THE DARK KNIGHT AGAIN
So, it be a couple of weeks since my last review (Hellboy 2 Review to come soon). Anyway back to The Dark Knight. It been a few weeks since it came out and jesus it already the number 8 movie in the all time US box office. The Batman is kicking ass and taking names. I hope and pray it take over Titanic but i do not think it going to happen (which is the shame). Anyway the last review, i just really went fanboy and say everything is great (which most of it is). So i am back to follow up my last review of the film.
But first i want to clear something up, some things on the internet has shot down Maggie Gyllenhaal in her role and she was miscast and so on. Come on, Maggie Gyllenhaal is better than Katie Holmes. Maggie is a actress which divide many people i like her and think she was a good choice to take over the role from Holmes and i think she added something to Rachel Dawes.
Also the film is not too long as well, lot of people have been writing this in other reviews but again really, i rather have a long interesting film i want to see over and over again in the cinema instead of Meet Dave or some other crap.
The other reasons i love this god damn film is that i am going to see it again in the Cinema or Imax like i say in the last review. Not many movies do that, i got asked the other day what is the best film i saw in the cinema (not the best written film or anything like that but the best film i saw and thought Jesus Christ i got to see this again) i told the group i was with at the time it was Lord of the rings “fellowship of the Ring”. It not a film i can watch over and over again but i walked out of the cinema after that film and thought fuck me that was great.
The group looked at me but i told them i missed out on Star Wars because i was too young too see it in the cinema until the Special Editions in the 90’s and other films in that style of the blockbusters of the 80’s but Lord of the Rings was a experience in the cinema i wanted again and to be honest it has not happen for a long time (some films came close) but The Dark Knight is one of the best films i seen in the cinema fact.
Look i am going to tell you what i thought was wrong with it shortly but i want to go into more details about why i love this film.
The Joker is a great character and has many different origins depending on what comics you read at the time. One reason i love this film is because of all the different origins of the Joker, the film did not use one, it did not give you a back story about him at all, he was just a mad psychotic character who love chaos and destruction and when he tell stories about himself it changes everyday and no DNA systems can pin him down and the police and Batman are screwed because when you do not know anything about someone how do you trap them?
Many movies (mostly horror movies to be honest) give the bad psychotic character a back story so the person can see why they become the killing machine in the present and that suck to be honest. I do not want to know how Micheal Myers become a killer but Rob Zombie told a back story in the remake of Halloween and who wanted that no one. The Dark Knight avoided this because The Joker has been done in so many ways in comics, Television and Movies and The Nolan’s avoided the wrath of Fan-boys by not creating a back story for him and that why it make the character better.
OK, here are the problem i got with the movie. The Action is a lot better than Batman Begin but they are still problems with some shots but hey the stuff in Hong Kong are great and many action scenes are good but some times is goes into close up again like Batman Begin and you can not tell what the hell is going on.
That it really to be honest, i know that rubbish but i can not think of many things i dislike about it. Some scenes could have been cut down but hey i want to see this film again on the big screen. It did not drag at all to me and it was well acted and brilliantly filmed. Sorry if i went over some points but hey i love this film. Roll on the Blu Ray
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