the bat man: dark nights

The Dark Knight was a better movie than Begins on every conceivable
level, insofar as I think powers that be had more confidence in the
creators to make it less about gadgets and empty sound and fury, with
them trusting the actors and the setting to do all the work for them.
It was strange seeing 99% of the movie's 'Gotham City' as being the
place that I had been working for nearly a year, and there were plenty
of sly nods to Chicago throughout, like a city bus having GTA on the
side instead of CTA for the Chicago Transit Authority.

Heath Ledger's Joker was a force of nature and it makes it far sadder
that someone who could be as compartmentalized and minimalist in
Brokeback could so effortlessly switch over to complete madness. His
Joker is the unholy union of Tom Waits, Hugh Laurie, and Kakihara from
Ichi the Killer. His Joker was a nightmarish, flinch inducing pleasure
to watch in every scene he was in and I think it's terrible that I
can't think of another actor who would bring such a frighteningly
physically intense take on the character.

My only real complaint is that Christian Bale's Batman voice is
TERRIBLE. Instead of sounding gruff and frightening he just sounds
like he's chopping the beginning and ending of all of his words off,
while fighting his way through some sort of ENT ailment.

There's also a completely ludicrous plot cheat involving cellphones
that has to be seen to be believed.

I liked Hellboy 2 significantly more but this is by far the best
Batman movie and possibly the first DC movie that doesn't assume its
audience is eight years old.

Watchmen looked like complete shit.

Good night.

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