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| Just when I thought I'd seen the best blockbuster movie this year in the form of Joss Whedon's The Avengers... |
As with The Avengers, I consciously did not seek out much information, if at all, about the film prior to seeing it. This is behaviour I tend to fall into with some movies, particularly with films about things I was interested in as a child ie: comic book heroes—among other things—largely due to the strange need to be excited and surprised. That aside, much like the average moviegoer that is familiar with the rhythm of these relatively commercial trilogies, which usually (at least for me) have dips in at least one of them, usually the second installment, I was indeed surprised.
My main expectation, at the very least, was to be one percent more disappointed than I was satisfied with Dark Knight Rises. Boy was I wrong. Christopher Nolan delivers the goods like he always does, and leaves you with awesome leftovers for tomorrow to happily chew on.
I do have some gripes about it though... For one, I’m not really sold on Anne Hathaway as Selena Kyle. The character was great, she played it relatively well, barely missed rocking the leather get-up but she didn’t really have the look the character required, at least that’s what I think. Hathaway always had this sort of heavy, big-boned, annoying, kind-of-victorian look to her that no amount of professional gussying up can mask.
Lets be clear here, Kyle is pretty much a fucking schizo to put it simply, but she's also attractive, sexual, skanky, vampy, crass, vicious, and pretty all on the same plate as well. Hathaway, I think, is only able to rock the latter.
My main expectation, at the very least, was to be one percent more disappointed than I was satisfied with Dark Knight Rises. Boy was I wrong. Christopher Nolan delivers the goods like he always does, and leaves you with awesome leftovers for tomorrow to happily chew on.
I do have some gripes about it though... For one, I’m not really sold on Anne Hathaway as Selena Kyle. The character was great, she played it relatively well, barely missed rocking the leather get-up but she didn’t really have the look the character required, at least that’s what I think. Hathaway always had this sort of heavy, big-boned, annoying, kind-of-victorian look to her that no amount of professional gussying up can mask.
Lets be clear here, Kyle is pretty much a fucking schizo to put it simply, but she's also attractive, sexual, skanky, vampy, crass, vicious, and pretty all on the same plate as well. Hathaway, I think, is only able to rock the latter.
Natalie Portman would have killed with this character and owned it leaving us with just a few indistinct glimmers of Michelle Pfeiffer in leather to remind us that “oh yeah, there was another cool Catwoman, right...”. Though I did appreciate that there were no feline innuendos like purrs and shit like that and love the fact that the word(s) Catwoman was never even said at any point in the movie.
Another thing I’m a bit confused about was the precise timing of the fusion reactor exploding. I’m no physicist but from what I do understand (in the context of the movie) that the hacked reactor was unstable, and was going to be exponentially so in the hands of Bane. How is (practically) everyone able to determine the exact time of detonation if it was? To me, its one of those holes that poke out of Nolan’s usually very believable environments, much like Lucius Fox’ nokia-high-tech-building-schematic-scanner-thing in the previous movie. What? did he just download that app from OVI?
Those gripes aside, I still think it was an awesome movie and I didn’t even notice that the whole fucking thing was nearly three hours long! Now the gauntlet has been laid down by Christopher Nolan (yet again) and every film adaptation of a comic book character will be measured on his standard. So where does that leave me? Despite being more of a Marvel fan than DC, I’m left in no rush to see The Amazing Spiderman and Iron Man 3.
Another thing I’m a bit confused about was the precise timing of the fusion reactor exploding. I’m no physicist but from what I do understand (in the context of the movie) that the hacked reactor was unstable, and was going to be exponentially so in the hands of Bane. How is (practically) everyone able to determine the exact time of detonation if it was? To me, its one of those holes that poke out of Nolan’s usually very believable environments, much like Lucius Fox’ nokia-high-tech-building-schematic-scanner-thing in the previous movie. What? did he just download that app from OVI?
Those gripes aside, I still think it was an awesome movie and I didn’t even notice that the whole fucking thing was nearly three hours long! Now the gauntlet has been laid down by Christopher Nolan (yet again) and every film adaptation of a comic book character will be measured on his standard. So where does that leave me? Despite being more of a Marvel fan than DC, I’m left in no rush to see The Amazing Spiderman and Iron Man 3.
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