I know a movie is great when I walk out of it and I have butterflies from how awesome it was. However, The Dark Knight was so incredible that I had sustained butterflies throughout the movie during my second viewing in three days. Take my previous blog about my top ten favorite movies of all time and add this one to it, because this movie definitly deserves the position.
The plot is smart and complex and keeps you entertained at all times, but forces you to emphasize with most characters. The action scenes are well done and many cool knew gadgets were introduced (As expected). Although this movie was quite long, (about 2 and a half hours) the time pretty much flew by and I was praying it would go on for longer when it started winding down.
The real story of this movie was the acting performance by the late Heath Ledger. I won’t lie, when I first heard that Ledger would be playing the Joker, I was skeptical and even a little disappointed. He dominated the role. They say that his obsession with the dark, twisted, Joker character may have lead to his death by accidental overdose, and after seeing how well he went into character, I can see how that is possible. There was no part of the Joker in this movie that was Heath Ledger in any way. People were scared he would not live up to Jack Nicolson’s Joker, but Heath left him in the dust.
Overall, The Dark Knight is my favorite movie of 2008 so far, and possible my favorite movie of all time. I urge everyone who has not seen it yet to see it right away, because this movie is too good to miss.
Hey, first of all, sorry I havn’t written in a while. I’ve been at camp and its hard to find computers that work well enough to use. So I wanted to compare the two biggest action movies of the summer so far (emphasis on the so far because the Dark Knight comes out soon), Hancock and Wanted.
I thought from the commercials that Hancock was going to be very good. The plot about the superhero who didn’t really care about being well mannered or respectful and so on seemed interesting, and normally I like Will Smith. However, the plot advertised in the commercial and most of the scenes in the commercial took place only in about the first half hour. And it was a really good first half hour. After that it just went off on ridiculous tangents and threw all this information about the characters’ lives that were confusing and open ended. There were some entertaining moments throughout, largely due to JAson Bateman and Will Smith’s comic delivery, but overall, this movie was a huge disappointment.
Wanted (Rated R), on the other hand, was probably my favorite movie of 2008 so far. It’s fast paced and always entertaining, from start to finish. The action scenes were incredible, and there were so many awesome lines that were delivered so perfectly that it just gave me chills. I saw it as a mix of The Matrix and Fight Club (although not QUITE as good as Fight Club) because it had the dark, intense yet kind of funny feel of Fight Club, mixed with the special effects and insane action scenes of The Matrix. It was a necesary movie for James Mcavoy to step into after doing Atonement to avoid falling into the trap of being a romantic movie star, and he nailed the role. The only disappointment of this movie was Angelina Jolie’s performance, which I thought was weak.
The thing about Wanted is that it is the type of movie where in order to enjoy it, you have to want to enjoy it. People that go in expecting to hate it and try to pick out flaws might call it a bad movie. That’s because a lot of the plot device is a bit over the top and you really have to just go with it, let it happen, instead of thinking “That’s stupid.” So in closing, see Wanted, don’t see Hancock, and look for my next blog, which will hopefully be a review of The Dark Knight.
