by Talon on Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:58 pm
THREAD HIJACKATION!
Because Livejournal, 4chan, DeviantArt and pretty much everyone I know in this county is pissing themselves over it and I wanna know what you guys thought-
The Dark Knight. Who's seen it? Opinions? Insightful remarks? Lived up to the hype? Or just getting irritating? Spoilahs ahead, obviously.
I saw it last Friday and loved it, much as certain parts were a bit strung-out but too important to the story to cut. My only serious quibble is that they STILL couldn't make Rachel, the ONLY female lead, an interesting/sympathetic character (to me at least). I'm not even a hardcoar feminist type that often bemoans the depiction of women in Hollywood, but I just barely noticed her character and didn't really care at all when she died (assuming she did die, because the batshit and not-so-batshit fan theories are breeding like rabbits already). She was just there as a plot point to cause Dent's breakdown, not as a player in her own right.
Also the anatomy nerdfuck in me was bemoaning the Two-Face fucked-up-face-effects (he was burnt, not skinned/flayed, guys), but that's not all that relevant to the movie. :B
And since everyone is all over the topic like a rash, yeah, I do think Ledger walked away with every scene. I know some people are of the opinion that everyone thinks that purely because of his death, but I think that would be the case if he was still alive too, because it was such a departure from what he's done before and it worked so well. Some people have a particular thing they specialise in and eventually get typecast as, like a writer specialises in a certain genre, and this seemed to be his (on the subject of writers, I've not seen much love for them, even though there were some stellar moments in there which I could rant over for days. ILU, scriptwriters, even if no-one else does).
Srs movie debate is go? I want to wax lyrical about scriptwriting and characterisation but all my friends/family want to do is talk about is cool explosions and MSPaint Joker makeup on stuff in vain attempts to be cool and edgy. -__-
ETA: as of 00:24 GMT, people are making/arguing about porn of it on two different 4chan boards. I know I totally called this about half an hour into the film, but I vastly underestimated the speed with which it would happen. :/