Woot!

[jecca_mehlota]

I am officially in the GOING TO MEXICO IN JANUARY class! \o/ (I will gladly buy trinkets for / send postcards to people while there!)

For now, though, I am bored and miserably hot. My mother's run off again, and my wrist hurts but it's way too warm to wear the support for it. Some days I desperately wish we had air conditioning. If it were not so gross out, I'd probably do something. Instead, I am typing on LJ and being boooored. The only thing keeping me from ruining my brain on more Supernatural is the knowledge that if I blast through season 3, then I'll have nothing but schoolwork to entertain me until who-knows-when. (Actually, if I continue at my pace of one episode a day, I'll finish on the day before season 4 starts, but whether or not I'll be watching it as it airs... well... that depends entirely on how many shows my father is recording this time around.)

Oh, hey, right, so, I finally got around to seeing The DRK Dark Knight.


I didn't think it was a bad movie. My father hated it, but part of that was because it was too loud. (I was dragged off to see Mamma Mia! a bit ago, and The Dark Knight was showing a few rooms over - and across the hall - and we could still hear/feel it.)

I fully agree with everyone on Batman's voice being too over the top (couldn't stop giggling at it. Every time he spoke! How does anyone take him seriously ignoring for the moment that he runs around dressed like a bat?! GRRARRAR I'M BATMAN ARR GRRR), and I can kind of see why my brother didn't know Batman and Bruce Wayne were played by the same actor.

I quite liked the portrayal of Bruce, actually.


However.


The Joker. I just. Okay, yes, Ledger did a brilliant job, there. He was, indeed, ridiculously terrifying, and I was wholly convinced of his COMPLETE LUNACY. But beyond that.... I didn't find him very interesting.

Okay.

So... he's crazy.

....and?


That was... really about it. Why is he crazy? We don't know, he just is. And that's it. And it just... didn't do anything for me. If they'd given us just a little bit more on him, I'd probably have been all over it the way everyone else is, but... no such luck. JECCA MISSES THE BOAT AGAIN. (Thank god, because maybe it's been rigged to explode, hey?)

Also, he was so hard to watch/hear talk, because of that weird... lip-tongue-noise thing he kept making. I dunno, for some reason it really grossed me out.

Maybe it's just because I've never really been that huge of a Batman fan, though. (Hey, I'd take crazy over the slapstick route any day.)


I did think Harvey Dent was fascinating. Why is he going nuts with the murdering? Well, they show us! We get to see him go loopy. (Admittedly, some of it? Pretty lame. OH NOES MY LOVE INTEREST BLEW UP. I AM GOING TO KILL PEOPLE WITH MY ANGSTING DOOM NOW. ... YYyeah, you do that, sir.)


And I wasn't always entirely clear on what was going on, or why they were doing what they were, or how some thing happened, but that may be my useless memory striking again. So I'll overlook it, 'cause maybe it made perfect sense and it was just my brain flaking out on me again.

Anyway, that's about all I have to say about that.

And, you know, regardless of me finding it not as excellent as advertised, I an oddly attracted to superhero movies. They're so ridiculous.


Also: FFXI version update is MONDAY. WHY NOT TODAY? I am so excited for it! Though Monday is a bit annoying in that I'll be at classes all afternoon. Jazz dancing and then dissection of sheep eyeballs, and if that isn't a startling and abrupt change of tone then I don't really know what is.

Anyway, mostly this means I can't update until 10 at night and it might take a while. Hopefully it'll finish before midnight so I can go to bed on time. COUNTING CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH? CHECK.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

(Hey, I'd take crazy over the slapstick route any day.)

Actually, speaking of, have you seen 'Bad Day at Black Rock' yet? Because, yes, it's slapstick, and slapstick usually doesn't amuse me at all, but somehow it manages to be one of my favourite episodes of anything ever. I think it's Sam's expressions that do it.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

I have (today I get to watch 'Bedtime Stories')! And, yeah, slapstick usually manages to annoy me, but that was hilarious. (I finally understand why one million people have icons of Sam looking down woefully, sometimes with text about a shoe!) I haven't been able to entirely figure out why it worked so well, but you may be right about the expressions.

[nano_moose]

IF I MAY EXPLAIN (hoo boy here I go), he's interesting because he's not trying to be a sympathetic villain at all. He's just so utterly evil, and so viscerally horrifying, and he takes such obvious glee in being so that you kind of have be entertained because the only other option is to be appalled (which is, in its way, the basis of a lot of humour). And the fact that we never get an explanation for just what the hell is wrong with him (and indeed he openly derides the idea that anyone could ever figure him out) means it could have been anything that made him that way. It could be something he...just decided to be, a sort of counterpoint to Batman's deciding to be a hero. Or since whatever broke him like that could be anything - then anything could turn anyone into him. Into that. (It's like gravity...all it takes is a little push. Ah hahaha, HA HA HA HA HA HA, AHAAAH HAAAH HAAA-)

The fact that he lacks an origin also takes him closer to being something less a man and more a force of chaos or a trickster god - a tangible representation of something that lurks within us all. Which is awesome if you're like me and you love avatars and personifications of concepts. :3 It's an interesting thing to explore in an ostensibly realistic universe, because how do you realistically fight that? Batman is a mortal pretending to be a symbol, he knows he can't keep that up...except he has to, because the only realistic way to fight chaos is to resist becoming it, resist giving in to it. Harvey failed, but Batman didn't, and that's why he stays Gotham's hero even when Gotham turns its back on him. (Poor Harvey. Poor Rachel, who was Normalcy and so could never have survived the coming of Chaos.)

...Apologies, I could meta about this movie forever (indeed I am compiling a post in which I do). Argh, if Nolan could just try, TRY to get more than one vaguely interesting female character with her own agenda in, I'd be such a happy fangirl. Thank the good lord for genderswap.

Yay, latepost! ...Yay, latepost from hiatusland!

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, I did find him entertaining, but, I dunno, I still feel like I walked out missing some crucial aspect of the story, but I just can't put my finger on what, just that the Joker was involved in it somehow (and, hey, it may be my useless memory making my life difficult again, I don't know), and because of that, I'm not getting why everyone thought he was so beyond great ... Though, actually, that's a really good point. He is suddenly far more interesting if I think of him more as a force of chaos/trickster... hmm...


Oh, goodness, no. I never shut up, so I don't mind at all when people go on and on about... well, anything at all, but especially when it's meta and especially when it's something I don't feel I "get" entirely.

[nano_moose]

Oh! Well...I can't say what you missed since I can't read your mind (yet, anyway), but yeah, the Joker isn't necessarily supposed to be a character like Bats or Harvey. He's more like chaos given physical form to counter Batman and his crusade to clean up Gotham. Like the bloodier counterpart to a character like Bugs Bunny. That's why he seems to sort of pop up from nowhere as though he coalesced from the smog for the sole purpose of fucking with everybody. Like the universe saw Batman, with his Rules and his Mission, and said, "Okay, you wanna clean up the world? Let's make sure the world puts up a fight. Let's see how far you'll take your rules. He who fights monsters and all that."

...Which is why I am kind of mildly weirded out by the people who have crushes on the Joker. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO HAVE A CRUSH ON THE ABYSS THAT GAZES ALSO INTO YOU. PERFECT SENSE. I BET HE'D BE A WONDERFUL BOYFRIEND WHAT WITH ATTEMPTING TO BURN THE ENTIRE WORLD SO HE CAN DANCE THE TWIST IN THE ASHES.

ALSO, also, about Harvey - he wasn't just mad because he lost Rachel. I don't think the movie makes this very clear, they didn't have the time, but Harvey had placed a lot of faith in the Law, capital letter and all, because he was never completely stable and it kept him balanced. Unfortunately, when Rachel died, he saw it as Law betraying him, and that, combined with his grief, his agony, and the quite mundane sleep deprivation caused by having one eye fixed open, left him vulnerable to being twisted and warped by the Joker. TDK is kind of about believing in things - even the Joker honestly believes people are really as evil as he is, deep down.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what they all claim. I know better. It's because I wear a mind-reader-blocking hat. ... Anyway, um, yes! I think I'm going to have to rewatch it now. XD I usually do better with things on a smaller screen, anyway, when the sound isn't cranked up to Wake The Dead And Kill The Living. (Plus, I really want to see how thinking of the Joker more like this affects how everything comes across.)

HE DOESN'T REALLY WANT TO HURT ANYONE! He just wants a hug~~ :(((((? Come on, we all heard his speech there towards the end. HUGZ!!

Yeah - I really liked how they handled Harvey's story, even if I do make fun of it. (It's probably bad that I spend a lot of energy making fun of things I like while completely ignoring the majority of things I don't, isn't it?) It is too bad no one could see the I AM SO DEAD stamp on her forehead, though... Probably would have helped a lot.