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Oh yeah! I love, love, LOOOOVVVE this film!! The Rocketeer in my opinion was THE best film of 1991 (time sure flies, pardon the pun)! Based on the old comic book series by reknowned girlie pinup artist/graphic designer/comic artist, Dave Stevens, the Rocketeer was loosely inspired by the old Commander Cody TV series. The plot revolves around a dashing young stunt pilot down on his luck who happens to stumble upon a stolen experimental portable rocket pack that can be worn on the back allowing the wearer to fly. He now thinks that Lady Luck may have smiled on him at last. But unknownst to him, a whole bunch of other folks want the rocket pack as well including the Nazis and the mob! Now the chase really begins! The story is a rip roaring, rocket propelled adventure involving everything from international espionage, Howard Hughes, to Golden Age Hollywood. Tongue in the cheek, fast, and fun from beginning to end with a wonderfully rousing score, fantastic special effects, and action sequences that will take your breath away!!! This film is just WOW!!!
It should be noted that the love interest/heroine - Jenny, played by Jennifer Connelly was originally based on 50's pinup queen Bettie Page in the comics, but for copyright reasons was altered both in name and physical appearance for this movie.
Unfortunately, despite the rave reviews and enthusiastic audience response when the Rocketeer was first released, it was somewhat left behind in the dust by then summer juggernaught, Terminator 2, and largely neglected (earning a respectable but unimpressive $60 million, while the film costed $40 million). Sigh, there is truly no justice in the world. The producers later admitted to marketing the film wrong (it was a film for everyone, and not a Disney-ish kiddie movie), and not enough movie goers were lured in as a result. People simply don't know what they're missing, and that's a real shame! Don't make that mistake again! Get the film, see it, feel it, love it!!!!
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For those of you who don't know about this movie, read the other posts here. What I'm going to talk about is the poor video quality of this release.
To start, the framing has been noticably cropped from its original 2.35:1 Panavision scope aspect ratio. If you are familiar with the original widescreen/letterbox laserdisc that Disney released, you'll find that this DVD sports the exact same composite video transfer with all of its inherent problems intact. No new high definition master was created for this release.
The only thing of merrit is that the ORIGINAL 5.1 surround track was used to encode it to Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Yup, the packaging is in error. You're in for a treat as the split surround channels are pretty darn active considering it was mixed in the early days of 5.1 digital surround equipped cinemas.
Hopefully, Disney will re-do this DVD in the near future. They created a fresh transfer for The Santa Clause SE, so why not the superior The Rocketeer??
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This charming movie stars Bill Campbell as a young, clean-cut pilot who ends up getting accidently shot down by some FBI agents while test flying a plane. In the process, the crooks the Feds were chasing stash the stolen goods in the airplane hanger. Cliff (Campbell) finds the stolen goods and begins his adventures as the Rocketeer. The movie co-stars Jennifer Connelly as Cliff's girlfriend, Alan Arkin as Cliff's mentor, and Timothy Dalton as a Hollywood screen idol/secret Nazi spy.
The film is full of family friendly action. The sets are marvelous and the costumes are just right for the era. In fact, the tone of the film is perfect for the time (1938) it is set in. Like many others, I'm not quite sure why this movie was never really big at the BO. I remember seeing it during my freshman year in high school with my kid brother and we both loved it and still do.
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OK, so I liked the Indiana Jones movies, but there was something about their attempt to provide a more modern version of the Saturday afternoon adventure serials and B movies that always proved false.
_The Rocketeer_, based upon Dave Stevens fantastic comic book of the same name is the true heir to these serials. In turn campy and sly, being faithful to the tradition of the B movies and serials whilst gently and lovingly mocking them is the true heir to these serial The Rocketeer manages to upgrade the serials with better looking heroines, badder bad guys, better good guys and of course Dolby sound and color. The score is one of James Horner's best and the soundtrack is as good as the movie, with the score and such classics as "When you're alone" and "Begin the Beguine". Check out the movie and the soundtrack, you won't be sorry.
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Really enjoy this movie, reminds me of some of the old serial movies. The DVD in widescreen is very good , just wish they would have used 5.1 sound.The surrounds effects would have been much better. Did not see any deleted scenes as opposed to VHS version, as one earlier reviewer had noted.This is a good movie to just sit back relax and enjoy . Good family movie with no offensive language.
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