Lars and the Real Girl – Oh, and Batman too
I’ve just finished watching a Lars and the Real Girl – a film that I suppose falls under the category “feel good” even if these are the sorts of films that tend to make you feel a bit sad at times!
I’d never heard of the film before, but I can see why it only narrowly missed out on an Oscar for best screenplay to Juno. (And so do others, apparently!) It’s a real good film with some charmingly delightful characters, and led by a strangely enigmatic Ryan Gosling playing the eponymous Lars. I won’t tell you much about the film’s plot (I find that knowing nothing about a film before I go and see it definitely enhances the enjoyment – don’t you?) but essentially Lars is a small town guy, so painfully shy that he won’t even go to his brothers’ house next door for dinner. Things gradually change, but I love the way that the town rally around Lars to help him and Bianca out – it’s really quite touching and made me feel like a bit of a softie!
I enjoyed it, and so will you! Probably. I give it 4.5 out of five, which is pretty good for me. It’s probably a 4 out of five, but I’m in a good mood and I really liked it today, so there we go. Not out yet, but only a tenner from the US.
I’m not a softie by the way, I went to the rugby today and spent the rest of the afternoon drinking beer and eating a fab sunday roast (with Apple and Date crumble!) in the Superb Cricketers Arms near the SCG. Highly recommended if you’re in the Surry Hills/Anzac parade area, and perfectly situated for a pre- or post-match schooner. Oh, and doing childish tricks trying to get nice ladies to show off their boobies. People are gullible, eh? 
Right, well I went to watch the Dark Knight last week at the IMAX in Sydney. Rather neatly, as I’m living in the future compared to most of the world I got to see it before it was released in Europe or the USA, on the day of its release here. Even the hoardes of god-bothering locusts in the festival of the young and deluded couldn’t put a dampner on things. I’ve never been a real fan of Batman and his ilk (not since the good old Adam West Batman days, anyway, though I sem to think Batman was the first 12 rated film in the UK? Am I right?) but this was a top film and well worth splashing out $50 for me and Annika to go and see it. I think she only wanted to go for the hot boys in it, but there we are. (Her words).
You’ll hear a lot of people say that Heath Ledger steals the show as the deliciously psychotic Joker, well, I suppose that’s true to 99% of people who will see this film. He’s really excellent and credible as a proper baddie, I’ve not knowingly seen any of his other films (and I don’t suppose I’ll see many more!) but if this film is to be his cinematic epitaph – it’s certainly a goodie. I love the part where he makes the pencil disappear – he’s just brilliantly unhinged and mental.
But the real star for me was the IMAX cinemaphotography. Filming in IMAX is a logistical nightmare – huge film, really heavy cameras and all sorts of issues. Seeing the Hong Kong sequences and the skyscrapers in a screen 8 stories high was just breath-taking. It really was one of the best moments I’ve seen at the cinema when the first real IMAX shots rolled by. I think the new Batman was the first full-length feature film to be shot at least partially in IMAX – it’s not 3d, but the scope and depth of the lense means you see all sorts of things twinkling away in the distance (combined with amazing close-ups) that you wouldn’t see in a normal cinema. If you are going to see The Dark Knight, splash out a bit extra and go and see it in IMAX, it’s well worth the extra money £12 or whatever you have to pay.
I’m going to give it a 4.5/5 too – it could well be a 5/5 film, but I think I might have been swayed by the IMAX, it could equally only have been worth 4/5 and my judgement has been equally blurred. Who knows?!
OK, well that’s 750 words now, so that will do I think! Have a good week y’all – and let me know what you think if you’ve seen either of the above.
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August 6th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
THE STORY OF ME AND THE DARK KNIGHT
( improving MY so called WORDS, see clause 5 )
CHAPTER 1 : FACTS
Young, confident, beautiful, funny and cute are words to describe girls from today, whereby some point out these characteristics more or less and some just combine them so perfectly, that’s because they get called gorgeous female or to make it more easy just ANNIKA CHANTAL BRUNELLI !!! NICE TO MEET YOU !!!
So these girls Normally would watch THE DARK KNIGHT, so BATMAN, of course because of 2 men, who make female’s hearts, sometimes men’s as well, teap for joy.
In my opinion I think that there exist 2 main parts of watching the movie first is the imagination of that hot CHRISTIAN BALE in that hot black Bat Costume, which is on the one hand so cute, because bats are so cute, when they hang around.
And on the other hand,now we getting serious, just watch this close-fitting outfit, where you can see moving every muscle at each step and oh my god he has a lot of these in the movie!!! They are everywhere!!
In addition to that Mr. Batman has 2 effects on female’s :
1. He’s batman he comes and help you, saves you from the so called “BAD BOYS”, he’s a HERO, so the perfect nice guy
2. He wears a black outfit and you can’t see his face(how exciting), so he seems a little bit despicable, mysterious and to be honest just a little bit dangerous, but that’s excactly what female’s want, a mix of nice and bad, not just bad or nice.
2nd main part is how could you know the so loved dead amazing HEATH LEDGER, who was, as he was alive the main part to come over to australia for some people, if I go to australia I’ll fall in love with Heath and then we’ll marry bla bla bla.
But back to reality, nothing against Jack Nicholson, love you, but I haven’t seen a better Joker in my life.
To combine the bad boy and the funny boy so perfectly, that when you just see him start to laugh. AHH he follows you in your dreams.
He’s not the best looking guy in the movie but who cares he makes you laugh on a weird way and that’s one of the most important things for dating a guy. And we’ve seen him in so many other movies, so we know that he’s very very good looking gut.
So the fact is that female’s have everything in the movie that they need, the good looking, tall, mysterious hero Batman alias Christian Bale and the funny, crazy Joker alias Heath Ledger, who we really miss a lot. What else do you need??
CHAPTER 2 : ANNIKA’S REASONS
So my own opinion is that, this girl who wrote the text above is totally crazy, out of her mind.
I wanted to watch The Dark Knight, because I watched the old one’s when I was young
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Who can’t remember George Clooney, Jack Nicholson, Jim Carrey, oh my god Arnold Schwarzenegger, Val Kilmer, Uma Thurman etc.
Maybe it’s the fact that I have to boys or men at home so you have no choice you have to watch Spiderman, Superman and Batman bla bla bla and you start to like it.
So you have to watch every new one, because it just can get better, because of the new special effects and sounds who make the movie more interesting and good.
AND THE HAPPENSTANCE TO HAVE CHRISTIAN BALE AND HEATH LEDGER IN THE MOVIE IS OF COURSE JUST A BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG PLUS, TO SAY IT IN MY WORDS !!!!!
Left to say from my side is, that I really apoligise myself for my english…..Sorry!
THE END