Did you see The Dark Knight? – Spoilers!

[Phil]

Oops, guess Ben didn’t break the “Spoilers!” trend after all! Better luck next time…YOU CLOD.

Anyway, I saw this last night. For unintentional comparison’s sake we came home after the movie and happened to catch Tim Burton’s first Batman film on television.

Have to admit that Nicholson’s Joker did and still does do more for me than Ledger’s. Ledger’s interpretation was damn good and it fit the overall film very well, but with the two versions played so differently I’m bound to have a favorite, and it wasn’t Ledger.

The Dark Knight’s Harvey Dent, however, was fucking phenomenal. I loved him. He was the real heart of the movie, if you ask me. I loved him; he could have carried the whole thing and I wouldn’t have complained.

The only real criticisms are that the movie felt like two or three movies mashed together…there were a few too many climactic peaks for my liking. The movie kept feeling like it was ending…it wasn’t a sense of a small obstacle being overcome, it was a sense of the film being wrapped up entirely. And then it continued anyway. Several times.

Also, toward the end of the film when Batman encounters Two Face, you realize how similar their “alternate personality” voice is. Basically they both just growl and grumble at each other in a really similar way that might mean something thematically (underline “might”) but really just kind of made you realize that these are two actors grumbling instead of talking. One of them should have adjusted his voice slightly, or at least not adopted the exact same attitude as the other, so that it wouldn’t be distracting (kind of like what Jim Henson would do whenever Kermit and Ernie had to share a scene…alter one of the voices or moods slightly so that they don’t resemble each other so much, but still feel natural for the character).

Personally, if I were Batman, I’d affect an Australian accent or something. That way I could talk without hurting my throat, and everybody would go looking for an Australian guy.

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[Phil]

>Marleen, your new avatar is spooking me.

It’s doing a lot of things to me, but “spooking” ain’t one of em.

[ChrisM]

>It?s doing a lot of things to me, but ?spooking? ain?t one of em.

I think it might be doing one of those things to me too. Which makes it all the more disturbing.

[TheLeen]

Uhm……….

There’s something you should know. I’m not REALLY looking like that. I only make it APPEAR this way, by means of applied mathematics.

[ChrisM]

> Applied mathematics.

Phwoar!

Actually, looking at that image, the penny just dropped. (Possibly into the gutter, but never mind..)

Ms Manhattan, right?

[TheLeen]

Yup.

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