Letterboxd — Your life in film

Enjoyable, but this finally confirmed that I've fallen out of the love with superhero movies. You can have all the snappy dialogue and amazing CG you like, but it just felt like more of the same - done better than most admittedly, but I just couldn't care about much happening onscreen.

Having watched both of Nolan's previous Batmans in week before, I was frankly Dark Knighted out by the time I got to this. Nearly eight gloomy hours of the Bat in four days is too much for me... ultimately I'm just not a big enough fan of the character.

So I wasn't really as engaged as I might have been otherwise - it's got impressive action, great performances and some stand-out sequences - but muddled storytelling and bad dialogue let it down. It's certainly good, but on one view seemed easily the weakest of the three. Needs a rewatch, but first I need a Bat-break.

It's a Bond movie, and it's a good one.

Smart, strong, muscular time-traveling thriller.... simultaneously ambitious and pleasingly small scale, with much of the action taking place in a corn field. It doesn't waste much time on the logic of the situation but instead provides an emotional weight often lacking from this sort of high-concept sci-fi flick. Gordon-Levitt and Willis are good, but both are outshone by Jeff Daniel's grumpy gang boss.

Looks great, of course - but for the most part flat, messy and involving. Does no one even try to write really good, well-thought-out scripts with strong dialogue for big budget films any more?

The year's biggest surprise - a Wes Anderson film I actually really liked!

Embargoed until next month!

Still glourious!

Spider-Man does all the things you'd expect Spider-Man to do.

Ted delivered everything I look for in a mainstream comedy - except actual jokes.

Chronicle started well, and I admired the film's dark edge throughout, but the whiny teenage characters quickly started to grate on me. And the found footage style becomes increasingly ridiculous, especially during the all-action climax where the director really struggles to maintain any level of excitement.

The only LOTR film that I think I prefer in it's theatrical version - the extended cut is a big sluggish around in the middle... too many Elfish flashbacks and slow-talking Ent nonsense. Nevertheless, fantastic for the most part...