If you’ve been paying attention since the start you’ll probably know that Chris Nolan has experienced a slight dip in quality over his career.
“WHAAAAA????” I hear you cry.
“But he done The Dark Knight and that’s my bestest film evar evar!”.
Yeah it might well be mate, but let’s face it, it was a bit clunky, overlong and had oblique and unsatisfying sub-plots aplenty.
Before that we had The Prestige (Good because David Bowie’s in it), Insomnia (Good because Al Pacino shouts ever so slightly less than usual) and Memento (one trick pony that still manages to end with someone from ‘Neighbours’ looking good). In my opinion (and it’s the only one that counts round these parts), he’s a trifle overrated. Not saying he’s bad by any means, just not quite the genius he’s made out to be all the time.
So – does Inception justify the hype? Can half-man/half-Brussels sprout DiCaprio ever convince as a leading man?
Sprout-faced heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio is taking a page out of Tim Burtons Big Book of Kooky, and targeting the lucrative “Teenage-girl-with-stripy-socks-on-hands” market with a big budget version of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ next on the slate for Appian Way Productions. Read More »
It has been reported that the proposed remake of Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal 1988 anime Akira hs been put on indefinite hold. According to rumor Akira would be moved to the US and star Leonardo DiCaprio, which in this bloggers humble opinion would have been akin to pissing on an entire form of film making.
And further to that, late breaking news suggest that Darren Aronofsky’s Robocop remake has been shoved back into development hell as he is off to direct Black Swan – a supernatural ballerina story, starring Natalie Portman. While Aronofsky is a talented director – I see no point in remaking a movie only 22 years old, which still looks excellent today.
More original films in production than unnecessary remakes can only be a good thing.
