After upgrading to sIFR 3 beta 2, I figured it was about time I fixed something that had been annoying me a lot lately: Title widows. What’s a widow? A widow is the unfortunate last word in a paragraph that drops down below and sticking out like a sore thumb. While it is a hassle to apply it to all blocks of type, my big dorky headings needed some love.
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3 hours of delicious film, and I savored every second of it. It felt like I didn’t pay enough for a ticket to something so enjoyable (oh and not to mention it was on the IMAX screens). It’s so much grittier and dark than the first of the series. Christopher Nolan tested the waters with Batman Begins to great success and it gave him the grounds to induce an even more malevolent tone in The Dark Knight.
It’s a very mature sequel, exploiting the ghastly society Gotham City had been left in where the last film tied off. I really appreciate how the characters feel real. They don’t need super powers or any supernatural influences to be engaging; it’s all to do with the strong contrast established in the battle of ideals. Structurally, it felt like the film ended 2/3 through when The Joker was caught for the first time. You get a delightful surprise with another hour of darkening twists, as the experience becomes increasingly bitter for the souls of Gotham City. It moved at a dynamic pace and the shorter time-line allowed for the time to expand into a length which felt like a documentation of a real time event.
Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker was outstanding. His portrayal of the character has got to be the most sick, twisted and humorous villain I’ve watched for a long time. I was instantly sold when The Joker performed the most horrendous and casual magic trick involving a disappearing pencil and the eye socket of a bouncer. Don’t want to give away too many of his hilarious and creepy antics, but watch out for his stint in a nurse costume with Two-Faced Harvey Denton. Of course, Christian Bale was amazing. So glad that they canned Katie Holmes for Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Explosions, sweet vehicles, punch ups and guns. It’s got all of that awesome Batman testosterone, as well as the complications of gang warfare and internal identity struggle. Easily in my list of favourite recent movies. I enjoyed it a lot, and I know I’ll have to catch it again in the cinemas! The wait was well worth it.
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What a joke. Really. Don’t get me wrong Meomi has a cute ‘style’ that works in its own world, but choosing a very generic anime inspired design for Olympic mascots was a terrible decision. Mascots are supposed to be both symbolic and iconic, contributing to something memorable. I don’t even know what the heck these things are.
The animation style in the introductory page was pretty nice, but a sea bear? A sasquatch that doesn’t even look like one? A thunderbird that looks like a bear? Why not something that actually is Canadian, like beavers, mooses and geese? The Australian mascots did a pretty good job, using native animals. Why not repeat it with the wealth of awesome natives Canada has? I fail to see how the committee could have agreed to use such dumb choices, especially for a creative hub like Vancouver.
What do you think about the mascots? I certainly don’t think Canada.
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