So last night was the book night of the 7 hour (give or take) marathon session of Batman Begins, The Dark Night and the newly released The Dark Knight Rises at the fantastic Sun Theatre in Yarraville. It was a very enjoyable night, very well organised with plenty of drinks, a dinner box and the atmosphere was brilliant (despite the old queen in front of me falling asleep in the FIRST movie and snoring!!!).
But without giving much away in terms of spoilers, I can't say too much about The Dark Knight Rises (sadly I fell asleep for about 20 minute), but I will say it's very enjoyable movie.
As this is just a snapshot of the trilogy I'll keep it short and sweet with detailed reviews to follow over the next week (fingers crossed). Having ever seen any of them, I'm glad I saw it on the big screen. The entire trilogy is an interesting study in both the human condition as well as how fantastic movies can be with great casting, a brilliant director and a story/stories that don't treat the audience like they are mentally defective.
This leads into my next observation about the cinematography. As a whole, the trilogy is very dark in both the storyline as well as the tone, with the majority of the movies taking place in dark lit scenes. However, in The Dark Knight, this is contrasted as Dark Knight starts off in brightly lit scenes before descending into the chaotic dark world that is the Joker.
Heath Ledger. A treasure that went too soon.
Reviews for each movie to come soon.
Post Script- I must ad this last tidbit of information I found online.
Christopher Nolan said that the film's theme deals with "Pain" For Batman Begins, it was on "Fear", while The Dark Knight deals on "Chaos". An extra food for thought for you guys
But without giving much away in terms of spoilers, I can't say too much about The Dark Knight Rises (sadly I fell asleep for about 20 minute), but I will say it's very enjoyable movie.
As this is just a snapshot of the trilogy I'll keep it short and sweet with detailed reviews to follow over the next week (fingers crossed). Having ever seen any of them, I'm glad I saw it on the big screen. The entire trilogy is an interesting study in both the human condition as well as how fantastic movies can be with great casting, a brilliant director and a story/stories that don't treat the audience like they are mentally defective.
This leads into my next observation about the cinematography. As a whole, the trilogy is very dark in both the storyline as well as the tone, with the majority of the movies taking place in dark lit scenes. However, in The Dark Knight, this is contrasted as Dark Knight starts off in brightly lit scenes before descending into the chaotic dark world that is the Joker.
Heath Ledger. A treasure that went too soon.
Reviews for each movie to come soon.
Post Script- I must ad this last tidbit of information I found online.
Christopher Nolan said that the film's theme deals with "Pain" For Batman Begins, it was on "Fear", while The Dark Knight deals on "Chaos". An extra food for thought for you guys