A favorite peeve of mine is when people in movies refer to “World War I” before World War II takes place. It doesn’t happen much. The first time I remember noticing it was a few years ago in a movie about TR and the Rough Riders starring Tom Berringer. But they sorta do the same thing in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow in which they refer to World War I even though it’s pretty clear World War Two has not transpired. They get a bit of a pass because the movie is so thoroughly a sci-fi tribute. And, yes, I rationalized watching it — on pay-per-view no less! — as “research.” The aesthetics of the movie are splendidly fascist-campy. The fascists were very, very, very into airplanes, by the way.