STOP the Hype.
I have seen the new box office champ and I offer honesty:
The Dark Knight is a very good movie.
It is not “Godfather 2 good”.
It will not cure cancer or make you more popular with the opposite sex. (Enjoying it too much may actually have the opposite effect with the latter.)
Heath Ledger did a great job and I am sorry we won’t see his Joker again. Truly. Every moment he was on the screen I moved to the edge of my seat. Mostly because I was waiting for him to be amazing based on all the things I’d heard beforehand.
2 Face was very well done but -I kept reading about all the surprises I was in for and to be honest . . . NOT ONE THING shocked me. Well okay ONE thing did. I am a bit shocked that Christopher Nolan didn’t ask Christian Bale to stop gargling with nails when he did his “Bat Voice”.
Less is more tough guy . . .
Even the amazing “pencil scene” I keep reading about was a non event.
I AM NOT saying I did not LIKE it. I’m just saying it wasn’t a religious experience and I was glad I resisted the urge to go without sleep and see it at midnight. Do NOT misunderstand me – it is a GREAT movie. I just don’t get the chorus of angels singing it’s praises like it’s the second coming of Brando . . .
In my humble, yet well educated (regarding superhero cinema) opinion – Spiderman 2 is still the best comic book movie ever made. It’s just as long, but paced better and more emotionally connected to it’s audience.
So in short – Dark Knight is a Great Movie but sliced bread can breathe easy.
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