The Dark Knight - I FELL ASLEEP!
This will be a bit all over the place, but bare with me…
I really thought The Dark Knight was fantastic, gripping, engrossing – but a bit too long. I was really sucked in and at points was thinking “I hope it doesn’t end yet!”…But for me it was a bit too long…
Heath Ledger was great as the joker – scary, sinister – knowing what makes people tick and playing, even preying on that–he was down right scary – makes you squirm – a performance for the ages! Heath’s untimely death adds another level of pathos and loss; however, I am not sure if the performance is Oscar worthy. Do not misunderstand me, Heath DID redefine the character – he made it his…well done…he will at the very least win best villain at the MTV Movie awards…
The sound went funky at one point in the film – that I actually thought when Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) kisses Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) at his apartment – the only place she will be safe while the Joker is searching for her or her D.A. Boyfriend, because the sound was funky I thought that scene was something Batman imagined happening…you know all in his mind…the sound came back…and then I dozed off…I knew it was going to happen …SON OF A BITCH!
I went out to Tinsel Town for the IMAX 3:15 showing and it was sold out and since it is the other side of town for me, I bought a ticket for the regular 4 o’clock showing. I knew I was pushing it because I usually get too tired around 5 to really do anything without a Dunkin Donuts Turbo coffee…and the movie is two and a half hours long! I fought it, but lost and am not sure how long I was out…the last thing I remember is Heath Ledger blowing up the hospital…then I woke up to see Two Face on the roof with Commissioner Gordon’s family – and threatening to kill whoever he loved most and wanting the Commissioner to tell his loved one “everything was going to be O.K.”; just like Two Face/Harry Dent did with his greatest love Rachel, who died while he, D.A. Harry Dent/Two Face, was saved. The TRUE hero needs to be saved.
The Dark Knight is set in a modern day city, which tells me that Batman battles the very things all of us do everyday; ignorance, intolerance, envy, greed and the havoc any one them can bring- it’s easy to see how all of us can go bad …the line between good and evil is a fine one, especially for those with power. As Alfred tells Batman, “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
The Dark Knight also shows how FEAR can corrupt us all, but we can choose to defeat that corruption. If that message doesn’t speak to present day, YOU NEED TO WAKE UP! As is said in the Dark Knight, the hero we want to save us from ourselves is not the hero we need. Think about it and enjoy the film. Oh, let me know how the Joker dies or does he – I slept through that part!
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 am
Bill,
I love the show. I listen everyday on my way to work, but you should be put in jail for falling asleep. That’s a crime against awesomeness. You must have been out a while because the DA is HARVEY, not Harry and he is the one who says that particular quote about living long enough to become the villian first and he says it to Bruce Wayne at dinner. Do me a favor, go see it again fully awake and tell me Heath doesn’t deserve an Oscar for scaring the shizit out of you. Love the show and everyone on it!
-AJ
July 30th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Don’t feel bad, the movie really WAS too long. It was good, not as good as Batman Begins but solid enough but it had so much crap that should not have been in it that it does not reach the level of great. I have a friend that told me he went to see it three times in two days… I can’t imagine sitting through it again.