Though it’s been almost a week since I saw Batman Begins, it has taken me this long to post my thoughts on it because I honestly could not make up my mind about it. Based on how well made the movie is, I know I’m supposed to like it, but unfortunately it doesn’t do anything for me. I felt like a freak inside the movie theater. I looked around and saw that everyone, including Rach, was buying into the whole thing and I was feeling left out.
I wouldn’t be feeling this way if there was anything significantly wrong with the movie. Had this movie been anything like Batman & Robin, even without the rubber nipples, I would have felt secure with the knowledge that I was right and everybody else was wrong. But given the fact that this movie got most things right, I wasn’t so sure when I left the theater.
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Say what you will about Robert Rodriguez, but he remains to be one of the very few directors in Hollywood who still has the love and respect for filmmaking that is not present in most of his peers. Even his critics would often find fault in the subject matter of his movies, but not in the execution. It is in this regard that his career begs comparison with that of Steven Spielberg’s—another great director who was not taken seriously at the start of his career because of his penchant for making popcorn movies.
Rodriguez’s energy and sincerity as a director translates to a visual style that is both intelligent and brash at the same time. And Sin City not only exemplifies the perfect blend of the cerebral and the carnal aspects of Rodriguez’s vision, but it is arguably his best work to date.
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The biggest problem with Mr. & Mrs. Smith is that it fails to follow through with its moderately intriguing premise and cops out at the end.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie respectively. Duh) find out they’re on opposite sides of the fence and decide that the only way to resolve the issue is to kill each other. A small part of me hoped that the movie ends with at least one of them dying in the other’s arms. At least that would have taken balls on the part of the producers. I expected something as smart and as thought provoking as The War Of The Roses, but that wouldn’t have made a lot of money. We’re talking about Hollywood, where smart movies have no place. So while the movie starts off as The War Of The Roses, it ends as the dismal Undercover Blues.
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