Dark Knight goes beyond Batman Begins
The greatest line in the whole movie as stated to the left in the movie poster. The Joker says it three times, each time with a greater level of creepiness and raw psychopathy. In fact, that describes his demeanor throughout the entire movie. Heath Ledger’s performance is phenomenal. Needless to say, Oscar-worthy. As everyone has said, every line out of Ledger’s mouth is a piece of gold, another piece of the puzzle into the psychopath that is The Joker.
It is an epic movie. Almost every scene is worthwhile. I say almost every scene only because there are 1 or 2 scenes that make me question, what’s it doing there? However, in Batman Begins (which I rewatched on Tuesday) there’s a lot more cheese in a lot of the police’s dialog, and there are a lot of scenes that just don’t fit the seriousness of the first movie. This movie does better at staying “serious.”
Problems? Even if a lot of people have a problem with Christian Bale’s voice being too raspy, that’s not what I had a problem with. My problem (aside from the damn audience clapping every two seconds at scenes you knew were coming) was that the city portrayed in the movie is not the Gotham from the first one. Different Wayne tower, no Narrows shown, and an overall different feel of the city. It’s almost as if they did not spend enough time trying to sync with the idea that we’re still in Gotham and not New York City, which I thought they pulled off very well in the first film. However, we do see some familiar stuff like “Lower” 8th street where in the first film Batman speeds back through after having saved Rachael from Dr. Crane.
Those nitpicks aside, this movie was incredulous. Two-Face’s CG was near perfect (a much more accurate interpretation than make-up). Action sequences were just thrilling, and coming back full circle, the greatest part of this movie was by far Heath Ledger as the Joker. I know I said it already, and I will say it again to anyone who asks. After all, we should all learn to lighten up these days. In the infamous words of the Joker, “Why so serious?”
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