Meh. Is it just me, or does this just seem like a really elaborate opening montage from a video game?

It's hard to derive much of plot from scenes of masked Moon Nazis riding around on Zundapps and Robotech-type flying machines. The bird pooping part was nice -- but does that suggest anything more than tiny moments of scatological comic relief inserted into hours of fascist steampunk porn? I dunno.

On the other hand, "French Revolutionaries on Mars," now that would be a movie.

Skybuckets the "notorious widowmaker"? I had always heard that the more benign-seeming People Mover was actually the most dangerous of Disneyland rides, mainly because their slowness and boringness were so off-putting that people (kids) acted stupid and got crushed and other nasty things. Even the Monorail killed more than the Skybuckets. My understanding was that the Skybuckets were removed specifically because of earthquake concerns and the 30+ years of wear and tear to the complicated machinery. Which was a shame really, because they were best way to get from one side of Disneyland to the other quickly.

Way cool papercraft pieces, though.

I totally agree. I just saw this film a few hours ago and had problems with the authenticity. Not only do the characters seem empty and vacuous with only the thinest of back-stories, but also for a film that gets so much cheap millage by pushing our collective 9-11 emotional buttons, these New Yorkers make a lot of dumb choices without the slightest sense of a post 9-11 world. This one was a major let down.

"The Chinese Must Go" was the slogan of the Workingman's Party of California, going back to the 1850s. A political party headed by former Irish immigrant Dennis Kearney. The organization used fear, coercion, and violence and was eventually successful in getting a nation-wide ban on Chinese immigration in the early 1880s, which principally affected the West Coast, and especially California. Very similar images as the one on this cap gun were used to sell everything from early washing machines to newspapers throughout the late 19th century.