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guy44 · 03-17-2008, 05:36 PM

#1: Yeah, Katie Holmes really sucked. Really really badly. But let's not go overboard here: she isn't anywhere near as bad as Jessica Biel in The Illusionist or Jessica Alba in, um anything (I don't think I've ever seen a Hollywood actress so bad that they'd cut out all her speaking lines in porn until Alba came around. Good thing she's off-the-charts hot. Hm. Actually, she should do us all a favor and just do porn). And I've never seen 24, so I can't comment on Elisha Cuthbert.

#2: Meh. The "nice coat" thing was kinda lame but barely registered, really.

#3: OK, now we're talking. I understand that the whole point of Batman's fight scenes were to show how fast and nearly invisible he can be. But. I hate, hate, hate the jumpy-camera-can't-tell-what's-going-on style of action scenes in movies. The Matrix came out 9 years ago: the bar has been raised, people, for nearly a decade. If you can't direct a complex action sequence in a multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbuster without cop-out jump-cuts, then just hire the Wachowski brothers to do the single-camera, long-take shots for you.

#4: I thought Gordon's character was just fine. He did work in the movie, which needed at least one regular guy to kinda stare in disbelief at all the shit going down and go, "Come on, this can't be happening..." I also think that his character is just beginning to understand the depths of what happens in Gotham in Batman Begins, and there is plenty of room for him to darken as he spends the next to flicks working with Batman as a full-fledged Commissioner.

#5: Yeah, OK, "Didn't you get the memo" was really just put in there so the stuffy board member guy could get his comeuppance at the end. But, you know, whatever. Didn't really affect the movie much one way or another.

Overall I really loved that movie, though. A nice bonus was the fact that it was filmed right here in Chicago, and I spent the entire time the scenes were set in Gotham going, "I know that building. I work there. That building's really nice. Oh, they added CG effects to make that building look taller..." Plus, the second film was also filmed here and my Mom was actually evacuated from a building next to the one which was being used for an action sequence and accidentally lit on fire - but it wasn't the film crew's fault, it turned out to be ancient air ducts that got screwed up somehow. Either way, it's a cool story and I learned some details from an important scene a year before it came out...

I don't mean to sound crass, but while I'm really looking forward to seeing the next one, I have no desire to go through the (largely) false public mourning of Heath Ledger when the movie comes out. Not that I don't think his story isn't sad, or that his family isn't suffering, but...I just don't care. I'm sorry, but fucked up shit like that happens all the time and I have no reason to care extra just because he was a movie star. Sadly I just know we're in for two months minimum of hagiographies and A & E biographies...

03-17-2008, 05:36 PM	#11 (permalink)
guy44 Somnabulist Location: corner of No and Where	#1: Yeah, Katie Holmes really sucked. Really really badly. But let's not go overboard here: she isn't anywhere near as bad as Jessica Biel in The Illusionist or Jessica Alba in, um anything (I don't think I've ever seen a Hollywood actress so bad that they'd cut out all her speaking lines in porn until Alba came around. Good thing she's off-the-charts hot. Hm. Actually, she should do us all a favor and just do porn). And I've never seen 24, so I can't comment on Elisha Cuthbert. #2: Meh. The "nice coat" thing was kinda lame but barely registered, really. #3: OK, now we're talking. I understand that the whole point of Batman's fight scenes were to show how fast and nearly invisible he can be. But. I hate, hate, hate the jumpy-camera-can't-tell-what's-going-on style of action scenes in movies. The Matrix came out 9 years ago: the bar has been raised, people, for nearly a decade. If you can't direct a complex action sequence in a multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbuster without cop-out jump-cuts, then just hire the Wachowski brothers to do the single-camera, long-take shots for you. #4: I thought Gordon's character was just fine. He did work in the movie, which needed at least one regular guy to kinda stare in disbelief at all the shit going down and go, "Come on, this can't be happening..." I also think that his character is just beginning to understand the depths of what happens in Gotham in Batman Begins, and there is plenty of room for him to darken as he spends the next to flicks working with Batman as a full-fledged Commissioner. #5: Yeah, OK, "Didn't you get the memo" was really just put in there so the stuffy board member guy could get his comeuppance at the end. But, you know, whatever. Didn't really affect the movie much one way or another. Overall I really loved that movie, though. A nice bonus was the fact that it was filmed right here in Chicago, and I spent the entire time the scenes were set in Gotham going, "I know that building. I work there. That building's really nice. Oh, they added CG effects to make that building look taller..." Plus, the second film was also filmed here and my Mom was actually evacuated from a building next to the one which was being used for an action sequence and accidentally lit on fire - but it wasn't the film crew's fault, it turned out to be ancient air ducts that got screwed up somehow. Either way, it's a cool story and I learned some details from an important scene a year before it came out... I don't mean to sound crass, but while I'm really looking forward to seeing the next one, I have no desire to go through the (largely) false public mourning of Heath Ledger when the movie comes out. Not that I don't think his story isn't sad, or that his family isn't suffering, but...I just don't care. I'm sorry, but fucked up shit like that happens all the time and I have no reason to care extra just because he was a movie star. Sadly I just know we're in for two months minimum of hagiographies and A & E biographies... __________________ "You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats press one, or say 'goats.'"