Well, the answer to this question can be answered by another question... Why is Federer's match so interesting?? Nolan is in the top rung of the Hollywood movie industry. And maybe he will for the decades to come.A man of perfection, he has never ended a movie without giving a twist to the story, be it Inception, The Prestige or TDKR. He has constantly showed improved technique and skill. One of the youngest directors in Hollywood, he has got everything he has ever tried to achieve.
His core story is character based: All his movies till date have the character at the center, and he focuses on their obsessive tendencies which affects those around them.
He tells simple stories in a complex manner: None of Nolan's movies have a complex storyline. The manner in which they are told is what creates the suspense. Memento was complicated by telling events in a random timeline order. Inception kept us identifying dreams and reality.TDKR has a critically acclaimed "dreamy" ending.
Fantastic Cinemtography:Wally Pfister has been involved in everything since Memento, and has given him the choice to present things with "illusionary reality" with different colour palettes and those gigantic flippings as in Inception.
The NIAID director, A.S. Fauci made the recommendation that "Ending the global HIV/AIDS pandemic may be possible by implementing a multifaceted global effort that expands testing, treatment, and prevention programs, as well as meets the scientific challenges of developing an HIVvaccine and possibly a cure, say researchers."
He assures this to us with the new antiretroviral therapy, which increases life span of the individual affected by the virus.
His statement is also statistically supported by the following data:
1."The number of deaths due to HIV AIDS has been reduced by 2/3rds in the US"
2.Globally about 700,000 lives were saved, more so in poor african countries.
Challenges Ahead:
1.8 million people still need to be vaccinated.
2.The vaccine is to be made available free of cost.
3.Notable infrastructure still to be constructed in the third world countries
The antiretroviral therapy reduces the amount of virus in body fluids so reducing the transfer of the virus.
Its now time for the various countries to promote, support and encourage the production of the drug, to save our lives, says Fauci.
Christopher Nolan is very good at giving messages through his films.
That said “The Dark Knight Rises” is thematically very light, sure it touches on the diminishing middle class and the war against the “wealthy” but really it doesn’t pose the questions or answers that one has grown to demand from Nolan.
That’s not to say that it was a bad movie. Far from it, it was a phenomenal movie that just didn’t quite live up to its predecessor. And that’s ok, it didn’t have to.
The hype surrounding this film wouldn’t have allowed it to live up to the expectations anyway, so it’s good that it doesn’t try to.
Set eight years after the events of the previous film, we find Bruce Wayne a broken and battered recluse at the outset of this film, but it’s not long before he is convinced to don the cape and cowl once again and take up arms against the forces of evil.
Story wise there were some plot holes and editing mistakes that made me question a few things more than I have come to expect from a Nolan film, such as with the time winding down, yes there is a digital readout on a bomb, Batman (Christian Bale) flies all around the city avoiding missiles all-the-while less than three minutes ticks off the display.
Many of the twists at the end were predictable, not just to a fan of the comics’ arcs this movie borrows from, but to anyone that is perceptive. Rather than subtlety hint at things to come it all but tells you in some scenes what will happen in the final ten minutes.
That said I still very much enjoyed the movie, the pacing was right on and the story flowed smoothly between action set pieces. All of the acting performances were on par with what you would expect from such a talent laden cast, and the action scenes were magnificent to see on the big screen.
While 2008’s “The Dark Knight” added in humor from Heath Ledger’s OSCAR winning take on The Joker, this movie just packs on violence and more violence as Bane ratchets up the stakes. Bane is just one of a plethora of villains that while fun to see pop up on screen leave some wanted development in others.
Talia and Ra’s Al Ghul, Two-Face, The Scarecrow, Catwoman and Bane are among the villainous characters that all have to split screen time throughout the movie. It might have done well to cut back on the quantity a bit and focus slightly more on the development of some characters.
Overall I give the film an A- because despite its flaws it overcomes with solid character and story elements that are just numerous to bring down the rating any further.
A year ago I might have said the Sony Xperia ion is a good phone. Now it's just outdated.
The main problem with the phone is its software. It's got an awesome design, good hardware and a nice size, but because it runs on the Android Gingerbread operating system, now two generations outdated, the phone is simply not a good purchase.
The Xperia ion is the first Sony-branded smartphone to arrive in the U.S. It has a 4.55-inch, 1,280 by 720 HD LCD screen. That's pretty good, but it's not the best. Though you can run apps and watch movies and be satisfied, there are times where the colors look a little off.
Powering the phone is a 1.5 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 dual-core processor with 1 GB of RAM, which runs well though feels like it has a bit of a lag. This isn't all the hardware's fault though -- the blame again here goes to Gingerbread.
Besides the standard power and volume buttons, the phone has a mini-USB port for its charger, a mini-HDMI port to connect to your TV and a dedicated camera button. But it won't launch the camera for you; you have to open the camera app first.
The camera, which is 12 megapixels and has an LED flash, takes photos that you could proudly upload to Facebook, but don't count on it for much more than that. The front-facing camera is on par with other smartphones' and should only be used for video calls.
The phone is beautiful to look at. The bold black is signature Sony, and its curved, metallic-feeling back are aesthetically pleasing. But in the end the design is outdated as well. Though the phone will fit in palm and pocket, others, notably the Samsung Galaxy S III, simply fit better, take up less space and don't weigh as much.
As far as its connectivity, the Xperia runs on AT&T's 4G LTE network, but in the locations I used it the phone usually reverted to the carrier's standard 4G network. Connecting to Wi-Fi networks was more painstaking than it should have been.
Sony messed with the Gingerbread interface slightly, but it doesn't hamper the experience. It added a cool app called Timescape, which also happens to be the name of the interface, that presents feeds from your social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare in a helpful widget that doesn't intrude on the rest of the main screen.
The company also tossed in a feature that essentially will turn your TV into a smart TV when you connect your phone to it over HDMI. Once hooked up, you can enjoy all your content and open any app, and none of the views are compromised or changed. That's pretty awesome.
What isn't awesome is that, although the Xperia ion will eventually move up to Ice Cream Sandwich and be just one Android version behind, no date for that update has been set.
The Xperia ion is available for $99 on a two-year contract with AT&T. That's not a bad price to pay for a phone that, for the most part, will keep you in the same league as your friends with better phones. What is bad is the two-year contract.
The Xperia ion is outdated now, so imagine how bad it'll be in 2014.
Google Inc's Nexus 7 tablet is off to an encouraging start, with major retailers running out of the gadgets as the Internet company's first entry in an increasingly crowded market showed up in U.S. stores on Friday.
GameStop said on Friday it had already run through its first two allocations of the tablet, co-developed by Google and Taiwan's Asustek that starts at $199 and has drawn glowing reviews from major gadget reviewers.
Sam's Club, the warehouse chain owned by Wal-Mart Stores Inc, and Staples listed the device as being out of stock on their websites as of Friday. Office Depot's website continued to offer the device for sale as of the afternoon.
Google unveiled the 7-inch tablet, which the company hopes will allow it to better compete against Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc and funnel more people into its trove of online content, at its annual developer conference in San Francisco at the end of June.
Consumers have been able to pre-order the tablet from Google and several retailers in past weeks, and Google said it began shipping devices to consumers on Friday.
"We blew through the first two allotments," a GameStop spokesperson said.
A third allotment of preorders will be available in August. The game retailer declined to share exact number of preorders.
The Nexus 7 uses Google's Android mobile software, which has become the most prevalent operating system for smartphones globally, but has so far failed to make a big splash in the tablet market.
By taking a greater role in the tablet arena, Google hopes to ensure that its online services remain front-and-center to consumers, as tablets by Apple and Amazon are increasingly becoming gateways to the Web and Web-based content such as movies and music.
Google executives have been quoted saying that the company will not generate a profit margin when the Nexus 7 is sold in retail stores. A report by research firm IHS iSuppli on Wednesday estimated that the bill of materials for the $199 version of the device, which features 8GB of flash memory and a high-end Tegra 3 processor by Nvidia Corp, is $152.
Apple still dominates the market for touch-screen tablet computers with its two-year old iPad. Amazon.com's $199 Kindle Fire tablet is based on open-source Android computer code, but the device features a customized interface that does not use many Google services.
The Nexus 7 has drawn accolades from reviewers like the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg. Pundits reckon the $199 Nexus 7 may seriously threaten the same-priced Kindle Fire, especially since Google's offering has a camera and a higher-resolution screen.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, speaking to reporters on Thursday at the Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley, said there was "immense demand" for the Nexus 7 in the first week after it was introduced.
Shares in the company climbed 1.1 percent to $576.52, buoyed by a broader U.S. market rally.
