No it wasn't a fever dream: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) is real, and it's a great movie wrapped around pulp nostalgia.

I recently rediscovered Sky Captain, featuring Jude Law as a 1930s airplane mercenary superhero (typical), Gwyneth Patrow as a snarky, quick witted femme fatale reporter and Angelina Jolie as Nick Fury an eyepatched head of an international security organization based on a Helicarrier.

Join our dazziling adventurers as they face off against the mysterious and dreadfull Doctor Totenkopf and his army of murderous machines!

Seriously, the fact that they made a black and white pulp action movie heavily inspired by 1930s pulp radio with A-list stars is amazing. And what is more amazing is that IT WORKS! To quote Roger Ebert, who gave the movie 4 out of 4: " its heedless energy and joy, it reminded me of how I felt the first time I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way"

I highly recommend this bizarre piece of cinematic history. Fun all around.

Submitted March 14, 2021 at 11:30AM by Mervynhaspeaked https://ift.tt/3vpzoN0