Review
Ah the future. 2191 to be exact. The air is clean, the trees are growing, and major metropolis cities are running smooth. In the not-to-distant future, the many scientists and engineers will build a super computer that will run everything, from mundane tasks to complex chores. One single large computer, placed in the centre of it all, taking care of all things great and small. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, here it is, the final installment of the Christopher Nolan Batman franchise. Christian Bale’s final hurrah as the caped crusader. With all the hype and hoopla the surrounds it, let’s get the obvious questions out of the way before I give my thoughts.
Whenever I think “3D”, I still have visions of an episode of SCTV, when comedian John Candy, during a sketch involving a Monster Chiller Horror Theatre movie, stares at the camera asking the audience, if they want any … Pancakes?!? He then proceeds to move a stack of pancakes back and forth with eerie music to match. It’s still one my favourite moments of that show, mainly because even after all the years that 3D has existed, it’s still a great way to explain how gimmicky and useless the technology is.
When a popular book is being filmed into a movie, the hype machine revs up and preps for a massive ad campaign that’s hard to dodge. When this particular book came out, by the time the first person came to me and recommended the book, I heard that The Hunger Games is becoming a movie. So I decided to hold off from hearing about anything about the book, including story, trailers, commercials and online teasers. And frankly it was the hardest task I could think of. But, I’ve seen it now, so here’s my opinion on the movie. And there might be spoilers ahead, so if you haven’t seen it and want to be surprised, then why are you reading a review before seeing a movie?
There are four different kinds of trying in movies. The worst being the “phone-in”, when you can see the actor, director or editor really not care, giving a zero-filled performance and might as well not have shown up, and just called in his work. There’s the “on par”, where it feels like they are present and ready to do this, but not all the incentive and perks in the world could motivate the person to put in that extra percent. There’s the “performance” where they give the right amount to give a performance that is believable and thought-driven, and powerful. This is the level you want actors to be in, because then you know that they are giving it all.