Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005) — Ten Years Later
So the question becomes: how does Batman Begins hold up in a post-Avengers world?
Category: 10 Years Later
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Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) — 10 Years Later
Revisiting "Brokeback Mountain" after 10 years feels a bit like an archeological dig. After all, director Ang Lee’s film about a pair of covert cowboy gay lovers has more socio-cultural layers of meaning to burrow through than most movies.
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A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005) — Ten Years Later
Well, I feel as though I understand the film a little better than I did ten years ago. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that I like it any better.
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Crash (Haggis, 2005) — 10 Years Later
Do you think Crash gets a bad rap--or does the mere mention of the title set your teeth on edge?
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King Kong (Jackson, 2005) — 10 Years Later
Ten years before Peter Jackson stretched a simple story into three movies, he stretched a simple movie into three hours.
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Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events — 10 Years Later (Silberling, 2004)
If the upcoming Netflix series fails to do justice to the books, it will be sadly missed opportunity, but we'll still have this film which is a worthwhile version of a children's story about encountering tragedy which elucidates the nature of evil. (Elucidate is a big word meaning "to make clear.")
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Vera Drake (Leigh, 2004) — 10 Years Later
Vera Drake eschews argument, which I would normally say is a good thing, but what we are left with is a woman whose moral goodness (and the goodness of her cause) is assumed rather than demonstrated.
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Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part III
Think for a moment. How interesting is it that the Iliad is one of the most famous and inspiring stories in the history of the world? (As legend has it, Alexander the Great always kept copy of the Iliad under his pillow.) I bet this seems strange to many of us now, living with our modern ideas of morality, with our culture’s sensitivity to individual “natural rights,” with our entertainment’s cardboard cutout characters who are designed to be identified with, sympathized with, copied, emulated, worshipped, cheered for, etc. It is quite true that the Iliad does not possess our modern sensibilities, whether in politics or in entertainment.
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Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part II
In Part I of this essay, Jeremy Purves looked back at critics’ reviews of Troy and argued that the film was a better adaptation of Homer’s epic poem than is… Continue reading "Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part II"
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Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part I
It has now been ten years since Wolfgang Petersen’s old-fashionedly classic film on the Trojan War was released. In hindsight, some of the controversy that roiled round the film at the time now seems rather silly. But then much of the criticism the film took was much worse than silly.