Children of Modern Men

Currently, The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499448/) vies with Iron Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/) for the US box office sweepstakes (#1 and #2 respectively) as well as remarkably high accolades (8.0 and 8.3 respectively on IMDB, currently). The latter is truly a remarkable movie. It is my hypothesis that the birth of the genre called the graphic novel has lifted the comic genre to a whole new stratosphere of consummate acting and emotive drama, with the so-called superpowers as a mere backdrop. Batman Begins starts the trend to my mind, and it shown so signs of abatement till I guess the Disney pantheon is exhausted. And of Prince Caspian - well, what can I say save it is a children's movie and best not reviewed by me. And with all due credit to authors and scriptwriters of *similar* genre, teleportation from London's subways and LOTR like vistas are beginning to get me down more than a little

Diane Lane (and Donald Sutherland) excel in Fierce People (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401420/) but the movie certainly does not. The analogy that runs through the movie is a fairly weak hypothesis, the similarity of tribal ritual and those of the well-heeled - well, whoever labelled the latter as saints anyway? The tribal inserts are discordant at times and one cannot help but think that there is a singularly misplaced expectation that the audience expects some form of "barbaric/ primitive" behavior from the tribe, which the moviemaker is at pains to persuade is surpassed by the urban rich. A bit of a wasted effort, really