Date Night with the Dark Knight
Movies don’t generally live up to their hype anymore, and as a result I don’t get excited about movies or the pricetag that comes with seeing them as a new release. If we do make it to the theater, you can bet on it being a dollar flick. I know the experience isn’t up to par and sometimes the reels are dirty or whatever, but it’s a fraction of the cost and the movie still works.
Then the Dark Knight came along…
I wanted to see it, but i’m callous towards any public hysteria about a movie. I know it’s setting records, I know Heath Ledger supposedly does the most amazing acting job in the last 3.2 million years or something, but it’s just another comic book movie (which are getting old) getting far too much rave reviews for me to get all hot and heavy over. Understand, of all the movies out it’s what i want to see the most, but I just have this fear that it’s not going to live up my expectations based on everything I’ve heard. I have a tendency to fight the norm anyway… sometimes for no reason at all… it’s stupid, i know, butthat’s how i roll, dog… just keepin it real, yo… just manny being manny…
anyway… date night Friday, neither of us wanted to do anything too active so bowling was out as was dave and busters… Nothing good on at the cheapie theaters and I was off early enough for us to beat the crowd and go to the 5:35 showing of The Dark Knight, so I gave in.
I’ll spare you the suspense…
That… was… freakin’… awesome. Probably the best movie I’ve seen in theaters since Gladiator, and it immediately jumps near the top of my personal favorite all time movies (just to keep you in perspective, i’m pretty much into epics or dark movies. Probably the only non-epic, non-dark movie on the top of my list would be Shawshank Redemption, so take my claim that it’s an all time favorite with a grain of salt). They hype is legit. Nearly three hours of complete greatness. The acting was top notch all the way around. I know I know, Heath died so I assumed people were overstating how good he was in this movie, but when you see it, you realize just how amazing of an actor he was. I knew he was good, I’ve liked him for a while now, but this would’ve propelled his career to the upper echelon of actors. I’ve not paid twice to see a movie since tickets were still south of 6$; I might consider it with the Dark Knight, especially once it goes to the dollar theater, just to see it on the big screen one more time.
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Hi! I was just posting my thoghts to my blog about Batman and I was searching a picture and I found you in google.
And youre thoughs are almost the same like mine. That “Gladiator” and “Shawshank redemption”… my best movies so far. And I had big prejudices also with Batman - that film was just great. Im very impressed!
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“That… was… freakin’… awesome” - absolutely james! I’m no batman fan, in fact this is the first batman movie i’ve ever bothered with; i’ve seen it twice now and its better with the second sitting, believe me; there are some sensational lines too readily missed in the first sitting;, one not to be missed is “do i look like a guy with a plan?” that scene is an absolute knockout; the joker role deserves an academy award nomination, no question; the only irritation (and its a minor one), the batman needs to ‘drop a couple from the cluster’, just to get his voice back to some semblance of normal; “kill the batman” yep love that :]]