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The Art of Flight (2011)
Amazing shots, nothing more nothing less
Snowboarding on the most remote places on earth. Living careless, without fear and just doing what you love. That is what The Art of Flight is about. There are tons of amazing shots of going down off the most deserted mountain slopes of the planet. Anyone who likes snowboarding at all will immediately envy some of these runs these guys make. The camera gets really close and sometimes you feel a little out there as well while watching this. That alone makes the film worthwhile. The film tries to add a little more substance though as we also follow the daily routine of these masters of the snowboard. This is where we realize just how shallow this film or perhaps their lives is. They sit around waiting for the perfect weather, traveling from one remote location to the next. The vocabulary seems to consist of only "Wooo!!!" ,"AWESOME" and the like. The interviews only validate this claim and anytime it tries to go a little deeper we move over to the next footage of awesome jumps over the best snow you ever see. At the end I'm not sure if I envy their lifestyle or not, on the one end they live so careless and relaxed that it's just a dream. On the other end it seems they couldn't care less about the other things in life and are just stuck in their nonstop quest for the biggest adrenaline rush.
Anyway the footage is some of the best you'll ever see and that is enough to make this fun to watch. Don't expect anymore more then that though there just isn't.
Batman Begins (2005)
Overrated
Like others i do agree about this being the best batman movie, with batman actually being the main character and not his enemy. The enemy's in this movie are still good but Bale is the man. However the action in the movie is horrible. The fear effects are very cool (i liked batman looking like a demon especially) but the combat scenes are awful. The camera moves so fast that along with the ever dark Gotham the fights are just a blur with batman coming out on top. He may have had his martial art training etc. but there is little to be seen of that. I'm not a comic book reader so i don't mind whether the story follows the comics or not but the story itself is decent. I like how Nolan tried to make batman a could be reality giving him a background, realistic gadgets(the car is cool) and suit and making him more vulnerable and human. However the league of shadows kinda spoiled this reality thing for me, they seem like some shaolin peacefull school however they are the cause of many great disasters? (plague LOL, Rome LOL). The bad guy's plan was kinda cool but the giant microwave should have been left out. The new Gotham looked good, though i liked the classic style a bit more. Anyway overall a good movie with good roles (caine, Bale foremost) and only a bad Holmes.