The. Dark. Knight. And Maria.

[animeartistjo]

FINALLY saw The Dark Knight today and it was HARDCORE.

THERE WAS NO HAPPILY EVER AFTER. And that sentence deserved the all caps. THE ANTI-HERO DOES NOT GET THE GIRL AND THE WHITE KNIGHT DOES NOT STAY THE WHITE KNIGHT AND EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER FRIGGIN' ROCKED. The special effects were not completely crazily CGed to death like something Jolie might star in and the flipped truck and EVERY SCENE WITH THE BATMOBILE/CYCLE INSPIRE APPLAUSE. ALL THE ACTORS WERE HOT. BATMAN. MAYOR. GORDON. DENT. ALFRED. LUCIUS. Morgan Freeman as Lucius, whoever it was for Harvey Dent, and whoever it was for the Commissioner has been the best bit of casting I've seen seen in a while. The writers' reinterpretation of Joker's crazed smile as a scar was admirable, though I think there's another DC villain called Scareface. After watching this movie, I can just SEE Gotham's underground going crazy and spouting out more madmen like Penguin, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, and many, many more.

I had to admit I was glad that Rachel was killed in the end though. I was extremely disappointed that the sole reason for Two-Face's madness was HER and she was Bruce's HOPE . She wasn't the typical weak-willed, swooning left-and-right female or sex-personified femme fatale (sort of), but a WOMAN being the root of all the main characters' cause irritates the Hell out of me. Couldn't the creators have thought up something more interesting?

Also, Alfred will forever remain in my mind the tall, thin, properly upright man with the droopy, aloof features and white hair in the '90's Batman The Animated Series. Not the grandfatherly man in The Dark Knight. He was so much less impressive than I'd hoped for. T_T

BATMAN PWNS SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN, THE HULK, AND THE FANTASTIC FOUR, have I missed any other movie-fied superheroes? I can't say anything about Ironman yet, as I haven't seen it. Yet. I have a weakness for geniuses fighting crime, yes.

Afterwards, dealt with the phone issue. Got me an urban gray, Sony Ericsson w580i heading my way.

Dinner with Maria, who looked almost frightfully thinner than when I last saw her. The Milan pizza (sans that nasty, nasty onion) at the CA Pizza Kitchen was excellent and I overtipped completely ($4 for a $19 meal), the entirety of which I talked shop with Maria. It was AWESOME BEYOND BELIEF to talk about my major with an old friend who was also in it.

So now I will comb LJ for some well written Bruce/Jim and Alfred/Lucius fic. ;D

Comments

[snahjerblah.livejournal.com]

Commissioner was played by Gary Oldman aka Sirius from HP.
I thought the Joker was just brilliant. Heath Ledger was awesome.

[sappheraulde.livejournal.com]

I hate to say how many times I've been to the theater this summer to see The Dark Knight. In fact, now that I think about it, I've lost count. This movie is a masterpiece of dark intensity--it maintains its tone (what one reviewer called "midnight black") throughout. I've rarely seen a fantasy/sci fi movie with archetypal characters like the Joker and Batman that made those characters so unpredictable, entertaining, and terrifyingly real that it is impossible not to watch them. I've rarely seen an adrenline rush action movie that left me thinking about its moral implications and the philosophy of good and evil at the end. I've rarely seen any movie that made me want to go out and marry the screenwriter because the movie was just that friggin good. I can't wait for the DVD--yeah!