Deliberate mistake: Polly's and Sky Captain's clothes are discarded because they are contaminated with uranium; however, Polly gets to keep her camera. Her camera would have been contaminated with uranium, too, because she had it with her in the underground cave.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Ending / spoiler
The evil mastermind Dr. Totenkopf died twenty years ago. The mysterious deadly sidekick is a robot that's been carrying on his project until the end. Totenkopf's plan was to carry all animals (like Noah's Ark) in a rocket that would kill everyone on Earth and give humanity a new start; the two tubes that Polly had were "Adam and Eve" and without them, the project could not continue. Joe and Polly stop the rocket from killing everyone on Earth. Polly uses her last camera shot taking a picture of Joe and he says "You forgot to take off the lens cap."
A.J.
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Trivia: When Joe is going to shoot the bomb on the robot's legs, you can see King Kong climbing on the Empire State building in the background. (00:14:15)
Question: Roughly what percent of this movie was actually real as opposed to CGI?
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Chosen answer: About 95% is CGI. The only real part of the movie was the actors themselves (and small objects they handle), with the exception of Dr. Totenkopf, portrayed using archive footage of Laurence Olivier. Everything else was CGI.
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