Did we watch the same movie? Her antics were one of the only things entertaining me, and I recall most of the film's thread praising her.
Ah, but we can watch the same movie and process it very differently. Anne Hathaway's antics were entertaining, but her Catwoman wasn't game changing. That was just Anne Hathaway with edge. I'd say the movie itself doesn't do justice to what I think would be a good Catwoman.
I was more fascinated by Tom Hardy's Bane and I found mystery woman Marion Cotillard a more alluring treat.
She would have probably made a good Catwoman. Anne Hathaway -- this doll was strongly criticized for hosting the Academy Awards. I say she belongs there and should go back. She is not really a sexy, menacing devil suitable for Catwoman. She is a vaudeville show host waiting to happen. I think Halle Berry makes a better Catwoman. Put Halle Berry in a REAL Catwoman/Batman situation and not that junk movie she did and everyone would adore her.
I thought Catwoman would steal the show in
Dark Knight Rises. She didn't. And I went in thinking she would. The fact that she didn't with me... I cannot say her performance blew me away, then. You may have liked her for particular reasons that work with you, but she was ultimately a fail with me. And that's not completely Anne Hathaway's fault -- the movie itself ultimately made her boring. But I say she went with it instead of trying to surpass it in her own special way. She's good to watch in the movie, but I don't think she's exactly a SUPERSTAR! with the whole Catwoman thing.
Also, I wouldn't trust what everyone says right this moment about the performance. This gal is going to spawn a lot of sympathy support right now -- "Oh, I love her. She's better than Michelle Pfeiffer. She's the best." -- but twenty years from now, people are gonna be off the
Dark Knight Rises drug and really speak their feelings. I don't see her lasting forever as a great actress for playing Catwoman. But I do think that Tom Hardy's Bane has a chance of going a farther distance. That was a character that both worked for what the movie ultimately executed and for his own touch with what he did with the role. Was he better than The Joker? No. But neither was Catwoman. She was the person I counted on to win the movie and give it its due. She was supposed to help strengthen the movie on a level with
The Dark Knight. I don't think she did at all. And I think Tom Hardy did most of the work while Anne Hathaway did nothing. She was not memorable.
Michelle Pfeiffer will ultimately own this role forever. I don't think anything's gonna defeat her strange, cute, dominatrix demon performance. I like the performances by Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar and I think they're classic, but
Batman Returns Catwoman is the one that's larger than life and more easily found.
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