Saturday, July 19, 2008

the dark knight

I went to see the midnight showing of the newest batman film on thursday/friday.

It was awesome. It's the best movie i've seen since the Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King. I really enjoyed Batman Begins and I knew this was going to be good, but it was even better than i expected. Chris Nolan has totally established himself as an elite hollywood director. Christian Bale continues to redefine Batman and raise the bar for modern actors. Heath Ledger blows Jack Nicholson's Joker out of the water. Heath's Joker is to Jack's Joker as Jack's Joker is to Caesar Romero's Joker.

This movie moves beyond the conventions of other comic based films; other superhero moves should be ashamed of themselves (i'm looking at you superman returns. not so fast spiderman 3). I highly recommend this film.

What's your review?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought Indiana Jones 4 was the best movie experience since LOTR? Maybe the movie wasn't that good, but three of us dusting off that x-large Sbarro pizza with the extra grease really made up for a sub-par movie.

alex said...

i don't even remember the last 1/3rd of indy 4, i just remember slamming down my second arm-length piece of pizza.

Anonymous said...

Caesar Romero -- now there's a cul;tural icon if there ever was one.

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