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09/27/2004 Entry: "Sky Captain"
Luke McGuff (Anita and Luke) kindly offered to do some babysitting for us sometime after meeting grandson R----- at last month's Vanguard, and we took him up on it Saturday night. Glennha and Jack and I all went downtown to see Sky Captain (and traffic was hellacious due to closing of the Viaduct, accidents everywhere, and the UW football game) and left the child at Jane and Luke's place for a few hours. He was happy to see them, a good thing.
The movie was fun to look at! I was glad I'd made the effort to remain unspoiled ahead of time so most of the cool robots and gadgets were new to me. I was surprised that one of the secondary characters made it through the movie -- I'd said to myself when he first appeared, "Bet his real name is 'Be-gone Soon' like Liam Neeson in Episode 1." I didn't know that Lord Olivier appeared in the film, years after his death. Gwenyth Paltrow had the weakest part -- the spunkiness and smartness she should have had wasn't there in the script. Instead she was almost as annoying as Willie in Temple of Doom.
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Chas;
The thing about the camera film, which the movie never went into (but I am willing to bet was in the original script) is that they spent a condsiderable amount of time in a contaminated uranium mine at one point.
Can we say "All fogged up?"
Posted by Jack William Bell @ 09/28/2004 11:29 AM PST
Glad you enjoyed it. Adam (our 20-year old still-living-at-home son) and I trekked downtown for the noon show the day it opened. We found it to be vacuous but delicious fun - we didn't see as many holes as others have and don't have a particular "love" for any genre so weren't as disappointed as some - of course the burning question is why Gwenyth didn't simply rewind the film when she forgot to take off the lens cap? But - hey - it was the bargain matinee and we were amused.
Posted by Chas Redmond @ 09/27/2004 07:57 PM PST