The Dark Knight Rises
So, I've not been around here recently. Mostly because I've been writing fic like crazy.
But I have been to see The Dark Knight Rises.
In the words of my brother, 'I wasn't overwhelmed, I wasn't underwhelmed, I was just whelmed.'
The first thing said as soon as we got in the car was that without Alfred there at the end neither of us would have felt any emotional connection with the film. And that was only because Michael Caine is amazing.
I just. It was well shot. The cinematography and art direction, not to mention the sets and the costumes were all amazing. The acting was great. Especially JGL and Anne Hathaway.
But I didn't really feel anything while watching this film. I was way more on the edge of my seat during The Amazing Spider Man and The Avengers and I knew both of them were going to have a happy ending.
While predictable, the plot didn't have too many holes. Although my brother expressed surprise that missiles could manoeuvre that precisely through all those buildings. And I can't really believe that it's that easy to mend a back or that a few months of press-ups etc could put Bruce back into the fighting shape he was in for the other two movies.
Blake was obviously being set up to become the new Batman and Mal (seriously, wtf was she called in this?) was obviously not to be trusted and was a bad guy as soon as Bruce decided to trust her.I was also totally bored by her character. I just wanted to know when she was going to fuck over Bruce. Somehow I didn't guess that she was the child and Bane was her protector and I'm kind of pissed with myself for not getting it. It's like, one of the oldest storytelling twist/devise ever.
As tahariel said when we talked about it, there wasn't enough Batman. I get where Nolan was going with the film, I really do, but for 2h 45m, we don't really see much of Batman kicking ass and being Batman, which, if I'm honest, is kind of what I want. Blake, Selena and Gordon got far more of the traditional hero moments than Bruce/Batman did. It was like it was trying to be an ensemble film when it should be about Batman/Bruce.
I liked sections of this film. But as an overall whole, I'm very 'meh' about it.
I'd happily take a film about Selena, her protege (but where the hell did she go? Did Selena even tell her to get the hell out of dodge?) and Blake, though.
Tom Hardy was awesome, managing to act more with most of his face covered than most actors manage normally. I was able to understand about 90% of his dialogue but every now and again sentences were just garbled.
I was also impressed by the sheer number of tv actors I noticed in this.
Burn Gorman - Owen from Torchwood
Aidan Gillen - currently Littlefinger in Game of Thrones
Nestor Carbonell - Ringer, and I believe, Lost
Brett Cullen - Nathan in Person of Interest (also Tim Riggins' dad)
Reggie Lee - Wu on Grimm
Ian Bohen - Peter in Teen Wolf
William Devane - Currently Edward Grayson on Revenge but was in 24 and about a billion other things
Wade Williams - He was the prison guard in Prison Break but he's one of those guys who's in everything
Josh Stewart - who is JJ's husband on Criminal Minds
Robert Wisdom - Vaughn in Burn Notice, Uriel in SPN, Colvin in The Wire
Chris Ellis - everything, NCIS, CSI:NY, Burn Notice, IPS, The Finder - I could go on
Joseph Lyle Taylor - Walt Bennett on Justified
Tom fucking Conti was a prisoner
The only person I didn't notice, apparently, was Christopher Judge. Bad me.
I'm also watching a bunch of Summer TV
- Suits
- White Collar
- Covert Affairs
- Leverage
- Longmire
- Dallas
- The Newsroom
- Necessary Roughness
- Teen Wolf
- Burn Notice
- Common Law
And when it starts
- Alphas
But I have been to see The Dark Knight Rises.
In the words of my brother, 'I wasn't overwhelmed, I wasn't underwhelmed, I was just whelmed.'
The first thing said as soon as we got in the car was that without Alfred there at the end neither of us would have felt any emotional connection with the film. And that was only because Michael Caine is amazing.
I just. It was well shot. The cinematography and art direction, not to mention the sets and the costumes were all amazing. The acting was great. Especially JGL and Anne Hathaway.
But I didn't really feel anything while watching this film. I was way more on the edge of my seat during The Amazing Spider Man and The Avengers and I knew both of them were going to have a happy ending.
While predictable, the plot didn't have too many holes. Although my brother expressed surprise that missiles could manoeuvre that precisely through all those buildings. And I can't really believe that it's that easy to mend a back or that a few months of press-ups etc could put Bruce back into the fighting shape he was in for the other two movies.
Blake was obviously being set up to become the new Batman and Mal (seriously, wtf was she called in this?) was obviously not to be trusted and was a bad guy as soon as Bruce decided to trust her.I was also totally bored by her character. I just wanted to know when she was going to fuck over Bruce. Somehow I didn't guess that she was the child and Bane was her protector and I'm kind of pissed with myself for not getting it. It's like, one of the oldest storytelling twist/devise ever.
As tahariel said when we talked about it, there wasn't enough Batman. I get where Nolan was going with the film, I really do, but for 2h 45m, we don't really see much of Batman kicking ass and being Batman, which, if I'm honest, is kind of what I want. Blake, Selena and Gordon got far more of the traditional hero moments than Bruce/Batman did. It was like it was trying to be an ensemble film when it should be about Batman/Bruce.
I liked sections of this film. But as an overall whole, I'm very 'meh' about it.
I'd happily take a film about Selena, her protege (but where the hell did she go? Did Selena even tell her to get the hell out of dodge?) and Blake, though.
Tom Hardy was awesome, managing to act more with most of his face covered than most actors manage normally. I was able to understand about 90% of his dialogue but every now and again sentences were just garbled.
I was also impressed by the sheer number of tv actors I noticed in this.
Burn Gorman - Owen from Torchwood
Aidan Gillen - currently Littlefinger in Game of Thrones
Nestor Carbonell - Ringer, and I believe, Lost
Brett Cullen - Nathan in Person of Interest (also Tim Riggins' dad)
Reggie Lee - Wu on Grimm
Ian Bohen - Peter in Teen Wolf
William Devane - Currently Edward Grayson on Revenge but was in 24 and about a billion other things
Wade Williams - He was the prison guard in Prison Break but he's one of those guys who's in everything
Josh Stewart - who is JJ's husband on Criminal Minds
Robert Wisdom - Vaughn in Burn Notice, Uriel in SPN, Colvin in The Wire
Chris Ellis - everything, NCIS, CSI:NY, Burn Notice, IPS, The Finder - I could go on
Joseph Lyle Taylor - Walt Bennett on Justified
Tom fucking Conti was a prisoner
The only person I didn't notice, apparently, was Christopher Judge. Bad me.
I'm also watching a bunch of Summer TV
- Suits
- White Collar
- Covert Affairs
- Leverage
- Longmire
- Dallas
- The Newsroom
- Necessary Roughness
- Teen Wolf
- Burn Notice
- Common Law
And when it starts
- Alphas