My Unsolicited Opinion on the Dark Knight
Posted by Rebecca Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:38:00 GMT
WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
Friday night Dominic and I went to see The Dark Knight.
My verdict:
Heath Ledger was brilliant as the Joker, and everyone else pretty much sucked.
Harvey Dent was very poorly cast. He came off cheesy through the entire movie and it was obnoxious. He was much more nauseating than the Joker’s magic trick. I pretty much wanted to stab my eyes out with a pencil every time Harvey Dent or his alter ego were on the screen.
Batman talked like he had a cold. I don’t know if it was because he had cotton balls up his nose or what. If you watched him closely when he was speaking, he even talked like he could barely breathe - his tongue didn’t hit the right parts of the inside of his mouth. As a result, he sounded like he needed some Afrin. Way to scare the bad guys, Stuffy!
Gary Oldman did a good job as Commissioner Gordon, but really, no one goes to see a Batman movie because of the dude who is playing Commissioner Gordon, so this is irrelevant.
Oh, the stunts were good.
Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine did well, but they played supporting roles. Pretty much what I said about Gary Oldman goes for these two dudes as well.
Heath Ledger was the saving grace of this flick. If he hadn’t been in it, the movie would have fallen completely flat in my book and I would have ended up terribly disappointed in yet another Batman film (the only two I’ve seen that I liked were Tim Burton’s 1989 rendition of Batman, and Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins).
Still, if you haven’t seen it, it’s worth suffering through the bad parts just to watch Heath Ledger’s farewell role, which hopefully will win him an Oscar. I thought the Oscar business was silly the way people were carrying on about it, but then I saw the movie. Heath Ledger’s performance is definitely Academy Award material, even if everything surrounding it is a glorious waste of time.
