The Rocketeer - Caravan of Garbage

[Music] welcome back everybody to Caravan of garbage where we're making our way through a series of movies well it's not a series they're individual films that's right that failed on their own merits absolutely but they have a vague thing in common sort of you know it when you see it this is the you know it when you see it series it's sort of old and some of them really are old and some of them only look old some of them like the concept is kind of old all of them though yep you have to leave a like on that is true that is the law and I guess the law that links this movie to Dick Tracy is you also thought it was old you said to me hey let's do a bunch of stuff based on all the old stuff Dick Tracy the 30s the Phantom the 30s The Rocketeer that's probably from the 30s and I said James you fool you absolute buffoon that's right I'm airing out a dirty laundry on this video and I said James that's probably from the 80s or something well do you want to do a bit of backstory on The Rocketeer well look I mean you are not entirely wrong in the I mean you were entirely wrong I was being too merciful I was gonna say because you've already had quite a lot of dirty laundry okay literally also you've bought me your washing that's expensive that's true but look by sheer coincidence there were a bunch of like Rocket Man style yeah Adventures sort of from the 40s and 50s the king of the Rocket Man Commando Cody who's the rocket King of the universe or something do you remember that one no right well anyway because I'm not a hundred years old mason Jesus this guy wow that's 100 year old man Erasure so a comic book writer and artist Dave Stevens was asked by the owners of the uh Publishing Company Pacific Comics now defunct to do some backup stories in one of their main comic books and he said David we need some backup stories David David if you're not too busy David we're making 3D comics or something to drive the company oh perfect yeah yeah anyway he came up with the concept of The Rocketeer again based on these kind of old Rocket Man style cereals and again where I was going with this to give you some credit even though you're wrong and you're a fool in a buffoon sure uh this has the absolute exact flavor of that like it feels very authentic definitely you know what I mean you're talking specifically the comic but also but also the movie movie right what I think is incredible about this is the cast for one okay so often when we're watching like a period piece we like to judge the casting or the characters but if they look like they could identify the specific portable music player that was pop popular at the time it was filled absolutely does that make sense yeah everybody does you're watching Amsterdam and you're looking at these actors and you're like do they know what like a like an iPhone looks like you know what I mean okay so James uh Christian Bale knows what an iPod looks like I would say not in that movie and also not in real life yeah right yeah John David Washington yeah yeah he does he grew up with Denzel Washington yeah he's got he had all the technology yeah he probably had laser discs that's right you know Margot Robbie a kind of a chameleon you know even though she is Australian I get lost in the roles that she does yeah so I'm gonna say she can pull off that look I think she knows what an iPod looks like and she had like one of those pink finished you're thinking about that Barbie isn't it is literally coloring your mind that's true Anya Taylor Joy I don't even know what she is where's she from I don't know the chameleon this cast yeah you're right uh it looks like she plays all her music off wax cylinders to this very day absolutely but what is it like haunting ghost noises or something absolutely no It's haunting ghost noises it's like a creaking ship yeah like nymphs Sirens like sirens singing their haunting song to get Sailors to crash into a reef or whatever unsettling laughter yeah yeah just doors closing in a weird way hey send us your playlist Daniel Taylor Joy send it to us and I feel like looking at this cast even though a lot of them are very recognizable is that nobody here knows what a Walkman is no absolutely the haircuts it's the mustaches yes it's the aesthetic and again it's like it's Alan Arkin and Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Connelly Alan Arkin doesn't know what a Walkman looks like now well I think he's dead well he definitely doesn't now depends yeah depends what goes on in the oven as far as I know they have walkmans in heaven it's those yellow Sports walks oh they would yeah they would absolutely yeah yeah and look he's not really like a uh he didn't become like a leading man in the way that a lot of you know guys from this era might of but Cliff's Accord as played by Billy Campbell I think he does a really good job like initially they were gonna go with some bigger name but Joe Johnston who I want to talk about as well who directed this you know he wanted somebody who more embodies the part physically and also in spirit and the haircut obviously the haircut's really important very important when you take the helmet off it has to reform into its correct shape immediately that's right and you might be like we'll just give him a buzz cut well that's not that's not in the comic right it's a it's a floppy kind of yeah young man it's going to the mulch shop yep he's going to a mulch shop sock hop that's right but yeah I think the idea of putting Joe Johnston behind this and if you don't know him he did a lot of special effect and design work on the original Star Wars for example he created the look of Boba Fett oh yeah which is pretty incredible he's got a rocket back he's gonna rock it back he's got a rocket back everybody he also directed Honey I Shrunk the Kids he directed Jumanji he directed a bunch of stuff in between and then he directed Captain America the First Avenger absolutely that's right yeah which in a lot of ways is just like it I'm making The Rocketeer again right nobody saw it they won't know but just I feel like the look of this movie and the casting is just perfect all around Timothy Dalton as this kind of evil Errol Flynn yeah there we go sorry I jumped on that but I just want to say this minus being a Nazi even though Errol Flynn did have a real-life mate who turns out was a Nazi but he might not have known because he was a spy okay sure yeah terrible person don't get me wrong he just might not have been a Nazi tell yeah terrible person but apparently not terrible enough that we won't still claim him as an Australian yeah well he was in that Robin Hood movie you know oh great point we'll take it but yeah he's just got this perfect level of Charisma but also slime Timothy Dalton and the most Sinister hairline you'll see in a movie absolutely and just pulls off that Tweed little Thin Mustache like no one else can there's a moment where he's in front of the mirror and he's wearing like the robin hood-esque wig because there's also a moment in this where he's just it looks like he's just making the movie Robin Hood like the one from the 30s and he whips off the Robin Hood wig and then he's just got the hairline in the face and it's just like damn this guy's killing it I can see why he's James Bond sort of I think but a more Sinister James Bond you know like James Bond if he was a sharpened pencil but he was sharpened too much you know that's what he's like yeah but you know other people turn up like Paul Savino yes of course was also in Dick Tracy that's right and also there's a guy with a really big face oh my god look I don't but my goodness just just just a classic goon yeah just a classic monstrous goon that you'll you'll punch in the chest and he just won't feel it you know you wouldn't see a big goon bend a guy in half to death in a kid's movie these days it doesn't look twice in this movie absolutely incredible uh his name is Tiny Ron Taylor you probably his parents probably named him when he was a baby when he was quite tiny maybe he was Tiny that's all camera trickery you know that's movies you're not wrong that is weird you just can't tell they're it's all it's movies are just basically just lying I hope people know that it's just lies but I think also like some of the design elements of this like the jet pack itself what a beautiful piece of Machinery yeah it has it it had a pretty comprehensive redesign from the one in the comic books where it's more like just a big bullet yeah like a big squat bullet with a couple of kind of kind of UFO style rings around it but I think this design works way better completely agree is that because I saw the movie before I read the comic books who knows maybe there are purists out there who are like no bring back the I've made an edit where I've put in the original rocket pack in the movie about that I mean I've I've cut it out of the comic book and I've stuck it on my TV and I'm moving around and obviously the the specific mechanics of it they don't work like even if it is designed like they say it is where it does not overheat so it will not explode like it would just burn your bum right up really yeah yeah if I had one criticism yeah just it doesn't have a butt covering plate the thing about this thing though is it's so dangerous like even within this movie and the world it's like the worst thing you could fly like you couldn't pick a worse thing to just get around on that's true even if you know what you're doing it's true I mean it looks spectacular I think all the flying in this is for the most part there's some you know you can see some compositing you know yeah going on but I think they match the speed of the footage they shot with you know The Rocketeer himself really well yeah I think that that works for the most part also in this movie like great production design great costumes just some Beautiful Death traps of planes out there you know the the what's it called the GB the the first one the first one the yellow one it looks more like a boat than a plane what were they thinking with that the moment where he crash lands it and they smash the landing gear off yeah now presumably that's all wired like it's not a real plane stunt I don't know look like one yeah but just really impressive stuff I agree I also like in this how the Nazis who they're after wait wait stop there okay you like how the Nazis how they made a little cartoon oh you know that is that's undeniably pretty good they're like look we're gonna do some world domination but we need to sell this it's we need to sell this to the younger demographic you know but you know as a piece of like propaganda maybe they sent it over to Timothy Dalton to be like this will convince him he's a man of acting he can appreciate animation no doubt he's probably friends with Walt Disney who maybe was also a Nazi sympathizer maybe Mason whoa I hope I'm not saying anything too controversial that I'll get canceled I think you're not saying anything controversial enough ramp it up wrap it up just cut out the bit where you said I thought the Nazis were cool or whatever that was oh now now I've said it I know so you've got your Nazis you've got your FBI you've got your mob they're all after it but just seeing the Italian mob at the end just Tommy gunning Nazis nothing wrong with that Mason oh yeah but it does I think the moment where it feels most Captain America is the finale where there's a big punch up on an Airship oh my goodness yes please you know here's a fun fact about that and I just want to be clear we're not in trivia yet uh this is different this is just a thing that I'm saying when model May look at John goodsman was building the model Zeppelin that was going to be blown up on camera he repeatedly told the producers that they should build two one for them and one for him he could take home I'm Gonna Keep It new in box and it's going to retain its value sell it on eBay later that was in case something went wrong with the first take now the studio refused saying they didn't have the money in the budget for a second model but as he predicted the first take didn't work so the production had to pay for a second one anyway embarrassing and then you got to wait everybody's got to wait around on set that's right you know there's no places to be exactly what about that weird dog-shaped Malt Shop sock hop you know yeah I remember that one oh man I can't believe Timothy Dalton crashed into the Hollywood sign though that seems like something he would have wanted maybe oh that character like that made me want to go yeah yeah now I think he probably wanted to go with like surrounded by his Nazi peers yeah I don't think he probably would want to have died you know exploding with a faulty Rock attack on his back and then he crashes in half golly what's on him okay yeah I mean we'll never know yeah if you ever interview Timothy Dalton if you could just ask what was your character thinking as he was crashing into the Hollywood land sign was it huzzah or the German equivalent of this is Hazard yeah which is probably the you know yeah the salute final note that I've got I think we will do some trivia yeah is it oh my God that's Jan from the office she's singing in the lounge is it yeah she's got a name here it is it's on the screen still says Jan from the office she was in Seoul man I don't know if you recall all the yeah the one where that one yeah you're seeing it now this one if you don't don't put it no don't put it in no it's this one people need to know this is history not good but it happened black he looks great he's great what happened there I don't know you thought that was a good idea I don't know maybe it looked black on set maybe it did anyways it's time for the trivia tear oh this is the trivia section of the show as threatened so here are some names that were considered for the lead role Kevin Costner Matthew Modine Emilio westovez Bill Paxton Dennis Quaid Kurt Russell Michael Keaton Alec Baldwin hold on to that door for next week Robin Williams Mel Gibson Harrison Ford Ron Perlman Michael J fox Tom Hanks Richard Marx apparently turned it down he claims the singer yeah that's what he said wow yeah and to answer your question as to uh which of those men uh could look like they could recognize a Walkman yes yes no no no yes no yes very no yeah so apparently Johnny Depp though was Disney's favorite Choice uh you know which sucks for him I guess that he didn't get this but he did go on as we know to play a very big and Famous Disney role The Lone Ranger Mason oh no we don't have to do the live range no Mason we're not doing it though there's too many things in that that I just don't want to talk about okay this is actually James Horner's Disney music debut uh James Horner has passed of course but you might know his music from Braveheart Titanic Avatar he's a big he was a big name great score in this yeah so in the comic book Mason the original inventor of the rocket pack was 30s pulp novel hero Doc Savage the man of bronze however because of Licensing considerations probably that movie Mason Disney did not seek permission from condast the copyright holder of Doc Savage and opted to substitute him for Howard Hughes real life there you go guy who went all sorts of crazy all at once he did it all he ran the gamut yeah I'll design his rocket back and I won't even have it cover somebody's butt I'll do anything in the original graphic novel cliffster cord's girlfriend is named Betty Page not Jenny Blake now the reason for this is so Dave Stevens who created the comic he based the character Betty Page upon his real-life girlfriend 1950s pinup girl Betty Page but she would not allow her name to be used in the film that's why it was changed but in terms of sequels Disney at the time were looking for their version of Indiana Jones right and they eventually found it in Indiana Jones love that and now it's I love that for them yeah now it's over here it's done yeah absolutely so they were like let's do a trilogy but obviously the first one didn't do too well on a budget of 30 to 40 million dollars in the US alone it made 46.7 million it was a bit of a flop Mason but of course it has had a bit of a cult following and that has led to a number of rumors and steps towards a remake or a sequel there was going to be one based on around the Tuskegee Airmen that's correct yeah so first in 2016 there was a movie called The rocketeers where Cliff's Accord goes missing and a second female Rocketeer takes over and the kind it's about the search for him is that the force awakens yes yes I was going to say is also is that was the costume going to be exactly the same except the helmet had a little pink bow on the top to indicate that it was absolutely it was yeah yeah I know people would say The Rocketeer goes work what are they doing to The Rocketeer a movie that famously bombed and nobody is sore yeah they're ruining the legacy of The Rocketeer anyway that one didn't happen in August of 2021 though the title The Return of The Rocketeer was announced this is when Disney plus were just like everybody gets everything all right so the plot would have focused on a former Tuskegee Airman who inherits the rocket pack uniform which would potentially start David or yellow now JD Dillard who made the movie devotion was slated to direct but he decided to take a breather from that kind of period in aviation because you know he spent a lot of time doing that movie that nobody saw also James did you know that on Disney plus there is 22 Episodes of a yep what looks to be a 3D animated series from 2019 Paw Patrol Style just called The Rocketeer Yep this series was for kids obviously yes uh Billy Campbell actually returns to voice Cliff's Accord oh and it's his son kit who takes on the mantle of little Rocketeer there you go but he's also just called The Rocketeer where's his where's his wife what happened she died oh man she crashed into the Hollywood side yeah she like the Nazi guy oh no that was the twist yeah wow yeah there's a there's a prequel comic wow yeah my goodness it's called the blocker yeah know what it is that's what it's called I need to let you know James that that was the first note I wrote for this uh for this uh movie having not rewatched the movie yet and I just needed to find a way to shoehorn it in there it's the perfect time yeah yeah I was thinking there's a scene there's a scene in the in the in the restaurant they're in the restaurant and then one of the guys is like oh Cliff you bro you you crashed you're playing blah blah blah and then and then then Jenny gets real mad at him and I'm like oh that oh that guy's the blocker too yeah that would be it I was talking about a different scene in the restaurant where he's coming over and he's the waiter and he's like I'm spilling stuff oh perfect I've been blocker too then it would also be the I love this yes we both did one and that's important anyways 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throwback from the era it's a double throwback it's a double throwback and it look it summer was a little clunky you're right some of the effects don't really hold up anymore but I think overall Karen characters were good brisk risk action was solid it is very brisk it's that just wonderful time where you could just punch a fed and he would punch you back and it's no big deal yeah that's right that's a great just a Great Hero I wish I could go back to it you know Wonderful that's it all right thanks everybody for watching I was always better than Dick Tracy because stuff actually happened oh my God 100 was better than Dick Tracy yeah not a joke just facts yeah that's true I was gonna say I don't like it but it's true and I do like it actually anyways thanks to Ben and Lawrence for the edit we'll see on the next one grab that Jamie guys we'll see you real soon foreign foreign

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Length: 18min 59sec (1139 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 23 2023