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mayoraaseiAfter being told for five years that Christopher Nolan's Batman is THE defining films for superhero movies, finally sat myself down and watched both today.
...Can I just finish off by saying I like Inception better? LOL
To use Joker's phrase..."Why. So. Serioussss?" By the way, Ledger's Joker reminded me a lot of Depp's Willy Wonka. The purple suit and the caked makeup and the gleeful love for dramatics didn't help.
It's not just the body count or the immensely high and personal stakes, but the whole tone of the movies is so...nocturnal. Which I guess is part of the point, but it would nice not to feel suffocated by darkness in a superhero movie. And I think I just don't like Christian Bale, ever since he turned The Prestige dark and depressing. If Bruce and Tony (Stark) are both meant to be billionaire playboys, I can vaguely see the billionaire but hardly see the playboy in Bruce =__= Does that guy even know how to crack a smile? =__= I guess the difference is that Bruce is motivated by anger and Tony by regret, which fosters a hugely different outlook.
Ledger did a great job with the Joker, but I'm still not sure about all the adjectives handed to the character, like deep and complex >_> Sure, I think the Joker put forth some provoking questions about humanity, but complex suggests there are non-psychopathic aspects to his character, which I could not see.
Also, the first 90 minutes of The Dark Knight really dragged for me. I think...I think I'll just stick with the fact I don't like Christian Bale. I mean, I loved Michael Caine and Gary Oldman (!!!) and Morgan Freeman in it, and Maggie Gyllenhaal was cute. In fact I loved everyone except the main characters - who were both difficult to love and difficult to hate, which puts them in an uncomfortable position somewhere close to "I really don't give a hoot what happens to them", which is NOT a place you want your main characters to be in. Nolan is great at weaving multiple storylines together (as he showed convincingly in Inception), but I'm sorry, I must be the first person to find The Dark Knight to be a bore >>;;;;
Now, for the second day of memes~
Day 2 ~ Least favourite character
It is not hard to find characters who annoy me in a show, and almost invariably they're women. From the idealistic head-in-the-clouds damsels in distress, to the brash and irrationally violent tomboys...it appears no one does annoying female characters as well as anime, so it's hard to settle down for one.
...Can I just finish off by saying I like Inception better? LOL
To use Joker's phrase..."Why. So. Serioussss?" By the way, Ledger's Joker reminded me a lot of Depp's Willy Wonka. The purple suit and the caked makeup and the gleeful love for dramatics didn't help.
It's not just the body count or the immensely high and personal stakes, but the whole tone of the movies is so...nocturnal. Which I guess is part of the point, but it would nice not to feel suffocated by darkness in a superhero movie. And I think I just don't like Christian Bale, ever since he turned The Prestige dark and depressing. If Bruce and Tony (Stark) are both meant to be billionaire playboys, I can vaguely see the billionaire but hardly see the playboy in Bruce =__= Does that guy even know how to crack a smile? =__= I guess the difference is that Bruce is motivated by anger and Tony by regret, which fosters a hugely different outlook.
Ledger did a great job with the Joker, but I'm still not sure about all the adjectives handed to the character, like deep and complex >_> Sure, I think the Joker put forth some provoking questions about humanity, but complex suggests there are non-psychopathic aspects to his character, which I could not see.
Also, the first 90 minutes of The Dark Knight really dragged for me. I think...I think I'll just stick with the fact I don't like Christian Bale. I mean, I loved Michael Caine and Gary Oldman (!!!) and Morgan Freeman in it, and Maggie Gyllenhaal was cute. In fact I loved everyone except the main characters - who were both difficult to love and difficult to hate, which puts them in an uncomfortable position somewhere close to "I really don't give a hoot what happens to them", which is NOT a place you want your main characters to be in. Nolan is great at weaving multiple storylines together (as he showed convincingly in Inception), but I'm sorry, I must be the first person to find The Dark Knight to be a bore >>;;;;
Now, for the second day of memes~
Day 2 ~ Least favourite character
It is not hard to find characters who annoy me in a show, and almost invariably they're women. From the idealistic head-in-the-clouds damsels in distress, to the brash and irrationally violent tomboys...it appears no one does annoying female characters as well as anime, so it's hard to settle down for one.
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Akane Motomiya ~ Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Seriously I've only watched one short movie of this and I spent all of it wanting to strangle her. She originates from an otome game, which would explain why otome you can't actually relate to her at all. Rash, useless, driven by emotions, angsts pointlessly while everyone around her flaps their arms madly trying to help her and getting hurt or killed or maimed or whatever in the process. If we rounded all characters like her up and threw them into a, say, scorpion pit, then the other characters might finally be able to get on with their jobs. |
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Keito Aoyama ~ Cat Street I wonder if anyone watched this drama? It was by the same author who wrote the famous Hana Yori Dango, but the original text is a much more thoughtful exposition on the sociophobic teen and the barriers they struggled to overcome. The character wasn't likeable even in the manga, but she was redeeming herself. Somehow the drama just made her all the more whinier and selfish and self-pitying and helpless. And she was supposed to be a brilliant actress...how? |
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Date: 2011-05-18 02:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-18 03:06 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I was only able to sit through the first episode, but it didn't seem like they changed huge amounts. I did like the original because - you're right - some of those issues are very relevant in Japanese society, if not ours.
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Date: 2011-05-19 09:25 am (UTC)yes, the original is good. i didn't know that the creator was the same for hana yori dango...
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Date: 2011-05-19 08:47 am (UTC)