in which I review movies. kind of.
Spoilers abound for The Dark Knight.
I have an itch to icon in the worst way. I blame this itch on watching Romeo + Juliet. If you've ever seen it, you may remember it as 'That 90s movie with Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio and lots of cheesy editing and badly placed melodrama?". If you have never seen it, I say you go and watch it. Now. Well, now-ish. Aforementioned cheesy video editing and insane melodrama aside (wait... why are they sending fifteen helicopters after him, again?) I thought it was really good. It's saving graces were the acting (I thought Danes and DiCaprio did a really touching job of making Romeo and Juliet young, honest, and human, which is so easy to forget underneath all that melodrama and uncomfortably could-be-smarmy language). And there was something fun about the way it was shot, too - the costume ball, all the religious paraphernalia throughout the film, the music... that kind of thing.
All that aside - I finally got to see The Dark Knight today! I had pretty high expectations, but I was glad that the movie didn't disappoint. :] I was afraid Heath Ledger's Joker was going to be overrated (what with his death and everything) but he was really, really good. I haven't seen a character that embodied all things evil more than the Joker since never. Totally disturbing, and total win for it. He had this great buildup - freak who kinda freaks out to freak who makes you wet your pants with terror. This is a bad guy you actually, actively, want Batman to put down - only maybe not, because, as the Joker himself says, Gotham needs a better classic villain. Total win. And what was all this with Two-Face? *_* No one told me he was going to be in this movie, too. With two arch-nemeses, how could the movie possibly be bad?
Now, I know I'm kinda crazy, but am I the only one who wants to see Harley Quinn make an appearance? She was always one of my favorite characters watching the cartoon as a kid (aside from femme fatale Poison Ivy, duh), and it's probably only because I'm into grrrrrl power (although I was surprised with myself! I was completely pleased to see Rachel die - I hated Maggie Gyllenhall's Rachel. Maybe this is just because I'm comparing her to Katie Holmes' - and Katie's was sweet and straightforward and lowkey and perfectly sufficient. Maggie's just annoyed me. ><) At any rate, this Joker would be a hard one to love, and I think any girl who could love him would obviously be insane herself. PSYCHIATRIST GONE INSANE = GOOD VIEWING. Funny enough, I felt sorry for him every time he told a story about his father killing his mother, or his girlfriend getting her face cut up, or whatever, and he was probably making them all up. Could Harley possibly feel the same, considering she was his psychiatrist and everything? I think it would feel a little more fitting if Harley weren't always played as (ridiculous) comic relief in the cartoon - then I could really say I want to see her in these movies. As it is, I don't want them to mess it up by being like, "oh, yeah, let's add a completely unfitting love interest!"
Can I stress it enough? Such a cool movie. *_*
(And I want a Harley Quinn icon, now, pls.)
I have an itch to icon in the worst way. I blame this itch on watching Romeo + Juliet. If you've ever seen it, you may remember it as 'That 90s movie with Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio and lots of cheesy editing and badly placed melodrama?". If you have never seen it, I say you go and watch it. Now. Well, now-ish. Aforementioned cheesy video editing and insane melodrama aside (wait... why are they sending fifteen helicopters after him, again?) I thought it was really good. It's saving graces were the acting (I thought Danes and DiCaprio did a really touching job of making Romeo and Juliet young, honest, and human, which is so easy to forget underneath all that melodrama and uncomfortably could-be-smarmy language). And there was something fun about the way it was shot, too - the costume ball, all the religious paraphernalia throughout the film, the music... that kind of thing.
All that aside - I finally got to see The Dark Knight today! I had pretty high expectations, but I was glad that the movie didn't disappoint. :] I was afraid Heath Ledger's Joker was going to be overrated (what with his death and everything) but he was really, really good. I haven't seen a character that embodied all things evil more than the Joker since never. Totally disturbing, and total win for it. He had this great buildup - freak who kinda freaks out to freak who makes you wet your pants with terror. This is a bad guy you actually, actively, want Batman to put down - only maybe not, because, as the Joker himself says, Gotham needs a better classic villain. Total win. And what was all this with Two-Face? *_* No one told me he was going to be in this movie, too. With two arch-nemeses, how could the movie possibly be bad?
Now, I know I'm kinda crazy, but am I the only one who wants to see Harley Quinn make an appearance? She was always one of my favorite characters watching the cartoon as a kid (aside from femme fatale Poison Ivy, duh), and it's probably only because I'm into grrrrrl power (although I was surprised with myself! I was completely pleased to see Rachel die - I hated Maggie Gyllenhall's Rachel. Maybe this is just because I'm comparing her to Katie Holmes' - and Katie's was sweet and straightforward and lowkey and perfectly sufficient. Maggie's just annoyed me. ><) At any rate, this Joker would be a hard one to love, and I think any girl who could love him would obviously be insane herself. PSYCHIATRIST GONE INSANE = GOOD VIEWING. Funny enough, I felt sorry for him every time he told a story about his father killing his mother, or his girlfriend getting her face cut up, or whatever, and he was probably making them all up. Could Harley possibly feel the same, considering she was his psychiatrist and everything? I think it would feel a little more fitting if Harley weren't always played as (ridiculous) comic relief in the cartoon - then I could really say I want to see her in these movies. As it is, I don't want them to mess it up by being like, "oh, yeah, let's add a completely unfitting love interest!"
Can I stress it enough? Such a cool movie. *_*
(And I want a Harley Quinn icon, now, pls.)