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On Tap: The Dark Knight
I can't really think of a witty way to open this review. Perhaps because it's close to 4 a.m. when getting out of the movie theater, or most likely because it was just a great film. The movie had an all-stars cast from Christian Bale to the late Heath Ledger. They director took a thoughtful look of the best story arcs of Batman done in the last 30 decades and created the best comic book adaptation movie yet.
Synopsis: The movie unfolds about a year later after the first movie, Batman Begins, takes place. The movie shows how he struggles to bring villains to justice while still trying to have someone to come home to. The mask crusader eventually meets up with his arc nemesis, The Joker, and mayhem ensues (literally) as they have a battle of the wits, placing everyone in a high stakes chess game throughout the entire movie. Batman tries to figure out how the Joker ticks and his motivations. One line the Joker spat during the film was, "You complete me."
In-depth: This Batman film succeeds where all the other movies in the franchise failed. The movie gets a chance to focus on several "super villains" throughout, but not in the campy 1960s Batman show that was re envisioned in Batman Forever and Batman and Robin pictures. Christopher Nolan (with his brother Johnathon Nolan penning the screenplay) showed other villains, but without developing a story to how they hate the Batman, and how they should work together to kill him. The villains were presented in a natural way how they fell into fighting Batman. The bad guys were great, and enough can't be said about the performance Heath Ledger gave to portray the Joker. I thought he was going to be good, but he was fantastic. He really made the character seem crazy even down to his body movements. The twitching and the little adjustments really drive home the point that the Joker has no real plan, he just enjoys killing.
The movie's theme was also powerful. What would people do if they were pushed to the limit? Would anyone keep it together? Or would they just act out like a pack of untrained dogs? It was perfectly illustrated as the Joker tries to show everyone how difficult life was for him every opportunity he got and how if they were in the same position they would do the same exact thing. Strongly based on Alan Moore's The Killing Joke and The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb they blended the world perfectly for the tone of the Dark Knight. This is a intense story and placed in a dark environment. Just read the title: The Dark Knight. It made Iron Man look like the Care Bears Motion Picture.
Underneath it all: Just go see it. But it's not a kids film.
Score: 7/7 BoomShakalakas
"This town needs an emima!"
Sidenote: The only thing I wish I had in my movie was the trailers. I was pissed when I didn't see Watchmen or Terminator Salvation in my theater... I had to go all the way to youtube to find them!
-Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari
The Essential Movie Review Before You Go Out and Spend Your Hard Earned Pennies.
On Tap: The Dark Knight
I can't really think of a witty way to open this review. Perhaps because it's close to 4 a.m. when getting out of the movie theater, or most likely because it was just a great film. The movie had an all-stars cast from Christian Bale to the late Heath Ledger. They director took a thoughtful look of the best story arcs of Batman done in the last 30 decades and created the best comic book adaptation movie yet.
Synopsis: The movie unfolds about a year later after the first movie, Batman Begins, takes place. The movie shows how he struggles to bring villains to justice while still trying to have someone to come home to. The mask crusader eventually meets up with his arc nemesis, The Joker, and mayhem ensues (literally) as they have a battle of the wits, placing everyone in a high stakes chess game throughout the entire movie. Batman tries to figure out how the Joker ticks and his motivations. One line the Joker spat during the film was, "You complete me."
In-depth: This Batman film succeeds where all the other movies in the franchise failed. The movie gets a chance to focus on several "super villains" throughout, but not in the campy 1960s Batman show that was re envisioned in Batman Forever and Batman and Robin pictures. Christopher Nolan (with his brother Johnathon Nolan penning the screenplay) showed other villains, but without developing a story to how they hate the Batman, and how they should work together to kill him. The villains were presented in a natural way how they fell into fighting Batman. The bad guys were great, and enough can't be said about the performance Heath Ledger gave to portray the Joker. I thought he was going to be good, but he was fantastic. He really made the character seem crazy even down to his body movements. The twitching and the little adjustments really drive home the point that the Joker has no real plan, he just enjoys killing.
The movie's theme was also powerful. What would people do if they were pushed to the limit? Would anyone keep it together? Or would they just act out like a pack of untrained dogs? It was perfectly illustrated as the Joker tries to show everyone how difficult life was for him every opportunity he got and how if they were in the same position they would do the same exact thing. Strongly based on Alan Moore's The Killing Joke and The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb they blended the world perfectly for the tone of the Dark Knight. This is a intense story and placed in a dark environment. Just read the title: The Dark Knight. It made Iron Man look like the Care Bears Motion Picture.
Underneath it all: Just go see it. But it's not a kids film.
Score: 7/7 BoomShakalakas
"This town needs an emima!"
Sidenote: The only thing I wish I had in my movie was the trailers. I was pissed when I didn't see Watchmen or Terminator Salvation in my theater... I had to go all the way to youtube to find them!
-Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari
2 comments:
Excellent Review Tyler D.! My only issue with the movie is - NO HARLEY QUINN? I mean, I know she's sort of a campy character in all, but she could have at least had a small appearance. Maybe they could have changed up her odd costume and all. But maybe she would have disrupted the serious tone of the film. I'm not seeing the film for Christiane Bale or even Heath Ledger. I'm going for Aaron Eckhart. Yummo! =P
I have to agree - a film about the Joker without Harley Quinn?! Interestingly, I picked up the comment the Joker made to Dawes about his 'beautiful wife'...although for the life of me can't remember the Joker having a wife...they obviously didn't want to reveal too much about his personal life for a reason. Hmmmmm.
I enjoyed it, but I did find a lot of it a bit disturbing and sadistic. (Basically, I'd get too upset if I saw it a second time).
Poor Heath - I feel we only got a glimpse of his superb talent.
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