I'm Obsessed with Jennifer

A rare occasion nowadays, of having been entertained by a Disney film, but "The Rocketeer" was great. Finally I have had
an upgrade from my old scratchy DVD to a Blu-ray, but still a bare-bones edition without any extras. This Fun and Great
looking film would look even better on a 4K UHD release (if there is or will be one) though. My obsession with Jennifer
Connelly got even more intense when i saw this film in 1991, yes, that's 30 years ago, and I was thunderstruck by her beauty.
At that time i had seen her in 4 films before, in "Once Upon a Time in America", in "Phenomena", in "Some Girls" and in
"The Hot Spot" with "Phenomena" being my favourite of these and "Some Girls" being the quirky arty one.
When writing this in December 2022 there has been a Jennifer Connelly mania on Youtube with countless of fan videos
and even her early 1980's Japanese commercials have been appearing. Yes, there's something about Jennifer for sure.

The reason i watched The Rocketeer it in 1991 was because of Jennifer and i hadn't read the graphic novel. I had seen her
in "Phenomena", one of my favourite horror movies, and in the interesting somewhat arty but obscure and forgotten "Some
Girls" from 1988. In "The Rocketeer" she plays the Damsel in Distress and she's resqued by her boyfriend the hero at the end.
A bit of Eye Candy perhaps but this film is an old time matinee family fun and not an artmovie. Her acting is perfectly fine
and there's no room for any method acting stuff in this type of entertainment movie. Later and in the following decade she
acted in many great and important films, as "Requiem for a Dream".

Her boobs looked seriously huge in this film (and impossible to ignore in that white dress) and the question every serious
film scholar wants to be answered is: Did she have a reduction done on her puppies ? Maybe she wanted to escape any
sex kitten roles (as the one in "Career Opportunities") and somehow got the notion that her boobs hindered her from getting
serious roles ? Or maybe her weight loss made them less noticeable ? Well, her nose she did alter anyway.

Lovely Jennifer

Before her nosejob and weight loss, and she's lovely still today naturally, just looks different.
But there was absolutely nothing wrong with her nose then

The Rocketeer definitely belongs to the limited group of films that you really, really want to see on a Blu-ray
edition as it looks Gorgeous. Cinematographer Hiro Narita just got it right, soundtrack composer James
Horner also, the costume makers, art directors ditto. Since the early 1990's we've been flooded with film
adaptions of comics, mangas and graphic novels but The Rocketeer is still one of the best.

It just has got some sweet and easy CHARM to it, and Timothy Dalton seems to love his role as the Bad
Guy, the Hollywood sword-fighting action hero Neville Sinclair (in an Erroll Flynn pastiche) combined secret Nazy spy
and he's great. Bill Campbell as the hero and Alan Arkin as his mechanic are OK too.
In a Bad Guy henchman role we can see Ronald "Tiny Ron" Taylor made up to look like 1930'-40's Holly-
wood film freak, Akromegaly sick Rondo Hatton. Tiny Ron is 2.13 m tall but has got face prosthetics

The Story:

Clifford or Cliff (Bill Campbell) is a down on his luck pilot, a stunt flyer in a Flying Circus who, one day,
get lucky (or not, being involved with gangster killers and nazi spies sounds a bit risky) and finds a strange
apparatus hidden in one of the planes - a Jet motor-pack to be strapped on his back.
Unknown to him, this is a secret weapon constructed by millionaire genius Howard Hughes which have
been stolen by gangsters and then hastily hidden in the plane.

Cliff use the jetpack in the circus and creates a sensation as The Rocketeer. But the nazi's are after the
machine too. The Year is 1938 and Hitler plans an invincible jetpack flying soldier force to conquer the
world. So, Cliff's gorgeous girlfriend Jenny (Jennifer Connelly) suddenly is approached by the big film
star, the seemingly suave Neville Sinclair who is wooing her to get to Cliffs jetpack.

The Film is presented in widescreen 2.35:1, 5.1 english audio DTS-HD MA 5.1 with english subtitles, No extras