So Jude Law is now both the Pope and the King, that's convenient.

How Jude Law cheated Giancarlo Giannini out of a boat by putting ecstasy in his drink.

>> ^Trancecoach:

for some strange reason, I'm not amused by overpaid entitled actors deliberately committing physical violence against work-a-day wage-slave extras working 'at scale' to lay motionless in uncomfortable positions for 4 or 5 hours at a stretch....
that said, the banter is sometimes amusing.


RDJ explained that the room was full of rubber dummy bodies i.e. he didn't know there were any extras on the set.

>> ^Trancecoach:

for some strange reason, I'm not amused by overpaid entitled actors deliberately committing physical violence against work-a-day wage-slave extras working 'at scale' to lay motionless in uncomfortable positions for 4 or 5 hours at a stretch....
that said, the banter is sometimes amusing.


One of my best friends is an extra...he'd love to get the shit kicked out of him by Robert Downey Jr.

I love the bit of the film they used for Jude Law's contribution to the melody - saucy!

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No problem. Wish I had seen it sooner. I like a fair amount of BT's work as well. I've trying to find a decent video for "Shame" for ages, but all I've found are videos with still images or crappy amateur attempts. Oh well. Que sera sera.

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In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*promote

thank you my friend.
i am a huge BT fan,glad to see i am not alone.

you might enjoy this then.
i thought it was cleverly done:
http://videosift.com/video/BT-remembering-music-video-starring-Uma-thruman-and-jude-law

Here we go again, the never-ending whiners' argument. UK actors always cast as villains by Hollywood? Puhh-leaz.

Forgot your own cinema legend Laurence Olivier, did you? Oh, we're in the 21st century now? What about Jack Bauer? Huh? Forgot Hugh Laurie, America's No.1 male sex-symbol, too? Christian fucking Bale? Gerard Butler? James McAvoy? Starting to remember some, are you now? Jude Law. Idris Elba. Sir Ian McKellen. Patrick Stewart. Ralph Fiennes. Michael Caine. Clive Owen. Ewan McGregor. I bet I could name thrice as much if I started googling.

If you want to whine about Brits occasionally being cast as baddies, first acknowledge that Arabs, Russians, and Chinese have long had it way worse. Wankers.

Fancy a quick welcome back wank lady

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Wanna cyber, anna?

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used to love this song. right up there with brand new's "jude law..."

Fuck Jimmy Kimmel. I mean really screw that sanctimonious ass. I personally never look at the gawker stalker map, but Emily did not invent celebrity gossip journalism, the idea that US weekly or Star has standards is a laugh, and go read some of the asinine comments on the site. It's a chance for regular idiots to make snarky comments like the following:
Jude Law heading into Gray's Papaya. He was talking on his cell phone as he walked in. He came out with a big bag, looks like he took lots of hot dogs to go! Jude better watch that figure of his!

Much ado about nothing. This site lets the vapid public write their own supermarket tabloid captions. If you want to see a site that I'd be worried about if I was a celebrity visit thesuperficial.com.

I wouldn't go as far as all that. Remember, it's a tribute to pulp sci-fi, and as such it focused on a lot of the old cliches found in the genre (the attack of the robots, the plucky female reporter, the retro special effects, the ridiculously grandiose schemes of the villain). It also pays a lot of homages to movies like Metropolis, The Forbidden Planet, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers. One scene is almost identical to the Fleischer Studios Superman short, "Mechanical Monsters."

If anything, it bears a lot of similarities to the Indiana Jones movies, except Indiana Jones plays on the adventure pulps and Sky Captain plays on the sci-fi pulps. If you're looking for a deep and immersive plot, you'll be hard pressed to find it in either movie. They're both essentially homages to these old styles of entertainment. (Granted Indiana Jones did it better, but Sky Captain did a respectable job as well.)

I will agree that the movie has its flaws, most notably Gweneth Paltrow's acting, though fortunately Jude Law makes up for this. However, the plot, music, stylistic elements, and visuals were, for the most part, spot-on, so I feel that it's not too much to say that it succeeded on most levels.

I guess the movie is most appreciated if you've seen some of the older works it's paying homage to. I spent a lot of my youth reading those older comics, listening to those older radio shows, and viewing a few of the movies/cartoons, so Sky Captain had a pretty big impact on me.