Homersapien
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Personally I cannot stand Unbreakable, I'm suprised it is as highly rated here as that. Alot of M. Knight Shimylahan's (Sp?) stuff is so formulaic it puts the entire super hero formula to shame, it's a "can you guess what the twist is yet" kind of thing and shows a great lack of originality in story telling.
Personally I think Tim Burton's batman was excellent and lessened by the pitiful sequels that followed. It is still a very watchable movie by todays standards even though it was shot nearly 20 years ago.
Whilst Batman Begins was ok it lacked the elements that make you believe the character is infact a superhero, he was merely a man with alot of money and a necessity to scare people. The original Batman had more darkness to the character than merely wanting to "clean up Gotham" along with a superb villain in the form of Jack Nicholson as the Joker (how Heath Ledger can live up to his performance is beyond me) and an excellent and memorable music score. Batman Begins suffers from the modern day film making premise of making things gritty and realistic, all well and good but the fact remains that the subject matter is rather too obscure to fit this remit.
The original Superman series were fairly boring, even recalling watching them as a child. Special FX compared to the likes of Starwars being made at the same time were rubbish in comparison, one of the things I never understood was why not just train christopher Reeves as a professional skydiver and then film actual footage of him flying(falling with style) rather than use green screen footage which even in the day was visibly poor. Stick a parachute beneath the cape, lose the cape midflight and parachute down. Even use a stuntman for some far off footage or close up behind, if pushing CR out of a plane was too out of the question.
The Spiderman films were merely OK but offered little in the way of innovation or new storytelling - Something at least Batman Begins attempted to remedy. The greatest problem faced with many of these stories is that they have to be rigid to the comic books they stem from, and in truth never can. Therefore they suffer at the hands of the scriptwriter, director and editor and skip, miss or lack aspects key to their storytelling in the eyes of the fans of the comics.
The Incredibles was a great satire. Also Condor man was pretty awesome, hehe
Personally I think Tim Burton's batman was excellent and lessened by the pitiful sequels that followed. It is still a very watchable movie by todays standards even though it was shot nearly 20 years ago.
Whilst Batman Begins was ok it lacked the elements that make you believe the character is infact a superhero, he was merely a man with alot of money and a necessity to scare people. The original Batman had more darkness to the character than merely wanting to "clean up Gotham" along with a superb villain in the form of Jack Nicholson as the Joker (how Heath Ledger can live up to his performance is beyond me) and an excellent and memorable music score. Batman Begins suffers from the modern day film making premise of making things gritty and realistic, all well and good but the fact remains that the subject matter is rather too obscure to fit this remit.
The original Superman series were fairly boring, even recalling watching them as a child. Special FX compared to the likes of Starwars being made at the same time were rubbish in comparison, one of the things I never understood was why not just train christopher Reeves as a professional skydiver and then film actual footage of him flying(falling with style) rather than use green screen footage which even in the day was visibly poor. Stick a parachute beneath the cape, lose the cape midflight and parachute down. Even use a stuntman for some far off footage or close up behind, if pushing CR out of a plane was too out of the question.
The Spiderman films were merely OK but offered little in the way of innovation or new storytelling - Something at least Batman Begins attempted to remedy. The greatest problem faced with many of these stories is that they have to be rigid to the comic books they stem from, and in truth never can. Therefore they suffer at the hands of the scriptwriter, director and editor and skip, miss or lack aspects key to their storytelling in the eyes of the fans of the comics.
The Incredibles was a great satire. Also Condor man was pretty awesome, hehe
