era" type movie. The Shadow & The Phantom weren't all bad either.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

actually, the Phantom was pretty bad.

[EUOL]

The Shadow is one of my favorites from this genre.  Terrible career choice for Baldwin, but a fun flick.

[Master Xaio]

The Phantom comic books were very good.  The Phantom movie was.... ok, not terrible not brilliant.  A fairly mainstream movie.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Ah, okay, Rocketeer. Yeah, that was definitely better than Sky Captain, and definitely the same genre.

[Nicadymus]

I was asked to try and define pulp fiction.  Can anyone give me a "clear" definition?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

pulp fiction is fiction like unto the fiction that typically showed up in science fiction and comics of hte 'pulp' era. The pulp era is so named because of the inexpensive, pulpy paper that was used for magazines in the early 20th century. There was a LOT of science fiction that featured science not necessarily well iresearched (though some of it was). Often they would ignore inconvenient scientific principles. Focus was on action/adventure and usually featured characters that young, socially awkward readers could identify with. These characters would become something that filled the reader's power fantasies. Emphasis was on "cool" and "not seen before." Obviously, good examples include Flash Gordon, Indiana Jones, and Sky Captain (though two of these appear well after the standard "pulp era" is over).

[Dex1138]

Check out Pulp Zone and Pulp.Net.

[Dex1138]

Back from the dead due to DVD release yesterday

Even though it's a "Collector's Edition" it fells kinda light. I've been told Wal-Mart's version is packed with an extra disc with some kind of documentary on it.
The menus definatley fit in theme-wise but they're nothing too exciting. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the Star Wars dvd menus.
Has 2 deleted scenes which were not very interesting, IMO. And one of them was unfinished blue screen and animatics.
The behind the scenes/making of documentary stuff is great, but I'm a geek like that and will usually eat that up. It's interesting to see how they went from a 6 minute short (included on dvd) to getting top name actors and a budget.
And fyi: it does come in wide and full screen formats, so check it before you get it.

Seeing it again makes me sad that it didn't do so well in the theatres. I was really hoping this was going to kickstart a new generation of (good) pulp inspired movies.

[Skar]

I'm sure it would have if it had been "good"  But it wasn't.  I found it pretty painful, and I like pulp.