The Prestige (Nolan, 2006) — 10 Years Later
A lot of movies show people trapped in hell; this one shows them constructing it.
A lot of movies show people trapped in hell; this one shows them constructing it.
"No one has claim. All have claim."
When something deals with religious identity or terrorism or any of the most serious questions that haunt and plague us, simply being a good movie doesn't feel quite good enough.
Do we hold the Narnia films in the same regard as the Lord of the Rings films? I suppose it depends on whom you ask.
So the question becomes: how does Batman Begins hold up in a post-Avengers world?
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.
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.
Do you think Crash gets a bad rap--or does the mere mention of the title set your teeth on edge?
Ten years before Peter Jackson stretched a simple story into three movies, he stretched a simple movie into three hours.