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Monday’s watch it or watch it: The Dark Knight
August 4th, 2008
Ooh! Ooh! A guest poster! From one of my most favorite people in the whole, wide world, The Husband! He, and my dad, went on a boys night this evening. Apparently they were the last two men in the country who had not seen The Dark Knight, and The Husband got sick of waiting around on his brother to be able to go, so off he and Dad went for some male bonding. I only wanted to see it to pay tribute to Heath, and that can wait for Netflix. This is The Husband’s very first post, so everybody be nice! Take it away sweetness.
Well, tonight I went to see The Dark Knight. Yes, I really waited this long to go see it, and I was truly rewarded. The theater was virtually empty, so it was nice and cool, and totally silent.
If you are wanting to see this movie simply because Heath Ledger is in it, I urge you to think hard about that decision. Yes, he is in it….BUT you cannot tell it is him beneath the makeup and he is a totally insane, evil, crazy, twisted individual in this movie. A premovie bathroom break is highly recommended, this movie is long and there is NO lull in the action.
I always hate reading movie reviews because they might give away the plot. I’ll try not to do that, although at this point I have to be one of the few people left that hadn’t already seen it before tonight.
Ok, so basically, The Joker tricks the criminals of Gotham City into becoming what they think to be allies with him. He betrays them…all. He has no rhyme or reason behind what he does, he simply does it to see how people will react. If he has a goal, it’s quite simply to try and reduce normal people to his level and make them do things they would never think of doing.
Batman plays a hero that is at times despised by the citizens of the city, but he continues to do what is right. He bends the rules when he has to, but always restores things back to the right.
In the end, good triumphs over evil at the cost of Batman’s image. He takes the blame for some things so that Gotham can have a hero with a face.
Hopefully that’s not too much of a spoiler for you, if it is, oh well. I warned you.
Filed under The Husband, Watch it or Whine |4 Responses to “Monday’s watch it or watch it: The Dark Knight”
Hey You, sweetie, it’s The Dark Knight, with a K. The Husband, great synopsis. Joe and I saw it the weekend that it opened and we both agreed that it was an excellent movie!
Lol, thanks Ang. Obviously my editor has not been online this AM>
We saw it last week, while on vacay. We had just spent 2 lovely days and nights with our little grand(est)son and looked forward to a little grownup action/adventure movie time.
A couple of times, I caught myself wondering just what type of assault Christian committed against his mother and sister to land him in jail…then the relentless action of the movie snapped me back to it.
The day we saw the movie, I heard a reviewer on TV say, “The movie was very entertaining and fast-paced…the first four hours.” We really enjoyed it, but staggered out of the movie theater at the end, punch-drunk from an action/adventure overdose! Still, I’ll probably watch it again on Netflix.
Oh…and to the 3 American citizens who haven’t seen it yet…FFIL (my best half) did not know Heath was the Joker. He asked me about an hour after it was over who played the Joker and when I told him, he said he felt really down about that and wished he hadn’t asked. BTW, he’s not really a fuddy-duddy, he just doesn’t read People or watch VH-1!