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The Rocketeer - Mick C. - 05-24-2009
Anyone else see this? I never read the original comic book it was based on, but just watched the film with my two boys. The oldest (12 years old), is interested in pulp-era heroes and is working his way through the Bantam Doc Savage reprints, along with some reprints of The Shadow, The Spider, and The Avenger. We've been watching a bunch of 30s era pulp- and comic-oriented films - Doc Savage, The Phantom, Indiana Jones. I really enjoyed the Rocketeer - it stayed just the right side of camp (when Doc Savage went way too far over.) Good cast (Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Terry O'Quinn as Howard Hughes, Timothy Dalton as an Errol-Flynnish villain, and a henchman patterned on grade-Z horror star Rondo Hatton..nazis, gangsters, good special effects, recreations of 1930s-era architecture...fun movie.
The Rocketeer - Wapitikev - 05-24-2009
Mick C. Wrote:Anyone else see this? I never read the original comic book it was based on, but just watched the film with my two boys. The oldest (12 years old), is interested in pulp-era heroes and is working his way through the Bantam Doc Savage reprints, along with some reprints of The Shadow, The Spider, and The Avenger. We've been watching a bunch of 30s era pulp- and comic-oriented films - Doc Savage, The Phantom, Indiana Jones. I really enjoyed the Rocketeer - it stayed just the right side of camp (when Doc Savage went way too far over.) Good cast (Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Terry O'Quinn as Howard Hughes, Timothy Dalton as an Errol-Flynnish villain, and a henchman patterned on grade-Z horror star Rondo Hatton..nazis, gangsters, good special effects, recreations of 1930s-era architecture...fun movie.Just bought it on DVD a couple of months back...it was good fun.
-Wapitikev
The Rocketeer - Kenji - 05-24-2009
Mick C. Wrote:Anyone else see this? I never read the original comic book it was based on, but just watched the film with my two boys. The oldest (12 years old), is interested in pulp-era heroes and is working his way through the Bantam Doc Savage reprints, along with some reprints of The Shadow, The Spider, and The Avenger. We've been watching a bunch of 30s era pulp- and comic-oriented films - Doc Savage, The Phantom, Indiana Jones. I really enjoyed the Rocketeer - it stayed just the right side of camp (when Doc Savage went way too far over.) Good cast (Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Terry O'Quinn as Howard Hughes, Timothy Dalton as an Errol-Flynnish villain, and a henchman patterned on grade-Z horror star Rondo Hatton..nazis, gangsters, good special effects, recreations of 1930s-era architecture...fun movie.
I saw it in a theatre....I was a teen. Good ol' day.*sigh*
The Rocketeer - fpw - 05-24-2009
Mick C. Wrote:Anyone else see this? I never read the original comic book it was based on, but just watched the film with my two boys. The oldest (12 years old), is interested in pulp-era heroesBuy him the graphic novel. The art by the (sadly late) Dave Stevens is wonderful. And strange you should mention Doc Savage, because it's implied that he designed the rocket pack.
The Rocketeer - Mick C. - 05-24-2009
fpw Wrote:Buy him the graphic novel. The art by the (sadly late) Dave Stevens is wonderful. And strange you should mention Doc Savage, because it's implied that he designed the rocket pack.
I'll do that. I read where the guy you see blow up wearing the Nazi test rocket pack in the footage Howard Hughes shows was Dave Stevens.