don't bring me down, bruce
BURSTING WITH SUPERHERO GLEE
CANNOT CONTAIN
Jesus christ i was distracted for a bajillion minutes after the Watchmen trailer (I WAS AS EXCITED FOR THAT AS I WAS FOR THE MOVIE ITSELF... i just read it like a couple months ago, only my entire lifetime too late [at least i didn't wait till a week before the movie as i am wont to do!] and needless to say i fell in love and wonder how the hell it will translate to a movie but am content that it's basically the awesomest ever, so yeah. WATCHMEN) (BEST FUCKING TRAILER I'VE EVER SEEN) (TIMES INFINITY) (PLUS ONE) (I COULDN'T STOP SMILING) (p.s. Billy Crudup is very very very pretty. even when he's blue and glowy.)
AND ALSO THERE WAS BATMAN
So holy fucking hell in a handbasket the motherfucking Joker and goddamn Harvey Dent. wtf, son.
Nothing else i say matters because all it boils down to is: PERFECTION. But i will say some things anyway.
JOKER JOKER JOKER. Never could i have imagined a more perfect portrayal of nihilism. And fuck i knew this was going to happen too, that Heath Ledger's Joker would be so incredibly awesome and it would SUCK because that's all we ever get, ever. Certainly they'll recast and oh man i'm so happy they didn't kill him off this time, but just... who can measure up. It's ridiculous. I remember thinking way back when he was cast that Heath was such an odd choice for the role, but seeing it realized it's like, who else BUT him?
THE PENCIL TRICK. I died. Forever. It was amazing. And blowing up the hospital. SO FANTASTIC. I was all "that wasn't THAT impressive..." and then the payoff, my god. HILARIOUS AND AWESOME AND HILARIOUSLY AWESOME. Literally everything he did and said was pure gold. It just showed exactly why he's the most dangerous villain of all, and it's fucking terrifying and awesome at the same time. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object. GOD I LOVE IT.
HARVEY DENT. You know going into this i didn't care too much about that aspect of the movie, i mean i was super excited about Two-Face being revealed and all, but i didn't think i'd care that much about Harvey himself. But holy crap Aaron Eckhart. I BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT. I loved him so much. Soooooo muuuuuuuuuch. He was the good guy Bruce could never be and he actually made me love him for it. I bought his relationship with Rachel, i bought it all, and his fall friggin HURT. And how about that Two-Face! Hahahaha DISGUSTING. I had heard it was gonna be grotesque but i avoided spoilers at all costs so i didn't really know. Damn. That was brutal.
Oh Maggie Gyllenhaal. Here's the thing. I totally fucking called that Rachel was gonna die. It's kind of the Chloe Sullivan Law. If a character does not exist in the original canon, they are pretty much liable to drop dead at any moment. (which is why it's so amazing that despite the many fake-outs over the years, Chloe is still alive! not that anyone watches Smallville anymore, but having feared for her life for so painfully long, it still makes me happy from afar.) I also called Rachel's death because of course as soon as she's played by someone who i actually love and makes me care about the character, she dies. If she had still been played by Katie Holmes, i would have cheered. But instead it made me very sad. SON OF A!
But oh man re: Rachel, i am so so glad she chose Harvey. GOD THAT STUNG. Because it made sense, and despite hardly seeing their relationship somehow Harvey and Rachel had great chemistry or something, it worked. So when Rachel was dead but Bruce still believed she would have chosen him, and seemed so naive asking Alfred to never tell Harvey, WITH THAT SAD VOICE AND SAD EYES, NEVER KNOWING, AND ALFRED NEVER LETTING HIM KNOW... oh jesus. It hurts. In my heart. HURTS BAD.
Cillian Murphy's 2.5 seconds of screentime: LOOKIN' GOOD. :D
I seem to have neglected to mention Christian Bale's hotness so far. CHRISTIAN BALE'S HOTNESS. Whew. Okay. There was just so much other great stuff! It's a lot to get to! WHY DO I ALWAYS GO SO LONG FORGETTING HOW HOT THE BALE IS. Then i see him again and i remember. He's fairly attractive, you know. Bruce Wayne is amazing. Falling asleep in meetings and making grand douchey entrances with hot ladies, OH BRUCE. Crashing the Lamborghini hurt my soul, oh that poor poor car. But the "trying to make the light" comment was the greatest.
OH, OH, OH, ONE OF THE HAPPIEST MOMENTS!! When Lucius gives him the new suit and he's asking about how well it will stand up to dog attacks, and Lucius is all "maybe a cat" and i'm like "FUCK YES FUCK YES FUCK YES". Uhm. I really want Catwoman in the next movie. Really really really a lot. A whole goddamn lot. A lot. It makes so much sense too with this ending with Batman being cast in the criminal light. Catwoman is a criminal! ERGO. They fall in love. Oh, yeah, third reason i knew Rachel would die: because Batman loves Catwoman forever and always. There's that too. :D :D :D :D But seriously, with what these movies are doing with, oh, EVERYBODY? God i want to see their version of Catwoman. It'll be amazing. And the world can't be left with Halle Berry's version, that's just cruel.
ANYWAY, CATWOMAN TANGENT.
Okay, one little thing i don't like about Bale's Batman. I KNOW. THERE'S ONE THING. It's his voice. The deep raspy voice. I mean i know it's part of the costume and it makes perfect sense! It's just... i don't like it. I like his normal voice. Well, you know, normal for Christian Bale and his magical accent generator. ANYWAY. One little thing, that's all. It just sounds like it hurts! Oh Bruce, you try so hard!
THE JOKER. GODDAMN. I could draw little hearts around him all day. Pure fucking insane anarchic greatness. Wearing a nurse's uniform.
Gordon being made Commissioner: YAYYYYYY. Obviously didn't buy his death for a second, but catching the bullet was a shock. Oh btw Gotham City, FYI, your mayor is a man from a mysterious island cult who doesn't age and is possibly immortal. Just a heads up. GOTHAM'S NEXT MENACE: BENJAMIN LINUS.
Don't you enjoy how thoughtful and articulate i am in posts like this? This movie deserves articulation and yet i cannot do it justice. :( I'm stuck on how thematically brilliant it was on top of being totally badass. That's the best combination there probably ever was.
Bruce/Harvey: OTP, Y/Y?
AAAGGH I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN. I WISH I WERE STILL WATCHING IT RIGHT NOW. That's the thing about awesome movies, i'm always left feeling so sad when they're over. Even though this also left me with an uncontrollable giddiness. Oh holy fuck, there was a lady sitting behind me who, as soon as the credits rolled, said that it was, and i quote, "the most boring Batman i've ever seen". I wanted to punch her in the face. I did not punch her in the face, but i did turn around and glare at her straight in the eyes, so, uh... I SURE SHOWED HER! Oh man there was also someone a few rows back who, when Harvey was laying in the hospital and they had not yet shown the other half of his face, at a silent moment at the very beginning of the scene they whispered very loudly "Two-Face!" WELL NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. God i fucking hate movie theatre audiences. The first minutes of the movie the theatre was filled with a chorus of candy wrapper and popcorn bag rustling. UGH UGH UGH STOP RUINING EVERYTHING, WORLD.
Anyway. Calm. Zen. It was awesome. I am going to watch the Watchmen trailer a googolplex more times. It's basically enough to make my head explode. OH, AWESOME BATMAN MOVIE, HERE HAVE AN AWESOME WATCHMEN TRAILER ON TOP OF THAT, DON'T YOU FEEL OVERWHELMED, MARINA?!? YES I DO, THANKS!
Jesus, man, i even loved Batman Begins (yeah, it has problems, but i still love it) and this was just, oh, take that times a trillion and then you get The Dark Knight! I LOVE WHEN SEQUELS DO THAT.
Oh, uh, heyyyy livejournal. I just had to pop in and share some unadulterated joy with you! Like old times. I know you love my word vomit! LOVE IT! EMBRACE IT! Yeah i've had a lot of posts i've wanted to make but i haven't had the motivation to because they mostly involve pictures or whatever and i'm lazy. And anyway last time i checked livejournal only cares about Twilight anymore and i... do not. (i would read the books, but a) i know they're terrible [and i've seen them in the bookstore and they are shockingly large books for apparently being about teenagers who, as far as i can tell, sit around telling each other they're pretty while not having sex], b) i don't want to spend time or money on terrible things, c) i'm sure i would fall into the trap like everyone else and make fun of it but at the same time enjoy sparkly teenaged vampires and werewolves or whatever the fuck, and d) i don't have the energy to make fun of stupid fandom shit no matter how much of a guilty pleasure it is. yes i'm sure it's fun! but the thing is, i don't care!) That was a lot of parenthetical words just to announce WHATEVER, I'LL DO WHAT I WANT! You just don't understand my complex emotions, livejournal! Here's how i spend my time these days: watching movies from Netflix, watching anime, and playing my DS. I've got no fandom niche for that, i don't know what to do. :(
OKAY BYEEEEEEEEE
CANNOT CONTAIN
Jesus christ i was distracted for a bajillion minutes after the Watchmen trailer (I WAS AS EXCITED FOR THAT AS I WAS FOR THE MOVIE ITSELF... i just read it like a couple months ago, only my entire lifetime too late [at least i didn't wait till a week before the movie as i am wont to do!] and needless to say i fell in love and wonder how the hell it will translate to a movie but am content that it's basically the awesomest ever, so yeah. WATCHMEN) (BEST FUCKING TRAILER I'VE EVER SEEN) (TIMES INFINITY) (PLUS ONE) (I COULDN'T STOP SMILING) (p.s. Billy Crudup is very very very pretty. even when he's blue and glowy.)
AND ALSO THERE WAS BATMAN
So holy fucking hell in a handbasket the motherfucking Joker and goddamn Harvey Dent. wtf, son.
Nothing else i say matters because all it boils down to is: PERFECTION. But i will say some things anyway.
JOKER JOKER JOKER. Never could i have imagined a more perfect portrayal of nihilism. And fuck i knew this was going to happen too, that Heath Ledger's Joker would be so incredibly awesome and it would SUCK because that's all we ever get, ever. Certainly they'll recast and oh man i'm so happy they didn't kill him off this time, but just... who can measure up. It's ridiculous. I remember thinking way back when he was cast that Heath was such an odd choice for the role, but seeing it realized it's like, who else BUT him?
THE PENCIL TRICK. I died. Forever. It was amazing. And blowing up the hospital. SO FANTASTIC. I was all "that wasn't THAT impressive..." and then the payoff, my god. HILARIOUS AND AWESOME AND HILARIOUSLY AWESOME. Literally everything he did and said was pure gold. It just showed exactly why he's the most dangerous villain of all, and it's fucking terrifying and awesome at the same time. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object. GOD I LOVE IT.
HARVEY DENT. You know going into this i didn't care too much about that aspect of the movie, i mean i was super excited about Two-Face being revealed and all, but i didn't think i'd care that much about Harvey himself. But holy crap Aaron Eckhart. I BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT. I loved him so much. Soooooo muuuuuuuuuch. He was the good guy Bruce could never be and he actually made me love him for it. I bought his relationship with Rachel, i bought it all, and his fall friggin HURT. And how about that Two-Face! Hahahaha DISGUSTING. I had heard it was gonna be grotesque but i avoided spoilers at all costs so i didn't really know. Damn. That was brutal.
Oh Maggie Gyllenhaal. Here's the thing. I totally fucking called that Rachel was gonna die. It's kind of the Chloe Sullivan Law. If a character does not exist in the original canon, they are pretty much liable to drop dead at any moment. (which is why it's so amazing that despite the many fake-outs over the years, Chloe is still alive! not that anyone watches Smallville anymore, but having feared for her life for so painfully long, it still makes me happy from afar.) I also called Rachel's death because of course as soon as she's played by someone who i actually love and makes me care about the character, she dies. If she had still been played by Katie Holmes, i would have cheered. But instead it made me very sad. SON OF A!
But oh man re: Rachel, i am so so glad she chose Harvey. GOD THAT STUNG. Because it made sense, and despite hardly seeing their relationship somehow Harvey and Rachel had great chemistry or something, it worked. So when Rachel was dead but Bruce still believed she would have chosen him, and seemed so naive asking Alfred to never tell Harvey, WITH THAT SAD VOICE AND SAD EYES, NEVER KNOWING, AND ALFRED NEVER LETTING HIM KNOW... oh jesus. It hurts. In my heart. HURTS BAD.
Cillian Murphy's 2.5 seconds of screentime: LOOKIN' GOOD. :D
I seem to have neglected to mention Christian Bale's hotness so far. CHRISTIAN BALE'S HOTNESS. Whew. Okay. There was just so much other great stuff! It's a lot to get to! WHY DO I ALWAYS GO SO LONG FORGETTING HOW HOT THE BALE IS. Then i see him again and i remember. He's fairly attractive, you know. Bruce Wayne is amazing. Falling asleep in meetings and making grand douchey entrances with hot ladies, OH BRUCE. Crashing the Lamborghini hurt my soul, oh that poor poor car. But the "trying to make the light" comment was the greatest.
OH, OH, OH, ONE OF THE HAPPIEST MOMENTS!! When Lucius gives him the new suit and he's asking about how well it will stand up to dog attacks, and Lucius is all "maybe a cat" and i'm like "FUCK YES FUCK YES FUCK YES". Uhm. I really want Catwoman in the next movie. Really really really a lot. A whole goddamn lot. A lot. It makes so much sense too with this ending with Batman being cast in the criminal light. Catwoman is a criminal! ERGO. They fall in love. Oh, yeah, third reason i knew Rachel would die: because Batman loves Catwoman forever and always. There's that too. :D :D :D :D But seriously, with what these movies are doing with, oh, EVERYBODY? God i want to see their version of Catwoman. It'll be amazing. And the world can't be left with Halle Berry's version, that's just cruel.
ANYWAY, CATWOMAN TANGENT.
Okay, one little thing i don't like about Bale's Batman. I KNOW. THERE'S ONE THING. It's his voice. The deep raspy voice. I mean i know it's part of the costume and it makes perfect sense! It's just... i don't like it. I like his normal voice. Well, you know, normal for Christian Bale and his magical accent generator. ANYWAY. One little thing, that's all. It just sounds like it hurts! Oh Bruce, you try so hard!
THE JOKER. GODDAMN. I could draw little hearts around him all day. Pure fucking insane anarchic greatness. Wearing a nurse's uniform.
Gordon being made Commissioner: YAYYYYYY. Obviously didn't buy his death for a second, but catching the bullet was a shock. Oh btw Gotham City, FYI, your mayor is a man from a mysterious island cult who doesn't age and is possibly immortal. Just a heads up. GOTHAM'S NEXT MENACE: BENJAMIN LINUS.
Don't you enjoy how thoughtful and articulate i am in posts like this? This movie deserves articulation and yet i cannot do it justice. :( I'm stuck on how thematically brilliant it was on top of being totally badass. That's the best combination there probably ever was.
Bruce/Harvey: OTP, Y/Y?
AAAGGH I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN. I WISH I WERE STILL WATCHING IT RIGHT NOW. That's the thing about awesome movies, i'm always left feeling so sad when they're over. Even though this also left me with an uncontrollable giddiness. Oh holy fuck, there was a lady sitting behind me who, as soon as the credits rolled, said that it was, and i quote, "the most boring Batman i've ever seen". I wanted to punch her in the face. I did not punch her in the face, but i did turn around and glare at her straight in the eyes, so, uh... I SURE SHOWED HER! Oh man there was also someone a few rows back who, when Harvey was laying in the hospital and they had not yet shown the other half of his face, at a silent moment at the very beginning of the scene they whispered very loudly "Two-Face!" WELL NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. God i fucking hate movie theatre audiences. The first minutes of the movie the theatre was filled with a chorus of candy wrapper and popcorn bag rustling. UGH UGH UGH STOP RUINING EVERYTHING, WORLD.
Anyway. Calm. Zen. It was awesome. I am going to watch the Watchmen trailer a googolplex more times. It's basically enough to make my head explode. OH, AWESOME BATMAN MOVIE, HERE HAVE AN AWESOME WATCHMEN TRAILER ON TOP OF THAT, DON'T YOU FEEL OVERWHELMED, MARINA?!? YES I DO, THANKS!
Jesus, man, i even loved Batman Begins (yeah, it has problems, but i still love it) and this was just, oh, take that times a trillion and then you get The Dark Knight! I LOVE WHEN SEQUELS DO THAT.
Oh, uh, heyyyy livejournal. I just had to pop in and share some unadulterated joy with you! Like old times. I know you love my word vomit! LOVE IT! EMBRACE IT! Yeah i've had a lot of posts i've wanted to make but i haven't had the motivation to because they mostly involve pictures or whatever and i'm lazy. And anyway last time i checked livejournal only cares about Twilight anymore and i... do not. (i would read the books, but a) i know they're terrible [and i've seen them in the bookstore and they are shockingly large books for apparently being about teenagers who, as far as i can tell, sit around telling each other they're pretty while not having sex], b) i don't want to spend time or money on terrible things, c) i'm sure i would fall into the trap like everyone else and make fun of it but at the same time enjoy sparkly teenaged vampires and werewolves or whatever the fuck, and d) i don't have the energy to make fun of stupid fandom shit no matter how much of a guilty pleasure it is. yes i'm sure it's fun! but the thing is, i don't care!) That was a lot of parenthetical words just to announce WHATEVER, I'LL DO WHAT I WANT! You just don't understand my complex emotions, livejournal! Here's how i spend my time these days: watching movies from Netflix, watching anime, and playing my DS. I've got no fandom niche for that, i don't know what to do. :(
OKAY BYEEEEEEEEE