As expected, the Dark Knight was really good. My husband is calling it possibly his all-time favorite movie.
The Hong Kong bit was quite random, but I very much enjoyed seeing Christian Bale by the Soho escalators… I was completely unable to think of this person as Bruce Wayne but rather Christian Bale. “Wow, Christian Bale’s by the Soho escalators, and they hired all these extras to just walk right by him like nothing unusual was happening!” Watch out for the two white tourists with cameras around their necks.
But 95% of this movie takes place in Chicago, oh oops I mean GOTHAM. It’s just that it was SO NOT GOTHAM. It was SO Chicago. In Batman Begins, they disguised it in a way where you couldn’t tell it was Chicago by having all those scenes filmed at night or in the dark underground area and by digitally adding slummy things at a distance. But this Gotham was… I mean, all the cars had Illinois license plates, and the El was so obvious, and all the normal shininess around the downtown area, they didn’t mask any of it. And they even mention Chicago street names, such as Cicero, and I’m sure they’re paying homage to the city… but when I watch it, it’s a lot easier for me to think that this whole thing takes place in Chicago rather than in Gotham.
I’m not going to give anything away, and I am really impressed by Heath Ledger and everyone, but Maggie Gyllenhaal was really great and all the parts that had her were done really well… ar so this movie involved many plotlines and it might’ve still been good without one or two of them, but they covered a lot of ground in terms of emotions and humanness and Bruce Wayne’s psyche… and really developed a lot of characters, so you can blame the length on these merits…
Well that’s all I have to say for now… P.S. Katie Holmes sucks!
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btw, did I ever tell you I've had a crush on Christian Bale since i was, um like, 12? It was after Little Women. I'm embarrassed just to admit that.
But yeah it seems surreal... (no I haven't seen the movie so I guess=not qualified to speak!) but... when they were shooting it my maid was like hey i saw it when i was going mai shung, blah blah, no big deal. And my maid has been to Avril concerts, and she gets VERY excited just seeing an Avril video on Youtube!! haha.
Thanks for your review, now I have some idea of what plotlines and imagery to expect.
Hmm did I ever tell you about Christian Bale having been scientifically proven to have the best body proportions in the world?
Researchers from a University in Poland proved it. But we already knew that.
Batman Returns was on last night. Before the Chris Nolan era, Returns was the best cinematic Batman offering. Now it really just pales in comparison to the new series.
After the piss poor Batman and Robin, talk about a comeback.
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