Everything tagged with “Michael Caine”

1. Inception

   18 July, 2010:

   Inception plays as if Christopher Nolan was in a pub one night and an angry drunk shouted “Oi! Nolan! Think you’re clever with your intertwining narratives and chronological playfulness? I bet you can’t juggle five different threads at once though, spacially, temporally and in a coherent and entertaining fashion!”, and Nolan went off and did it, just to prove a point. He succeeds, but at the expense of characterisation and a sense of any meaning or purpose.

2. Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception

   8 May, 2010:

   Very excited about this one. Christopher Nolan returns with what looks like it might be his best film yet.

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   The Prestige

   19 November, 2006:

   Along with Aronofsky, Raimi and Singer, Christopher Nolan is one of the very few directors who I can really rely upon. A film with one of those names attached is, to me, a guarantee that I’ll be enjoying myself.

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   Batman Begins

   19 June, 2005:

   This was the one I’ve been waiting for. Not since the original Tim Burton/Michael Keaton outing has there been a good Batman film; the franchise style has been slowly whittled away by Joel Schumacher’s love of dry ice, naked male torsos and high camp. Batman Begins was to be the one that redressed the balance. Did it?

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5. The Shape of Things to Come

   11 December, 2004:

   With 2004 nearly over, and fewer opportunities to be disappointed by awful films that promise much yet deliver little this year, I thought I’d have a look ahead to see what’s in store.

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