I am like Tiger Woods' inept and untalented son.
Flicks viewed by moi recently
Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005): 6.5/10
Grosse Pointe Blank (Armitage, 1997): 7/10
September (Allen, 1987): 2/10
F for Fake (Welles, 1976): 8/10
East of Eden (Kazan, 1955): 8/10
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards, 1961): 7/10
Antonia's Line (Gorris, 1995): 4.5/10For Father's Day, instead of staying home and doing a double ( Read more... )
Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005): 6.5/10
Grosse Pointe Blank (Armitage, 1997): 7/10
September (Allen, 1987): 2/10
F for Fake (Welles, 1976): 8/10
East of Eden (Kazan, 1955): 8/10
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards, 1961): 7/10
Antonia's Line (Gorris, 1995): 4.5/10For Father's Day, instead of staying home and doing a double ( Read more... )
During the first half of Batman Begins, the director, Chris Nolan, strives so hard to be realistic that the film occasionally dawdles in the mudane. Bale is undoubtedly a darker Batman/Bruce Wayne (but look at his competition) and he handles the angsty moments quite well. There is an excessive amount of supporting characters who never seem to get the amount of screentime they deserve, even though the running-time itself is already at an inordinate length of 140 minutes. Nolan must have worried that he was making the film too thematic (there is an omnipresent motif of fear and grief, along with the overuse of the word "fear"), so he adopted slightly pedestrian comic-book characters and action (I could have sworn Wayne's weak love interest was Spiderman's Mary Jane with a brunette dye-job). Nolan struggles to find a middle-ground between telling the struggling story of the troubled Bruce Wayne and playing out the action-packed moments that the film becomes a bit messy and uneven.
Oh, and the 2 was very deserved; September is undoubtedly Woody Allen's worst. It is a stagy, stiff and heavy-handed failure.
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