Went to see "Dark Knight" today... well, I have to do something while waiting for Quantum of Solace to come out. I thought Dark Knight was pretty good. Given the increasingly complex canon of existing stories it somehow needs to fit into, it does a fair job of working in the Harvey Dent theme. Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker is very good. I know a lot of people are already assuming that it will win him a posthumous Oscar - but I can't help feeling that a certain amount of that is based on sentimentality because of his untimely death.
Compared to, say, previous Bat-villain performances by Jim Carrey (as the Riddler) or Tommy Lee Jones (taking his turn as Harvey "Two-face" Dent), Ledger's is perhaps more edgy and less camp, but then so is the current Christian Bale franchise. The Joker does get the quote of the film, though, for my money:
"Do I really look like a guy with a plan?"
Any more, and I'd have to put in a "spoiler" warning. But it's a good flick, and at a macro level, the plot keeps on building and building...
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Quantum of Solace... Do we really think they're going to make a film out of an after-dinner conversation about a middle-ranking Foreign Office civil servant and an air hostess? Hopefully they'll have thrown in a few guns and fast cars to spice it up a bit.
That said, Quantum is by far my favourite Bond story.
Posted by Toby Stevens on August 22, 2008 at 08:17 PM GMT+00:00 #
Indeed. And similarly, I rather liked Octopussy... though by the time that reached the screen there was not a lot left to identify the original story.
Posted by Robin Wilton on August 23, 2008 at 02:18 PM GMT+00:00 #