 | This is a movie for artists to watch. The art deco 1940s comic book style is perfect. Sky Captain's flagrant liberties with recorded history almost gave me a headache as I ground my teeth. However, the graphics were stunning. Best of all, I rented this as a DVD, so I enjoyed even more the "making of the movie movie." The director worked for seven years on this, four of them alone in his studio. Conran sold the idea to a producer who got funding. They hired graphic artists, and in two years, they created the rest of the movie. Law, Paltrow, and the cast, worked for 29 days only -- on an all-blue set. The craftsmanship of the actors comes out when you watch them on that naked stage because they have no clues, no cues, no hints, only their shared imagination. They did have storyboards, etc., to work from. The process of creating the movie required several generations of illustration and even the hiring of stand-ins in order to have a plot from which writers could create a script for the actors.
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