My thoughts on The Dark Knight and X-Files movie.
By SmokeyDaBear 3 Comments
The Dark Knight -
I thought that this movie was awesome and it is certainly one of my favorite movies to come out this summer, its only competition in my book is Iron Man which I also enjoyed a lot. After I watched the movie, the stupid overly critical asshole part of my brain came to the conclusion that Heath Ledger's role as The Joker was a bit overrated. That thought lasted for a small amount of time because after further pondering I realized that it is indeed a great performance. However I must say that they hyped the movie around the Joker far too much for my tastes. It didn't really seem like a Batman movie because I was brainwashed from those previews and other sources of hype surrounding the movie into focusing on the Joker too damn much. So if you ask me... Batman was overshadowed by the Joker, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I did expect more "Batman" from a Batman movie. Anyway visually the movie was great with its very dark storyline and dark atmosphere and dark characters. You really get a sense of ... darkness from that movie. (I know I'm so descriptive aren't I?) Then there was a part towards the end of the movie that I wasn't expecting. I'm not going to say what it is because it would spoil the movie, but I thought that they were starting to build up the story for the next movie and by the end of The Dark Knight I found out that it clearly wasn't the case. So yeah The Dark Knight was a dark movie and I enjoyed it, it isn't the best thing ever, but it isn't bad at all in my opinion.
X-Files: I Want To Believe -
Now I have to admit, I haven't made my mind up on this one yet. Part of me says that it was pretty good, but the other half says that it was crap. First of all I have to mention the fact that I saw this movie with some of my good friends and since they didn't enjoy the movie a whole lot they were constantly poking fun at the movie as it went on so I couldn't quite get into it as much as I had wished to due to the constant, but welcome distraction of ridiculously stupid jokes and what-not. Minor distractions aside, I came out of the theater thinking that the movie was decent. I couldn't get into the bad guys like I could with the TV show because they weren't very interesting. I think it is hard to get that good sense of mystery or unknown surrounding them when they just seemed like regular people who did some bad things to people. The tension between Scully and Mulder was good as usual, but at the same time it did get a bit sickening because we see that stuff on the show all the time. Scully is skeptical, but Mulder wants to believe everything. There wasn't anything new here in this movie other than a certain dilemma that Scully faced where she herself had to ask the question, should I believe? And that is the one aspect that saved me from becoming bored of the typical never-ending debate between Scully and Mulder. I mean Scully could see an alien walk up to her and shake her hand and she still would have some sort of scientific explanation (excuse) for what happened, but Mulder would be like that is an alien! They aren't very different in the "I Want To Believe" movie. Anyway there was one nice and intense moment in the movie that I really enjoyed and that in combination with some interesting dilemmas put on the characters made me come to the conclusion that overall the movie was decent. It did its own thing and brought the thriller aspect that has been missing in a lot of movies these days back into the picture, the only problem was the lack of quality in the execution. I'm glad they didn't resort to the lame jump-at-you scare tactics and over-the-top torture scenes that plague so called "scary movies" these days. No, the X-Files isn't scary, but it is intense. The only problem is that it isn't intense enough.
My friends and I had a good time taking jabs at this character who is one of those stereotypical Ex-Catholic priest pedophiles, but with a twist.