THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)

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"During the movie, I kept staring with a big smile on my face."

OK. I'm going to write a review on The Dark Knight. I'm finally going to do it.

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Hmmm... How am I going to make my review different from all the others? Hmmm... I don't want to write the 153rd review nobody gives a shit about. How can I make mine different from all the others?

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I GOT IT! Instead of just talking about how good the movie is, I'll write a negative review!

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Nope, that's definitely not it. But I'm getting there...

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EUREKA! Instead of listing all the good things, I'm going to criticise all the bad stuff! Yeah, that's what I'm going to do!

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While I'm crossing my fingers in hopes that The Dark Knight might get some serious Oscar recognition, I still have weird feelings about it. I'm sure it's the best comic book movie so far and the best of 2008 overall, but I'm still not fully convinced. I think that's more because of personal reasons than anything about the movie.

Maybe I was just too hyped up. I was eager to see this film as soon as the Batman Begins credits rolled down. Somewhere up in February I was already counting down the days until TDK. When it was released I was on vacation, nowhere near a theatre, so I had to wait upon returning home to see the movie. In the mean while, I was counting down the minutes. I was reading all the wonderful reviews it had gotten. That got me REALLY hyped up. As soon as I was back, I met up with a friend and we went to go see it.

During the movie, I kept staring with a big smile on my face.

But that's all of the goodness I'm going to discuss.

Now let's sum up the bad things.

Batman's voice. I know this sounds cliché, because everyone has already complained about it, but his voice really complicated things. I've never had a lot of problems with my English (which, by the way, I learned by watching TV and reading online), so I never pay a lot of attention to the subtitles, even though it bothers me when I'm watching a movie without them, regardless what language. Because of that, I couldn't understand the 'Then you're going to love me.'-line. I didn't even notice it. Not that I cared about it in the first place... Still...

What I noticed when seeing this film was the fact that Maroni, after being dropped by Batman about 2 storeys high, even after we hear his legs snap, wasn't using crutches or anything. That does not make sense!

That's all the bad stuff I can remember.

What I really, really hate about this movie: How the hell are they going to make a sequel to this? If Ledger were still alive, they could make a 3rd. Now they can't. They really can't. Well, actually, they can, but it won't be realistic enough. I hope I'm wrong.

(Recasting is definitely not an option.)

I would also like to add that, for some reason, I was more pleased with the release of Batman Begins than I am now with TDK. With BB, I wasn't expecting much, so I was (very) pleasantly surprised. It over delivered. Not that TDK under delivered. I was just expecting the greatest motion picture of all time. I'm probably just sad that the long wait is over and that I have to move on...