What If?: Sky Captain vs The Flying Saucers

[Wakeem]

I thought Sky Captain was a cool movie. Sometimes movies just don't find an audience. Kind of like The Rocketeer. Although, Sky Captain isn't as good as The Rocketeer. I wish Dave Stevens was still around to do a Sky Captain comic.

 

[Wes R]

I think Sky Captain could find a niche as a franchise for videogames and toys though.

 

[Ozymandius]

Definately one of those that I wanted to love, but was just let down by the cliched story telling.

I did do a modified version of the ray gun prop though. Really liked the whole Buck Rogers vibe of it.

 

[Jet Beetle]

I'd heard that Raimi toyed with the idea of Ash vs The Flying Saucers after Army of Darkness. He'd wanted Ash to wake up in the cave and walk out into a world where there were crashed spaceships and humans being rounded up, chained together and marched off. Ash blows the head off of an alien and starts a revolution - but he went a couple of other ways before the studio was satisfied.

 

[GotWookiee]

I loved Sky Captain. Enjoyed the characters and the story. It was a movie that was simply a lot of fun. A shame it didn't do well. It has its faults (hardly surprising for a first time director) but I'd take a trilogy of Sky Captain sequels over more Transformerrs movies any day.

 

[Timmythekid]

Sky Captain REALLY frustrates me. It's such an awesome concept, with pitch perfect retro tone (I'm a sucker for classic serials of any genre) and nice design, but the story was so bland and by the numbers that all I remember is something about "landing on platform 327". It's way too good a concept to have been abandoned, but the film left me so cold I can't really champion it.