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UP and away
PostedJune 1, 2009
DrLasloJamf
from a post-industrial wasteland
UP is a hugely effective engine of precisely calibrated tear-jerking joy. The script is sentimental in an "aw shucks" Norman-Rockwellian mode, better perhaps for youngsters and their parents than it might be for older teenagers, who (judging from my own) are likely to resist being manipulated by the filmmakers. Visually, the film is a beautiful thing. It took me a few minutes to find my footing with the 3D presentation, but soon it felt quite natural. No headache, no eye strain, and no gratuitous brick-bats thrown at the camera.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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problematic, spectacular, see it in Imax
PostedJuly 24, 2008
DrLasloJamf
from a post-industrial wasteland
Ledger's Joker is of course *spectacular* and freakishly believable, freak that he is. The script has its characters spelling out the "moral of the story" so many times that one wants to throw one's popcorn. Setting Gotham as a "real" city was a terrific decision. The fight scenes, however, are difficult to make sense of and weary the viewer. Batman Begins didn't have this problem, and Nolan is a gifted director, so there must be something new that he's tried and not quite mastered.
The fundamental problem with Nolan's confusing action sequences may be that he shot them in the tall Imax aspect ratio, but the vast majority of us will only see these sequences clipped down to wide-screen ratio. We lose the peripheral information the editor and director could see as they were shooting and editing the film. Just as the old 'pan-and-scan' re-editing of a movie like "The Good The Bad and the Ugly" for 4:3 TV screens could make messy nonsense out of a real work of art, the "Dark Knight" available to most of us in the theater now is not quite the picture conceived by its author. Someday I hope I can see this in Imax format as intended.
Verdict: it's rentable, unless you can see it in Imax. I bet seeing the BluRay will be a more satisfying experience than seeing it in a standard theater now.
The fundamental problem with Nolan's confusing action sequences may be that he shot them in the tall Imax aspect ratio, but the vast majority of us will only see these sequences clipped down to wide-screen ratio. We lose the peripheral information the editor and director could see as they were shooting and editing the film. Just as the old 'pan-and-scan' re-editing of a movie like "The Good The Bad and the Ugly" for 4:3 TV screens could make messy nonsense out of a real work of art, the "Dark Knight" available to most of us in the theater now is not quite the picture conceived by its author. Someday I hope I can see this in Imax format as intended.
Verdict: it's rentable, unless you can see it in Imax. I bet seeing the BluRay will be a more satisfying experience than seeing it in a standard theater now.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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