Dark Knight: a chronicle
 

For overzealous fans of the caped crusader, with no mention of the caped crusaderette, the film was one capable of meeting most expectations, unless those expectations are looking for the depth of Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky.

Ours started at 12:01 right past midnight. Which means you sit in your seat with your 14 year old son watching everybody arrive for about an hour.

My son texted me, sitting right next to me, "these ARE nerds." At first I didn't comprehend, but that didn't last long.

The moviegoers in front of us started arguing about code. No, C+++ is better for that application. In your dirty code, you should have used xxx

Huh. People wore bat hats and weird stuff. I couldn't wait for the film to start.

Seven or eight trailers later, including one for SPIRIT, a really weird looking film sometime in spring of 2009, we see the offered fare.

It starts off with a good tempo and picks up steam. It's a 150 minutes long, but it wasn't too long.

Heath Ledger virtually stole the show and showed why he was a talented actor. He created depth in a cartoon character. For the most part, Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman and the guy playing the butler did outstanding. There may be a little less in terms of script material, because it's difficult to show soul-searching in this medium, but there are a few twists mildly unanticipated.

It is worth the show, even if that means you don't get to bed until four and get up an hour later for a three hour bike ride only to sit here vegging not wishing to work and hoping sushi lunch gets here more quickly than normal.

Downside, the real Barbara Gordon doesn't appear at all.

Recommendation: See it live, don't wait for the DVD.

I'll pass, thank you.

We are going to see it tonight. It is our 10th Anniversary.

Happy anniversary!

I think we took the kids to a baseball game for our 10th.

Too bad dude, it is a kick ass flick, certainly one of the years best.

Heath Ledger was incredible in this, very gritty and dark.

Every part equal to Batman Begins.

Heath Ledger is why I'm choosing not to see it.

Don't feel bad for me missing it though, as I don't.

Thanks. Technically, it was yesterday.....and my wife went out with her friends from the ward. They all went to dinner, then pinkberry, then went over to one of the houses and hung out until 1AM.

So the sum total of my 10th anniversary.....my wife goes out with her friends until 1AM and the next day we go to see Batman.

Sorry ladies, I'm taken.

this is my third midnight movie this year and this one was the best. The largest crowd, the payoff was excellent and it was worth the veggieness I feel right now.

The movie was outstanding. I love Batman because there are no superpowers with these people. Just smart, crazy people doing crazy things for what they believe. Nolan does it in such a way where you might actually think it was possible to do something like this given the right circumstances

I watched the first Batman and Batman Forever before rewatching Batman Begins and it's amazing how horrible those first to movies were. Nolan's vision of Gotham/Batman is truly amazing.

Heath Ledger's performance was outstanding. That is what the Joker is supposed to be like. Not some dancing clown painting over classic artwork.

And how about his "magic trick" at the beginning. Hilarious.

The movie is dark but there was no language and the violence was more implied and not as grotesque or explicit as it could have been.

What does that mean exactly? There was grotesque and/or explicit violence, but it could have been worse? I'm being serious. How bad is it? Violent movies are a problem for me, I apparently have a very low tolerance level for that sort of thing. Anything worse than an Indiana Jones movie and I'm out.

That depends. Do you equate a very dark, gritty and unforgiving tone on the same level of being uncomfortable with violence?

If so, then it will bother you.