| | I like Batman, but Bruce says it himself: A guy running around in a bat costume clearly has issues...
So I think I'm one of the 10 people in the world who haven't seen "Iron Man." I didn't really want to be on that list for "The Dark Knight," so I actually made the effort to watch it within the first week. Of course, I was still the last one to see it within my group of friends... so alone I went.
Like Batman.
It was rather depressing.
Anywho, after watching it, I was walking to my car in the rain, thinking: I can't believe that movie got 95% on rottentomatoes.com.
It wasn't a bad movie, I'll make that clear. I would score it a 7.5 or 8 out of 10. I just don't think it was "a masterpiece" like everyone is raving everywhere. I still stand by the fact that I still think "Batman Begins" is one of the finest movies I ever saw, and I can't say for sure if "The Dark Knight" is in that area as well. But you know, I remember all those editing sessions with Susan Snooks in my writing class, she would ALWAYS say that my writing is lacking something that I think the movie is lacking: focus.
Particularly, I'm not a Batman fanboy. I didn't even know what the deal with Joker was until I heard that he was going to be the villain in the movie. Upon that news, and my colleague Mike Klassen's excitement and enthusiasm of the franchise spreading around the class, I spent a hell of a lot of time on Wikipedia just reading about Batman and its universe. From what I've read, one of the most interesting thing about the villains in Batman is the relationship they have with the crusader. I think that is what the focus is in the stories for the most part.
In short, I think that's what was missing in the movie. The first one, the villain was someone Bruce personally knew, which created a strong relation between the two, thus more tension and such. But with this, Joker says that he and Bruce are actually very much alike each other, despite the fact that they only talked two other times: The first time Batman tells Joker to let Rachael go, and the second time he tells him to let Harvey go (which led to telling him to letting Rachael go... again...).
This is the thing with Joker and Batman: Although they want to kill each other, they can't because they feel like they are mirror-images of each other. When I first realized that in my research, it was so twisted that I got chills down my spine, and was really excited to see the two on the big-screen. Other than that there was a "Spiderman 3" vibe going on (too much going on at once), I guess I was just really disappointed that they didn't really expand on that very much.
Or maybe it was the fact that I was watching it alone.
It sucks to be alone.
Like Batman.
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| | Posted 7/23/2008 11:59 PM - 58 Views - 6 eProps - 6 comments
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