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As the euphoria after Tamar and Assaf's wedding begins to dissipate I find myself in familiar territory.
Other have wrote about the wedding. I don't have much to add. I'd just say that it was bloody awesome, and since I promised the bride I'd get drunk and have fun - I had to drink my bodyweight in alcohol (more or less) and make an ass of myself on the dance floor. I have some more anecdotes from "behind the scenes" but they're not all that interesting.
The next day found me, surprisingly enough, with almost no hang over, but unfortunately with no mood either. I thought a night out with some people I love would take care of it, but sadly enough it didn't. On this occasion I'd like to apologize to the entire gang I went to the movies with for being such a bright ray of light in an otherwise excellent movie.
We saw Batman Begins. Bottom line? It was acceptable. I have some issues with the casting, some of the dialogs and a large portion of the directing choices but as a whole the movie's not bad. The point that annoyed me most was the same as the latest Star Wars movie - the timing. Ever since Peter Jackson released his Lord of the Rings trilogy, where each movie was like 3.5 hours long, it seems that all hell broke loose. Once a movie was ~90 minutes long. Today it seems they think that the audience will demand a refund if the movie will be less than 2 hours. Within the 90-100 minutes time frame an able director with a good writing staff will be able to convey an entire story, in all levels, but with sloppy writing and weird scenes that run too long, those 90 minutes pass before they finish introducing the characters. Batman Begins is a 140 minutes movie. The introduction - the preface - the prologue - took something like 60-70 minutes at least. What the hell? Second half of the movie was much better - maybe because we finally got to see batman (*gasp*) or maybe because there were fewer boring flashbacks and so-called "deep psychology" to better understand the tormented Bruce Wayne.
I need to try and get some sleep. Make the bad feelings go away (at least for a few hours)
Other have wrote about the wedding. I don't have much to add. I'd just say that it was bloody awesome, and since I promised the bride I'd get drunk and have fun - I had to drink my bodyweight in alcohol (more or less) and make an ass of myself on the dance floor. I have some more anecdotes from "behind the scenes" but they're not all that interesting.
The next day found me, surprisingly enough, with almost no hang over, but unfortunately with no mood either. I thought a night out with some people I love would take care of it, but sadly enough it didn't. On this occasion I'd like to apologize to the entire gang I went to the movies with for being such a bright ray of light in an otherwise excellent movie.
We saw Batman Begins. Bottom line? It was acceptable. I have some issues with the casting, some of the dialogs and a large portion of the directing choices but as a whole the movie's not bad. The point that annoyed me most was the same as the latest Star Wars movie - the timing. Ever since Peter Jackson released his Lord of the Rings trilogy, where each movie was like 3.5 hours long, it seems that all hell broke loose. Once a movie was ~90 minutes long. Today it seems they think that the audience will demand a refund if the movie will be less than 2 hours. Within the 90-100 minutes time frame an able director with a good writing staff will be able to convey an entire story, in all levels, but with sloppy writing and weird scenes that run too long, those 90 minutes pass before they finish introducing the characters. Batman Begins is a 140 minutes movie. The introduction - the preface - the prologue - took something like 60-70 minutes at least. What the hell? Second half of the movie was much better - maybe because we finally got to see batman (*gasp*) or maybe because there were fewer boring flashbacks and so-called "deep psychology" to better understand the tormented Bruce Wayne.
I need to try and get some sleep. Make the bad feelings go away (at least for a few hours)