Just saw Dark Knight...
Dec. 11th, 2008 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I should have studied biology instead. Apart from the one bit with the prisoner on the ferry, I think I would have enjoyed studying more than I enjoyed the movie. It was too long, disjointed, unoriginal, overblown, and Heath Ledger wasn't that great. I'm glad I didn't wait for the theater run and pay money for it. I have no idea what everyone was so excited about.
On the plus side, it's been raining all day, so I got to jump in puddles on the way back to my dorm. So there's that.
On the plus side, it's been raining all day, so I got to jump in puddles on the way back to my dorm. So there's that.
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Date: 2008-12-12 11:40 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-12-12 01:43 pm (UTC)The movie itself though... I felt like they tried to cram two movies into one - by cut-and-paste - and I actually felt like the bit with the prisoner on the ferry was very trite. I liked Batman Begins much better.
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Date: 2008-12-13 05:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-12 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-12 08:41 pm (UTC)Add to my gripes the widely variable volume, which meant sometimes it was too loud, and other times you couldn't hear, the annoying way they dicked around with Batman's voice, and the fact that it was so DARK (from a lighting perspective) and DARK (from an emotional perspective.
I don't know what i would think if i had watched it from the beginning, but, now i'm not sure i will be able to make myself.
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Date: 2008-12-14 03:17 am (UTC)The source material and storyline and characters were very much of the classic Batman stories, such as The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. I know having knowledge about Batman helped a lot too.
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Date: 2008-12-14 11:59 pm (UTC)See, that's what I'd heard it was, and that's what I hoped it would be, but I found it to be very much a superhero movie. I don't mind action movies as long as there's a good plot--I loved the first Matrix, for example.