OK. I know I am preaching to the choir here, but I need to get this off my chest: I loved Batman Begins. I have loved Batman since I started sneaking TV on afternoons after school solely so that I could watch B:TAS. Imprinting on Bruce Wayne is probably why I'm nuts about Tony Stark; I'm a huge fangirl for Liam Neeson and Christian Bale and blue-eyed boys with dark hair, too.
AND YET. AND YET. BB doesn't hold a match to the SHINING COLUMN OF AWESOME that is Iron Man. It's not fair to put Pepper or Everheart against wassernameicannotremember from BB because they blow every other female superhero character out of the water except for, maybe, the ladies from the X franchise, and in that case, it's only because Jean Grey and Storm and everybody's favorite formerly-married-to-the-cute-brother-from-Full-House shapeshifter have powers that are about 10000000x more badass than anybody else onscreen. Yeah, they're cool and tough, but their identities are based on their superpowers -- not being tough, smart, professional women like Pepper and UNLOOKED FOR BONUS OF THE YEAR Everheart are. Which makes me <3 them in for fic slightly less because it's easy to be awesome hwen you control lightning bolts.
Anyways. Even if you do a Bale v. RDJ comparison, there's nothing there. I love Bale and respect his work, but he reads flat as Batman. Which isn't to say that's not the way Bruce Wayne should be played because dear God, I am first abord the "Bruce Wayne is fucked up" train, but it also means that there isn't nearly the amount of depth and nuance in his performance. You need the thirty minutes of purple flower picking to explain why Bruce Wayne is where he is; you could just start with Tony getting off the plane, and I'd still buy the rest of the movie 125%.
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Re: second time through = golden. i&amp;amp;#39;m thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-27 09:38 pm (UTC)AND YET. AND YET. BB doesn't hold a match to the SHINING COLUMN OF AWESOME that is Iron Man. It's not fair to put Pepper or Everheart against wassernameicannotremember from BB because they blow every other female superhero character out of the water except for, maybe, the ladies from the X franchise, and in that case, it's only because Jean Grey and Storm and everybody's favorite formerly-married-to-the-cute-brother-from-Full-House shapeshifter have powers that are about 10000000x more badass than anybody else onscreen. Yeah, they're cool and tough, but their identities are based on their superpowers -- not being tough, smart, professional women like Pepper and UNLOOKED FOR BONUS OF THE YEAR Everheart are. Which makes me <3 them in for fic slightly less because it's easy to be awesome hwen you control lightning bolts.
Anyways. Even if you do a Bale v. RDJ comparison, there's nothing there. I love Bale and respect his work, but he reads flat as Batman. Which isn't to say that's not the way Bruce Wayne should be played because dear God, I am first abord the "Bruce Wayne is fucked up" train, but it also means that there isn't nearly the amount of depth and nuance in his performance. You need the thirty minutes of purple flower picking to explain why Bruce Wayne is where he is; you could just start with Tony getting off the plane, and I'd still buy the rest of the movie 125%.
And that is my piece.