So;
I got a chance to see a couple films this weekend. (Being semi-employed offers me some free time....)
Saw "The Dark Knight." Thought it was good; but definitely not the cinematic tour-de-force so many others thought it was. It WAS well thought out, paced, and had some intersting stuff; but it all played out exactly how I thought it would, and I've seen everything in it before. But I kinda think it made such an impression on people 'cos compared to most other films it IS a masterpiece. For me, this should be the MEDIAN level of quality. There were some odd bits for me:
-The crack at the old films; "I want to be able to turn my head" was kinda funny, but given how much the current comics have been trying to ditch their pasts it also kinda made me wince. (Or is that "Winnick?")
-There was a lot of weird forshadowing in it. Lines like "Batman doesn't want to do this forever" and the "but it's good against cats."
-It still seems weird for Batman to be riding Jude Dredd's Lawmaster....
-Batman's been drinking milk, 'cos he bends steel with his bare hands in the beginning....
-A friend of mine thought Bats relied too much on his gadgets in this film, and I kind of agree with him. Although it seemed like the writers wanting to Cyberpunk him up more than being bad writers to me. (The Bat-sonar, and stucky bombs and modular Bat-tank were VERY Bubblegum Crisis.)
-The Joker was pretty good, although I think fi they combined this Joker's attitude with the Caesar Romero Joker's mannerisms you'd have the comic Joker to a tee. Batman kinda bugged me though. He sounds like he's doing a bad Eastwood impersonation. And his head is really, REALLY round....
I saw Hancock too. I thought the first half of this film was AWESOME! The idea of a burned out, drunk superhero was SOOOO weird! And done quite well, too. (The jail "and your head is going...." scene could have been right out of the Post Bros.) And funny. (The ice cream truck scene, and resulting excuses killed!) I loved it, right up 'til they got to the plot. Then it kinda slows down. And the plot was kinda stupid. It seemd like an ad hoc way to include a superpower fight.
Don C.
I got a chance to see a couple films this weekend. (Being semi-employed offers me some free time....)
Saw "The Dark Knight." Thought it was good; but definitely not the cinematic tour-de-force so many others thought it was. It WAS well thought out, paced, and had some intersting stuff; but it all played out exactly how I thought it would, and I've seen everything in it before. But I kinda think it made such an impression on people 'cos compared to most other films it IS a masterpiece. For me, this should be the MEDIAN level of quality. There were some odd bits for me:
-The crack at the old films; "I want to be able to turn my head" was kinda funny, but given how much the current comics have been trying to ditch their pasts it also kinda made me wince. (Or is that "Winnick?")
-There was a lot of weird forshadowing in it. Lines like "Batman doesn't want to do this forever" and the "but it's good against cats."
-It still seems weird for Batman to be riding Jude Dredd's Lawmaster....
-Batman's been drinking milk, 'cos he bends steel with his bare hands in the beginning....
-A friend of mine thought Bats relied too much on his gadgets in this film, and I kind of agree with him. Although it seemed like the writers wanting to Cyberpunk him up more than being bad writers to me. (The Bat-sonar, and stucky bombs and modular Bat-tank were VERY Bubblegum Crisis.)
-The Joker was pretty good, although I think fi they combined this Joker's attitude with the Caesar Romero Joker's mannerisms you'd have the comic Joker to a tee. Batman kinda bugged me though. He sounds like he's doing a bad Eastwood impersonation. And his head is really, REALLY round....
I saw Hancock too. I thought the first half of this film was AWESOME! The idea of a burned out, drunk superhero was SOOOO weird! And done quite well, too. (The jail "and your head is going...." scene could have been right out of the Post Bros.) And funny. (The ice cream truck scene, and resulting excuses killed!) I loved it, right up 'til they got to the plot. Then it kinda slows down. And the plot was kinda stupid. It seemd like an ad hoc way to include a superpower fight.
Don C.
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