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Plunge: The Movie (2003)
Looking for waves, looking for love
Little slice of Indie UK cinema with a few surprises along the way. Follow a group of misfits as they make their way from Bristol to Cornwall on a run to the sun with a shoestring budget. Plunge contains a nostalgic soundtrack echoing the carefree nature of guys out looking for adventure, fun and something more lasting, and that its a rocky road with twists and turns. It reminded me in ways of Big Wednesday but under a much much shorter time frame of them on their journey of love. The surfing footage adds great visuals and the actors appeared to actually learn to surf to make the film. The story takes a while to get going and occasionally looses its momentum but does get back on track. Its interesting to watch, not perfect, and unusual to see a British surf film!
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Wow
Not an easy task to follow up The Dark Knight 2008, but this film does in almost every way.
The scale of this film is huge. It blends the comic-book fantasy with realism in a way that the marvel films don't. Its also much more serious in tone.
Bain's mask adds physical mystery to the character and his identity but the altered voice doesn't work for me. And although you're restricted to get all the characters into play at the right time within the time-fram of a film there are lots of people turning up just in the nick of time! Something you don't notice in the 2008 film. There are so many great twists and story lines within the film you never get bored or feel the story is lagging behind.
There is so much potential for expansion in the Batman story and they have extracted all that they could. Batman struggles in this film and you struggle with him. I loved it