The Rocketeer (1991) Review
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90s Jennifer Connelly. That is all
Her first scene in Dark City where she's singing at that club still mesmerizes me to this day.
She still pretty but DAYUM SHE WAS A HARD 10❤❤❤
YEAH! Seriously, though, it was a nice warm-hearted adventure where the guy gets the girl at the end. I loved it.
Her natural physique was buxom figure, not the emaciated version that we have seen since the early 2000's.
@@anthonylogiudice9215and she had breast reduction surgery. A crime against humanity.
Ah, the early 90s. Back when Disney focused on making movies with good stories, instead of nothing but diversity box-checking
Gods honest truth right there. . .
Back when I could just assume I could take my kids to see a Disney movie and not have to cover their eyes/ears and afterwards explain sexual perversions.
@@docsavage8640 excellent point. It’s sickening that Disney has to interject that nastiness and aim it DIRECTLY at children’s programming. It’s astonishing that this disgusting nonsense is now celebrated while decency is now vilified. Case in point - Harrison Butker
by todays spending standards this film cost a pitance to make - yet when held up against any of the quarter billion dollar films Disney makes now its a giant of a film
Actually, a lot of the good movies like this were done despite great protests from Eisner/Katzenberg. And often with less marketing support/higher expectations than their pet projects.
A patriotic, hopeful movie, that sees the good in things.
I miss all that.
today its the Woke Marxist that are humanity's arch villians. They are the ones that ceaselessly plot to wreck all of humanity with degenerate and insane dystopian ideologies
Even the mob boss was patriotic.
@@teshtishtoshtesh3218 Yeah he was a bad guy but N@zis were way beneath him.
@@teshtishtoshtesh3218 Oh yes, my favorite line in the whole movie, "I may not make an honest buck, but I'm a hundred percent American!"
@@teshtishtoshtesh3218 It's sort of an allusion to the role Lucky Luciano et al. played in the invasion of Sicily, too.
Back in the days when everyone knew the answer to, "what is a woman?"
Awesome!!!!
😛😛😛😛😘😘😘😘
People know the answer. Their dogma and conformity to the Left's monopoly of society prevent them from telling the correct answer.
"Jennifer Connelly" is definitely a valid answer. :)
Whatever the fuck that means! 👍
Jetpacks, airplanes, Tommy guns, gangsters, Nazi spies and Jennifer Connolly...what more could you want?
Just a piece of chewing gum to help the jet pack hold its liquor.
Kate Beckinsale at her peak wasn't even half a Jennifer Connelly at her peak.
And I love Kate.
@@Jac70 I do, and you're right.
Connelly's peak ended?
She’s pretty good looking in Maverick. Maybe not her “peak,” but still incredibly beautiful.
Both was at their peak looking very beautiful and sexy.
I hope they never remake this one. It's perfect as is
🙏 I am with you my friend. But I fear that all the creatives in Hollywood have been replaced by DEI people and they will just get a woman or some other non white male to “reimagine” The Rocketeer as a strong woman…
Don't worry, they'll put a chick in it, and make her gay.
Or give it a sequel with a Non-White Wahmen
They already made a cartoon about his grand daughter becoming the Rocketeer.
I was about to comment, bravo.
Jennifer Connelly. Hubba hubba!🔥🔥
When I saw her in that role it was...😍
I see you and raise you one Hubba hubba hubba!
I been in love with her since I was 8 in 82 such a beauty.
As a digital artist and graphic designer, I just want to say. That movie poster is glorious.
Art Deco.
Yes, it's the absolute best.
@@cuckoonut1208 -Very nice.
Unfortunately the poster was the most memorable thing about the film ... Timothy Dalton's performance was close second..❤
False. It was a wonderful movie complete with a great James Horner score.
This has always been an underrated gem. The look, the feel, the musical score, everything worked.
I love this movie. I wish it got a sequel.
This movie also has a memorable line of dialogue from the gangster Valentine. when he questions Timothy Daltons character at the end of thr film he says "I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American. I don't work for no two-bit Nazi." I always liked that the writers wanted the audience to recognize different degrees of villiany.
I also loved the bit shortly afterward when the FBI guy and Valentine give each other a double-take when they realize they're on the same side.
@@Benneducci according to CIA declassified documents, they were/ are on the same side
We could really do with a big dose of that kind of patriotism in the 2020s...
My favorite line from the movie...
Valentine: "I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American!"
It echos what I used to say about myself: I'm not a good man; but I'm on the _side_ of good.
Patriotism. More of that desperately needed in the 2020s
@@blakecasimir It always been two Patriotism one the real one and the socalled one that's pure WS.
When a kid dreams of the Future, this is what he dreams of.
Just a future that’s bright and full of wonder and excitement. With all sorts of cool stuff in between.
The Rocketeer is iconic in style and his look.
The film really tried to copy the comic book. The artist knocked it out of the park.
Plus, the music is some of the best I've ever heard in a film.
@@mytruepower2 One of James Horner's finest scores. Possibly his BEST.
This is facts. The rocket was created by Doc Savage in the comic.
@@logandarklighter Greetings Starfighter!
The Rocketeer, The Shadow, and The Phantom were all pretty fun throwbacks.
@rippingbag don't forget Marvel's "The Punisher" [1990] starring Dolph Lundgren and the better 2004 version starring Tom Jane and bad guy Howard Saint played by John Travolta..
I'd add Dick Tracy for the 4 canonical "The 1930s of the imagination" films released in the 90s. Great popcorn movies.
DAMN RIGHT
I haven't thought about The Shadow in years. I liked that one a lot. The Phantom was okay. I do like Billy Zane, though.
Rocketeer, The Shadow and The Phantom all stand out from the crowd as they have a 30s setting much like Raiders of the Last Ark, The Mummy etc
I would however add to the list Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. And maybe Captain America.
They are far more interesting by virtue of the period setting than "super hero" movies set in present day,
Iron Man (2008) owes a lot to this film. The excitement of a flying suit, the ariel flying composition. Favreau asked ILM to do "Rocketeer" again but updated.
The MCU and other movies are based on it. I think it also influenced Abrams.
YES!
Because when i when i first watched Iron Man the first time in 2008, i did get The Rocketeer vibe.
No it doesn't
Also, Timothy Dalton should only play villians. The more comical the better. Hes excellent at it
Yes, Yes,Yes. Instead of going for Errol Flynn roles he should have looked to Basil Rathbone.
Hot Fuzz Rocked!
Dalton as a Slasher..., of Prices! ✌️😂
Hot Fuzz was such a gem with him in it.
Made a decent Bond.
He's great in this and in Hot Fuzz too.
80s-90s Jennifer Connelly was peak classical beauty and a film heroine of the old school. If she had stared in a public information film about the dangers of toxic paint formulations I would have been decorating my house on a weekly basis.
Tommy guns, airplanes and rockets are fine but they can't beat the magnificent views of Ms. Connelly's twin balloons.
You got me with that Kate Beckinsale NPC joke. I got outraged and everything. "How dare you insult my babe Jennifer Connelly!". Hahaha.
She was still a knockout in Alita, she's aged well.
Kate Beckinsale is perfect
At the end when Dalton says “I’ll miss Hollywood” he was right.
He missed *HOLLYWOOD* and hit *LAND* instead!
Wow. Good catch! 👍
This movie is near and dear to my heart. It was magic when I saw it as a kid, and it's still gives me that magic feeling watching it as an adult. Big thanks to James Horner's incredible score.
Cliff’s girlfriend is played by Jennifer Connelly.
You don't say....
I'll just assume you didn't stick around for the damn joke. UA-cam is very simple: watch video, then comment.
One born every minute.
Babe
It's ok Matthew-I stopped the video to leave this comment as well. Unlike some, I don't have time to remember every comment I want to make on youtube, so I stop and make them while it is on my mind
We need wholesome family films again. Especially streaming shows.
I saw The Rocketeer in 1991 in a 70mm print on a Cinesphere IMAX Screen. The opening shot with doors opening was so cool when its wrapped around you. I loved the movie so much I saw it 7x in the theatre. Everyone was going to T2. I was going to The Rocketeer.
DAVE!!! How can you ever confuse them!? The pillows man!? THE PILLOWS!!??
In the Uncle Scrooge story 'The Universal Solvent' by Keno Don Rosa, you see Uncle Scrooge walking in Gyro's workplace, in the opening picture. On the right you can see both the Rocketeer jetpack and helmet, stashed in a box with old projects.
I love Jennifer Connelly's two very large special effects. Also, I like Timothy Dalton as a good guy, but he does a good job as a bad guy, too.
Tommy guns, airplanes and rockets are fine but they can't beat the magnificent views of Ms. Connelly's twin balloons.
Getting Joe Johnston to direct the first Captain America was a really good idea.
Really? That was kind of genius.
Joe Johnston had a great sense for period pieces and action in general, like Jurassic Park III. It's a crime that Marvel and Lucasfilm didn't give him more recognition and keep him busy with more projects. Incredible waste of talent...
In this movie, Jennifer Connelly is luminous and a goddess in Career Opportunities. This movie is still fun today and a must-watch for my buddies who have not seen it for some reason.
dear lord the simping for her in this comments section
@@weston407 My guy, you need to learn the difference between merely appreciating beauty and genuine simping.
@@GreyhawkTheAngry i get it but it’s like every comment
@@GreyhawkTheAngry #ass2ass
@@weston407 You can't stop the admiration for her twin peaks.
Jerry Seinfeld - 'Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.'
This was on TV so many times when I was younger and it was always a great watch. Fun, wholesome and timeless in the context in which it was set. Oh… and Jennifer Connelly.
It's one of my all-time favorite movies. 35 years old, and I still want to be the rocketeer.
I'm so glad this underrated gem has gotten more recognition in recent years!
It was on so often during the 90's when I was younger. Such a great movie that I would gladly watch now.
It still holds up as a fun time.
Good movies always do.
I love this movie. I watched the VHS many times. I think it was very influential. I wish it got a sequel. Fun fact: the rocket pack was created by Doc Savage in the comic it was based on.
This was magic for me as a young kid. I know every line. There’s nothing like this film. It helped set a real tone in life for me I still feel today.
I watched the VHS many times.
That's not Kate Beckensale, that's Jennifer Connelly.
Damned Straight that was Jennifer Connelly, and she was stunning.
@pittland44 and she'll turn you damned straight if you aren't already 😅
Didn't watch the video all the way through, did you?
And another one misses the joke.
@@odysseusrex5908 What is the joke, I don't get it.
a staple of my childhood, often played on family roadtrips with our VCR tv hooked up in the minivan. "Don't worry folks, it's all part of the show!"
There’s something truly magical about movies set in (or generally around) this time period. Indiana Jones, The Rocketeer, The Shadow, The Mummy,The Phantom and Doc Savage. I really love those movies. James Horner really belted it out of the park with the musical score and Joe Johnston often never gets the credit he deserves for his work. Great video Dave.
It was a good, fun movie, and that's all it had to be. About the worst anyone said of it at the time was that it didn't have Betty Page as his girlfriend, but what actress would want to take that part with the inevitable comparisons? Changing Betty to Jenny was probably the only way to get a name actress to take the role.
One of my favorite movies.
My favorite movie as a kid. Lothar was scary!
Mine too!! I LIKE it!!
The hospital scene was nightmare fuel.
"Creeper, Creeper, Creeper! You give me the creeps!"
(MST3K, The Brute Man)
Lothar was modeled after Rondo Hatton.
@@ggrarl "I LIKE myself! I AM beautiful!"
Lothar was, and yet he wasn't just a one dimensional monster. When we saw him sitting alone in his very normal looking apartment, he was listening to some quiet piece of classical music. That has always struck me.
I remember seeing The Rocketeer at the cinema in the summer of 1991. Absolutely loved it & still do. Always a fun watch.
Point of trivia: The old lady who is hanging up laundry when the rocketeer zips past her and knocks it all over is the same old lady from ROBOCOP 2 who was pushing the cart full of cans across the street (which so gets knocked over)
Of the early Comic Book Superhero flicks. Several puff-piece articles say some variation of...
-Rocketeer has the heart of a comic book
-Dick Tracey has the look of a comic book
-The Phantom has the feeling of a comic book
-The Shadow has the story of a comic book
I try to re-watch them all each year.
The airport scenes were filmed at Santa Maria Public Airport (Capt Alan Hancock field) in Santa Maria, in northern Santa Barbara county, California. The Bigelow Hangar from the film ? It was moved after the film was completed and is still there on the field as part of their local air museum.
There are so many wonderful scenes in this film. Like when the gangster and the federal agent realise that they're fighting alongside each other!
I love this movie. This is the movie that gave this director the Captain America movie.
Too bad he didn't do nearly s well with that one.
@@odysseusrex5908 I love Captain America First Avenger.
@@biguy617 I'm afraid I cannot share that. It is so wrong in s many ways.
@@odysseusrex5908 it was supposed to be campy. The comics at, that time were campy. They wanted a certain tone for the time period. Not every Comic book movie has to be like the Dark Knight in order to be good.
the shot at the observatory where he comes over the rise, pistol in hand and looks up with the American flag behind him... does it get more iconic than that !! 🇺🇸
From the Original Dave Steven's Comic!
I love going to conventions. Almost every year, I see someone cosplaying the Rocketeer
I loved this movie as a kid, along with Alec Baldwin in, "The Shadow". Both are extremely underrated and were ahead of their time.
Born in '86, and I loved the Rocketeer. I loved the era, sense of humor, aviation aspect....and CONNELLY.
Part of this movie was recored in my home town....They built 'period correct' hangers on our airport. They are still standing and used by our local Aircraft Musem. It's here in Santa Maria CA
An underrated Disney movie, it really deserves a collectors edition release with actual special features.
I wouldn't say underrated so much as underseen. People who see the Rocketeer --critics included!-- tend to like it a lot. But for some reason in 1991, audiences didn't click with the material. Marketing was underwhelming but so was word of mouth.
The scene where a Mob Boss and a FBI agent notice that they are fighting side by side against the Nazi's is priceless.
There are a lot of other great scenes, but this one simply stuck in my head for being so funny.
You and I are in total agreement about this movie.
This movie is severely underrated.
I remember my family coming to visit the summer of 91 and we all went to see this in theaters one night. It was such an enjoyable experience.
This is absolutely the best comic book/superhero movie ever. Forget anything that's come since, The Rocketeer is perfect.
It really is the resume for how Joe Johnston got picked to direct the first Captain America MCU movie. The most common thing between the two of them isn't any particular character or plot point, but this tone of hopeful heroic optimism that braves through adversity.
I love this movie. Still one of my favorites and each time I watch it I’m smiling ear to ear for hours afterward. Absolutely no rose colored nostalgia glasses with this movie. I simply love it today as much as I did when I was a kid.
I was 29 when it came out. I loved it then, and I love it now.
This was the last film I saw with my dad at the cinema before he passed away. We both loved it, so The Rocketeer is special to me for that reason.
Many thumbs up. What a wonderful memory.
Watched this movie with my mom around Christmas time. Besides some outdated CG compositing in certain shots the movie holds up very well to this day. It was a good reminder of how fun Hollywood movies used to be with adventure, romance, dastardly villains, and a fun premise for making the adventure happen. I loved watching these kind of movies growing up and I am very disappointed that they are practically extinct genres of film.
I feel so old now, not for the fact that I’m turning 40 this year but that I saw this in theaters in the 90s and actually remember it. Not only that but I had the trapper keeper and folder when the school year started
Had this on VHS as a kid. No one at school had seen it. Never heard it referenced by anyone outside our family.
I loved it! What a classic. Simple, straightforward fun.
This movies was such a fun watch. I gotta add it to my physical media collection
Never owned this on physical but I am tempted too
@jamesabernethy7896 I'm trying to get as much as I can of shows/movies that came out before 2015. Around that time they started to go woke.
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp Been trying to get a few more too. Also been getting into horror recently so that's a new area for me to move into. I miss movies not having commentaries, I love special features.
@@jamesabernethy7896 Same here. I'm getting of all different genres. Especially love when they have special features.
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp A few UA-camrs have been doing commentaries for movies lately. Even though still watch my DVDs and Blu Ray, it really gives them a new lease of life.
There should be more great Pulp comic movies this has always been in my collection alongside the Indiana Jones trilogy, the Mummy, the Phantom and the Shadow. Love these two fisted vintage adventures!
I'm a fan of this one.
It hits the classic high points.
Own this and The Shadow (1994) on disc. Love them and the era they're set in. Thanks for the review.
Gosh. I loved that film when I was a kid!
Thanks, Dave.
And it has one of the best movie posters of all time.
Watching this as a kid, I got Chills watching Valentine say “I may be a two-bit crook, but I’m 100% American.”
Chills.
At 8 years old.
It made me so proud.
The classic “Hero’s Arc” 👍
you should cover a "a knights tale" with heath ledger
The movie was based on several "rocket men" serials made in the 50's, such as Commando Cody. Essentially, Republic reused the costume and some flying footage for different stories and main characters.
Republic sure knew how to squeeze a penny.
King of the Rocket men in 1949.My personal favourite of the Republic Rocket men serials.
The reason they put the helmet on actually made sense in the context of the story.
It's so great that you are reintroducing these older "classic" movies to audiences who are thirsting for good, family entertainment. You're doing us all a great favor here.
Dave, i really appreciate your older movies reviews.....this one is one of my favorites. Thanks man
Your reviews have been really great of late. The Rocketeer is one of my top 10 favourites of all time. It's not perfect, but it is. It evokes the comic, on which it was based, is about as perfect an adaptation as it could get.
30 something years later and I’m still disappointed there wasn’t a sequel. I loved this movie and look forward to watching it this summer with my kids.
This movie is criminally slept on! For me, it's as good as the "Indiana Jones" trilogy. My dad and I actually made a Rocketeer costume, sometime in the late 90s, that I'd wear on Halloween and even at school!
I thought the same thing. Very similar feel.
Superior to Temple of Doom
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp Epic!
I figured they would make several sequels like Jones. I was a young man and didn’t see that it flopped. (It only grossed 47 mil on a 40 mil budget)
In this modern age they might just do them now.
@@josebrown5961 hope they don't remake it
All three Pulp era films of early 90s including The Phantom and The Shadow, are also great underrated films. Yet, The Rocketeer is my favorite of the three.
Hear, Hear!
Great movie, loved it. And I felt it was greatly underrated and under appreciated even then. Art direction on this film was spot on. Sad to think we just don’t get these great little one-off films anymore that were just fun. Now everything has to have huge budgets, over the top cgi and endless sequels and reboots to squeeze every dime out of audiences that have no better options. Glad to see this film still has a good following and is appreciated by many.
Director Joe Johnston has a really good touch for nostalgia action movies. He directed The Rocketeer, Hildago, and the First Captain America movie.
Rocketeer and Hidalgo were both very good.
The Rocketeer just had the rotten luck of being put out in the year of T2 and Silence of the Lambs and Jennifer Connelly had every man's attention in the 90s.
I’d love a 1930s _Avengers_ where the Rocketeer teams up with Indiana Jones and Dick Tracey and the Phantom and the Shadow and Roger Rabbit, et al, and fight Nazis and the mafia and such 👌
am I missing anyone?
lol, you got me when you said Kate Beckensale, I did a double-take and looked at the actress again "wait, what?" 😂 Good one, Dave.
The Rocketeer, Dick Tracy, Indiana Jones, Hudsucker Proxy and a few others were a mini age of neo-30s/40s Golden Era of Hollywood style films that were really just on another stylistic level. Sadly, many were considered flops at the time, or badly forgotten.
This movie’s the entire reason I fell in love with dieselpunk aesthetics. Pair that with old school Superman and I was hooked.
Thanks to this movie and Lois & Clark, Jennifer Connelly and Teri Hatcher were my first crushes who forever made me a sucker for raven haired women. And Billy Campbell got to romance both of them onscreen when they were both in their prime. What A Legend!
Teri Hatcher in Lois and Clark got my fantasies going. I can't forget her on top of a desk and showing her legs to Clark.
One thing I appreciated in that movie is how quick all the men were to punch one another. It was another time even up to the 90s. You have the freedom of speech but not the freedom of consequence.
Rocketeer is most certainly an underrated movie. It’s high on my list of underrated superhero movies and better than most superhero movies recently. Thanks for the video
I didn't realise that Melora Hardin was the singer in this! This is a deep cut, but before the Office, and even before this, I remember her as the teenage girl in the 70s afterschool special who just moved to a new neighbourhood and makes friends with a short, outcast girl
As soon as you said "Kate Beckinsale" I knew you were putting us on!
The Rocketeer and The Sandlot. Two of my favorite childhood movies. Walking home from school I used to think it would be awesome to have a jet pack like the Rocketeer.
Should've included some context of the day: most critics and people HATED the movie at the time. I loved it, but I was also 12. Most of the people I knew personally and in media all lambasted the film as a donkey (as a box office flop, not on the merits of the film ofcourse). I figured it was mostly because they thought it would be "different," but also because it was for kids and older viewers. Nostalgia and adventure, what every boy wants when seeing a film with his WW2 veteran and pilot grandfather... I miss him, and this era of film. More now than ever
One of my favorite movies as a kid. And still is. When I watched the first Captain America movie, I felt like it was a lot like The Rocketeer. Then I looked up the director and it all made sense. A similar period piece but also similar tone and loving pop shots at Hollywood history. I wish Hollywood wasn't so risk adverse and would let Joe make even more period pieces like this. Without it being tied to some major IP.
I saw this movie at a newly opened cinema on a Saturday night back to back with Terminator 2. The place was absolutely rammed packed. I remember it well.
The airport set pieces and most of every other chase sequence were shot in my old hometown of Orcutt / Santa Maria. Home of Captain Allan Hancock's Flight School for the Air Force during WWII. Same airport and hangers in the film IIRC. There was another old timey film with Jimmy Stewart as a pilot that was also filmed in town, at another branch of the Hancock aerodrome.
Strategic Air Command? The Spirit of St. Louis?
@@odysseusrex5908 Spirit of St Louis, that's the one.
@@kyleshockley1573 Bingo! He was playing Charles Lindberg in that. I know nothing about the real Lindberg, but Stewart's portrayal is how he should have been.
I remember loving this movie as a kid. Thank you for mentioning this underrated wonderful film. I will show this to my 11 year old as he has started to become a film buff like me.
Saw this in the theater, and absolutely loved it. I was confused as to why it never did better as far as box office receipts are concerned.
If I had to guess? The same reason John Carter didn't do well: garbage marketing. At least with The Rocketeer they sort of have an excuse: the most recent successful comic book flick would have been Batman. Disney had zero experience with this kind of movie at the time and they probably didn't do their due diligence in how to promote a movie like The Rocketeer. It's another example that shows how Disney always fumbles male oriented properties. If WB had been behind this movie I'm betting it would have been a smash.
This is my favorite movie of all time, and the first one I saw in a theatre. Truly an underappreciated gem of pure adventure.
I loved Sinclair's reply to Cliff in the blimp when he asked him "Where's your stuntman now?" And Neville replied "I do my own stunts!" Bit of an inside joke because apparently Dalton did many of his own stunts on his Bond movies.