OT: Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow...

[General Woundwort]

I've seen the trailer twice in the theatres, and I still can't figure out WTH it's supposed to be about, or why I should spend $5-8 to go see it. The appeal of steampunk is lost on me. I'll just save the money for the extended edition of ROTK...

[Deathstalker]

Gotta admit though, after seeing Angela Jole in that military outfit she'd make a great Honor Harrington if they ever did an Honor movie

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Randallw:
Did you know the director of Sky captain is the same guy who wrote the software to do the background effects. It's supposed to be a new system where you just put together the movie and then stick the actors in where they are needed. I've seen a trailer for it, and personally I think it just looks like game cutscreens with known actors.

Just heard something on Glenn Beck this morning. Apparently, this guy was creating the movie one frame at a time at his own home in Michigan before some Hollywood producer saw it and bankrolled him. Apparently he had been working on this since the early 90's, and had only 6 minutes of movie done. But it was enough for this producer. He was moved to an off-Hollywood studio. The 6 minute film was shown to some actors, and Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow signed up. Sounds like another Hollywood success story, if only the movie lives up to the hype.

[Caduceus]

I must say I hadn't heard anything about Sky Captain until I saw the trailer in the theater a few months ago (along with Pitch Black's sequel). I was waiting after the first thirty seconds for someone to "snap out" of a dream sequence.

In regards to the theme musics, there are about ten or so pieces which you'll hear over and over again for various trailers, depending on the company releasing the picture. Over the Last few years, I've noticed a few recurrent ones:
Stargate - main theme
"Bishop's Countdown" from Aliens
The Patriot - theme

I'm sure you all know more too. But for the most part, it is a.) cheaper and b.) often the composer isn't involved at the point the trailer is released or he/she is working on the film and can't be troubled with a trailer.

Wildcard

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Deathstalker:
Gotta admit though, after seeing Angela Jole in that military outfit she'd make a great Honor Harrington if they ever did an Honor movie

i was thinking that to.

HH is tall, though, so they'd have to do some camera tricks because i'm pretty sure AJ is short.

Join the FAAA!

[dogscoff]

HH is tall, though, so they'd have to do some camera tricks because i'm pretty sure AJ is short.

Just make sure every actor cast alongside her is even shorter. And that the sets are built to 90% scale =-)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, they did a good job with that with lotr, but they only had a few really short characters played by short people. i think it might be impracticle to do the reverse.