CP & GD ~ Me me me! I noticed the Catwoman reference. I nudged my friend Stephanie at that point. Yay!
Include my voice in the Hates the Batgrowl Choir. Yikes.
Scarecrow, Two Face and Joker all in the same movie. Neat how it works for this movie and didn't work for
Forever and
& Robin.
Batman's escape with Lau was brilliant. Loved it.
I wasn't bugged by Gyllenhaal. I like her. There is a natural quality to her that allows her to avoid sounding campy or forced.
I don't know what it is, but something bothers me about Bale's mouth. I think he may have too many teeth... I dunno.
Couple of Bush jabs, pretty good imho.
I liked Eckhart as well. I liked him in
Thank You for Smoking and
Erin Brokovich as well. The Two Face effect was amazingly well done. Although, I doubt that the normal side of him would have any hair left. Hair burns really, really fast. The precise hair part kinda bugged me.
Okay, Ledger. Man! I was worried that his performance was over-hyped. It wasn't. He earned the praise. He was amazing. One of the best villains in cinema period. Ledger and the director decided not to make the Joker over the top in every scene. They chose certain moments for it to happen. They didn't overuse the laugh which I was worried they were going to do. I'm glad there were no 'feel sorry for the Joker' moments like a flashback or sad story... Like iSm, I'm glad there was really no explaination by him giving so many different origin stories. The best shot in the film, by far, is the shot where the Joker is just standing there while the Batcycle comes tearing at him. The look he gives over his shoulder is awesome! Perfect. His performance, as much as it made me happy, made me profoundly sad. The man's gone, his Joker is gone with him. Such a talent snuffed so soon.
Now, here's something I was trying to say about
Indy 4 that was illustrated by this film. There was a plausibility to everything that happened in this movie. The flying... okay, maybe not so much, but it's one of those times that you suspend your disbelief. I suspended a lot during
Indy 4 and that unbelievable events just made the whole movie a dung heap for me. Mostly everything that happened in
TDK maybe could have happened.
This movie was dang dark. I kinda felt like I needed a shower after seeing it. The movie did remind me of
Saw in several places. The phone embedded in the body, the grenade in the bank manager's mouth, the two ferries, the recorded footage of the hostage (Anthony Michael Hall - hahaha)... The Nolans seemed to have been inspired by the
Saw films...
I give
TDK high marks. It wasn't a perfect film, but it was great. I say it's a tie for best comic book movie with
Spiderman 2.
I wonder who the next villain will be? Catwoman? Riddler? Penguin?
