Deviation
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He's not half as good as Danny Boyle, who isn't as good as Hitchcock.
Well obviously Boyle isn't any where near Hitchcock, and Nolan isn't half as good as Boyle because he's better, in my opinion. If we're going to draw the comparison between these two then, I think they are totally different directors; Boyle is more inventive technically, but Nolan has a brilliant command of story and narrative realisation that I find more intriguing. TBH there isn't much competition so he is one of Britain's best directors I would say, in address to the thread title.
True, but I also think Boyle can carry a plot better than Nolan since, I found The Prestige and Batman Begins to be quite awful, and worse than anything Boyle has done, bar out A Life Less Ordinary which I still haven't seen. But still, you are right, two very different directors. There are very good directors in Britian, just don't get much attention. It took me to start buying Sight and Sound to discover a director called Terence Davies exists, the only Ken Loach I've seen is his latest one, never seen a Winterbottom or a Frears, but they are also very rarely mentioned. The only one who gets a decent publicity or coverage around is Shane Meadows.
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I hear this criticism a lot, but I don't understand it. Nolan did this with intention to give us a feeling of how the criminals feels. After all, one of the skills of Batman is manipulating darkness and confusion to his advantage.
And took away any excitement from them, and made a Batman film boring, something not even Shoemacker's films were. It didn't work, it was poorly made, it was just unnessecary confusing crap that thankfully was ditched for the sequel. And wasn't the film supposed to be about Batman to an extent that it shot itself further in the foot by giving the film a poor villian( A ninja? What happened to hyper-realism? Why is he irish? And he used to be Batman's mentor who was thought to be dead but was actually alive and was quite lunatic? Is this some poor anime, a wushu flick or a Cartoon Network show taking itself too seriously? Who thought of this plot? Did anyone think this is material to be taken seriously?) and an underused one? Why suddenly focus on the criminals or how they feel? Why not just focus on Batman and give us a coherent view of this skill of his?
I think Batman Begins would have beeen just better if it focused much more on Scarecrow and the eerily familiar gas plot, it would have made it more ineteresting.
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All improved but some do get boringly wrong. The best, for me, is the skill seen in the heist at the start. After that I already felt it was a dramatic improvement on Batman Begins.
I loved them, for the exception of the final two which were good enough but disappointing as final showdowns.
I thought the heist was brillaint, confuses you with the events going on and didn't let go. The car chase in the middle is propably my favourite. If not only for the build up. The deserted streets, the blown up tanker, building everything up nicely, the closed chase in the tunnel, the destruction of the helicopter, the kinda-duel between Joker and Batman, it was great fun. And most importanly that monstrousity of a Tumbler goes destroyed. YAY!!!
Does the final duel between Pacino and Robbins in Insomnia count as an action sequence? That was fantastic.
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There are certainly times where calling a person a cunt is not only reasonable, it is a gross understatement.
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I really wish I could go down to see Privates
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