All right, now I'm annoyed. I'm watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and I thought I'd love it because the movie is set in a 1930s, Art Deco-style New York. But I got pissed when the German scientist made a reference to "the First World War." Anyone in the 1930s would have called it "the Great War." It's like someone today calling the war in 1898, "the First Spanish-American War". (Of course, I hope there's no "Second Spanish-American War".) Makes no sense.
The Internet Movie Database doesn't regard this as a goof, using the excuse that the movie is set in an alternate reality, and who knows how many World Wars there were in that existence. I still don't like it - I think it is sloppy screenplay writing.
But what really annoys me is that, when I saw the actor Jude Law fly a machine (a helicopter) that turns into a submarine, in the movie Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), I thought I would never see something stupid like that again. Any machine that could withstand the crush of water pressure would be way too heavy to fly, and any machine light enough to fly could never head straight into the water (at full speed) and become a sub.
Well, guess what. In Sky Captain, Jude Law flys an airplane THAT TURNS INTO A SUBMARINE!!! Aaaaargh!!! The pain!
So my question to the world is: what is it with Jude Law and flying planes/copters into the water, where they magically become submarines? Can we have a moratorium on this? Thank you, Hollywood!

That's my vent!
C
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 2/16/2005 10:30:00 PM