06-11-2009, 07:10 PM
So, about a year after seeing it in the movies, I watched Dark Knight again yesterday. A few things:
1) Christian Bale is a terrible Batman. His Batman voice is so bad, during the ending exchange with the Joker, it really took me out of the movie. Joker was dropping some science in this dude's ear, and he's doing this out-of-breath-but-still-masking-his-voice thing that sounded like (and I believe I said this the first time) he had tongue cancer. He's not brooding or scary as Batman, and that's the whole fucking point of Batman.
1.2) Beyond that, his Bruce Wayne is ridiculous. I understand the playboy act, but when he's only around Alfred or Lucius he's too cocky. Maybe this suits early Batman better, but I still don't like it. Maybe I've interpreted Batman differently through reading the comic books, and watching the cartoons, and the movies before this one, or maybe I haven't and HE is the one doing it WRONG. Batman is disturbed, haunted, not some jackass who's always being sarcastic/whatever the word is.
2) Heath Ledger was awesome, but a year later after the hype has died down, and he's won his Oscar, I have to say that some of the appeal is gone. Maybe I got caught up in the hype, or maybe this was one of those movies where it's only STUPID AWESOME the first time around, in a theatre, and once you know the plot twists and the scenes and everything, it's just not the same.
It was done really well, though. I like the Philip Glass-esque scores, the acting was pretty good (Jim Gordon was a better character than Batman, that's a fucking shame). The script was AWESOME, I'll have to look up who wrote it. Beautifully done movie, but Batman was too much of a plastic "place-holder", just filling the spot of the hero and doing "good enough" where you can follow the movie. I don't like that. The first movie blew hardcore (that's right), and now I believe it's because there was no Aaron Eckhart or Heath Ledger. That's sad. Batman should be able to intrigue and entertain all on his own.
to be continued...
1) Christian Bale is a terrible Batman. His Batman voice is so bad, during the ending exchange with the Joker, it really took me out of the movie. Joker was dropping some science in this dude's ear, and he's doing this out-of-breath-but-still-masking-his-voice thing that sounded like (and I believe I said this the first time) he had tongue cancer. He's not brooding or scary as Batman, and that's the whole fucking point of Batman.
1.2) Beyond that, his Bruce Wayne is ridiculous. I understand the playboy act, but when he's only around Alfred or Lucius he's too cocky. Maybe this suits early Batman better, but I still don't like it. Maybe I've interpreted Batman differently through reading the comic books, and watching the cartoons, and the movies before this one, or maybe I haven't and HE is the one doing it WRONG. Batman is disturbed, haunted, not some jackass who's always being sarcastic/whatever the word is.
2) Heath Ledger was awesome, but a year later after the hype has died down, and he's won his Oscar, I have to say that some of the appeal is gone. Maybe I got caught up in the hype, or maybe this was one of those movies where it's only STUPID AWESOME the first time around, in a theatre, and once you know the plot twists and the scenes and everything, it's just not the same.
It was done really well, though. I like the Philip Glass-esque scores, the acting was pretty good (Jim Gordon was a better character than Batman, that's a fucking shame). The script was AWESOME, I'll have to look up who wrote it. Beautifully done movie, but Batman was too much of a plastic "place-holder", just filling the spot of the hero and doing "good enough" where you can follow the movie. I don't like that. The first movie blew hardcore (that's right), and now I believe it's because there was no Aaron Eckhart or Heath Ledger. That's sad. Batman should be able to intrigue and entertain all on his own.
to be continued...
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