If you’re not sure what the headline refers to, check this out (be aware, it isn’t safe for work, and our favorite dark knight does have quite the potty mouth). When you’re done, and if you’re still in the mood, check this. It’s my favorite of the parodies so far.
Christian Bale and I aren’t done professionally. He acted like a punk and his outburst was inexcusable, but it won’t keep me from seeing Terminator: Salvation and the next time he’s got ears above his head, I’ll still gladly open my wallet for a ticket.
I saw the Dark Knight for the second time last night and just wanted to spend a few hundred words saying, “golly.” Though it doesn’t have the special effects of Spiderman or the gee whiz isn’t it cool of Iron Man, it does have a resonant basis in reality that seemed impossible within the genre just a few years back.
Two and a half straight hours bursting with the brand of Batman I didn’t think ever had a chance of flying up on screen. Batman’s been the best since he had to share Saturdays with the Smurfs. The 90′s animated series was a big bag of bomb yo, but the caped crusader always looked a bit ridiculous when he was flesh and blood.
Christopher Nolan laid the framework in the first film, but Batman begins was just a bullet off the bulls-eye, the Dark Knight is a perfect shot with a flaming arrow.
Every note of the Dark Knight plays in perfect pitch with the best of the character’s rich mythology brewed over seven decades. Yet, shockingly, every moment is no less believable than most other films, and far less than any other super hero film ever shot, chopped, and tossed on screen.
When Nolan was first unveiled as the director promising to reboot the Batman franchise a few years back, I was giddy. Well, at first a little disappointed (Darren Arronofsky, director of Requiem For a Dream was originally going to direct a draft of Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One, before the WB deemed it “too dark”), but that disappointment dimmed in seconds. Once I realized the guy who directed Memento (a twisted story of insane obsession) was getting a clean shot at one of the darkest of our legends, well then I was all smiles.
The Dark Knight met the promise made by the first movie, then redefined the possibility of an entire genre.
