I'm not a ladies man, I'm a landmine, filming my own fake death
Did it happen? Have I scared anyone yet? Mah.
I'm going to attempt to keep this down to a minor rant at best.
First I'll discuss my opinions of Dark Knight, because I'm sure not enough people have raved and ranted about it.
I definitely thought it was a good movie. I have some varying opinions and side thoughts because of it.
1) Batman. Christian Bale is not my favorite Batman. He is however a nearly perfect Bruce Wayne. I always said it would be damn near impossible to for anyone to play the Joker because of the broad variations of his character (I'll explain more later). it wasn't til this movie that I realized how hard it is to play both Batman and Bruce Wayne at the same time. The previous movies have always spent more time on Batman than his alter ego. This one spent more time with Bruce. Bale's Bruce is very charming and arrogant, which I'd expect of that character. I think its how his mouth forms words when he's batman. No one will ever be as good a batman as Keaton. He had it all down. Since his Bruce wasn't overly noticed, its hard to judge him for that part, but his Bruce was very reserved. A fly on the wall most times. Kilmer did a decent job playing both parts but wasn't the best at either one. Clooney was just goofy. Could just have been the poor writing and directing.
2) Two-face. Hmm. As Dent, I liked Eckhart. Charming, determined, and he played the slow turn to the brooding two-face well. However, as two-face, he didn't seem as angry. More varying emotions than straight up anger. Not sure if killing him off was so great either. Maybe I'm just distracted by the animated series's gravely voiced version.
3) Joker. What can I say that hasn't already been said? The character played through marvelously. Doing psychotic things with a smile on his face. Almost gave me a hard on.
I need to see it again though. I'd been up since 2am and saw it at 8pm, so my mind wasn't able to absorb it all.
Caught off-guard like Houdini when the last fist struck
I miss doing social experiments. I used to. Most of my high school friends probably wouldn't even remember the stuff I did. I didn't always do big things. The one thing that the Joker caught my attention about was the whole concept of doing things for the sheer sadistic facination of seeing how the "normal person" reacts to bad situations.
I never did anything psychotic. I was a very moral and religious person. I wonder what I would be like if I had my curiosity from back then with my current moral ambiguity. I used to build my own reputations. Not with words but actions and clothing. The "clothes make the man" concept pissed me off. I dealt with ridicule in elementary school because I didn't have new stuff, since my family was on the lower end of middle class. I would do subtle things just to see who and how people would react. For instance, I started my junior year wearing nothing but black. About 3 or 4 months in, I decided that I'd gained what I needed to out of that, and showed up to school in white shoes, beige and a light blue shirt. People that were used to seeing me in the hallways stared at me. one girl in one of my classes leaned over to me and said, "where's all the black?"
I'm sure Orion remembers my sunglasses experiment. he's the one I did it to.
As I said, nothing really messed up, but I enjoyed doing it and I enjoyed the brief confusion I had created. Perhaps thats why so many claim to not understand me. maybe I never found who I was and built my personality out of reactions. Doing things against expectations.
could be.
I used to plot and plan these sorts of things every day. I rarely did any of them. I should have written some of that stuff down. I can't even remember very many things my friends and I did to mess with people, that started out with my ideas.
And that ends it for today.
todays non-rant was brought to you by Why? Alopecia
I'm going to attempt to keep this down to a minor rant at best.
First I'll discuss my opinions of Dark Knight, because I'm sure not enough people have raved and ranted about it.
I definitely thought it was a good movie. I have some varying opinions and side thoughts because of it.
1) Batman. Christian Bale is not my favorite Batman. He is however a nearly perfect Bruce Wayne. I always said it would be damn near impossible to for anyone to play the Joker because of the broad variations of his character (I'll explain more later). it wasn't til this movie that I realized how hard it is to play both Batman and Bruce Wayne at the same time. The previous movies have always spent more time on Batman than his alter ego. This one spent more time with Bruce. Bale's Bruce is very charming and arrogant, which I'd expect of that character. I think its how his mouth forms words when he's batman. No one will ever be as good a batman as Keaton. He had it all down. Since his Bruce wasn't overly noticed, its hard to judge him for that part, but his Bruce was very reserved. A fly on the wall most times. Kilmer did a decent job playing both parts but wasn't the best at either one. Clooney was just goofy. Could just have been the poor writing and directing.
2) Two-face. Hmm. As Dent, I liked Eckhart. Charming, determined, and he played the slow turn to the brooding two-face well. However, as two-face, he didn't seem as angry. More varying emotions than straight up anger. Not sure if killing him off was so great either. Maybe I'm just distracted by the animated series's gravely voiced version.
3) Joker. What can I say that hasn't already been said? The character played through marvelously. Doing psychotic things with a smile on his face. Almost gave me a hard on.
I need to see it again though. I'd been up since 2am and saw it at 8pm, so my mind wasn't able to absorb it all.
Caught off-guard like Houdini when the last fist struck
I miss doing social experiments. I used to. Most of my high school friends probably wouldn't even remember the stuff I did. I didn't always do big things. The one thing that the Joker caught my attention about was the whole concept of doing things for the sheer sadistic facination of seeing how the "normal person" reacts to bad situations.
I never did anything psychotic. I was a very moral and religious person. I wonder what I would be like if I had my curiosity from back then with my current moral ambiguity. I used to build my own reputations. Not with words but actions and clothing. The "clothes make the man" concept pissed me off. I dealt with ridicule in elementary school because I didn't have new stuff, since my family was on the lower end of middle class. I would do subtle things just to see who and how people would react. For instance, I started my junior year wearing nothing but black. About 3 or 4 months in, I decided that I'd gained what I needed to out of that, and showed up to school in white shoes, beige and a light blue shirt. People that were used to seeing me in the hallways stared at me. one girl in one of my classes leaned over to me and said, "where's all the black?"
I'm sure Orion remembers my sunglasses experiment. he's the one I did it to.
As I said, nothing really messed up, but I enjoyed doing it and I enjoyed the brief confusion I had created. Perhaps thats why so many claim to not understand me. maybe I never found who I was and built my personality out of reactions. Doing things against expectations.
could be.
I used to plot and plan these sorts of things every day. I rarely did any of them. I should have written some of that stuff down. I can't even remember very many things my friends and I did to mess with people, that started out with my ideas.
And that ends it for today.
todays non-rant was brought to you by Why? Alopecia
