The Rabbitte Perspective

Charmingly Spooky It's always difficult for any film-maker to impose their distinctive filmic aesthetics to a popular genre type which revels in films that essentially implement a formula and other cinematic tropes over and over again. While there are many features within the genre types of horror, and especially superhero films, that all stick to a mode of means that necessarily satisfy the demographic watching, it's a rarity to stumble upon a feature within these genre's that purposefully inform complex and intricate contexts alongside the norm aesthetics. A fairly recent good example where a film belonging to a popular genre type utilises differentiating filmic tactics to impose a change and something new, would be James Mangold's Logan ; a superhero feature that deliberately swept aside the grandeur of action set-pieces and applied emotional and compelling story-telling. As much as it's arguable to look upon Alejandro Amenábar's The Others  and recogn...

Misconstrued Expectancy "Big things have small beginnings" As a new trailer for a highly-anticipated film gets released every so often, it's not surprising to notice the subsequent hype that expectantly follows. Whereas the 'hype' of a particular feature can be justified through many different circumstances, including preceding films that received praise from audience members and critics alike, or the premise which seems to be as original as possible, it can easily be quashed by simply watching what is presented on the screen. An ample case where this has indeed happened, was the release of Star Wars: Episode 1 -The Phantom Menace in 1999; the first Star Wars film to be released into cinemas for 16 years that audience members and die-hard fans were eagerly readying themselves for, which subsequently faltered due to what happened in terms of the context and story-telling. Indeed, the expectancy that you and many others will have over a film, will inevita...

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It... If there's one thing that's hard to come by in this cinematic age, it's to watch a film that has a unique sense of authenticity and spontaneity to it. With their being masses amounts of unnecessary teaser and theatrical trailers for the bigger filmic releases which can subtly spoil narrative aspects, that all audiences will instantaneously gauge themselves with, and full-length features that are either continuations of another film or re-fashioning and older yet lauded premise that didn't need to be remade in the first place, it's a rarity to find a high-grossing feature that oozes a profound sense of originality and sincere enjoyment. As much as Marvel's Cinematic Universe - over time - has progressively changed and appealed to the masses with their differentiating heroes and stories, it wouldn't be where it is now if it wasn't for James Gunn's 2014 directorial venture of Guardians of the Galaxy . Ye...