I'm Batman.
Jul. 19th, 2008 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoThe Dark Knight.
I stayed awake through the whole thing. I stayed delighted throughout the whole thing. If I had not been distracted after the show, I should have had a more coherent and detailed review. But this was a well done film. It was long, but it did carry itself to the end.
It's a shame, with stars as pretty as Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Aaron Eckhart, that there was little romantic chemistry. But this isn't a film about romantic chemistry--it's a film about the moral implications of the BatMan, what role he serves in society, and how that society reacts to his existence. The dialogue is sharp and I laughed a lot, although the occasional speechifying was the film's weakest link, in my opinion. The Joker character, claiming not to have a plan, is a cunning planner and a smart villain. I liked that nearly every time I thought "If he were smart, he'd do *this*...", he had in fact done this. The Two-Face storyline was, I thought, well thought out and well plotted. In fact, this grounding in reality is one of the things that makes me actually look forward to a new Batman film as opposed to the earlier string of Batman movies. These films are hard, gritty, occasionally painful. When Batman drops a gangster off a roof in order to encourage him to talk, I flinch at the impact.
I cannot now clearly remember the conversation we had in the car afterward, unfortunately. But this is, I believe, an even better film than Batman Begins, and I hope that this is a trend that continues because I'm looking forward to the franchise's next offering.
Four wags, says Coyote.
I stayed awake through the whole thing. I stayed delighted throughout the whole thing. If I had not been distracted after the show, I should have had a more coherent and detailed review. But this was a well done film. It was long, but it did carry itself to the end.
It's a shame, with stars as pretty as Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Aaron Eckhart, that there was little romantic chemistry. But this isn't a film about romantic chemistry--it's a film about the moral implications of the BatMan, what role he serves in society, and how that society reacts to his existence. The dialogue is sharp and I laughed a lot, although the occasional speechifying was the film's weakest link, in my opinion. The Joker character, claiming not to have a plan, is a cunning planner and a smart villain. I liked that nearly every time I thought "If he were smart, he'd do *this*...", he had in fact done this. The Two-Face storyline was, I thought, well thought out and well plotted. In fact, this grounding in reality is one of the things that makes me actually look forward to a new Batman film as opposed to the earlier string of Batman movies. These films are hard, gritty, occasionally painful. When Batman drops a gangster off a roof in order to encourage him to talk, I flinch at the impact.
I cannot now clearly remember the conversation we had in the car afterward, unfortunately. But this is, I believe, an even better film than Batman Begins, and I hope that this is a trend that continues because I'm looking forward to the franchise's next offering.
Four wags, says Coyote.