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Completely laughable....

posted 11 years ago by amdew717
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...in almost every way. The art direction is nice, but the plot and dialogue are simply riduclous.

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[–] amdew717 11 years ago

how about...
1) a plane crashing head-first into the ground and the pilot is barely scratched

2) or people being treated in hospitals that appear to be totally destroyed, without roofs or any sort of medical equipment

3) or after 26 years of brutally violent war, people still have clothes that barely look torn or soiled. and where did the boss get his fur capes and full length coats?

4) or the huge double-bodied planes in which it appeared that men were just walking around on a railed-deck, having absolutely no problem with breathing at such a high altitude.

i could go on, but i think that's enough.

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[–] dakotasdad 11 years ago

Just watched parts of the film and there were no windows (unless it was made of huge pieces of plates glass) near the rails on the large planes. BTW, if the planes flew below 10,000 feet, oxygen would not be an issue but the noise from the engines would be extremely loud on those semi-exposed decks.

[–] MoviemanCin 8 years ago

Yes! It reminded me of a W.C. Fields movie where he goes back "to the observation deck" or a plane. Then he drops his bottle of booze and of course dives after it. Lol!

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.

[–] alansmithee04 11 years ago

You're a Glen Beck fan, aren't you.

[–] ishiidobie 10 years ago

You = Idiot

[–] mam13143 10 years ago

You can virtually say the same thing of any scifi movie............75 years later. For its time it must have been as good as 2001. And story line is still being used today over and over.....from resident evil to 28days, etc. just better special effects now. Also per your comment about double hulled planes, check out whiteknight2 -- the double hulled plane (tho no open decks) that takes virgin galactic's spaceship2 into orbit. Just as in this movie, it is the private sector not nasa that makes space travel possible for people at a fraction of the cost. Tells you something doesn't it.

[–] xenophile2002 9 years ago

What it tells me is that forty-six years after NASA landed men on the Moon the private sector is still promising suborbital flights for the masses, any day now. Any day now.

I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler.
- Jon Stewart

[–] aciolino 9 years ago

Have you considered a career as a film critic?

[–] jpozenel 7 years ago

I was thinking the same thing. I thank you for being politically incorrect to voice it for me. Film making was still in a pretty primitive state in 1936. It seemed like the audience was to be dazzled by the special effects of the time. That might have made them think that it was a work of art and would be all buzzing about it.