Thursday, September 04, 2008
The movie is closing in on 500 mil domestic as I write this. It was my hope that it would top 600 and finally take Titanic out of the all-time top spot. If that happens, I'll edit this one last time. If not, this be it.
Dark Kuh-nee-ghit rocked.
The story was great. The opening bank robbery was the perfect way to not only open the movie, but introduce one of the main characters. Each of the characters were given their moment to shine and show who they really were. Even Gotham City as a character was given a moment.
Great action. Great effects.
NO BATNIPPLES!!!
The Ledger thing was weird for me. In what I believe was his best performance, his death kept distracting me. I would sit there in awe at this acting tour de force, and all of a sudden I would think, "Oh yeah. He's dead now." My ADD mindfarts notwithstanding, his take on the Joker was one of the best things about this flick. Super villain as the ultimate anarchist. Beautiful rendition.
I always thought Maggie Gylenhalliglgnalinlag was a weird looking broad. But, I'm SO happy they got her this time around and not Mrs. Cruise. She looked much more like someone Bruce Wayne grew up with instead of someone he picked up in his Batmobile while cruising St. Ignatius' Junior High School for Girls.
Bale was spot on again. But, that voice was a bit much. You want to go gravelly with the Batvoice, but he sounded like that huge rock creature from Never Ending Story.
The rest of the cast was awesome. Easy Reader was amazing. So was Alfie and Drexl Spivey. But, the best character and storyline of the movie for me was that of Harvey Dent/Twoface. Batman and Joker we've seen before. Not quite like this, but we know what we were going to get pretty much. This was the first time we REALLY got the Twoface story on the big screen. This wasn't Billy Dee Williams as Dent or Tommy Lee Jones as Twoface. This was Aaron Eckhart (who?) in a fleshed out story, giving us a full character arch and real depth.
This has been a great summer for superhero flicks. Iron Man. A GOOD Hulk. Indy Jones (I think it's safe to put him in this catergory). A bunch of well received others (Hellboy, Hancock, Wanted). But, Batman was the one the genre was counting on. And, they knocked it out of the park.
Move over Adam West.
Prime's Bottom Line - Michael Caine played Alfie in the 1966 movie of the same name. Morgan Freeman played Easy Reader in the 1970s TV show Electric Company. Gary Oldman played Drexl Spivey in 1993s True Romance. And, now you know...
AND KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE!!!
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