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Inspirational!!
PostedJuly 23, 2008
Bumper777
from Las Vegas, NV
The run time of this movie is 2 and a half hours, but it seemed too short for the amount of content. You almost get two movies for the price of one, and every moment is chock full of such perfect dialogue, action, and exposition that it will take a couple of viewings for most people to grasp everything that happens in this movie. Two of my fellow movie-goers made me want to slam their heads together and knock some sense into them when they agreed that they were "underwhelmed" and that "it didn't live up to the hype." This movie stayed true to the dark and gritty graphic novels I discovered when the first Batman movie came out, while at the same time reinventing the story in such an original and unforgiving way that you can't help but feel closer to the characters you've known all your life (if you're a fanboy like me) or meeting for the first time, sharing the grueling and gruesome experience with them.
This movie is visceral yet oddly ethereal, as the Batman and the Joker dance gracefully through the chaos and destruction that encompasses their struggle. Heath Ledger's Joker is the perfect match for Christian Bale's Batman, fast and lithe while at the same time feeding on the fears of the common person. Harvey "Two-Face" Dent becomes the sooth-saying, tragic hero/villain at the center of the struggle between law and chaos as Aaron Eckhart channels his flawless politician-in-a-box abilities he honed in "Thank You For Smoking". My movie-going companions also ticked me off when they said that Heath Ledger should have been more "over-the-top" and that they weren't very impressed by his acting. This made me want to stick long knives up their noses. If you'd never seen any movies Heath had done before, or even if his name weren't on the credits, you would have no idea that was the same person behind that make-up. His performance is flawless, not needing to be over-the-top, as he has all the menace of a coiled snake when not quickly striking, enough to put the fear of clowns back into you if you've lost it somehow since you were young.
I ramble. Go see it. Just don't let me know if you don't think it lives up to all the hype, instead do us all a favor, drink everything you find under the sink, and then jump off a tall building. :-P
This movie is visceral yet oddly ethereal, as the Batman and the Joker dance gracefully through the chaos and destruction that encompasses their struggle. Heath Ledger's Joker is the perfect match for Christian Bale's Batman, fast and lithe while at the same time feeding on the fears of the common person. Harvey "Two-Face" Dent becomes the sooth-saying, tragic hero/villain at the center of the struggle between law and chaos as Aaron Eckhart channels his flawless politician-in-a-box abilities he honed in "Thank You For Smoking". My movie-going companions also ticked me off when they said that Heath Ledger should have been more "over-the-top" and that they weren't very impressed by his acting. This made me want to stick long knives up their noses. If you'd never seen any movies Heath had done before, or even if his name weren't on the credits, you would have no idea that was the same person behind that make-up. His performance is flawless, not needing to be over-the-top, as he has all the menace of a coiled snake when not quickly striking, enough to put the fear of clowns back into you if you've lost it somehow since you were young.
I ramble. Go see it. Just don't let me know if you don't think it lives up to all the hype, instead do us all a favor, drink everything you find under the sink, and then jump off a tall building. :-P
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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