Where Do I Start?
Before I say a few things about The Dark Knight, I'd like to let everyone know that Michele and I welcomed home a beautiful new baby. He's got blue eyes, likes to sleep in my lap. And he's already litter box trained!
There's little to say about The Dark Knight. Mostly because everything has already been said. Half the blogs in the United States are probably buzzing with excitement after opening day.
I honestly didn't expect anything to pass up Ironman for my favorite movie of the summer, I saw the Dark Knight on Friday and I'm still kind of reeling from the experience. Ironman was great, Hellboy II was cool, Hulk was fun--but Dark Knight blew them all away.
I did tell my dad not to let my mom watch The Dark Knight. It's just such a surreal performance on the part of the Joker, this thing is gonna give kids nightmares. Not that my mom's a kid, but you know...
I have to admit: despite the fact that Dark Knight was amazing, and I've never seen anything like it, my heart skipped a beat when I saw the James Bond trailer. That's just cool stuff.
Have I mentioned that the Bourne movies and Casino Royale have redefined action movies as we know them? Dwayne Johnson backs me up on this theory (crap, I can't find the article). I might go ahead and stick Dark Knight on the list.
Have I mentioned Dark Knight enough? No?
I read an article at Slate Magazine about how Dark Knight is some huge allegory over 9/11 and terrorism and the Bush administration. Take a look at the article yourself, but I think it's idiotic. Few people in writing that don't write creatively really understand the concept of entertainment. That includes high school teachers, college professors, and journalists. I don't want to take away any message that Nolan was trying to infuse his movie with, but hell, it was a GOOD MOVIE. Not a giant allegory. Oh yeah, and the article said that there was no hope, no real vision of good triumphing at the end of the movie (I paraphrase, obviously). The entire point of comic books and heroes and villains, even one as sadistic and chaotic as the Joker, is that good triumphs over evil.
Then I'll also say... sorry, I'm done. Nothing else to give. The flick was great.
There's little to say about The Dark Knight. Mostly because everything has already been said. Half the blogs in the United States are probably buzzing with excitement after opening day.
I honestly didn't expect anything to pass up Ironman for my favorite movie of the summer, I saw the Dark Knight on Friday and I'm still kind of reeling from the experience. Ironman was great, Hellboy II was cool, Hulk was fun--but Dark Knight blew them all away.
I did tell my dad not to let my mom watch The Dark Knight. It's just such a surreal performance on the part of the Joker, this thing is gonna give kids nightmares. Not that my mom's a kid, but you know...
I have to admit: despite the fact that Dark Knight was amazing, and I've never seen anything like it, my heart skipped a beat when I saw the James Bond trailer. That's just cool stuff.
Have I mentioned that the Bourne movies and Casino Royale have redefined action movies as we know them? Dwayne Johnson backs me up on this theory (crap, I can't find the article). I might go ahead and stick Dark Knight on the list.
Have I mentioned Dark Knight enough? No?
I read an article at Slate Magazine about how Dark Knight is some huge allegory over 9/11 and terrorism and the Bush administration. Take a look at the article yourself, but I think it's idiotic. Few people in writing that don't write creatively really understand the concept of entertainment. That includes high school teachers, college professors, and journalists. I don't want to take away any message that Nolan was trying to infuse his movie with, but hell, it was a GOOD MOVIE. Not a giant allegory. Oh yeah, and the article said that there was no hope, no real vision of good triumphing at the end of the movie (I paraphrase, obviously). The entire point of comic books and heroes and villains, even one as sadistic and chaotic as the Joker, is that good triumphs over evil.
Then I'll also say... sorry, I'm done. Nothing else to give. The flick was great.
posted by Brian at
8:54 PM
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It's been chronically sold out in the one-mule town I call a home. I even went to the 10:45 showing last night, knowing I wouldn't get outta there until past 1:00am--nope, still sold out. Going back again tonight...
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