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Went to see The Dark Knight yesterday with some friends. Finally. It was a good movie-- okay, it was a great movie. It didn't change my life or anything, but I enjoyed it, the acting was superb for the most part, and the pacing/storyline/effects were all very very well-done.
A++, would see again.
The Dark Knight, Best of:
✘ The acting. THAR WAS GOOD ACTING. Yes, that is pretty novel. With special mention to Heath Ledger (but of course), Christian Bale, and Michael fucking Caine. Oh yes, and also Cillian Murphy. For all his fifteen seconds. &hearts
✘ The scene where Rachel was all, "I DUN WANNA BE SAVED BUT I KNOW I WILL BE. I KIND OF HATE THE FACT THAT I'LL BE SAVED AT YOUR EXPENSE." And then ... Batman kicks open the door to Dent's warehouse prison. I lol'd. I'm a horrible horrible person, I know. I also lol'd some more when she clearly blanked at the fact that she wasn't going to be saved and sort of awkwardly went, "Oh... th- that's okay. I'm fine with that. Yeah. Um..."
✘ The other scene on the ferries where the inmate was like, "Give me the trigger and I'll do what you shoulda done ten minutes ago" and the policeman does thinking the guy was going to blow up the other ship with all the innocent civilians so he could have his own ass saved and the inmate takes the triggers and chucks it out the window. I loved it. It made me tear, I'll admit. There was much internal awww'ing.
✘ "Why so serious, son?"
✘ "Let's put a smile on that face."
✘ That, despite the Joker's complete mindfuck insanity, there wasn't an excess of gore. What gore and violence there was was crucial to the plot; it wasn't just gratuitous violence heaped to satisfy some weird, sick fascination within us.
✘ THE ENDING. I have very rarely found an ending that I genuinely liked, because I am extremely picky about the balance between happily-evar-after and unnecessary angst and tragedy. The ending to this movie was damn near perfect. I loved it. It made me sob in my soul, but in such a good way.
✘ "Because sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people need their faith rewarded." With all the shots of people having their faith rewarded: Fox inputting his name into the machine, which causes it to self-destruct and Alfred burning Rachel's letter to Bruce because he deserves to have some of his faith in her affections rewarded too. Even if it's not true. I love that there was no moral at the end of the story, but you still left with the sense that you should've gotten something from it: that there are no set rules, that the rules for what's best and what's right change with every situation. That was awesome.
tl;dr, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and the only thing it lacked was moar Cillian prz.
On another note, RL issues have toned themselves down recently. I'm waiting for the eye to pass. This also probably means that starting on a new POLY app is a Bad Idea. ;__;
A++, would see again.
The Dark Knight, Best of:
✘ The acting. THAR WAS GOOD ACTING. Yes, that is pretty novel. With special mention to Heath Ledger (but of course), Christian Bale, and Michael fucking Caine. Oh yes, and also Cillian Murphy. For all his fifteen seconds. &hearts
✘ The scene where Rachel was all, "I DUN WANNA BE SAVED BUT I KNOW I WILL BE. I KIND OF HATE THE FACT THAT I'LL BE SAVED AT YOUR EXPENSE." And then ... Batman kicks open the door to Dent's warehouse prison. I lol'd. I'm a horrible horrible person, I know. I also lol'd some more when she clearly blanked at the fact that she wasn't going to be saved and sort of awkwardly went, "Oh... th- that's okay. I'm fine with that. Yeah. Um..."
✘ The other scene on the ferries where the inmate was like, "Give me the trigger and I'll do what you shoulda done ten minutes ago" and the policeman does thinking the guy was going to blow up the other ship with all the innocent civilians so he could have his own ass saved and the inmate takes the triggers and chucks it out the window. I loved it. It made me tear, I'll admit. There was much internal awww'ing.
✘ "Why so serious, son?"
✘ "Let's put a smile on that face."
✘ That, despite the Joker's complete mindfuck insanity, there wasn't an excess of gore. What gore and violence there was was crucial to the plot; it wasn't just gratuitous violence heaped to satisfy some weird, sick fascination within us.
✘ THE ENDING. I have very rarely found an ending that I genuinely liked, because I am extremely picky about the balance between happily-evar-after and unnecessary angst and tragedy. The ending to this movie was damn near perfect. I loved it. It made me sob in my soul, but in such a good way.
✘ "Because sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people need their faith rewarded." With all the shots of people having their faith rewarded: Fox inputting his name into the machine, which causes it to self-destruct and Alfred burning Rachel's letter to Bruce because he deserves to have some of his faith in her affections rewarded too. Even if it's not true. I love that there was no moral at the end of the story, but you still left with the sense that you should've gotten something from it: that there are no set rules, that the rules for what's best and what's right change with every situation. That was awesome.
tl;dr, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and the only thing it lacked was moar Cillian prz.
On another note, RL issues have toned themselves down recently. I'm waiting for the eye to pass. This also probably means that starting on a new POLY app is a Bad Idea. ;__;