The Rocketeer - re:View

I could not disagree with your idea for a sequel more. How would one use a rocket pack to investigate and expose police corruption in 1970s New York City? A better sequel will be one set during WWII with a different protagonist. Maybe something like "Top Secret". Using the rocket pack to rescue someone or get secret information or some sort of mission that could change the outcome of the war. They could spend part of the film upgrading the rocket pack, making it better than the version 1.0 of the original film.

Steve

What a movie magic should be...

Serious Jones

:)

Fauli Foo Foo

Indeed it was. :-)

Feather Elfstrom

A glider with breakaway wheels and an unpowered engine prop.

Joel Meador

I saw this film many times as a kid, it was me of my favourites. I'm not sure my childhood memories could handle Mike's pitch for a sequel though.

James Fraser-Shelley

Excuse me. But HOW THE FUCK DID THEY DO THIS PRACTICAL FX STUNT??? <a href="https://youtu.be/GpmJkPNJ2VM?t=490" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/GpmJkPNJ2VM?t=490</a> Insane. Please, somebody tell me how. Srs.

Will Sullivan

A very good episode. re:View has been consistently great lately. Except for that time when I didn't like it.

Dave M

Eh, I don't really buy the idea that a handful of obscure jokes/references would en masse alienate a young audience. David Mitchell has a great rant about this, which I couldn't even begin to try to reproduce ( <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjG9JcyLYbw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjG9JcyLYbw</a> ). For similar reasons, I'm wary of the idea that general audiences can't handle "clever" things - if anything, I think that's a self-fulfilling prophecy: the stupider the average movie, the less cleverness a "general audience" expects of movies, on average. People are dumb, but only to the exact extent to which it's socially acceptable to be dumb.

Rich and Mike come up with some of the best movie ideas and predictions.

CDB Paine

Also one of my favorite movies. Unfortunately, I accidentally convinced my friends I only enjoyed it ironically by cramming obtuse comparisons into regular conversation. "You need to quit smoking but you're going to wait until after exams? That's like when Cliff Seacord knew he should return the rocket to Howard Hughes, but first he needed to use it to save Jenny Blake from Neville Sinclair in the 1991 film The Rocketeer." "I'm annoying you? Just like Cliff Seacord was annoying the director of the film-within-a-film by stumbling on set to see Jenny Blake in the 1991 film The Rocketeer."

Tom Taylor

I was talking to some current Disney artists at an animation convention in Burbank CA, and I have heard they are working on a rocketeer animated series that has some of the same qualities you guys discuss in the video. I dont know if its taking place in 1970s New York. But from what Ive heard mike is right on the money. Just rumors though!

Amos Stillwell

Great Re:View of a great movie - it's not quite as amazing as The Rocketeer (but what is?) but you guys should check out The Shadow which came out 1-2 years after - also very art deco superhero - - also just realized that the gangster who hides the rocket pack is Rom from DS9!

Matt P

This is super random, but I think the mob character Mike referred to as "Frankenstein" was supposed to be an hommage to Rondo Hatton.

Fauli Foo Foo

Damn, that was fucking amazing. I wonder who made it.

The last 10 minutes of this as they discuss a hypothetical sequel set in the late 1970s was so fun to watch.

I saw this in a theater. As a kid. And I loved it.

Manuel Johnen

It's because we was waving around the severed baby's head he brought for his lunch.

Alex Woodcock-Clarke

The mockup of the Rocketeer II: Blackout poster at 39:59 looks damn epic. Can we have a bigger version?

David Given

Why in heaven's name is Rich's hand blurred at 5:11? Was he accidentally extending the bird?

Top Hat Monkey

I love this movie so much.

Alejandro Diaz

Great video. The mafia working together with the feds is true to real life, where they helped the war effort back home. On an unrelated note, today is the 20th anniversary of The Matrix.

My mom was one of the five people who loved the Rocketeer when it came out, so I was fortunate enough to be introduced to it when I was a kid. It's been one of my favorite movies ever since.

Philip Byers

I care about the Rocketeer. I loved it as a kid and I still do.

John and Marcella

After becoming a patreon member, I've started watching all of the movies for upcoming re:Views in anticipation and it's almost like being in a little film club. I've seen a good handful of movies I'd never consider and I think that's really neat. So thanks, guys. (Also, what's Mike's Wattpad username? I wanna read more of his fanfics)

AnneSQF

Besides that it's always very enjoyable to hear you guys (of all the different rosters) talk about movies you really like, I'll check this one out when I come across it. Also, that movie idea sounds interesting, maybe if it was done with the "urban market" in mind, and just telling a story, meaning without social justice hype around it, it could work? Kind of like from Coffy Brown to Jackie Brown to Rocketeer Brown? Pam Grier is unfortunately to old for that role.

Marvin Falz

It was the very first movie I was able to score invites to the local press screening for. I love it and watch it fairly regularly, and I have found very few people who have seen it that aren't incredible fans.

Adam C.

Rocketeer is tragically underrated. I saw it 3 times at the cinema in the 90s.

Josh Wright

For a brief moment I thought you were reviewing Rocket Man, the comedy with Harland Williams and I got super excited.

Abby Kelling

Yes! Loved this movie back when and even more now!

Matt Roberts

Love u guys!!

Josh Marjonen

Yassss

Gordon Davies