Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The Darkest Knight of Them All

I finally saw Batman: The Dark Knight. Yay for me. Very exciting. The two and a half hours flew by. Heath Ledger as the Joker was indeed impressive. Sadly really, that he can't do it in the sequel.

Batman's deeps fake voice was annoying. Morgan Freeman was as always, Morgan Freeman. And of course, saving the day conveniently setup the next time the day would require saving.

It seemed like a lot of scenes were cut. Not just cut, but overtly missing. It was a really good, face paced movie. It was just a little jumbled. Like the director wanted a three-hour movie and was convinced to strip it down to two and half. I managed to fill in the missing links as I'm sure most folk did. But still was left with the feeling that I had blinked much too often.

A fabulous follow up to Batman Begins. Although I have to say I still prefer that clarity and cerebral nuances of it a little bit more.

As for dressing up the kids as spooky, overdoes guy, Joker. I emphatically vote yes. It's so morbidly tacky that it's downright American.

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