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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not a magazine I have many issues of - but I did scan this Frank R. Paul cover a while ago:



Strange to think that, back in 1929, air travel was so strange and exotic...
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A film I should have loved but just like a lot.

The producer and studio turned what was to be a low budget film into a big wannabe tent-pole production which severely stressed the creator/director (who also said later that the studio's budget claims were false). Jude Law was enthusiastic and wanted to make whole series of SC films, which I would have liked if they were well done. Gwyneth Paltrow was okay as Polly, but I've never been a big fan of her acting.

The whole look of the color is really off-putting. I had more than a couple of people tell me they wouldn't watch the movie based on that alone Confused I watched it a couple of times in B&W mode on my TV and it looks much better (even watched it up-converted to 3D once Smile

The production design is great, as is the soundtrack, but it just misses the mark of being as much "fun" as I think it should be.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tmlindsey wrote:
I watched it a couple of times in B&W mode on my TV and it looks much better . . .

That was clever, Tim. The lack of rich colors and sharp focus were big turn-offs for me. A movie ought to either be in color or b&w, and this one was neither.

I'm a big supporter of good CGI, both when it's "stylized" or realistic. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow flubbed that, too. It was "lackluster" stylized, which meant it was like artwork that lacks imagination.

But there definitely were design elements I admired, as you pointed out.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, the creators said they never intended for it to be realistic CGI/real world looking. They were going for a Max Fleischer cartoon come to life kind of aesthetic. So in that respect they succeeded.

They did a good job mimicking the 3 strip technicolor look. Unfortunately, 3 strip technicolor looked like crap back-in-the-day, so no one was likely to respond well to it in the 21st century.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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A great comment, Tim! Very Happy

Actually though, I disagreed with your comment below. As an artist who LOVES rich color, I adore the three-strip Technicolor films from the 30s and 40s.

That's why I tend to pump up the color on the images I post on All Sci-Fi.

However, Sky Captain's color looked washed out — so, I disliked the movie. Did I misunderstand your comment?


tmlindsey wrote:
They did a good job mimicking the 3 strip technicolor look. Unfortunately, 3 strip technicolor looked like crap back-in-the-day, so no one was likely to respond well to it in the 21st century.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud, Tim maybe talking about the early Technicolor movies. Although I think that comes from how the color washes out with each copy that is not made from a Technicolor negative. Each generation loses clarity and color. Even non Technicolor movies can suffer from that problem.

When I saw "Doctor X" from 1932 I wasn't impressed with the color or the dark image. But after seeing photos from the restored version, I'm much more impressed and want to see THIS version.

Sky Captain was suppose to be in B&W, but the studio wanted it in color. I wonder if that had an impact on how vibrant the color could be rendered.

With so many movies being recorded with digital cameras, I wonder why no one has written software for the cameras to make the images look like 3-strip Technicolor.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Krel wrote:
Bud, Tim maybe talking about the early Technicolor movies. Although I think that comes from how the color washes out with each copy that is not made from a Technicolor negative. Each generation loses clarity and color. Even non Technicolor movies can suffer from that problem.

It sounds as if he's thinking of the earlier 2-color Technicolor process. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) was the last movie to use 2-strip Technicolor.

Strictly speaking, there was no such thing as a "Technicolor negative." The special, bulky Technicolor cameras recorded red, blue and green separations on black-and-white negative stock. Projection prints were struck using a dye-transfer process that gave beautiful, saturated colors. I've often said that real life should only look like Technicolor!


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

scotpens wrote:
It sounds as if he's thinking of the earlier 2-color Technicolor process. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) was the last movie to use 2-strip Technicolor.

You're right, Scotpens, that's what I was thinking of Smile
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