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Batman fights for box-office glory, 'Pineapple Express' gets stoned by critics
By Daniel Bortz
Posted: 8/26/08, 12:33 AM EST Section: Feature
Reminds us of: "The Silence of the Lambs" for Ledger's terrifying but simultaneously terrific role as a villain as dark and vicious as Hannibal Lector.
"The Fall"
Starring: Catinca Untaru, Lee Pace, Justine Waddell
Directed by: Tarsem Singh
Rating: 3 stars out of 4
The art of visual storytelling is difficult to capture. A director must create stimulating scenes with the power to bring the big screen to life and leave the audience in awe, which is no easy task.
Yet by building on sheer imagination, "The Fall" develops an elaborate fantasy tale embedded in the story of a young girl hearing the epic from an injured stuntman in a Los Angeles hospital. Singh's story also bends the concepts of reality and fiction, producing warped perceptions of the real world.
Singh takes the viewer on a thrilling ride packed with adventure and excitement, told through the relationship between Roy Walker (Pace) and Alexandria (Untaru).
After a chance meeting in a hospital wing, Walker tells Alexandria a story about five mythical heroes who band together on a journey across the desert to stop an evil tyrant.
As the story unfolds, the relationship between Walker and Alexandria intensifies. With every step along the way, Alexandria grows more and more consumed by the story, and Walker begins to use her for sneaking morphine out of the hospital's medicine room.
Their interactions add a sense of warmth and emotion to the already engaging film.
Reminds us of: "Pan's Labyrinth" for its creative innovations.
"Pineapple Express"
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Amber Heard, Danny McBride
Directed by: David Gordon Green
Rating: 1 1/2 stars out of 4
In "Pineapple Express," Sal (Franco) plays a drug dealer and best friend to Dale Denton (Rogen), a process server who's more concerned with smoking marijuana than taking the time to meet the parents of his teenage girlfriend Angie (Heard). When Dale witnesses a murder by a crooked cop working for one of the city's drug lords, Dale and Sal find themselves on the run.
"The Fall"
Starring: Catinca Untaru, Lee Pace, Justine Waddell
Directed by: Tarsem Singh
Rating: 3 stars out of 4
The art of visual storytelling is difficult to capture. A director must create stimulating scenes with the power to bring the big screen to life and leave the audience in awe, which is no easy task.
Yet by building on sheer imagination, "The Fall" develops an elaborate fantasy tale embedded in the story of a young girl hearing the epic from an injured stuntman in a Los Angeles hospital. Singh's story also bends the concepts of reality and fiction, producing warped perceptions of the real world.
Singh takes the viewer on a thrilling ride packed with adventure and excitement, told through the relationship between Roy Walker (Pace) and Alexandria (Untaru).
After a chance meeting in a hospital wing, Walker tells Alexandria a story about five mythical heroes who band together on a journey across the desert to stop an evil tyrant.
As the story unfolds, the relationship between Walker and Alexandria intensifies. With every step along the way, Alexandria grows more and more consumed by the story, and Walker begins to use her for sneaking morphine out of the hospital's medicine room.
Their interactions add a sense of warmth and emotion to the already engaging film.
Reminds us of: "Pan's Labyrinth" for its creative innovations.
"Pineapple Express"
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Amber Heard, Danny McBride
Directed by: David Gordon Green
Rating: 1 1/2 stars out of 4
In "Pineapple Express," Sal (Franco) plays a drug dealer and best friend to Dale Denton (Rogen), a process server who's more concerned with smoking marijuana than taking the time to meet the parents of his teenage girlfriend Angie (Heard). When Dale witnesses a murder by a crooked cop working for one of the city's drug lords, Dale and Sal find themselves on the run.
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