Deary me, I somehow managed to forget to blog about seeing The Dark Knight (imdb | rotten tomatoes). Nellie reminded me tonight while we were having a drink and some food at C’est What. That was tasty, by the way, even if they didn’t have half the beer I wanted.

Anyway…TDK. I liked it lots and lots. I liked that they finally introduced Bruce Wayne’s internal conflict into the series, the fact that he doesn’t want to be Batman, but maybe secretly he needs to be. I liked that Christopher Nolan doesn’t film fight scenes by just jump-cutting together dozens of quarter-second snippets. I liked that Maggie Gyllenhaal was in it instead of Katie Holmes. I liked that the batvehicles, as bizarre as they looked, moved like real vehicles. I liked how dark (mood, not lighting) it was…Batman’s supposed to be dark. Most of all, I liked that for all the hype I’d heard about how good Heath Ledger was as The Joker, I was still blown away. He was very good, and very scary. Nicholson was very good, but never scary.

I didn’t like that Christian Bale sounds like Tom Waits when he does the Batman voice and I didn’t like that they took Aaron Eckhart’s* storyline too far. Those are minor complaints, though; it was an excellent film.

* did anyone else keep thinking about the crooked cop from the Batman every time he was on the screen? “Eckhart…think about the future!” [blam!]

[tags]c’est what, the dark knight, batman[/tags]