The Dark Knight

I didn't watch this movie when it came out because of all the hype. I didn't want to be disappointed. But, curiosity got the best of me and and I ended up renting the movie last Wednesday.

The first time I watched it, it was really noisy, people were talking, I was sitting far from the TV, and there was a glare on the TV too. This is all really bad conditions for watching this movie because it was filmed in the dark, and you can really miss a lot. From far away and a brightly lit room with a lot of noise everything looks too dark and I did miss a great deal the first time.

Anyway, the second time I watched the movie I did like it better than the first time. I sat right in front of the TV, and the rest of the family was asleep and I didn't have to put up with a lot of noise.

I have to give the movie credit, it had to be a hard movie to make. There were a lot of special affects and details, and serious acting. And scene after scene followed in very quick succession of the next maniacal plot of the Joker. I thought to myself, how does such a freak, find so many goons and criminals to help him out in so many plans, and how does he think up so many plots in a short amount of time? That Joker was super busy. Maybe it was really a longer time period for the Joker to spread out all the chaos, but in the movie it looked like a very short time span.

The Joker was a genius at wrecking havoc on Gotham, and had a lot of twisted plots, and there were a lot of criminals, explosions, and stuff, but Gotham didn't feel real, and none of the characters felt real to me, even if some of the acting was serious. This lack of realness made the movie less relevant in my mind, no matter how complicated and difficult of a movie it was to make. I wish it somehow felt real, instead of a comic book. For me, that would have made it better.

One of the points of the movie, or the point that The Joker wanted to come across anyway, is that he is not the only evil one, we are all capable of becoming evil if we are pushed in that direction hard enough. If something bad happens, or the circumstances are bad enough, we can all do something bad. In this movie, I good guy named Harvey Dent, "two face" becomes bad when his finance dies, and half his face is ruined. The Joker keeps on telling people different stories about his past as to why he is a bad person. He tells different stories that don't match up about how he got the scars on his face.

Boo, hoo, you suffered, and now you can be a bad boy. What a bunch of self indulgent hogwash. There is no excuse to be bad. And the Joker should know that.