And we all know whose fault that is ...
(And whose fault it is that Batman has to wear a hard girdle-like costume now.)
Posted on 07/16/2012 12:29:24 PM PDT by C19fan
Director Christopher Nolan has done an intelligent job of assembling a blockbuster finale that brings back a few previous supervillains and makes a neat, emotionally satisfying conclusion to the trilogy of Batman films he has directed. He also has the courage to grapple, however superficially, with two big themes - the fear of terrorism and economic collapse. .......................................................
The bad news is that it lasts two hours 45 minutes, which is astonishingly bloated – and unforgivable in a film that spends a long, ponderous hour getting started.
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Yes, I’ve seen Red Tails. Im also a big WWII and military aviation buff. It unnecessarily simplified and trivializes the story of the Tuskeegee Airmen and perpetuates a lot of myths and stereotypes. The location shooting is excellent but the CGI is mediocre, the P-51 was simply incapable of F-22 style maneuvering and supersonic flight, as Lucas’ FX would make it seem.
I cringed repeatedly throughout it. The 7 year old sitting next to me LOVED it . But the kid probably loved Jar Jar too.
The HBO movie, albiet with lower production values, is magnitudes better.
Yes, sorry, can’t type. I do know the airplane. BTW, saw “Hunger Games” and thought it was very good. Pretty conservative theme, actually: government is oppressive, individuality is stifled.
Tell this Brit that, at $15 bucks a ticket, I want my money’s worth.
The longer the movie, the better.
What is John Carter?
Hugely turned off by the preview showing Catwoman (Selena Kyle) as some kind of idiotic “99 percent-er” lecturing Bruce Wayne about class and money. Idiotic. Selena Kyle wanted to make money even if she had to steal it (albeit with style). She wasn’t a hippie.
I haven’t read the Burrough’s books, but (as you probably know) John Carter was supposed to be a real man’s man. Yet the casting and marketing of the FILM made it look like a workout video for abs of steel or something. Pass.
A Brit says it is humourless. Sounds like it must be a thrilling comedy!
[ What is John Carter? ]
Who is John Galt?
Well, there was the five-episode miniseries starring *shudder* David Soul in 1983.
The latest production to emerge from good ol’ Hollywood on the Monongahela here.
I personally think almost every movie would be improved if cut to less than 120 minutes, preferably 90. I can only think of a handful of movies that truly deserve to be longer than two hours ... Lawrence of Arabia, for one.
You start here, of course.
The movie bomb released this summer that cost the Disney CEO his job.
As soon as I see someone say a movie is too long I know that reviewer is into FX not plot. 2 and 45 minutes didn’t used to be a long movie, it used to be just a movie. But summer blockbusters went on a shrinking rampage in the late 80s through the 90s until 1 30 became the “norm”, some movies even dropping to 1 20. Movies are getting long again to compete, actually trying to give people $10 of entertainment, and they’re growing this by putting plot, characterization and setting back. Go back and the original summer blockbuster, Jaws, there’s a good 45 minutes worth of movie that only tells you about the people and the situation, including of course Quint’s speech about delivering the bomb. But of course there’s a generation of reviewer that grew up on hour and a half block busters that see those scenes as “things that happen between explosions”, which is sad for them.
Selena is a tool used by the League of Shadows. Remember, in Batman Begins, they wanted to use economics to destory Gotham but it didn’t work before so they resorted to terror.
Now they have to get rid of Batman and are using the 99% crap as another economic tool and an excuse to create violence.
Nolan has been good in using current topics as plot background. The Dark Knight was loosely based on the war on terror.
Casablanca hasn’t been done on the big screen again. But there have been 2 attempts to turn it into a TV show and 3 tries at a musical only one of which hit the stage. Of course even all the way back then Hollywood loved remakes, just the year before Casablanca Bogie was in the 3rd movie made in 10 years from the novel Maltese Falcon. Given how expensive movies are to produce Hollywood has always preferred things with a known audience, so they do books, and plays, and remakes, pretty much from day 1.
And we all know whose fault that is ...
(And whose fault it is that Batman has to wear a hard girdle-like costume now.)
Humorless and too long...sounds like life under a second Obama term.
Hm. So, in other words, it's more or less like Nolan's two other Batman movies, which both managed not to suck, despite starting slowly before building momentum.
Personally, I'm disappointed he killed off Harvey Dent in the last film. He made for an interesting character, and could have been the principal villain in the third.
‘Humorless and too long’ sounds like a good description of Nolan’s films in general. Especially the self important Batman films he’s made. They’re tricked out with as much cheap cynicism as he can muster to convince the 15 year olds in the audience that they’re watching something serious.
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