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I loved how it formed a time around the 30's and how it related to actresses and actors that acutly perferomed in real movies. I love all the actors and actresses in this movie. Keep it up yall!!!!
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This is an awsome movie. The DVD is not much, ut the movie itself makes it worth buying.
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Back in the 1930s the pulp magazine character Buck Rogers made the leap to the comic strips and carried his popular "rocket pack" with him. It wasn't used in the Universal Serial, nor in the later t.v. series of the 1980s, but the rocket pack was a fan favorite and got "lifted" by several other entrepreneurs for use in their own high adventure efforts.
Most notably, it was lifted by Republic Pictures for use in its 1949 serial "King of the Rocketmen". Proving popular there, it was recycled into a flying device for the character "Commando Cody" (not "Commander" Cody, as many people erroneously believe) in the chapterplay "Radar Men From the Moon",on then into "Zombies of the Stratosphere"(with young Leonard Nimoy as an alien baddie) and, lastly, into the tv series "Commando Cody" with Judd Holdren. The famous rocket back pack ,strapped to a hip-length leather jacket and complemented by the metallic, bullet-shaped helmet of the wearer, became a staple of 50s adventurism.
Years later artist Dave Stevens wanted to do a comic book version of the Rocketman/Commando Cody character but Republic wouldn't license it...so Stevens revamped the entire concept and created the Rocketeer instead.Threw in "Bondage Bettie" Page for eye candy (and perilous predicaments), and had himself a winner.
When Disney decided to do the Rocketeer as a live action "pilot" for a proposed series, they made a good decision. They just didn't market it correctly and made too abrupt a decision not to continue with it.
This is a good movie. It could have been better, but it is good nonetheless. My complaints about it are twofold storywise; one, I think they should have left "Bettie" alone and played an inside joke with the audience. They should have had her elaborately TIED UP at some point. The kiddies wouldn't have gotten the joke, but the more "culturally informed" would have gotten a snicker out of it. Secondly, they went with Charles Higham's thoroughly discredited "Errol Flynn was a Nazi spy" humbug and, in so doing, helped continue this unjustified smear.Even calling him "Neville Sinclair" didn't disguise the allusion of the portrayal, nor did Tim Dalton's oh-so-Flynn-like make up job.
Those points aside, this IS a captivating little adventure. The flying scenes are great, and the zeppelin climax is a real winner...as is the cool idea of a Rondo "Creeper" Hatton "goon" achieved via SFX makeup.
This digital transfer is NOT that great, but maybe it'll be re-done sometime in the future. Lets hope so. In the meantime, we have what we have. The movie itself is well worth watching. Enjoyable and endearing. Go with it.
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The Rocketeer is another 'comic book' movie based on the adventures from the 80s. The laid back airplane pilot Cliff Secord (Bill Campbell) has tested a new plane for the nationals but they find that the plane is a failure (I won't spoil it with why it was). Upon landing, he disovers in another plane there is a mysterious object. Him and his boss test it out and flies like crazy! Stunned, Cliff learns that it is some kind of a jetpack! The Nazis want it, though, and trace Secord. Using his girl Jenny (Jennifer Connelly)the evil Neville Pillsar (Timothy Dalton) the famous actor who works with her gets Cliff to try to give up the pack. But when he learns it is for evil and that Pillsar is a Nazi, he must bash with him and his gang. This suspensful adventure is a great family movie and is just plain fun all the way through! You won't be upset with this movie!
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This is a fun movie that nearly everyone will enjoy. Of course it's silly and far fetched, and terribly unrealistic, but that doesn't really matter now does it?
Bill Campell stars as the Rocketeer, but the real treat is seeing Jennifer Connely before she was launched to Oscar Winning stardom. I also really enjoy Timothy Dalton's performance, it's too bad we haven't seen him in anything recently.
The only thing I would say to parents is that there is a good bit of gunplay, some people die and there is some cursing, but no matter what this is a fun movie with an innocent charm that all will enjoy.
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