The Rocketeer - Caravan of Garbage
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2023
- Before Captain America: The First Avengers director Joe Johnston brought us The Rocketeer. Second in our series of pulpy/throwback comic back adaptations (that failed) this adaptation takes us back to the 1930s, an era with rocket powered heros, thin moustachioed villians and swashbuckling action. Intended to kick off a new Indiana Jones styled adventure series it fell short of Disney's expectations and is largely forgotten despite being quite a fun ride. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review!
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I went to a preview screening of this in NYC and it was one of my favorite nights at the movies ever. The audience was flat out in awe of this film and everyone was sure it was going to be a huge hit. They applauded for a more than a minute after the first flying sequence, that’s how innocent we were. Afterwards, everyone got a huge bag of Rocketeer swag and the entire audience was put in busses and taken to a small carnival with rides that was set up on the West Side River. I was 16 at the time and I’m still chasing that preview screening high.
I saw this opening weekend in NYC as a kid and the rowdy New York opening weekend crowd also erupted when he first flew. I also remember a few cheers and plenty of laughs.
Try heroin
If you want to pursue that high you might want to consider heroin
I was expecting this to end in a Blue Harvest joke
@@MrJans3nFun fact: because he mentioned a river, the working title for this thread is now "Blue Harvest"
The fact that Disney hasn't yet made an animated feature teaming up the Rocketeer and pre-iced Captain America is a damn tragedy.
The original plan for What If? Had the Rocketeer on the team at the end of the series
At this point they could Team-up Cap, Indiana Jones and The Rocketeer if they wanted to. But they are afraid of success.
Just realized it can be amazing
Bring back Joe Johnston to direct, he has a real flair for period pieces set in the 30s/40s.
If the theme is "you know it when you see it retro homage" I think Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow is in the genre
no. then you end up going down the sin city path and that way leads to the spirit. never go near the spirit!
That movie was so cool, but also so bad, and yet I loved it anyway.
Agreed. Whole segments were lifted from the old 1940s Max Fleischer Superman animated shorts. The last performance of Sir Laurence Olivier. A dystopian take on the Noah’s Ark tale. Also a box office dud. All with a 1940s pulp vibe similar to Rocketeer. Definitely a solid genre-adjacent throwback recommendation.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
But... what about LXG?
Also known as Dieselpunk
The answer to the eternal conundrum 'Why did The Rocketeer flop at the box office?' is that it came out during the second weekend of megahit "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves". So, in short, it's all Kevin Costner's fault
Ah,just like global warming,its all Costner's fault.
@@KingOfHarlots86Nope. You can blame James Cameron and Billy Crystal for the Rocketeer failing as well. Both City Slickers and Terminator 2 were released at the same time the Rocketeer was.
Can't wait for this caravan on Rocketman, the movie where Elton John becomes a superhero rockstar who saves the world with a microphone and jetpack
You’re thinking of Bohemian Elvis
That was William Shatner
@@Matt-xc6sp
It was Robert Downey Jr.
it was Mason in a wig
Boooooooo (but I liked)
One of the greatest Disney movies ever made. Just old fashioned perfection. My favorite Timothy Dalton performance. When I found out he was James Bond, I was like wait, Neville Sinclair?! A great movie all around.
Correct.
He brings this character in Hot Fuzz too, incredible. 😊
@@Szokynyovics"I'm a slasher that needs to be stopped! A slasher of PRICES!"
He was SO hot in this. Aside from being a nazi ofc lol
The gangster henchman Lothar was actually based on a real Hollywood horror actor named Rondo Hatton. He was in films in the 1930s and 40s such as House of Horrors. His face looked like that due to a birth defect.
Correct! Surprised the boys didn't mention this. Rondo was actually a very handsome man in his youth, but his advancing acromegaly deformed his features as he aged, and he became a legendary movie heavy, often a sympathetic one. It was such a nice touch to base Lothar on him.
I came here to say this exact thing, thanks for saving me the time 😅. I believe the mask was sculpted by Rick Baker, or at least his studio.
“It wasn’t lies Jenny. It was acting.”
- Neville Sinclair
*It vazn’t lies Jenny. It vaz acting.
lmfao dude thats one of the best lines ever written I genuinely laughed my ass of when I heard it.
He had a line like "a man could drown in those eyes and never be saved" which got reworked and used by Lex Luther in a season one episode of Lois and Clark, the new adventures of superman.
Just a quick note: Dave Stevens' girlfriend was not Bettie Page. The comic character look was inspired on the real-life Bettie Page, and his girlfriend/wife kinda, sorta looked like Bettie Page, so he used her as a model for the art. The real-life Bettie Page would've been close to 30 years Stevens' senior.
This needs to be higher. That really threw me, and I thought either it was a joke or I had REALLY missed a lot of key info on Dave Stevens and Bettie Page.
Dave Stevens did start a friendship later in life with the older Bettie Page. He would take her shopping for groceries as told in his documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection@@dangerdan79
Like maybe they meant girl (and) friend, but I doubt it. They did eventually meet, and Dave Stevens helped her capitalize on her old modeling work for the newer generation.
Hey man, if you're smart and you're into that, who cares if she's 30 years older?
Disney didn’t want to get into legal trouble by using Bettie Page’s name, so they changed Cliff’s girl into Jenny.
I love this movie so much. It’s for sure a comfort movie for me. Same feeling I get when watching the Indiana Jones movies. Nice throwback style movie harkening back to the serial era of filmmaking. They definitely made the right call hiring this guy to direct Captain America: The First Avenger.
Well said. Definitely has that Indiana Jones feel. It's a great movie. Classic.
Totally! I love the period movies from the 30s/40s
Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow deserves to be part of this series. I know it when I see it
I'm glad you mentioned Horner's score because man oh man the main theme from this movie is incredible. Sweeping and earnest and heroic, it's a perfect fit for the film in every way.
Fun fact: In Disneyland Paris Horner's music from the Rocketeer and Krull could be heard around Discoveryland (its version of Tomorrowland).
Beautiful score. It really evokes that golden age of aviation.
@@pendaco And it's used for the "Soarin' Across the World" ride at Disney Orlando too
This channel has to be the one with the funniest editing ever!
I laugh whenever they slap in the cutout of James holding a piece of paper up.
Honestly Ben seems to be a rock star no matter what ridiculous idea they throw out. I would love to know how many hours a week he edits cause they always make it work.
it could have used the cut outs of James and Maso loving nazis at the end but other than that, yes.
@@joeblankenship377that's me whenever James as a child looking at the ground in horror shows up
*Yup, that’s why this video is even later than it usually is. I love how they release their extended version before the regular version*
To whoever was sick that caused the delay of this video I really hope you are feeling better. Be it Ben, Raw dog, Matt, James, or that tram driver fella (Jason? Mako? Jake-o) I genuinely want nothing but good things for you. ❤
I’m pretty sure it went up on time and then got copyright struck very quickly so they had to re edit
@@imanoldurango8213 James wrote on twitter on Thursday that Ben was sick and Laurence then was gonna finish the edit, that's why it was delayed.
Mason the tank driver is a real nice guy
This is honestly one of my favorite movies and I think a large part of that is down to James Horner’s wonderful score. And not just the main theme either, but things like that scene at the Blue Lagoon club where Jenny and Neville Sinclair start dancing while the band isn’t playing so we get these really sinister tones intercut with shots of Cliff arriving, before finally the music segues into the actual jazz band starting up.
Another moment I love is that fun little hoedown motif that he briefly adds as Cliff loses control of the jetpack and suddenly flies through the field where the two farmers are harvesting their crops. Fun fact, on the soundtrack the score for these two scenes are actually listed as “Blue” and “Harvest” respectively… which was coincidentally also the working title for the 1977 film Star Wars.
...Biiig gopher!
We can thank The Rocketeer for the Simon Skinner character in Hot Fuzz.
Ha, glad someone else picked up on that.
GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!!
"That's the way the 'cookie' crumbles, eh?"
"Feel free to spool through!"
You guys are like if Red Letter Media was run by a couple of well-adjusted adults. I love both channels and glad I found you a while back. Keep it up!
Hey! Jay is a well adjusted adult!
@@Malum09 - No well-adjusted adult would be such a fan of weird Italian sex pervert movies...
@@DanArnets1492 I was thinking of bringing up Rich but he seems more depressed with everyone.
You guys should do a colab on food heavy movies. It would be great to get your take on films like the Menu or Chef
omg it's Kenji!! A cross-over I didn't know I needed. Love your videos!
And yours too @mr sunday movies I guess
Oh my god this is one of my favorite movies from my childhood. It still holds up even today. The score from James Horner is my favorite from him, Timothy Dalton was so good as the villain, Jennifer Connelly was stunning, the whole movie stands the test of time
Brendan Fraser is the only actor that might've been a good Rocketeer
Yess!!
No I think Ed Harris, Harrison ford, or Peter weller could do it as well
@@alexanderguerrero347 anyone with experience being in old movies would be a step above the rest 😉
For real though can’t get enough of Peter Weller
Starlord is just Marvel Rocketeer tbh so idk I could see Chris Pratt doing this if it was made in 2023 as much as I'd probably dislike it
Bill Paulman would've worked... considering I freaken thought it WAS Bill Paulman for years
Since we’re now getting closer to the 60th anniversary in November, it could be fun to do a CoG episode or more on Doctor Who. Maybe the TV movie, or the 50th anniversary special, or the Five Doctors special, or all of them, or none of them and something else entirely perhaps!
Just get them to do the weeping angels trilogy - Blink, the greatest episode of all time, and then the double episode of weeping angels where the statue of liberty wanders around because apparently nobody in the city was looking and it's secretly alive.
I could tolerate maybe a single episode about Dr. Who because I can just ignore it. But more than one and I'm unsubscribing.
The ‘96 movie would be pretty good, cus it’s… ehhhhh
A little jolt of electricity runs through my body every time they pronounce Tuskegee.
Yeah and Secord.
This is one of my favourite movies as a kid. It played all the time during holidays and stuff.
Are we not gonna talk about how unbelievably gorgeous Jennifer Connelly is in this movie!! Like my god, she is stunning!
Paul Bettany is a very lucky man
Agree 100%. She looks amazing here. Plus she's a real powerhouse of an actress, even though you don't necessarily see it in this movie.
The thug was made to look like Rondo Hatton, who had a pituitary condition brought on by exposure to poison gas in WWI
The original comic creator named the heroine Betty Page after his real life girlfriend, but she would not allow her name to be used in the film.
"You'll be played by Jennifer Connelly."
"Oh, that's all right then!"
Creepy
Jennifer Connolly is still a fantastically beautiful woman but this movie was her in her absolute prime. Freakin' Goddess tier beauty. As for the movie, I did see this in theaters I'm glad to say. Such a fun movie. When it came out on video, my little sister and I had it on regular rotation in our favorites.
Saw this in the theater too, She definitely informed my sexually awaking brain to love raven haired women haha
Check out mulholland falls if you haven't already for her
And Inventing the Abbotts.
I mean, even when I saw Labyrinth at age 11 (VHS rental) she had a striking pretty older sister vibe.
Alright take it easy..
Jennifer Connelly is a ravishingly beautiful woman.
One of the funniest moments in the history of this channel is in The Amazing Spider-Man where they show the crane operator and James says he goes "I was in the movie Soul Man. Don't look it up! Don't look it up."
Spyro music, during the "Not Trivia" and "Trivia" bits!
I love Spyro!!!
Just before the trivia, there's footage of an actor in blackface, from the movie Soul Man.
In order to tie that reference back into comic book movies with my own bit of trivia, the actor in blackface is also in The Amazing Spider-Man as the crane operator that helps Peter at the end of the film.
The GeeBee. A big engine with little stubby wings on it. Despite looking like a toy, the aircraft was capable of flying and actually won a race in 1932.
Unfortunately the aircraft was very hard to fly. The pilot who flew it to victory, Jimmy Doolittle states *"I could tell from the first moment that it was a touchy and probably unpredictable airplane. ... I didn’t trust this little monster. It was fast, but flying it was like balancing a pencil or an ice cream cone on the tip of your finger. You couldn’t let your hand off the stick for an instant, and I didn’t know how much angle of bank would be safe when making pylon turns.”*
So yeah, anything will fly if you throw it hard enough but not everything will fly well.
This was my favorite movie as a kid. I probably rewatched it every week while wearing a fake little rocket pack my family made for me out of two giant cardboard tubes. Had no idea what Nazis were and that there were Nazis in the movie until I rewatched it later in my teens though.
The Shadow and The Phantom both ended up being my other two favorite movies later on, so I'm really stoked to see those episodes coming out soon too.
Ha, my dad made me a jetpack out of two empty Coke bottles 😂
LOVED this movie when I was little! IMO the best leads from 90s films set 1920s-40s had the same haircut: The Rocketeer, The Phantom, and The Mummy.
*Indiana Jones has his own category*
Given how much the internet loves to shit on Temple of Doom, maybe they could toss it in? Always been my favorite as it's the most action-adventure centric one and the darkest (not every movie could be half the reason PG-13 exists!)
I appreciate the use of the Spyro OST in the background
I am NOT actually that old, LOL But when I was a child - The BBC here in the UK did re-run many of the old 1950's TV Serials such as Flash Gordon etc... I was a Big Fan of Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd.... Then along came KING OF THE ROCKET MEN - And DAMN THAT HAD ME HOOKED!!!
And I always felt that The Rocketeer was a "Spiritual Reboot" of that.... I think had they made the Rocketeer a TV Series, it may just have worked... As a Movie it was always going to struggle but maybe it would succeed on TV.
I genuinely do enjoy The Rocketeer... I loved it! Funnily, The next one you are covering - I LOVED THAT TOO! I think The Shadow was GREAT, but again - I just don't feel it worked as a Movie!
And THE PHANTOM too... Same issue!
Maybe, just maybe if they had all of them start as a TV show, including Flash Gordon... And yes even GREEN HORNET, and Dick Tracy... Throw In Doc Savage because WHY THE HELL NOT... Then bought them all into one Movie as a Team Avengers Style... MAYBE that could have worked!
Oh hell, I can dream cant I?
My kid learned about the Rocketeer, because of the Disney+ cartoon. Kit is cliff's great-granddaughter.
Also, in the Army I knew a dude who learned about the Rocketeer, because he told someone about watching the Cockateer(that is for a drastically different demographic).. so the Cockblockateer jokes made me remember that dude and laugh
The little fart noise at 14:50 made me laugh more than it should have
I love this movie. The art deco style is terrific.
Billy Campbell was damn good looking back then and looks like he was pulled right out of a comic. I am bummed you guys didn't mention the helmet, it's one of the best helmets in cinema. Love this movie.
Billy Campbell looked EXACTLY like Cliff Secord. That’s why he got the role of Cliff.
I believe in the novelization of the movie, written by Peter David, there is some reference to the Nazi Rocketeer invasion cartoon being inspired by the German folklore “Feldgeister” (like how many Walt Disney cartoons were based on US folklore) A nature deity who embodied the cycle of plants, but was also considered a wind spirit, and how it and body, German strength, and would allow the Rocketeer’s to cross the Atlantic, so to make the cartoon more appealing to the German youth, the short was retiled… Blue harvest lol
In several parts in TMNT 2007, it has been shown that Raphael is left-handed. During the "Breakfast scene", Raphael is fully seen eating his cereal with his left hand.
Yep
We need a follow-up film (or even TV show) with Billy Campbell as an older man. Come on Disney, you know you need the content.
I absolutely love this movie! I feel like if they reboot it then it would be too embarrassed to be itself. It'll either be a comedy or they'll spend a lot of time on how the jetpack doesn't burn your bum.
Great episode! Just the best edits! Hope Ben is feeling better now. Looking forward to Phantom if you guys do that.
I initially thought James said Mason bought him a washing machine and found myself thinking for the next minute, "So, what's the story behind that whole washing machine thing?"
Thank you *Ben from Canada* for the shoutout to *Comic Tropes* in the first 2 minutes!!
this is one of my favorite movies of all time. Watched it first in 2019, became a huge fan, bought the original comic, quickly became one of my favorite comics. Now I have a pretty decent Rocketeer collection of stuff.
Also my favorite stunt in this movie is right as Cliff takes off for the first time, he stalls mid air to do a flip before he ignites again to chase after Malcom. Something about that little move just blew me away the first time I saw it
Minor correction: Though the character of Betty in the comic was based on Bettie Page, Dave Stevens did not date Page (who was 32 years his senior), merely drew a lot of pinups of her. His wife, actress Brinke Stevens, did however act as a model for the character of Betty.
This is true! But I'd also add he did apparently meet the real Bettie later in life. She wasn't even aware that he had used her likeness! She was paid retroactively and the two apparently became great friends until her death!
@@fourcolorpulp *his death. Bettie died after him, if only just.
Did they… did they not talk about how the Nazi says “I’ll miss Hollywood” and then when he crashes into the sign he misses the Hollywood part?
That editing at @10:00 is priceless!
Does anyone else automatically do Stallone's Judge Dredd "I am the law" every time someone says law in one of these reviews or is it just me?
I watched this on VHS every weekend as a kid (along with Predator & Passenger 57 later). I really love that there's a cult following of fellow fans out there who also appreciate it.
Grew up in the 90's first saw this movie when my Mom rented it. Eventually my parents bought me a copy because they got tired of me renting it every time we went to the video store.
This movie is amazing for three things:
1. The jet pack
2. Jennifer Connelly
3 Jennifer Connelly in that dress.
4. That close-up shot of Jennifer Connelly in that dress.
5. The Cockblocketeer
@@zachryder3150 5. Alan Arkin
This is one of my favorite movies. I expected this to get a mention but Tiny Ron's character Lothar is based on real life actor Rondo Hatton, who suffered distorted features due to acromegaly.
This movie has always been a family favorite because my grandpa's Plaine was used in the airshow scene. He had a lot of cool memorabilia from the set which is what started my love for filmmaking
That’s insane. He’s also directed Captain America: The First Avenger. My favorite MCU movie is winter soldier but I really love the first movie a lot. And now I realize why 😂. He really did just remake the Rocketeer in some aspects, but it works. That’s exactly how a period piece Captain America Movie should feel.
"James Bond if he was a sharpened pencil but he was sharpened too much" - I can't tell you how much I adore that simile, and as ridiculous as it seems, you know exactly what James meant 😆
Little known fact - a good portion of the film takes place at an airport set that was built on a local farm in California. In order to clear out room for the runway and buildings a large blue combine harvester was brought in, leading to the working title of the movie: Blue Harvest
The editors are so damn good, wanna shout out the edit in the superman CoG where Mason says, “I think-“ before restarting and continuing with a thought but in the first “I think-“ Ben edited a portrait of Rene Descartes. Every so often I revisit videos and find a new edit that gets me. Easily some of the most entertaining editing I’ve seen.
I literally just added this to my playlist on Disney then went to see this.
Thanks for reading my mind again you weirdos!
Luv you lots. Keep up the great work!
Review Stargate.
At the end of the movie, Neville Sinclair says "I'll Miss Hollywood". Then he crashes into the hollywoodland sign. But luckily he missed Hollywood.
I always thought this was a hit, probably because I remember the relentless promotion from when I was a kid. Amazing cast in this movie - in addition to all those mentioned, there's also Jon Polito, Terry O'Quinn, and Margo Martindale (in only her second film role).
I was really hoping you guys would do 2008's The Spirit (directed by Frank Miller) as part of this series.
Timothy Dalton is fantastic in this role, and gets the best death scene *ever* in the history of film.
Imagine him swaggering home after a day's filming and calling out to his best beloved, "Guess what, darling? Today my character - a fascist Erroll Flynn - was killed when he crashed into the HOLLYWOOD sign while trying to defect to Nazi Germany on a stolen jetpack!"
Magnificent. He was a damn good Bond, too!
I love when we get to who was considered section of trivia and it's literally every man ever.
I had no idea this was a flop, I watched this 1000x on VHS!
One of my absolute favorite movies of my childhood. It REALLY captured my imagination.
Whenever my kids would become tyrannical telling us:
I want_______.
I would calmly respond and slowly repeat:
I want a jet pack.
I would keep it up until they realized that if I was being ridiculous they were being ridiculous.
It all worked out surprisingly well.
Thanks Rocketeer!
Of all these movies you're covering here, this is the one that I think should have been a hit. It's clever and funny, it develops into a fully satisfying story, the flying sequences are suspenseful, and it does capture the feel of an Indiana-Jones-style adventure. The romanticism of the movie is well-earned. And it has--as they observed on Red Letter Media--a very dense script and shrewd visual direction that creates complex suspense setups and which makes the particulars of the set pieces very visually clear. It's--unlike Dick Tracy or The Shadow, or The Phantom, or whatever--just a really good movie. I watched it many times as a kid, and I rediscovered it last year and was thrilled by it all over again. Thanks for covering it!
That's certainly an interesting pronunciation of Tuskegee...
More Rocketrivia! Ever since marvel was acquired by Disney, Marvel execs have been trying to convince Disney to let them bring Disney comic book (ish) heroes into the Marvel universe. Especially Condorman and The Rocketeer.
I appreciate the Commando Cody reference.
(you'll never guess which Star Wars character he inspired)
I know right? Dexter Jetser!
You could honestly both re-imagine Gargoyles and the rocketeer into the MCU and you wouldn’t have to change much.
Nah I'm good, keep them away from the burning tyre fire that is the MCU right now
I would rather not. Their styles are too different.
I saw it in theaters and loved it. I never knew it flopped.
Why was the "DAVID!!!..." part so much funnier then it should've been!😅😂 Cheers!
Honestly I think Dalton’s two Bond films are my favorites up there with Casino Royale and From Russia With Love. You guys should cover those too for Caravan of Garbage. Living Daylights in particular has one of the best music scores by John Barry
Things I noticed seeing it as an an adult:
Alan Arkin. Bill Campbell. Aiden Quinn. All the male leads are wearing wigs or hair extensions.
Two of the extras in this movie would go on to be recurring characters in Star Trek Deep Space Nine for all seven seasons.
Little known fact, but they actually uploaded the extended audio version of this on they’re other channel instead of the one for Dick Tracey. Thought this did not include bloopers it did lead to the working title of this video being blue harvest.
I have a real fondness for this film and it has always been one of my favourites. One of the few that I remember seeing in the cinema as a kid. 10 year old me loved the action and the authentic feeling 1930s style, but was a bit young to appreciate that he was also witnessing absolute peak Jennifer Connelly. He enjoyed the chicken McNuggets afterwards though.
I have tried to watch this video 6 times and everytime my mind starts drifting and I start falling asleep. I feel like it says a lot about a movie when James and Nick's commentary isn't enough to make it entertaining.
My local movie theater has had 3 posters in seemingly unrelated locations that have never changed in my entire life; E.T., Edward Scissorhands, and The Rocketeer. I’ve seen the poster for this movie every time I’ve gone to that theater for the last 24 years. Yet somehow, in my brain, The Rocketeer has not existed in real life as it’s own entity until this video.
The Rocketeer was one of my favorite movies growing up. It’s flawless and I’m assuming you feel the same because you didn’t have anything negative to say. And I’m glad it never got any sequels. Like I said, flawless.
Tiny Ron is canonical Star Trek, playing the Grand Nagus's servant, Maihar'du. He was also a Hirogen in Voyager.
But speaking of Ferengi, Max Grodenchik, who played Quark's brother, Rom, is the guy who was crushed by Tiny Ron's character.
the lack of mention of Jennifer Connellly's stunning era visage is a crime! a crime! Stunning!
I was literally about to say that😤
love the tuska-jee over tus-key-gee pronunciation. peak australian
The classic goon with a big face, Lothar, was made up to look like Rondo Hatton, an actor from the thirties and forties who had a distinctive appearance due to living with acromegaly. There's a _Judge Dredd_ story in which Dredd uses a face-changing machine to make himself look like Rondo Hatton as well. Sadly, he didn't live long enough to feature in as many films as that crow or whatever. Top notch work coming up with 'the cockblocketeer', by the way.
Loved the edit, as always, m8. Worth the wait. Sorry Ben From Canada didn’t feel well.
That pronunciation of "Tuskegee" absolutely baffled me, lol.
Obi-Wan’s clone commander was Cody…he had a jet pack…Commander Cody, jet pack…Lucas, you SOB
Cody doesn't have a jet pack though
@@nataliecameron yeah he does. Just doesn’t use it on film. But his appearance in Episode 3, he’s wearing one.
@@nataliecameron He only uses it in the 2003 Microseries for Clone Wars. The movie version never uses the jetpack but his 3D model does have one.
The jet rocket pack design is gorgeous, but to nitpick, it's seams are lined by hot dome-rolled rivets like ironworkers building a skyscraper or bridge, implying a team of really tiny riviters put it together. Assuming aircraft aluminium, the seams should be welded dime stacks then ground smooth leaving a neat series of crescent moon patterns down the lines, so then Howard Hughes has sex with it.
A bit of a hidden gem this one IMO, very under-appreciated.
I miss the blue harvest surprise joke :(
Bring it back when no one expects it.
Great video, fantastic editing. The Rocketeer is one of my favourites, fantastic cast and just a ton of fun. The roles I think of for Timothy Dalton and Terry O'Quinn, Billy Campbell and Jennifer Connelly are great, great set design. I have loved it for decades and love to watch it to this day.
You mentioned the comic "The Rocketeer and Doc Savage". You know what movie would fit fantastically into this "you know it when you see it" theme? The answer - "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze". Have the cajones to make a CoG about that movie.
And they also missed the fact that in the Rocketeer comic books AFTER this 'retelling' of the first story, THE SHADOW also plays a big role too, which links perfectly with the next film they are covering...
Gotta love the old pulp-style comic book movies...I was too young for Dick Tracy when it came out, but I always thought he was cool. Got to see The Rocketeer, The Phantom, and The Shadow tho. Phantom was probably my favorite one. They all had cool toy lines too!
FYI: it wasn't that this film "fell short of Disney's expectations", but rather than Disney panicked over how things went for Dick Tracy and killed the marketing plans for The Rocketeer, dooming it to failure no matter how it ended up. And, as loads and loads of people who have seen it will attest, it ended up very very good.
Wow... I saw The Rocketeer a whole bunch of times as a kid, and yet I'm shocked to learn that was Billy Campbell in the lead. I could have sworn the first thing I ever saw him in was The 4400.
Also, realising the big goon with the big face was, "Hey it's THAT guy!" from DS-9 and Happy Gilmore, who apparently wasn't memorable enough for his size and always had to be given a really weird look 😂
I love the idea of this string of films! I grew up on The Shadow (my grandfather grew up with the original radio shows), so got me into it. Sadly, no, not a good movie, but it has some nostalgia for me! Great Jerry Goldsmith score though!
I remember several years ago being quite shocked that Brendan Frasier wasn’t in this movie. At some point in the past my brain must have done a recasting
You should add The Spirit to this list! That’s also based on a 30s comic hero-turned-financial failure.
I loved most of these movies when they came out. Saw Dick Tracy at the drive in, saw the Rocketeer at the drive in, the shadow was always a must watch on the sci-fi channel, billy zane as the phantom was kinda hilarious honestly. Seth rogan as the green hornet was a mess, but it took me back to watching the green hornet reruns on beach vacations as a kid. Ill still enjoy most of these from time to time tho. Just for the hack and jank of it all
My grandma bought the Rocketeer for me on VHS when I was a kid. I think that it was a birthday or Christmas gift. It was definitely the gift that I got the most use out of.
I lost it with the "Anna Taylor-Joy" bit. I don't think anyone knows what she is. True chameleon.
The Shadow is my own personal beloved "Oh this is so flawed but I loved it so much" vintage superhero movie from my youth, so I'm kind of preemptively wincing.
ETA: Shadow Trivia moment for y'all: the villain in that boasts about being the last living descendant of Genghis Khan. Dude has half a million descendants, easy.
Pointless Triviateer: When he wasn't in LA, Paul Sorvino lived in Madison, Indiana, a small riverside town near where I grew up. It's a nice place and was historically an important stop on the Underground Railroad where escaping slaves from Kentucky would get assistance crossing the Ohio River to freedom in the north. Cheers!