Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - Deep Dive

[@Vespuchian]

Oh man, I remember unironically loving this movie when I saw it with friends in theatres. The unashamed 'Film Noir Silent Film, but in colour and with sound' retro-future vibe was just so idiosyncratic and unlike anything else in theatres at the time it didn't matter that the movie itself wasn't actually that good. We all loved it for being ambitiously bizarre, like they wanted to make _The Rocketeer_ by way of Max Fleischer's _Superman_ cartoons but couldn't get the licensing so they just made their own version and went ham with it.

[@davidbriseno4364]

Don't you just love it when a group of gen-xyz sit around and bad mouth a movie that's 110% better than their clothes and haircuts. This genre was a norm and delightful to those of us that grew up and watched these movies. I lost interest in Star Wars midway through the first 30 minutes. Granted, one thing they agreed on was not caring to talk about someone's pregnancy of one of these new gen potatoes. What I find hard to believe, WTF would subscribe to their Patreon page? They forget that the movie is not reality based, it's fictional, try to get that through your cognition.

[@DaveNarn]

The better story is the making of Sky Captain. Fresh out of film school Kerry Conran with his brother continue working on this project that eventually takes on a life of it’s own and devours him. A stroke of luck sees the film picked up by a producer. Suddenly Kerry's student film project has three ‘A’ list film stars and the backing of a major studio, but only if Kerry himself directs it. He says his first instinct was to run, screaming as far away as possible. The cast take him under their wing and help him to complete his dream.

[@Duiker36]

That's... actually genuinely delightful. I feel bad for the guy that it wasn't a launching point for a real career.

[@chibisven]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is legit one of my favorite films. I LOVE diesel punk and anything that looks like a WW2 recruitment poster. The entire heli-carrier Angelina Jolie section is the absolute definition of my aesthetic. I so completely wish that there was more stuff like Sky Captain.

[@RosieG9012]

I had no idea sky captain was thought of as a “bad film.” I haven’t seen it since it came out, but I remember really liking it

[@lakotagrywlf]

My high school friends game me SO MUCH SHIT for liking this movie and defending it.

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

I spent much of my misspent youth at the Musee du Cinema in Brussels. I unironically love this movie because it reminds me of sitting in the dark watching some obscure film that I hadn't heard of before and haven't seen since. Sin City was much later.

[@PrimevilKneivel]

@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 Sin City was made by someone who had more experience and therefore understood the medium better. It's tricky to put live action actors in a fully/mostly virtual world. There are so many things that need to planned for, and those plans need to be flexible because sometimes it just doesn't look right when you have everyone in front of the camera. That's when you are spending $1000's pre minute and you need to make quick decisions. Experience will help you know when you can "fix it in post". Sky Captain was pushing the boundaries. As a working VFX artist at the time, I was impressed with what they were attempting, but I didn't expect them to succeed. Everything I read about the movie gave me the impression they had learned what was possible with VFX, but didn't really understand how difficult it is. It's hard. Watch any major VFX film's credit roll all the way through and try to count how many VFX artists there are spread across multiple studios. As as professional VFX artist I think it's the least important aspect of filmmaking. Don't ever use it as a reason to not like a movie.

[@garrettvinson3376]

At my school, the general take came together in someone's joke line 'Plot holes you could fly an aircraft carrier through' followed by cheers and/or posing

[@giascle]

This movie is the definition of swinging for the fences. While it's not completely successful, there's truly nothing else like it, and despite only seeing it one time when it came out I still remember the entire thing.

[@angusgibbins4954]

Sky Captain is my favourite movie of all time. It's always the first movie I watch when I get a new TV or bit of surround sound kit. I still remember the day I saw it at the cinema, it was my Star Wars moment.

[@xenocore01]

I loved this movie. The very last joke hit me so god damn hard in the theater. No reason for it to be that heavy, but i couldnt stop laughing to myself for the rest of the day.

[@timeodaneosetdona]

We often quote the second last joke in our lives when something goes wrong: “I shot the ground!”

[@BlairSlavin]

The movie was originally a short film on an apple computer. It was never meant to be a big movie but got picked up and expanded upon until it became this incredible classic. (Haven’t watched the full review…but to me it is a classic) as the movie went on they got a bigger and bigger budget and the graphics got better.

[@pedrogarcia8706]

I think the reason it's such a busy movie is that it's trying to capture the plot and feel of an entire serial, which is normally 12 to 15 20-minute chapters, into like 2 hours. I also think they do explain the elephant right? All the animals in the ark are miniturized so they can fit them all. I think? It has been a while.

[@MajaBiana]

This is how I remember the tiny animal thing too.

[@yourineeven8457]

That was also my thought while watching this video. Only problem is that at the end the giraffes look like they are normal sized in the background. So maybe some people working on those didn't get the memo.

[@pedrogarcia8706]

@@yourineeven8457 I'm pretty sure they're small giraffes.

[@jamesrollins1122]

I have a soft nostalgic spot in my heart for Sky Captain cause I think I was about the right age (13) when it came out in 2004. It bridged the gap between Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with and classic Hollywood adventures I was discovering. It felt more mature than The Incredibles and was like a trailblazer in the use of blue screen, CGI heavy movies that came out in the 00s & beyond. I appreciated it for its sci-fi story at the time of release but now appreciate it for its visual references to 30s & 40s stories of various genres.

[@gurthangorcus]

It may not be a good movie, but it is the most movie! Thanks for doing a movie which I remember very fondly, but haven't actually seen since it came out; it seems more needlessly complex than I remember. Also congrats Zoe!

[@zoewells779]

Thank you so much!

[@DeviantOllam]

From the lucious and loving analysis of a film's narrative and visual execution and acting... To the dedicated and impassioned analysis of cookies... This heartwarming team consistently delivers better than mf-ing Domino's! 👍🥰👍

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Couldn't agree more, Dev. Glad to see you here too!😊👍

[@DeviantOllam]

@@MichaelBerthelsen I never miss anything that Mikey puts out... He and his friends give my insides all of the happy feelings. ☺️

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

@@DeviantOllam 100% agree, such nice people, such fun content.❤👍

[@BlueInkAlchemy]

The best things about this wonderful episode of Deep Dive: Bronze: Revisiting Sky Captain & The World Of Tomorrow's pulpy goodness. Silver: "There's more chemistry between Frankie and her *eyepatch*!" Gold: Elisa's face journeys. They're always such a delight to behold. Honorable mention: "... Altitoad?" Stay healthy & hydrated, Zoe!

[@hollandscottthomas]

I watched this stoned at a drive-in when it released. We gave up about halfway through, turned the sound off, and narrated our own movie using these very same old-timey voices. It's only now, 18 years later, that I've actually learned what the real plot was. Thank you for your service.

[@PrimevilKneivel]

I'm fairly certain the heavy handed "color grade" was to cover the difficulty of chromakeying every shot. That was the deal when it came out, it was all green screen and a small crew making a virtual world. I do this same thing everyday and it's easy to underestimate how difficult it is. They started with this unreal visual style, and when the keys were too hard to clean they hid it in shadows and highlights.

[@groffmarr]

It reminded me of City of Lost Children

[@PrimevilKneivel]

Hmmm... That's one of my favorite movies, but I don't disagree you. Both have striking visual pallets set in an entirely fictitious world. It's been too long since I've seen either to make any other comparisons, but thank you for reminding me I should Watch City of Lost Children again

[@Nono-hk3is]

Such an under-appreciated film.

[@FellshardYT]

'... Lens Cap' - That was way funnier than it actually could have been.

[@johanprx7985]

I love this movie so much. I can watch it over and over again. It is just like those old black & white movies i used to watch but then added with CGI. Sadly a modern audience cannot truly appreciate it but i sure can. A wonderful movie with an incredible back story

[@bettyreads222]

"You've discovered time, it's delightful!" Lmaoo this is amazing, part 2 is so funny! Forgot how messy this movie is, haven't watched in so long. So glad Deep Dive is back!

[@batmenic365StopMotion]

That robot shot at 7:14 is straight out of the old Fleischer Superman cartoon "The Mechanical Monsters"

[@Mach1048]

I 100% agree with everything that all of you are saying. I also *love* this film. This movie also did totally change everything for film making.

[@moviesaredope]

My first FilmJoy Patreon video, I'm so excited! (Also, what an easy film to love)

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

Welcome to the club! :)

[@aikisteven0616]

LOVE this movie! The wardrobe, the retro-future tech, the ridiculous story line - it's all just so much fun. Also, Brotherhood of the Wolf is a great film - anytime you get to watch Mark Dacascos kick some butt is a good time to be had!

[@CaesiusX]

I always found the look of this film endearing. I had hoped for an _HP Lovecraft_ adaptation done in this same style, albeit cleaned up on the technical side.

[@Micsma]

that would be most excellent.

[@maximeteppe7627]

the HPL historical society did adapt call of cthulhu and the whisperer in darkness as pastiche black and white (and even silent film in the case of CoC) movies. I haven't watched them though so I don't know how successful they were. It was in the 2000's though so I'm quite scared at the level of amateurishness this might entail.

[@CaesiusX]

@@maximeteppe7627 As you should be, IMO.😏 I couldn't get through them the first time. One reason being, as you note, the time period in which they were attempted. *It shows.* But I also have an aversion to productions which scream _"fan film!"_ Particularly in the acting department. I did watch 2001's _"Dagon"_ all the way through. While I recall it had decent production value, I don't remember much else about it.🤷🏼‍♂️ 2005's _"The Call of Cthulhu"_ was a 46 minute silent film. At times I feel they came close to making it seem like a proper silent era film. Unfortunately, much of it still had a modern feel, given how it was shot and processed, as well as the use of young actors trying to look older. 2011's _"Whisperer in the Darkness"_ was a noble attempt, but IMO their use of black and white wasn't enough. It still looked too modern. Too fan-filmy. The aforementioned silent version of _"The Call of Cthulhu"_ did a better job of making it seem more like a period film. But that is just my take. Ultimately, I feel if they were made more like _"Sky Captain and the Something Something,"_ the strong comparisons to the classic films they tried to emulate wouldn't occur as much. I haven't seen these in a while, but recently added them to my video library (along with the anthology film, _"Necronomicon,"_ from 1993), as I plan on watching them again soon. I feel I should at least watch them in full. Btw, there's a 2007 [Japanese?] anthology film on KZbin¹ called _"H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror and Other Stories."_ Three stories are brought to life by animated clay puppets and miniatures. I only just discovered it as I was getting the dates for those I mentioned above. Be well! 🙋🏼‍♂️ ··•✺•·· ¹ ─ Uploaded by YT Channel: _Alae Mortis_

[@douglascampbell9809]

That would be amazing to see.

[@jayw559]

@@maximeteppe7627 it was awesome

[@rottensquid]

The missing piece of this puzzle is that the film was bigger and better than it had any right to be. Originally, the film was the product of one creator, Kerry Conran, who had just made a brilliant, unprecedented short film version on his own all in CGI. Not only did he design, build and animate the whole thing, he even wrote the unique renderer that created the film's soft-focus effect. He was a virtuoso, and the resulting short film was so good, he got the green light to turn it into a feature. But that meant hiring real actors instead of his CGI cartoon characters, which had been the weak point of his original. It also meant taking what had been a pastiche of 1930s pulp tropes and stretching it out to feature length script. And though Conran was brilliant at a huge number of things, he wasn't quite a master screenwriter. So the story became a kind of bare-bones tour of better stories from that bygone era. The cute little homage to those spicy 30s romantic couples like Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert became a thin, underwritten collection of cliches, without enough substance beneath it. In short, the problem of the film is that it was too good to be what it started out as, but not quite good enough to become what they turned it into. I think Conran would have benefitted from a partner who knew better how to make a feature film, who supported his vision and got out of its way, but who could have better picked up where Conran fell short. It's sad, because within this noble failure is the makings of a masterpiece, which we'll never see, unless someone with a vision sees the unrealized potential here and attempts a remake, or maybe a netflix series. I'd watch that.

[@ianwerkheiser1292]

I thought you were supposed to do bad movies? Sky Captain is a good movie that made a lot of other films that came after it possible. And it was an attempt to do something original not based on warmed-over IP. Love it!

[@james.b.mcgill]

You guys call it a bad movie but I legitimately enjoy it for what it is and what it's trying to do.

[@szabolcsmezei4088]

The ."..lens cap..." ending is what makes this a lasting experience...

[@YourEvilHenchman]

oh dear, what a tease at the end. you *have* to do brotherhood of the wolf next. it's a legitimately good movie with great production values (except for the aged CGI maybe) and a really slick look, especially in the costuming department, and a stellar cast of well-respected actors. it just also happens to be utterly batshit insane. it's honestly one of my favourite movies, and I'd love to see and hear your reactions to/thoughts on it.

[@nerdwiththehat]

This remains one of my all-time favourite and most-watched movies. The description of "it sure is The Most Movie!" fits really well with a lot of my favourite near-nonsense high-concept movies, from this to Pacific Rim (as I introduced my partner to it recently: "The robots punch with the power of LOVE!"). If you want me deeply invested in your movie, make it absolutely devoted to the crazy concept you came up with, and run with it as fast as you can before the executives catch you. Loved seeing y'all's reactions to this masterpiece!

[@Gudule3000]

Brotherhood of the wolf, is such an intresting movie in the landscape of french cinema, bc it's really difficult to produce fantasy movies like that here. And Christophe Gans has also an intresting story as a french director confronting the hollywood industrie when he direct Silent Hill

[@nessaanne6]

The first (and only) time I ever watched this movie was in high school on a bus in the middle of the night on the way back from a marching band competition. I was half asleep and could barely hear or see the movie. For YEARS I was convinced I hallucinated the entire thing because I had no idea what the movie was called, couldn't remember any of the actors in it, and every google search I did for "movie with blimp" was fruitless.

[@allisonhomiak2336]

I love Sam's old timey WWII radio announcer voice. Such a wonderful mix of "cheery" and "oddly fixated on violence." Give 'em hell, boys!

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

"Floppy planes" -- or flappy --- are known as ornithopters. I loved the organization is called Death Head.

[@drewjeers815]

I wish this movie had done better commercialy. It made a passionate effort to recreate the lost days of cinema and in my opinion it succeeded. It will probably always be in my top dozen sci-fi flicks.

[@MrMann0123]

I don't know why but I've always loved this.

[@FrumpybutSuperSmart]

How very dare you disparage the perfect disaster that is Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I really appreciate the perfect delirium line.

[@ocularpatdown]

Disaster? Spectacle!

[@Pixlriffs]

The visual treatment of the first half of this movie seems like the weirdest vaseline product placement. Omid Djalili is in this? I guess he'd just done The Mummy and Gladiator, so he's riding that blockbuster train. And I totally feel the 'cluttered homage' vibe. It's like they wanted to make a movie out of every book, short story, loose idea and scribbled margin note Jules Verne ever made.

[@SloyXP]

You just have to set your PS3 to "high" before playing the movie

[@deusteapot117]

I feel like the fact that you watch this channel really sheds new light on your Empires lore.

[@KaelenFalcon]

I'm so glad you guys did this one. I have watched this movie exactly 1 time and I have a distinct memory of loving the aesthetic and vibe so much. I also have never been able to recall a single plot point. Thank you for reminding me how wonderfully out of its goddamn mind this movie was.

[@thatguybrody4819]

that's something that never really made sense to me. everyone says the plot is either nowhere to be found or hard to follow but i found it easy to follow. it's not a straight line but the curves add to the experience. it also helps that i had the DVD and was able to watch it multiple times.

[@singularrookhart7501]

Looking forward to watching this. I knew that this wasn't a box office success, but I had no idea it was poorly regarded enough to warrant the loving arms of Deep Dive. Personally, I really enjoy this movie.

[@adamclary2867]

I did too! It always seemed like a loving homage to old pulp comics from the 40's.

[@AnInnocuousBlueCube]

This the movie that made me scream 'IS HAVING FUN A CRIME?!' when my friend and I started a sarcastic fake argument as a joke and then got... more invested than I planned.

[@Tensen01]

Yeah same. I loved this movie when it came out and have only recently discovered that apparently it's considered a bad movie? What the hell?

[@brya9681]

I really love this movie. and I all because of childhood nostalgia. my grandpa and I would watch 50s and 60s Sci fi films when I was a kid. and we watched the trailer for this but he passed away a month or so before it came out. so I saw it with my brother's who all hated it. I just always think about how much my grandpa would have loved it

[@codyt821]

I love this movie. A great love letter to pulp adventure. I will always champion it!

[@corbelius6]

Missed you folks SO MUCH, Thank youy for your content. MUCH LOVE!

[@Samaelthekind]

This was NEVER a BAD movie...but it was an inside homage...a love letter to a type of movie and story that come from a different time. Pulp fiction of the early 20th century is NOT everyone's thing. I love em cause my dad did...early Buck Rogers flicks and old Flash Gordon serials were in theaters when he was a little kid and could spare a nickel. Those were his early inspiration to become a pilot...which, many years later...he did, and flew the rest of his life, both in Air Force and privately. I always regretted he didn't live to see this made...I suspect he and I would have savored it. Alas, I watched it and could only think of him, wide eyed farm kid from the boonies of Michigan, dreaming of flight and heroism. At least he lived those dreams.

[@CheezyTime]

Teara, I love the captions you did on this one

[@TomWonderful]

I originally watched this movie on DVD, and having it at 480p really helps the visuals. It was an unironically fun movie to watch, if just for the novelty.

[@ididthisonpulpous6526]

I feel like this movie shares some traits with the 1980 Flash Gordon. They are both VERY loving homages to Pulp Era stories and storytelling. If you watch them without any affection for the inspiration they feel very disjointed. The thing is that the pulp stories were often hung together with the faintest of stories and the characters were pretty one dimensional archetypes. I dunno if you love the stuff it is very fun, if you don't than you don't get as much out of the experience.

[@tyrantravealpha]

Glad you're able to film this from your home. After the LUDICROUS year you guys had I am glad you are in a more comfortable space. Oh and Mikey you're looking good my man! Keep the content coming :)

[@bluesteve124]

If I remember correctly, the creators based the entire project on the opening clip that they took two years to make, at home, on their Mac.

[@not.applicable.]

Omg, I loved the idea of this movie when it came out.. the setting, the wardrobe, the sci-fi tech, the high contrast fuzziness and color grading (lol don't know why), the Angelina Jolie... it's a shame I was so thoroughly bored with the end result. Glad you guys are giving me a reason to reminisce on my high school days though lol.

[@ExhaustedElox]

I'm so glad you're doing this movie! I loved it when it came out because I love pulp movies.

[@dlvnmedia]

This is one of my absolute favorite movies so I am glad to see this here

[@NBCmotion]

Saw this in a theater on my 14th birthday. It was a perfect movie for a 14-year-old boy. The beginning robot sequence changed my life. But yeah, re-watching it at 30 is a different experience. Still nostalgic AF for me, but less magical in other ways.

[@gloriathomas3245]

While not totally perfect Sky Captain was a fantastic film and it's not everyday you see a film that started out as a hobby project and morph into something big. Overall despite being a commercial failure for Conran, the film is love-letter to fans of the of old pulp serials. It's quite even interesting how the film attracted the attention of both Lucas and Speilberg.

[@EmyriadGames]

I distinctly remember Sky Captain as the first movie I ever fell asleep to as a teenager. Nice to get a summary of the parts I missed?

[@mmac7314]

I’ve passed over this movie so many times… and after watching deep dive… i am still not sure i want to watch it lol but …… i had fun watching the gang talk about it!

[@thatguybrody4819]

trust me, it's worth it. i still have the DVD and watch it every now and then. it's one of the few movies that i can watch over and over again and never get tired of.

[@siristhedragon]

I feel like the small elephant thing was probably going to tie together with the ark as a sort of explanation as to how they could fit all the animals on it or something, but the scene where that would have paid off probably got cut or written out at some point for time or to attempt to improve the already dire pacing...

[@CheezyTime]

Yes! I love the Face McShooty cameo.....and the "we don't talk about Sanctuary II" reference.

[@bjarkisteinnpetursson9736]

I love the trope of super on the nose/evil German names. Totenkopf literally means Death’s Head. Almost as good as Roni Eimacher, the scientist from Chuck who created a prosthetic eye that… stored data? I may be remembering it wrong. I unironically love that show but man did it not age well 😂

[@zyonchaos1818]

I don't care how messy this film is plot wise, I still love it as much today as I did when it first came out!

[@musstakrakish]

I remember seeing this movie in theaters and was blown away by the visuals but having no freaken idea what was going on.

[@crazyquilt]

I wanted to love this movie so much when it came out. Technically adventurous, tremendous aesthetic, and a style I've always fancied. Instead, by the end of the movie, I felt like I'd been locked in a slave camp for six months and freedom was a blessing. As always, you do a great job of breaking it down. The similarity to Korra is pretty intriguing..

[@jmalmsten]

I think the tiny elephant is a throwaway reference to one of the old Universal horror films (can't remember which one right now) where a scientist is shown having a bunch of miniaturized creatures at the start and it was never mentioned or followed up on for the rest of the film.

[@ourkeving]

Someone up thread said it was the Bride of Frankenstein

[@jmalmsten]

@@ourkeving Ah that could be it

[@BigGahmBoss]

I had such a blast meeting Mike and Elisa at Pax

[@WizardWallis]

Commenting purely to say how much I love these vids!

[@moviesaredope]

25:15 this is probably the weirdest question, but: Elisa what was the roadmap from thinking about a baby elephant's possible name to a contemplative lip bite? Feels like an entire chapter of a Douglas Adams book could have fit in those 3 seconds 😂

[@ElisaRockDoc]

There was definitely a montage playing of me and Baby Whats-Its-Trunk hanging out and going on whimsical-ass adventures, for SURE

[@moviesaredope]

@@ElisaRockDoc that makes me so happy 😂 (and I wanna see that animated short in front of my next Disney film 🤞)

[@robertkendzie3]

I'm a big fan of this movie. Not generally known is the fact that the opening 10-15 minutes of this film were originally produced as a short film where all of the CGI was basically done a tricked out Mac by the director before anybody knew who he was. (I think it may have been his grad school project?) That's why the first part of the movie in new york looks so diffierent from the second half of the film - a lot of it was re-created from the original short film CGI work with the new A-list actors put into it. This was going to be the guy's big break, but the studio basically didn;t understand that this was supposed to be a ground breaking visual film and instead saw it as an experiment in making an action/FX film for cheap with the new technology they were developing. There were constant money problems, and IIRC the director wound up using his salary to give the budget a boost so that they could make the 2nd half of the film look better? It was a long time ago so I'm having a hard time remembering the details. I remember driving past the warehouse where they had set up the post production facility for this - they put a big Totenkopf symbol on the front. My basic overall recollection was that the studio got cold feet on this once production was underway and then started cutting corners, and then completely lost faith in the project, only put it in limited release for a week or so before pulling it. Such an ambitious project for a then unknown filmmaker, and my hat is forever off to him for really going for it when he had the chance.

[@tetsatou2815]

Regarding the robots, they're 100% a reference to the 1940s Superman cartoon.

[@P3achyPro]

If you want to see what Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow would look like if executed well, I couldn't recommend the following enough: Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still. It is a 7 episode anime drawing upon the works of a prominent manga author from the 1950's-1970's (Mitsuteru Yokoyama) and it captures the style and tone of pulpy scifi and adventure with aplomb. There are two English dubs, the newer of the two I wholeheartedly recommend as it captures the delightful (and slightly cheesy) melodrama excellently.

[@jessrl8025]

The only thing I remember about Sky Captain when it was being promoted was that they were able to use older footage and recreate Sir Laurence Olivier to be in the movie. There was a lot of debate as to whether or not that was moral to use his image like that without his permission

[@snorpenbass4196]

The whole movie is just a tribute to 1930's-40's serial films, from Commando Cody to Flash Gordon and the likes - the black and white, the setting being a weird 1940's vision of the next ten years, etcetera. Edit: Also, it's basically a shaggy dog story.

[@snorpenbass4196]

As for Brotherhood of the Wolf...more accurately it can be said that it's Soul Calibur: the Movie. Because some parts of it feel like backstory for Soul Calibur characters.

[@RachelMay1989]

Congratulations Zoe and Sam 💖

[@zoewells779]

Thank you!

[@FrostXFire]

Lovely video as always, Scooter! Hope you're feeling well :) Catch a riiiiiiiide!

[@malcontent79]

I'm not a Patreon subscriber but PLEASE do Brotherhood of the Wolf PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I've seen all of these movies and Brotherhood is by far the least bad (if memory serves, anyway lol. It's been a minute). Another delightful Deep Dive, always a pleasure - a joy, even. I remember loving the idea of Sky Captain and feeling more than a little put out by its execution. I'm pretty sure the tiny elephant was because all of the animals were being miniaturized so they'd all fit on the ark, by the way.

[@snappyskip9844]

Its not based on a graphic novel but the art style is inspired by the fleischer superman cartoons as well as the world's fair

[@Swishy_Blue]

Holy moly it's been a hot minute! love to see that upload!

[@sivosivo9019]

every time I see a new deep dive episode is up I drop EVERYTHING like I am so excited for this little show every damn time?? its insane. it sparks joy. I feel like theres pure crack in this series sometimes with how enjoyable and addictive it can be

[@thechiefphilistine1720]

I absolutely love this movie for all of it's nonsense. I Also loved watching you four trying to make sense of its nonsense.

[@jdarksun]

Yoooo Brotherhood of the Wolf, omg Love all your shows, this was another great one!

[@jasonhunter2819]

Never got why people had SUCH a problem with it, it looks like the modern grade version of the serials it was made in homage to. It's like...has no one ever seen old Buck Rogers stuff? This was just Buck Rogers and all its ilk done in 2004.

[@kaly7693]

I 100% REMEMBERED THIS MOVIE BEING IN BLACK AND WHITE. I think my brain rejected it? But I also remember liking it and do *not* remember this being the plot (except the tiny elephant is 10/10, I certainly remember that part). Congrats about the baby!

[@Valaron748]

I love this movie, I always have since it came out when I was 9 I just can't put into words what it is that makes it so appealing but it just pressed all the right buttons in my brain at the time and it now lives there rent free.

[@Asummersdaydreamer14]

Congrats to Zoe! Also, it’s nice to know that I wasn’t hallucinating that one movie where Angelina Jolie looks great in an eye patch.

[@charleselmore4707]

You guys are awesome.

[@locke325]

I honestly didn't know this was considered a "bad" movie and remember loving it when i had it on dvd, though in my defense i was young and havent watched it in more than a decade.

[@ocularpatdown]

This is one of my favorite movies!

[@_thomas1031]

Great to see you guys back!!!😭🙌🙌🙌

[@kristianfischer9814]

Oh, this film is so... This is a high level Deep Dive you're pulling off, gang.

[@BlaineTog]

This movie is so bad but I love it so much, and I will die on the hill of that final joke. That is one hell of a last line of any movie. Chef's kiss, could not have given us a better payoff.

[@goodial]

I watched it last year for the first time and loved it! Style is its substance for sure, but I just love that steampunk noir concept they were going for! There is a video by the Channel called Too Many Tapes who talks about the movie and also made it black and white (his vidoe shows some excerpts). It seems to work even better in black and white!

[@NobleAiiro]

Too Many Tapes take is phenomenal, I barely even subscribe to anyone, but I subscribed to his channel without second thought. I don't know why I had misfortune to pick this channel to watch another video. I regret coming here, deeply.

[@benkopczynski2190]

As a poor poor boy who can’t afford Patreon, thank y’all for all of this channel. It’s always great. Also, vote for the Guy Ritchie King Arthur. That movie deserves so much more love.

[@redbranchknight1059]

I unashamedly love this movie. If it's on I watch it.

[@zughoytim]

How can this movie I've never heard of be so completely filled with moviestars??? Such a weird film... thanks guys, great episode. And congrats ont the pregnancy!

[@malcontent79]

Most of these stars were just trembling on the cusp of The Big Time when this movie was made.

[@logosloki]

And you didn't even mention that the Dinosaurs were feathered. In 2004. Sure the idea of feathered therapods was more public back then but it wasn't exactly common.

[@alexandrasotak6838]

Tiny elephant’s name was definitely Peanut.

[@abemrofchak]

I have a big big big big bias about this movie because I saw it when I was 12/13. And I still love it because they so clearly had their way too many ideas and they WENT FOR THEM. And a lot of them don't work together but I will always give a movie that takes big wild swings infinitely more credit and respect.

[@GeminiTasiri]

Oh my lord I can't wait for the next episode, with that selection at the end...

[@ShelbyBaby27]

When I saw this in theaters it was much brighter and sharper. I watched it again recently and it's in need of a remastering

[@UnclePengy]

This is the Hindenberg III. NOT the original one that crashed and burned. This movie is set in an alternate timeline: The Nazis didn't come to power and so there was no WWII, and airship travel (with Germany leading the way) became the big thing.

[@reverance_pavane]

My prime take-away from this movie when I first saw it in the cinema was the intense desire to have Angelina Jolie (in almost the same uniform) play Honor Harrington in a live-action adaption of David Weber's SF series of the same name.

[@ocularpatdown]

I could have seen that and I’d watch it. My TRMN friends would drool at this prospect.