Thread: Licensed The Sky Crawlers
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Old 2009-03-07, 08:48   Link #94
lubczyk
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One thing that really bugged me about the movie was even though it was passing off WW2 set piece vibes with the propeller planes and war scenarios and people speaking English and Polish it had at the same time computers, real-time color news castes and tactical displays along with night vision. It's like the director wanted to make make a WW2 set piece but couldn't be arsed to do some in-depth research on the WW2 era.

Whatever plot holes or inconsistencies were possible in the WW2 vibe going on would just be explained away with genetics, color tv, computers or other technologies. Basically the director or writer wanted their cake and eat it too without putting any actual thought into making the setting stand out. All the uniforms, planes, flags and cities of both sides were some indistinguishable mishmash of German, English and other European armies of the WW2 era.

It didn't feel surreal, it felt lazy.
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