You Review – The Dark Knight
By Drift on Aug 1, 2008 in Drift Magazine
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Badass. Really, really badass.
Thank you, Batman, for the most satisfying seven bucks I’ve spent all summer. Then again, right from the line-up for The Dark Knight, I knew it was going to be stellar: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart. They all played their characters awesomely in a movie that was if anything, definitely one thing: dark.
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It’s more than two hours dripping in bloody violence, twists and a few scenes that made me jump out of my seat. It’s an absolute thrill and proof that Batman is the best comic book hero. Or anti-hero, whatever you want to call him.
You even like the Joker, played of course, by Ledger. Not that you can tell under the clownish, gritty makeup and the way he really becomes his character. It’s a performance up to par with Jack Nicholson’s act as the Joker in the first Batman.
The joke’s on whoever said the first time is always best.
He’s twisted, heartless and cruel. And funny. He’ll kill someone and make you laugh in the same thirty seconds. He entertains you with ever-changing tales of how he got the scars that give him his sinister grin while he holds a knife to someone’s face.
There’s a reason most of my friends’ Facebook statuses are quotes from the Joker.
(Like, “Why so serious?” or “What doesn’t kill you makes you … stranger.”)
I’ve got to see this at the Imax. That will make it really, really, really badass.
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By GLEN on Sep 2, 2008 | Reply
soooooo much better in the imax