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I spent much of my teen years in the '70s working in a pizza restaurant that continuously showed old movie serials for free. I probably saw "Flash Gordon," "Buck Rogers" and the Commando Cody serials a dozen times each. So the trailer to "Sky Captain" really interests me.
What's unusual about this flick is that it has a first-time director, and that just about all the sets as well as special effects were generated. The actors did all their work in front of blue screens. The cost was a "mere" $70 million, but it would have cost twice as much if they'd actually had to build something outside of the computer. Plus, I think that in visuals they've made a leap that fuses the comic book/animation reality with live action footage -- the film looks like neither one nor the other, but like a ultra-real animated comic novel. Even if the script is crap, I'm ready for this.
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