The Dark Knight
Dec. 19th, 2007 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleHaving failed to go to the meeting I thought we were going to last night (which is to say we got up to the church and nobody was there), we went out and saw I Am Legend. I had some doubts about the film, but it pretty much kicked ass and took names. It was a much better film than The Golden Compass, even if not a better story. Anyway, that's not the point.
The point of the post is that the trailer for The Dark Knight ran before the film. I'd seen it in tiny tiny on the PC screen, but somehow hoped it would be better if it were bigger and louder. Alas, no. I'm not really feeling it, and that makes me sad. Mostly this feeling of meh stems from watching Heath Ledger do goddamned Jack Nicholson impersonations all over the freaking trailer. He looks good in the stills - he looks like he's going to be the massively unhinged, out of control character I know and love. But then, he talks. And it all goes to hell, because I've seen Nicholson do it, and that was pretty good, but you can't just rehash that concept and call it good. I demand a new interpretation, something that feels as gritty and desperate and batshit insane as it looks. I hope we'll get that in the film. So help me, Heath Ledger, if you ruin the Joker for me, I am not sure what I will do.
On the other hand, I am massively intrigued by some of the other stuff in the trailer -- the smashing of the Bat-Signal, the National Guard lining up in Gotham, and so on. It's not like I won't go see the film, and I'll probably even like it, because, you know, Batman. I'm just setting the expectation bar a little lower.
Incidentally, as I was typing this post, I got faxed a job application from a woman with the last name Quinzel...
The point of the post is that the trailer for The Dark Knight ran before the film. I'd seen it in tiny tiny on the PC screen, but somehow hoped it would be better if it were bigger and louder. Alas, no. I'm not really feeling it, and that makes me sad. Mostly this feeling of meh stems from watching Heath Ledger do goddamned Jack Nicholson impersonations all over the freaking trailer. He looks good in the stills - he looks like he's going to be the massively unhinged, out of control character I know and love. But then, he talks. And it all goes to hell, because I've seen Nicholson do it, and that was pretty good, but you can't just rehash that concept and call it good. I demand a new interpretation, something that feels as gritty and desperate and batshit insane as it looks. I hope we'll get that in the film. So help me, Heath Ledger, if you ruin the Joker for me, I am not sure what I will do.
On the other hand, I am massively intrigued by some of the other stuff in the trailer -- the smashing of the Bat-Signal, the National Guard lining up in Gotham, and so on. It's not like I won't go see the film, and I'll probably even like it, because, you know, Batman. I'm just setting the expectation bar a little lower.
Incidentally, as I was typing this post, I got faxed a job application from a woman with the last name Quinzel...
