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The Rocketeer
1991 · Film · 108 min
Directed by Joe Johnston
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
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I was looking to add a few posters to my room, and this came at the right time. The only one that interested me was: Colossus: The Forbin Project, as I love Michael Colombier's OST in that. Other than that, it's hard for me as a 23-year-old to find movies I've seen here. The earliest I can think of is Indiana Jones, and The Rocketeer, and those are in the 90s.
Oh man. That brings back memories. I adored The Rocketeer as a little kid. I had an NES game based on the movie, too, but I think I remember it being too hard for me.
Rocketeer is among the finest action adventure movies ever made, and deserves to be hailed much more widely than it currently is.
The reason it is not is simple bad luck: out of all the movies it could have opened against, it managed to open against the single film that (at that time) could outdo it in its own action-adventure game, the defining work of the genre: Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Even Rocketeer couldn’t overcome that.
Reminds me a bit of the movie "The Rocketeer" which featured a jetpack of unknown origin [0]. Great movie.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi0Et31E7s4
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocketeer_(film)
The Rocketeer is a great movie :)
Seeing some guy get folded in half in Disney's movie The Rocketeer was traumatic enough for me, and I was ~13. Not to mention melting the shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
It's hard to tell what will or won't deeply affect a child and even harder to gauge the specific ages where things might become appropriate. It's really per-child, and no matter how well a parent does gauging that, mistakes will be made.
There's no way this can be automated, as it's never going to be one-size-fits-all. The combination of generally sanitized media channel + parental supervision will (and should) endure, IMO.
There are quasi-modern-day sci-fi stories like the TV show Eureka or Fringe.
Going backwards just a little in time... Dieselpunk is often set between the two world wars. I loved the style of The Rocketeer, Skycaptain and The World of Tomorrow along with other post-aviation, pre WWII sci-fi/fantasies (even if the non-stylistic aspects of Skycaptain were deeply disappointing).