This had better be important or one of us is in trouble.

CJ and I tried to go see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow when it was in the theaters in September, but we never managed to make it. Netflix recently sent it to me, so CJ came over and we watched it tonight.

All I can say is it's a strange movie where Angelina Jolie out acts Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Giovinni Ribisi. This movie was strictly camp, and only Jolie nailed that. The others were campy, but didn't set the right tone.

This movie has a pretty impressive visual style. It's made in a way to evoke old time movies. The color palatte is soft and everything is oversaturated. Even when they're in crazy swamps or things are exploding it still feels soft. It still feels like there are no brigjt colors. I expect that a week ago I would have been much more impressed by all this. But after watching Sin City on Friday it just doesn't rate.

That's too bad, because outside of the visual look this movie is terrible. The dialog and acting are bad, the plot is worse, and there's really not much of a reason to watch it. I guess the flying platform airships were kind of cool, but that's about it. We decided it needed some help and broke out some wine about 30 minutes in. That made it better, but certainly not good.

If you're looking for a showcase of unique visual style skip this and go see Sin City instead. It's that easy.

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