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Jul. 24th, 2012 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessAs the news came out about what had happened in Aurora on Friday, I was horrified. People going to see this film that I knew exactly how excited they'd felt about about, going to the cinema, something I associate with enjoyment and popcorn smells, and something so dreadful being done to them. The survivors who are battling to heal, those who are grieving and even the people who put so much work into a film that will now probably be tainted by association are in my mind.
And on Friday, I was finally planning to go and see The Amazing Spider-Man, which I honestly hadn't had an opportunity to do since it had come out. Watching trailers for quite a few action movies did make me flinch.
The film itself, I did enjoy (with the added awareness that I was getting to enjoy it, I suppose). I'm not entirely convinced that a reboot was necessary yet, but the performances of Garfield, Stone and Sheen were a persuasive argument. I'm not sure that it brought enough to the table, although some sequences were extremely cool and Peter was pitch perfect, and Peter/Gwen was geek love, but then, she was very much The Girl - she even hit the baddie with alamp trophy - and I want more than that for Emma Stone. I thought that they underwrote whatever was going on with Dr Curt Connors/The Lizard. But I didn't think I was the target audience, I was the one rolling my eyes as I thought most of the cast and crew went home and hugged their daddies really hard and maybe they should have aimed to release this on father's day.
On Saturday, I rewatched Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in preparation for going to see The Dark Knight Rises last night. And I have MIXED FEELINGS.
Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle/Catwoman OF MY HEART. Joseph Gordon-Levitt eating up the screen. Some sequences were cool and brilliant, and despite all the speechifying and self-loathing, Jim Gordon. It even balanced out all the sons and fathers obsession of the other two films.
But let's not pretend they'd have gone here if Heath Legder hadn't died - no mention of Arkham? But they had what they had, and oh my, the script with the exposition and making Bruce stupid for so long and why eight years when the Macguffin had kicked in three years ago? And I was bored in the final sequence, and I saw most of it coming (not just because Bruce/Selina is my Batverse OTP, but because I'd heard Talia speculation, been spoiled that Neeson was returning and thought Miranda was too random if she didn't turn out to be evil. And I literally tuned out when she monologued, so could someone tell me if her and Bane's involvement with the LoS and Daddy Dearest made any sense?) But really, there was no tension towards the end, and though I was happy, because Selina and Blake won my heart completely, and Selina/Bruce!, Bruce leaving behind a burnt down and ruined Gotham isn't how I see the story ending. I doubt that they'll make a Robin sequel, sadly, even though JG-L could carry it with ease.
There's more I could say, but I'll leave it for now. Just: why couldn't the film have lived up to the first two? Why couldn't it have lived up to its Catwoman? (My only niggle with her arc is that we never found out what happened to her protege. I was mainly hearts-in-my-eyes over driving the Batbike and the eye-rolling and the development.)
Totally cross-posted because I have a more apposite icon on Dreamwidth.
And on Friday, I was finally planning to go and see The Amazing Spider-Man, which I honestly hadn't had an opportunity to do since it had come out. Watching trailers for quite a few action movies did make me flinch.
The film itself, I did enjoy (with the added awareness that I was getting to enjoy it, I suppose). I'm not entirely convinced that a reboot was necessary yet, but the performances of Garfield, Stone and Sheen were a persuasive argument. I'm not sure that it brought enough to the table, although some sequences were extremely cool and Peter was pitch perfect, and Peter/Gwen was geek love, but then, she was very much The Girl - she even hit the baddie with a
On Saturday, I rewatched Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in preparation for going to see The Dark Knight Rises last night. And I have MIXED FEELINGS.
Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle/Catwoman OF MY HEART. Joseph Gordon-Levitt eating up the screen. Some sequences were cool and brilliant, and despite all the speechifying and self-loathing, Jim Gordon. It even balanced out all the sons and fathers obsession of the other two films.
But let's not pretend they'd have gone here if Heath Legder hadn't died - no mention of Arkham? But they had what they had, and oh my, the script with the exposition and making Bruce stupid for so long and why eight years when the Macguffin had kicked in three years ago? And I was bored in the final sequence, and I saw most of it coming (not just because Bruce/Selina is my Batverse OTP, but because I'd heard Talia speculation, been spoiled that Neeson was returning and thought Miranda was too random if she didn't turn out to be evil. And I literally tuned out when she monologued, so could someone tell me if her and Bane's involvement with the LoS and Daddy Dearest made any sense?) But really, there was no tension towards the end, and though I was happy, because Selina and Blake won my heart completely, and Selina/Bruce!, Bruce leaving behind a burnt down and ruined Gotham isn't how I see the story ending. I doubt that they'll make a Robin sequel, sadly, even though JG-L could carry it with ease.
There's more I could say, but I'll leave it for now. Just: why couldn't the film have lived up to the first two? Why couldn't it have lived up to its Catwoman? (My only niggle with her arc is that we never found out what happened to her protege. I was mainly hearts-in-my-eyes over driving the Batbike and the eye-rolling and the development.)
Totally cross-posted because I have a more apposite icon on Dreamwidth.
