Blogger Note and The Dark Knight

Note to Blogger bloggers: Well I was finally able to log back in. I don't know why but this site doesn't save my password and won't let me log in half the time and I keep having to create new passwords..*sigh* Ok, well. I'm back, for now, and so here's the latest.

Well, I saw The Dark Knight. Did it live up to its hype? Well sort of. I have a pro con list along with a rating and some comments.

Pros:

• Brilliant acting, well not on Bale’s part, but all the raving about Ledger was true.
• Excellent pacing
• The creation of Two Face was an unsuspected yet welcomed turn
• Great action and explosions

Cons:

• It was ridiculously long. I thought it was going end like, twice.
• The plot was rough. I kept getting lost.
• Confusing effects and camera shots. The camera just spun around and there were scenes where you couldn’t tell what was going on because of all the digital effects.

So basically, this movie is about Bruce Wayne wanting someone to be inspired by him and change the city. His wish is granted by Harvey Dent, whom comic fans know as Two Face. The movie follows Bruce as he tries to stop the Joker from wreaking havoc and help Harvey clean up the city. It all goes awry in the end when Harvey claims he’s Batman, and he and Rachel end up captive and Rachel dies and Harvey gets half his face burned off in an explosion. Then the Joker continues to cause trouble while Two Face runs amok. I couldn’t follow the story half the time, but other then that it was a really good movie.

I give it 4 bats out of 5.

Metal Meets Alloy + new Indy 4 trailer

Ok, well I was kind of putting off this post because I wasn’t sure how to expression my opinion in words.

Ironman was all in all a great film. The character was superbly written. Cocky and condescending. Its cleverly written and very anti-war pro-peace, portrayed with violence and science. I don’t want to go in and explain the plot because I’m likely to go spoiler nuts and make you read a huge block of text. So here is my Pro Con list for the movie, starting with con.

Con:

1. The pacing sucked. It just kind of went everywhere all at once and it annoyed me. It settled out fine in the end, but the beginning just drove me nuts.
2. It was portrayed in all the trailers as a BOOM EXPLODE IRONMAN MAKE BOOOOM type of movie, and i wanted to see IRONMAN MAKE BOOOOOM! There were some explosions, but it was advertised as a kind of free-for-all explosion frenzy where Ironman was like “Hulk go smash!” Except he isn’t the Hulk. But he still would go smash. It’s good that they focused mainly on the plot, but it didn’t seem to have a good balance of both.

Pro:

1. Amazing dialog, acting, graphics, and camera angles. I was stunned.
2. The music score was intense. Brain pounding metal, heck yes!
3. The overall story line was very good. It seemed like I’ve seen it ten thousand times before, but it was originalized enough for it not to matter.

So, it’s super awesome. It should totally been seen in the theaters, especially one with surround sound and HD screens.

In other news, tagged onto the Ironman movie was a new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In this trailer, Indy himself gives a voice over explaining the Crystal Skulls. Then we get a better sense of the plot when his new nemesis, (A soviet! AHA!) has captured him and commands him to bring her the skull.

So, it seems that most of my predictions were correct so far. I called the Soviet thing 3 years ago. And that someone would want something of great importance and try to get Indy’s help. Of course, we all know Jones isn’t going to help the Russians. I personally think that once he refuses to help them, they decide to go on their own, sing a more brutal force than he would have, thus causing him to go after them and get the skull before they do to stop them.

The Movie of the Month is coming later this week!