In 2005, Chrstopher Nolan and David S. Goyer were given the reigns to reboot the Batman film franchise for Warner Brothers. The first film was well received and a bit of a hit, marking a Dark and Modern entry into the series compared to Burton's Gothic and Schumacher's Neon Camp affair. Opening the series with characters not depicted on the big screen earlier, he followed it up with the crazily successful 'The Dark Knight', that pitted Batman against two of his most popular Rogue's, The Joker and Harvey Dent, The film was a hit, and its often debated how much of it's success is linked to the death of scene stealer Heath Ledger (For the Record, I though Aaron Eckart's Harvey Dent was the more enjoyable performance.) Its been 4 years since then, and we've seen a slew of new Comic Book Adaptions since then that have battled it out for what's arguably one of the most popular Comic/Films in cinema, and Nolan and Co have brought out a 2 hour and 40 minute follow up, that well and truly closes the off Nolans series. So is it good, or does it suffer the threequel curse?
Friday 20 July 2012
Wednesday 4 July 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-man is a interesting film, Coming only 10 years after Raimi's first film, and barely 5 years after the much derided third entry, Sony/Columbia have rebooted instead of continuing with Sam Raimi story and paying Toby Maquire half of Sony pictures worth (for the record, the rumored Vulture/Felica Hardy story sounded awful). So here we have Marc Webb (of the great 500 days of summer) at the helm and Andrew Garfield (Never Let Me Go, The Social Network) in the Spandex suite. It's getting mixed reviews, being called a unnecessarily re-telling. In my opinion, Its quite a good film, and does alot of things better then Raimi's opening story, But, i'm not sure its a better film.
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