Bone In The Fan

The Dark Knight: Overrated (Excepting Heath Ledger)

Caught the new Batman movie this afternoon with my son. Despite liking the hell out of Batman Begins, I found The Dark Knight pretty underwhelming.  The action was ok I suppose, but the fight scenes were edited so tightly as to be kind of hard to follow.  Christian Bale was actually boring, and I was a big fan of his, so that kinda sucked. And it was loooong.  Really, really long. I had to piss wildly for the last 45 minutes or so, and my son wouldn’t let me leave, so that sucked too.  Plus the story was kind of wacky, with some plot holes and a few “no way would he have done that” moments. And what the hell was with the eyeliner on the mayor, anyway? Jeez that was creepy. It was like Eartha Kitt’s makeup on the series.

Looks great on Eartha Kitt.

On Gotham's mayor, not so much.

But, and I hate to admit it because I don’t want to look like one of the traditional silly gooses that praises the work of a dead guy just because he’s dead (which reminds me of Al Pacino getting the Oscar for “Scent of a Woman” even thought he BLEW in that movie; he got it because he deserved one for “Dog Day Afternoon”, or maybe Godfather I or II (not III of course)), Heath Ledger was fucking awesome.  Really, reallly awesome. So awesomely awesome that I not only liked his performance the best, but I think I liked The Joker more than Batman (and hey, he did have a point you know.)

So I give the movie 3 out of 5 bones, and Heath Ledger the full 5 bone destroy-the-fan-blades award. And before you say anything, it’s just too obvious a joke to make, so save it.

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