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Dear God...
PostedJuly 19, 2008
Mistervic
from Chicago, IL
I saw it Friday morning. It is hard to put into words without sounding like an over-the-top idiot bat-movie geek. The last time I had a movie experience like this was... "Batman Begins" in 2005. This director, Chris Nolan, has come upon a vision and sense that has made "Batman Begins" and now "The Dark Night", way, way, way , way, way, way more than just another comic book incarnation for the big screen. These films are nothing if not epic in scope. Like listening to a Wagner symphony. You are enthralled from the very beginning but you keep thinking it is going to eventually turn into a regular movie. But it never does. It lifts you higher with wonder - and takes you lower into dread and modulates back a again,.. each time a little more higher, a little more lower - into madness - until you realize this isn't a movie - it is a masterpiece of film-making of the First Order. I left the theater numb and breathless - not unlike the feeling of being "spent" in the sexual sense. I could not shake it all day - and still cannot shake it now. Tomorrow I head over to the IMAX to see it for the first time, again, in a new format. It is hard to imagine it could possibly be any better. I predict this movie will be on most every reviewer's Top-Ten List for 2008. Further, Heath Ledgers performance? I cannot say he would win an Oscar for this - depends upon the Academy's mood and who else is nominated - but he will most assuredly be nominated. His turn as the Joker - playing him as a sociopath two or three leaps beyond Hannibal Lector - will be remembered for years to come. He put this movie over the top. He is the one who lifted it beyond what it would have been in anyone else's hands. I don't think I have ever seen a better performance from anyone, in any role, anywhere, in any motion picture, ever, in the history of going to see films. Yes. It is THAT good. I will see this film many times. And - as with "Batman Begins" before it - it will only get better and more rapturous with each viewing. This movie is the reason why people go to see movies. Nothing short of magnificent, extraordinary... there are no suitable superlatives. It is the yard-stick against which all future films of this type will be measured... until Chris Nolan's third installment.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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