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Originally Posted by ninjatalli however I would refine your statement that these moves were helmed by actors doing a poor job or just an ok-ish job. |
My opinion still stays, but I agree with the rest.. Matthew did try but he's not exactly A-Level to pull it off.
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And the reverse logic applied perfectly here. TDK was a 10/10 because Heath Ledger got the role perfect. Remove Heath Ledger out of the movie, and you get Dark Knight Rises.
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Hardly, the reason why TDK tore records for its time was actually due to several reasons, least of all - Heath Ledger, and that's saying something. The script was extremely strong, the story and narration was bullet-proof (as far as comic book live action goes). Aaron Eckhart (Thank You For Smoking, Towelhead & My All American) was never praised for his role as Harvey Dent though he portrayed his transition to 2-Face, with perfection.. the movie in incredibly accurate and yet dared to have its own variations. The court-scene where Dent was seen trying to put Sal Maroni away.. if tradition had to be followed Dent was to be attacked with acid in that moment thus becoming 2-Face, but Nolan didn't do that yet paid tribute to the original writers as well.
TDK stood out among the trilogy because the characters were symbolic of today's reality. Harvey Dent symbolized the legal force which is out to fight the system and actually help keep the law for a change but cannot due to the corruption within the legal system itself.. subjected to and wounded by such irrationality the greatest of men turn to evil as well. Bruce Wayne feels trapped and yet obligated to carry on doing what he set out to do.. knowing that the rabbit-hole he's gotten into is only going deeper and deeper. Joker represents the criminal whose main motive isn't money, but disruption.. its conquer by chaos theory and to understand such a person leave alone catch him is incredibly difficult. Nolan set so many gripping moments in the movie, he basically portrayed a picture of such a corrupt Gotham than every do-gooder was victimized in the end. I believe love played a deep role in the movie without it being even mentioned.. Bruce Wayne, James Gordon and Harvey Dent were all shattered by it, only that their reactions were different.
Then there are the scenes which give out hope - the ship bomb dilemma for example, or the way the accountant realises how the city can terrorise even a common, unknown person based on one criminal's blackmail and chooses not to reveal the true identity of Batman because he understood the importance. The conversations between Alfred and Bruce in their make-shift shipyard Batcave were all so true as well. Ledger was good, I'm definitely not saying he wasn't but according to me the story was 60% of the reason, 2-Face 10%, Bruce Wayne 10%, Commissioner Gordon 10%, and the Joker 10%, basically everyone pulled their weight. Add the gripping music by Hans Zimmer and you got perfection.
TDKR can never be a TDK, one was intense and showed Batman at his prime, the other was wrapping up the series and had to be slower, more irrational (due to less time) and had to condense a very famous storyline into less than 3 hours.. it was setup to be a failure because no ending is ever perfect (like Spiderman-3 of Tobey McGuire), but this one was still not too bad at all.
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I've a very limited choice.. I've almost entirely stopped watching mainstream cinema for now. Action, horror, comedy etc all stopped. I've just been watching intelligent, horizon-expanding cinema for the past couple of years now.. Locke is a good movie, Will Smiths iRobot will always be a favourite, Camp X-ray is a brilliant movie.. best movie made post 2010's I'll dare to say yet I'm willing to bet that less than 2% of the public would've heard of it, Moneyball was a good movie as was Rescue Dawn and The Machinist. Plenty of good cinema to be found.. just not the ones shown on Indian t.v.