Review: The Dark Knight
Jul. 27th, 2008 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roguemI went to the cinema yesterday and saw The Dark Knight with beluga, P, laraneia and isil80.
Sadly we ended up almost at the last row in the back of the cinema, which makes it at bit easier to be distracted from the screen. Beluga and I had two brats sitting behind us,that loved to giggle, talk and kick the seats. To either side of us on our row there were people who pulled out their cell phones during the film, and there was one woman in front of me who seemed to have her phone out and was texting constantly throughout the film. I wanted to hand them all over to The Joker and let him have some fun with them.
Though all this was very distracting while watching the film, I have tried to gather my thoughts and here's some of them.
Spoiler free.
Sadly we ended up almost at the last row in the back of the cinema, which makes it at bit easier to be distracted from the screen. Beluga and I had two brats sitting behind us,that loved to giggle, talk and kick the seats. To either side of us on our row there were people who pulled out their cell phones during the film, and there was one woman in front of me who seemed to have her phone out and was texting constantly throughout the film. I wanted to hand them all over to The Joker and let him have some fun with them.
Though all this was very distracting while watching the film, I have tried to gather my thoughts and here's some of them.
Spoiler free.
The Dark Knight
There was so much going on in this film that when I try to remeber the first few scenes and introductions I'm having a hard time remembering them.
It is an amazing film, Christopher Nolan has done a wonderful job with bringing this story to life, and his choiche of actors for the various roles just helps build on the script he and Jonathan Nolan wrote. They've taken a story with so many characters and so many conflicts and actions and made something remarkable. This could have easily turned into a big mes of a film, but they've managed to balance almost everything in such a wonderful way. The few flaws that can be found are easy to forgive because of everything they managed to get so right.
My only complaint, might be the same I initially had with the first one; the lenght, but I never really felt that there was stuff they could have cut out, so all in all that is a very minor detail.
I think the cast did a wonderful job. I have to give some credit to Maggie Gyllenhaal for actually bringing some life into the Rachel Dawes character, this time around I did care about what happened to her.
Aaron Eckhart also did a very good job, and the transition from good-doer Harvey Dent to Two-Face was awesome. I actually didn't know that that was going to happen in this film, but I found it to be a very nice surprise.
Christian Bale is wonderful as Batman, he gives us a more grown-up version of the character this time around. The darkness still hangs around him, but he seems to have found some balance within himself, which I think Christian portrays very well.
Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman are just as great as the last time.
I even have to give some credit to Eric Roberts who I did a much better job at portraying a mob boss than Tom Wilkinson managed to do in Batman Begins.
And finally Heath Ledger as The Joker. He was nothing short of amazing. Everytime The Joker was onscreen I felt uneasy and kind of wanted him to go away, but when he wasn't onscreen I kept waiting for him to show up again. Heath took a character that in the script was dark and insane, and gave such a portrayal that even though he is a raving lunatic you can't help but like him just a little bit. I wanted to see the film before I joined the bandwagon, but if they don't give him an oscar nomination for this, whatever little faith I might have left in the Acadamy will die.
All in all it is a very good movie. But I do feel I need to watch it again to fully be able to wrap my brain around it. Hopefully under less distracting circumstances. That being said though, I have a really hard time seing Christopher Nolan top this, but I am exited for the next one.
There was so much going on in this film that when I try to remeber the first few scenes and introductions I'm having a hard time remembering them.
It is an amazing film, Christopher Nolan has done a wonderful job with bringing this story to life, and his choiche of actors for the various roles just helps build on the script he and Jonathan Nolan wrote. They've taken a story with so many characters and so many conflicts and actions and made something remarkable. This could have easily turned into a big mes of a film, but they've managed to balance almost everything in such a wonderful way. The few flaws that can be found are easy to forgive because of everything they managed to get so right.
My only complaint, might be the same I initially had with the first one; the lenght, but I never really felt that there was stuff they could have cut out, so all in all that is a very minor detail.
I think the cast did a wonderful job. I have to give some credit to Maggie Gyllenhaal for actually bringing some life into the Rachel Dawes character, this time around I did care about what happened to her.
Aaron Eckhart also did a very good job, and the transition from good-doer Harvey Dent to Two-Face was awesome. I actually didn't know that that was going to happen in this film, but I found it to be a very nice surprise.
Christian Bale is wonderful as Batman, he gives us a more grown-up version of the character this time around. The darkness still hangs around him, but he seems to have found some balance within himself, which I think Christian portrays very well.
Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman are just as great as the last time.
I even have to give some credit to Eric Roberts who I did a much better job at portraying a mob boss than Tom Wilkinson managed to do in Batman Begins.
And finally Heath Ledger as The Joker. He was nothing short of amazing. Everytime The Joker was onscreen I felt uneasy and kind of wanted him to go away, but when he wasn't onscreen I kept waiting for him to show up again. Heath took a character that in the script was dark and insane, and gave such a portrayal that even though he is a raving lunatic you can't help but like him just a little bit. I wanted to see the film before I joined the bandwagon, but if they don't give him an oscar nomination for this, whatever little faith I might have left in the Acadamy will die.
All in all it is a very good movie. But I do feel I need to watch it again to fully be able to wrap my brain around it. Hopefully under less distracting circumstances. That being said though, I have a really hard time seing Christopher Nolan top this, but I am exited for the next one.
