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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
Screenwriting

Saw "Sky Captain"

I loved the visuals, but, man, did this movie meander. No sense of urgency in the characters no real feeling that they felt any real danger. And did Gwenneth Paltrow pull off a major "Affleck" or what? I think I know what she (and the director) were going for they just didn't pull it off. Can't someone take a look at a movie with this kind of budget and say, "Hey, we need a good script if we want this to work?"

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
  

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[nq:1]I loved the visuals, but, man, did this movie meander. No sense of urgency in the characters no real ... [/nq] Eventually, somebody is going to realize that even the most brilliant visuals, divorced from characters you care about and it's the story that makes you care about the characters you're never going to have a successful movie.

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  • [nq:1]I loved the visuals, but, man, did this movie meander.
  • No sense of urgency in the characters no real ...
  • [/nq] Eventually, somebody is going to realize that even the most brilliant visuals, divorced from characters you care about and it's the story that makes you care about the characters you're never going to have a successful movie.
  • Unless it's "Star Wars".
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[nq:1]I loved the visuals, but, man, did this movie meander. No sense of urgency in the characters no real ... in exactly that way as a series of more or less independent episodes and boy, does it show.[/nq]
Eventually, somebody is going to realize that even the most brilliant visuals, divorced from characters you care about and it's the story that makes you care about the characters yo
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[nq:1]From what I heard, this grew out of a project that began as a project modelled after the old serials and was structured in exactly that way as a series of more or less independent episodes and boy, does it show.[/nq]
That would make sense. That's definitely the way it came across.
[nq:1]Eventually, somebody is going to realize that even the most brilliant visuals, divorced from chara
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@reader1.panix.com:

V. Nilsen
"Yeah, that's right, or we'll tie you to a tree,
f*** you in the *** while we jerk you off!
That'll show you what we do to perverts around here!"
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After the first 2.5 minutes I began to snore, but fortunately my cat woke me up after an hour so I could focus again. Yet for some reason I don't remember the last half. I musta started snoring again. Oh well. No big loss.
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[nq:1]I loved the visuals, but, man, did this movie meander. No sense of urgency in the characters no real feeling that they felt any real danger. And did Gwenneth Paltrow pull off a major "Affleck" or what?[/nq]
I actually dozed off and missed a big chunk of the film...

The Runaway Bride...
She'll stage a kidnapping to avoid a wedding!
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[nq:1]No sense of urgency in the characters no real feeling that they felt any real danger.[/nq]
That was the main problem, and I think it comes from trying to mix film noir, which unfolds slowly, with action which usually has an easily understood goal early on. If they'd just explained the significance of the testubes at the beginning, that would have brought more urgency to the story. The DV
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[nq:1]The DVD has a really good 'making of' featurette that shows the potential of bluescreen.[/nq]
What's "bluescreen?"

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
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