trinityvixen | (no subject)

deepredbelle posted the rumor the other day, and now it's official: Aaron Eckhart is Harvey Dent in the sequel to Batman Begins.

Truthfully? I have no idea what to think, and I've been considering this for a few days. Certainly, it doesn't get the knee-jerk reaction that someone like Hayden fucking Christiansen got earlier from me, but that's only because I don't know enough of Eckhart's stuff to know whether or not he'll be good in the role. I will say that he's a bit old for the part, especially as Harvey Dent should be only about low-30s for the start of the Batman screen universe. Of course, if he's made into Two-Face in the next movie, makeup will be distracting enough from that part. My deal about his age is only that they actually got an actor to be playing to his age in Christian Bale, and I thought Bruce and Harvey were meant to be contemporaries. Someone else knows better, hey, enlighten me.

Basically, I dunno. Things I've seen with Eckhart: In the Company of Men and Your Friends & Neighbors, both of which are supposedly sooooooo great, and I thought were just boring excuses to jerk the women in them around and make them look like stupid sluts. Everyone in both of those movies was utterly unlikeable, and, I'm sorry, if I can't like anyone in a movie, I'm not going to like the fucking movie. So, a bit bitter, perhaps. It might be best that I know him from as little as possible prior to this. My many-year hiatus from watching anything with Heath Ledger in it will probably help me get over the 10 Things I Hate About You/A Knight's Tale hangover woes about him being cast as the Joker. Yes.

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Uh...well, he was good in Thank You For Smoking. He looks the part anyway.

From some angles, yeah. I dunno. I picture Harvey as darker haired, but that's more nitpicky still than the age thing. And fixable.

Hmmm...Heath Ledger as Joker? Not so sure. But Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent intrigues me, because AE intrigues me. I feel good about it. But I'm only a Hush and Animated Series Batman fan, so I'm not sure how much I know that will make this opinion hold water. :)

Btw, I love your Super Mario icon.

That is Mario's thinking face.

I am mostly an animated series fan, myself, so I am in the same boat as you. We shall have to see, no?

And Hush is an awesome storyline.