With The Dark Knight, Director Christopher Nolan has delivered his best feature film yet. Definitely the most incredible film I've seen in quite a while, even with a running time of 2.5 hours. And yes, Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker is absolutely riveting...if this performance doesn't give the late actor an Oscar nomination at the very least, I'll be more than a little disappointed.
Going back to Christopher Nolan (since he deserves a bit more praise than even the stellar actors)...once I knew he was going to be involved in the Batman sequel, practically since the end of Batman Begins, I was pretty sure he'd have another excellent movie under his belt. I became a huge fan of Nolan's after seeing Memento (one of my top 10 favorite movies) for the first time in 2000; it is also one of the few movies I've watched multiple times. Following Memento, he directed Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, and of course, The Dark Knight, with Insomnia being the weakest, in my opinion...and really, only because of Al Pacino, who annoyed me in that movie...hell, he always annoys me. Also of note, every movie Nolan has directed has scored at least 75% or more on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer...very impressive.
The only Nolan film I haven't seen is Following, which is his directorial debut - I do plan to eventually see it. As for the future, I'm not sure what Nolan's next project will be, but I intend to see whatever he brings to the screen next. And I certainly hope he will be directing a third Batman movie at some point in the near future...I anticipate that news in the coming months! Go Warner Bros.!!
So, to sum it all up, if you didn't contribute to the biggest, baddest, most splendiferous box office money madness ever this weekend, put on some white face paint and smeared red lipstick, and get out to your local cinema and see this movie!!! And when you get there, fight the temptation to see such gems as Meet Dave and Space Chimps instead...it'll be hard, but you can do it!
p.s. If you haven't seen any of Christopher Nolan's other films, rent them...now.
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I don't get to the theater much, but I do hope to make it for Dark Knight. Of all movies in the theater now, I think this one would be worth seeing on the really, really big screen.
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