Fandom meme!

[trinityvixen]

I lack this thing you call sub...subtle...something about not blaring one's opinion, loudly and often. So this is a perfect meme for me because I will be unfailingly honest. My hand to the Great Noodly One's appendage.

Name a fandom, and I'll give you the scoop on at least three of my unpopular opinions related to that fandom.

Comments

[equustel.livejournal.com]

Oh boy! This meme sounds awesome. I may have to post it up, too.

Hmm. I want your unpopular opinions on: Nolan's Batfilms. C'mon, give it!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good one. Okay, let's see...

1) I enjoyed Batman Begins more than I did The Dark Knight. I recognize the merits of the latter, and it was damned impressive, but Begins was more coherent and captivating. I just prefer the origin story, I guess.

2) I didn't like the score for either film. I found them weak and unmoving, especially compared to Danny Elfman's score for the Burton films.

3) I didn't want Harvey Dent to turn into Two-Face in The Dark Knight. It made the movie over-long and over-crowded. I wanted his turning to be left open-ended, with the expectation that he would go there.

[equustel.livejournal.com]

1) I'm with you there. As much as I love TDK, it's ultimately a big city/crime drama; I prefer the mythic sweep of Begins.

2) That's understandable. Luke has similar reservations about the new scores. But I don't think something big and bombastic like Burton's scores would've been appropriate for Nolan's world, so I love the approach Zimmer/Howard took. Some of the cues are just beautiful - I even own sheet music for one of them. Again, though, I think I prefer Begins' score to TDK's, which really didn't introduce anything new (other than a lovely, subtle theme for Harv).

3) So much of my desire for the third film died when Harvey did. WASTED POTENTIAL. I think his transformation was done about as well as it could be, given how much was going on in that film, but I agree that it should've been waited on. Because Two-Face is more than capable of carrying a whole narrative on his shoulders if you set him up right. Sad, sad.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I liked the meet-up between Two-Face and the Joker, oddly enough, but there wasn't a good resolution of Harvey Dent's story. He deserved better. It just made me feel like he'd been thrown over for the easy out.