a hot dress and tickets to the time of my life.. hopefully.

Jul 21, 2008 18:47

ABERRATION -  NOUN - 3. 
unsoundness or disorder of the mind

That's my current mood. I feel like a wreck. A lamp, cut apart and broken into shards by clumsy hands.
But I'm not upset or anything negative at all. Really, it's sort of a detachment.

Unsoundness, really.

there are some things that bother me. but none are too big of a deal.

i am, however, exceedingly nervous about the prospect of babysitting two young'uns.

Well, now I'm going to obsess about the Dark Knight because it was the best superhero action/adventure movie I've ever, ever seen.

OKAY, first of all, Christian Bale was definitely not this good-looking in Batman Begins.

Just look:


  

Next, Maggie Gyllenhaal, not her best film. She was like a distorted version of Katie Holmes. No offense.

Other than that, I had no idea I could enjoy such a film soooo much. I mean, sure, I love me some suited heroes, but this was just amazing. I mean, I could go on and on about its fantastic everything, but that would just be obnoxious.

Heath Ledger--stunning, breathtaking, flawless performance. As always. It's really a great shame that he's dead. He played the joker better than any other in old Batman movies. His facial expressions, the way he licked his lips, put together it was just such a great effect.

The way Gordan was dead for about half an hour of the movie was a bit confusing, especially due to the fact a big hunk of the plot was lost due to a fire alarm going off at the theater (I was convinced it was part of the movie at first and was stunned by the awesome surround sound), but. Overall, I would definitely see it again.

And maybe again, just to marvel at Bale's back muscles. <333.

Now, the actual movie. Hmmm....

I'd have to say, I did not mind the length of it at all. You know, some of these extremely long (2 hr. 32 min.) movies fall short of being great, and start to wind down some time after the first hour and a half, but this one just KEPT GOING. There were times when I thought it was over, and then BAM something happens and it's still going. You know, Heath may be gone, but this movie definitely lived up to his reputation. It was legendary.

The screenplay was extremely quotable, and the way Joker would tell people different stories about his scars was magical. The smeared, imperfect makeup, perfect--as if you could almost glimpse into the real Joker, yet, you couldn't really see anything at all.  A hint of humanity, perhaps, behind a man who wants to "watch the world burn".

Aaron Eckhart's role was also quite intriguing. He's a charismatic actor, my favorite film of his is still Thank You For Smoking, if only because he seems more suited to the "villain"-type (or, er, lobbyist) than the fearless avenger.

The scene with the struck, in which Batman flips it over, is. Also. Fantasticccccccc.
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